BRACERS Notes

Record no. Notes, topics or text
125432

On Euclid with reference to §§388-91 of The Principles of Mathematics.

125433

On Dialogues of Santayana and Dewey. Kallen's "animus against me".

125434

BR signs letter.

125435

Re Ryle.

125436

"Copy of above [record 125435] and Astor's letter" > Gollancz.

125437

BR provides his autograph for a cousin.

125438

BR signs petition to President [Eisenhower] re Sobell.

125439

Suggestions for philosophical reading.

125440

"NO" to invitation.

125441

BR cannot write Italian grammatically.

125442

On risks from a world government.

125443

"NO".
 

125444

On disarmament proposals.

125445

On Sciama's The Unity of the Universe.

125446

BR declines a conference.

125447

BR can only repeat what he said on June 9.

125448

BR can give an interview.

125449

Re reading Principia.

125450

BR declines to write an article.

125451

"Viscount Amberley" is not BR's name but that of his eldest son.

125452

BR sends his warmest good wishes for the new "dictionary of philosophy" but declines to join the Editorial Board.

125453

"Return letter re Spaniards".

125454

BR believes there is no group describable as his "followers", but sends her to the R.P.A.

125455

On possibly making a volume out of the newly re-discovered Rochefoucauld maxims.

125456

An invoice for $3.46 and its envelope were inserted between the front endpapers of The Works of Aristotle, Vol. 4 (Russell's Library, no. 1023).

125457

A review request slip was inserted between pp. 108-9 of R.H.S. Crossman's Plato To-day (Russell's Library, no. 742).

125458

A pipe cleaner was inserted between pp. 210-11, the start of Chapter 27, of Amabel Williams-Ellis' Darwin's Moon (Russell's Library, no. 1891).

125459

Declines an invitation for 14 March from architects.

125460

Jevons criticizes Mill in advance of BR's "Master Mind" lecture, on the basis of the writings of his economist and logician father, W. Stanley Jevons. He encloses a typed sheet of his father's criticisms of Mill.

125461

Jevons reports on Eden's reply to him and discusses China and the UN. He remarks that Mill's On Liberty fanned the home rule movement in India, being usually recommended at university.

125462

This is an extract in Lucy Silcox's hand from Lionel William Lyde, The Continent of Europe (London: Macmillan, 1913). It concerns railway sidelines in Belgium that provide for the movement of troop trains. It is not cited in Russell's writings during WWI.

The extract was originally catalogued in BRACