BR is glad to know Jamieson's state has a centre for liberal opinion.

"£3. > New Scientist". 

BR turns down a "most flattering invitation", but he has grown too old to speak in distant countries.

BR turns down the chance to read Vivian's ms., as "my capacity for work is not what it was".

BR is sorry to learn of Twaddell's mother's death and of the death of Elliott Farr's son. 

BR has not yet had time to read Born's paper on prediction in classical mechanics. He mentions Strauss, the FDR minister of defence, and a Red Cross project.

BR does not know if his new book [Wisdom of the West] "is still free for Italy" (doubtless meaning free for translation).

BR sends Foges Tibaldi-Chiesa's letter about translating [Wisdom of the West] into Italian.

BR does not know which elementary book on symbolic logic to recommend.

"£116.2.9 > Tylor".

BR looks forward to the 2 copies of Bersellini's novel.

Dora's caravan work is interesting. Switzerland and Sweden, as she says, pose a problem.

"Send Dora's letter and Reply > Tylor".

He refers her to Human Society in Ethics and Politics for its chapter on sin (vs. socially undesirable conduct).

BR's prophecy that he would die in June 1962 was "only a joke".

BR enclose (not present) a "hopelessly insane" letter from John Conrad Russell. He wants it to be shown to John's doctor.

"Auto-photo > Rothenhofer-Hediger".

"8/7 > Heffer".

Cashyap made a useless journey to north Wales while BR was in London.

On whether families and homes are devastated by people turning to religion, BR instances Matthew XI: 34-36. It appears that Bertrand Russell is referring to Matthew X: 34ff.

BR offers a critique of The Flowers of Hiroshima. A propaganda novel is a dangerous form, and is ineffective unless it is well done.

"£22.5.6 > Hepburn & Ross".

BR cannot reconsider his rejection of the writer's kind invitation. Both engagements and reasons of health motivate BR.

"(Japs)". The letter may be reply to record 62155, from Japan Broadcasting Corporation | Watanabe, Noboru.

BR cannot speak in their New Year programme, though he would if he could but he has too many engagements.

BR didn't write such a book as the one being inquired about. "In 1941, which is the date concerned, I was living in America and war conditions made communications with England difficult and precarious. When I left America in 1944 I was unable to bring with me all the documents that I might conceivably need and I therefore have to rely upon my memory, which is a complete blank in this matter." [Re Archives.]

BR won't pay to send UNESCO another consignment of his books. 

"£35.0.3 > Tom Brown".

"Signed photo > new godchild".

BR would prefer writing an article to the interview form.

BR declines an invitation because he won't be in London on Dec. 9 or 10.

"Spanish publisher = Aguilar, S.A. de Ediciones, Madrid, Joya 210. > Foges".

"I especially like your phrase about people being 'bitingly jocular'. It  slightly reminds me of Sir Thomas More on the scaffold." [For More's remarks, see http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/more/moretrialreport.html.]

BR saw Holland in London. He encloses "the new letter [not present] which I have signed."

BR thinks it probably that Whitehouse is correct about some errors, but BR lacks the time to look into the matter.

BR looks forward to reading Night of the Mist. Still under discussion is BR's Nightmares.

BR has not had time to read Paul Ignotus's book and hardly ever writes reviews. Surprising, however, is the view that Hungary regards the BBC as a branch of M.I.5."

BR orders new spectacles (glasses). Until he gets them, he is "liable to grave inconvenience."

BR won't be able to see Rickards on his brief visit to the UK.

BR is willing that "The Expanding Mental Universe:" (B&R B132) be published in French.

BR believes that, since he is not a professor of anything, he is not eligible to nominate Cyrus Eaton for the Nobel Peace Prize.

BR did not agree that Pugwash should express an opinion on Khrushchev's disarmament proposal and does not wish to see the Pugwash movement split on it.

For reasons of health BR cannot accept Grieg's flattering invitation.

"Refusal".

BR praises Novasha's Topics of the Day. He only feels doubt about Kashmir.

The letter was to be sent c/o the publisher.

"Suggest third November eleven-thirty for photographer. Russell"

BR prefers that Hutton alleviate the effect of the typhoon on Japan by sending all of the money he collects, rather than spending a considerable part of it on his travel there.

BR send another photo of himself rather than Chappelow's.

"It is encouraging to have such liberal and enlightened views from Ethiopia."

BR encloses £5 as a donation to the Club.

BR suggests the writer appeal to the Rationalist Press Association for an unknown purpose.

BR tells Duff that he has refused the Moroccan Embassy invitation, though now that he knows its purpose he favours it.

BR believes determinism applies to human beings as well as elsewhere. "... [T]he conception of moral responsibility is one which requires a good deal of re-interpretation if it is to have any validity." He refers the writer to the discussion of free will in the last chapter of Our Knowledge of the External World.

"Topchiev > Rotblat".

In Principia's second edition BR adopted "an entirely extensional view and therefore considered that two class-concepts which have the same extension are identical. But I am no longer satisfied with this view and am not clear as to what to put in its place." 

Stuart Chase's The Tyranny of Words is a good book, but not that of Korzybsky [Korzybski].

"Fribourg and Treyer. Cigs".

BR declines an invitation to speak on Jan. 5.

BR tells this Maharajah that he cannot attend the World Religious Conference in India; engagements in England make it impossible.

"Legal and Ethical Experience—Northrop". [F.C.S. Northrop published The Complexity of Legal and Ethical Experience: Studies in the Method of Normative Subjects in 1959. For Russell's copy, see record 125037. He marked two pages in it: 31 and 298, the latter with a "No".]

Addressed to "Mr." Royon, but records 117327 and 117327 have Bette Royon sending BR the material he acknowledges here. 

BR acknowledges receiving documents concerning Vienna and the recent Pugwash conference.

BR returns the picture she enclosed, signed.

BR expresses his opinion on Khrushchev's disarmament proposals and hopes it will be accepted in place of the article suggested.

"Signed photo > Dirk Crafford".

BR is not surprised Nature won't print "The Social Responsibilities of Scientists" and agrees with Science and suggests New Scientist.

BR comments on Blackett's paper, "Thoughts on British Defence Policy". BR agrees with his criticisms of British defence policy but not necessarily Blackett's own policy. Still, reduction of armaments is important for reducing tension and great waste of money. In a big war, nuclear weapons are sure to be manufactured, even if prohibited. He likes the description of the abomination of nuclear war on p. 17. "I was also pleased with the point you make that we have to go on thinking Russians incredibly wicked in order to feel justified in our plans for exterminating them by the million." 

"I feel myself very much of an amateur in technical discussions of armaments...."

They look forward to the Blacketts coming to their cottage at Christmas time.

The author's business card in both English and Russian was inserted between the front endpapers of Alexander Topchiev's book Ftoristyĭ bor i ego soedinenii͡a kak katalizatory v organicheskoĭ khimii [Boron fluoride and its compounds as catalysts in organic chemistry] (Russell's Library, no. 1545). There are 2 other authors.

A "with compliments" card from the publisher was inserted between the half title and the title page of Norbert Wiener's I Am a Mathematician (Russell's Library, no. 1541).

A blank index card was inserted between pp. 320-1 of Edith Finch's Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, 1840-1922 (Russell's Library, no. 1521). There is a dedication on the front end papers which reads "AR from E.F. 1938".

Edith Finch's business card was inserted between the front endpapers of Finch's Carey Thomas of Bryn Mawr (Russell's Library, no. 1522). The card reads "with love to Bertie from Edith Finch".

A "with compliments" slip was inserted between the title page and the half-title page of Victor Purcell's The Boxer Uprising, a Background Study (Russell's Library, no. 1524).

A "with compliments" card was inserted between pp. 14-15 of J. Christopher Herold's Love in Five Temperaments (Russell's Library, no. 1530).

An "advanced copy" card was inserted between the front endpapers of Clifton Fadiman's Fantasia Mathematica (Russell's Library, no. 1535).

The book reprints G.H. Hardy's rendition of "Bertrand Russell's Dream", from A Mathematician's Apology, p. 283.

A "with compliments" slip was inserted between pp. 6-7 of Philotheus Boehner's Medieval Logic (Russell's Library, no. 1533).

A packing slip was inserted between the front end papers of Hans Reichenbach's The Rise of Scientific Philosophy (Russell's Library, no. 1534).

This is the ribbon copy of the carbon copy at record 3953. The ribbon copy has a postscript in BR's hand: "P.S. Please give kindest regards to Lili Kraus if you happen to be communicating with her". [A Mozart and Beethoven specialist, pianist Lili Kraus played at BR's 90th birthday celebration at Royal Festival Hall, London, May 19, 1962. The programme ad is here. She must have impressed BR, although they didn't correspond.] In his letter (record 3952) Blum had told BR that Kraus was a personal friend of him and his wife.

Re BR's mention of a concert in honour of Schweitzer's 90th birthday, BR had provided a message for the Esterhazy Orchestra for the occasion (see B&R B176).

The letter was advertised for sale in fall 2014 and reported sold at https://www.schubertiademusic.com/lots/index/page:9/catalog:35 with the accompanying text. It is now in the Dr. David Harley Collection (26 Nov. 2018).

164. [Literature & Art] Russell, Bertrand. (1872-1970). 
Signed Letter mentioning Albert Schweitzer and Lili Kraus
TLS, signed "Bertrand Russell" from the British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, social critic and political activist. 1 page, 28th Feburary, 1966. Addressed to David Blum, the symphonic conductor and writer on classical music, discussing his hopes to meet later that year in England, noting that he was "very pleased to hear that the Schweitzer concert was such a success," and adding an autograph postscript in which he asks Blum to "please give kindest regards to Lili Kraus if you happen to be communicating with her." 

David Blum made a number of recordings, including works by Mozart and Telemann and a series of Haydn symphonies for the Vanguard label, with the Esterhazy Orchestra of New York, which he founded in 1961 and directed until 1969. He was music director of the Lausanne Symphony Orchestra in Switzerland from 1973 to 1982 and of the Geneva Symphony Orchestra, which he also founded, from 1977 to 1986, and conducted many other orchestras as a guest.
Mr. Blum devoted his later years to writing, showing a particular fascination with musical performers and their approaches to their art. In addition to three books -- ''Casals and the Art of Interpretation,'' ''The Art of Quartet Playing: The Guarneri Quartet in Conversation With David Blum'' and ''Paul Tortelier'' -- he wrote articles for The New Yorker, The Musical Times, The Strad and the Arts and Leisure section of The New York Times.

Eliot had requested a letter for his estate should he die while tax might be payable on the return of BR's Plenty and Co. debentures (see Eliot, Letters 3: 518): "I want to ask you however if you will write me a letter to say that you and yr heirs or assigns will hold my estate harmless against any payment that might be due, in the event of my death within three years from the transfer, by my estate to the Inland Revenue of Great Britain, owing to the inclusion of these securities within my estate ... I do not want to leave my affairs buggered up if I should die suddenly." BR responded, as summarized by Eliot in his letter of 22 June 1927: "Thank you for your letter and undertaking, which seems to me quite to cover the case."

BR has provided a new beginning for his article and deleted a phrase about governmental mentality.

"£1.11.6 — Please discontinue > Forward".

BR is willing that Bunge should include anything of his in Bunge's book, subject to the consent of the publishers. He encloses a signed photograph.

BR is not competent to judge the work of Jacobo Drucaroff.

BR does not believe in the Miracles or the prophecies, the Bible being a mixture of myth and history.

BR points out that the trip by train is 7.5 hours, although he could see Clemens in London if he is staying there long enough.

BR does not know if Gellner would be good to work on Nicod. He points out that Felix Pirani prepared a 2nd edition of The ABC of Relativity "extremely well".

BR has signed the letters to Topchiev and the Home Office that Rotblat prepared for him. BR is undecided about going to Moscow.

BR would like to sit for Prof. Stroble, as he likes what he sees in the photographs that he is returning.

BR encloses (present) a short message on Nehru's 70th birthday, on November 14, 1959, having already sent an article on this event to The Times of India. 

With regret, BR corrects a misprint in interview proofs.

A letter on a card was inserted between the front endpapers of Stefan Themerson's Bayamus (Russell's Library, no. 1892). See record 37811 for Lion's follow-up request.

BR encloses a "good" autographed photo.

BR sends £20 for the London Library appeal.

BR would like to see "On the Beach".

Re a visit.

BR declines to review Newton's Correspondence, vol. 1.

BR does not feel the awareness of a super-intelligent Creator.

BR may be willing to sign a protest on Spanish political prisoners.

Toronto Humanist Guild.

On Ryle.

On religion. Edith Russell wrote "Takurai".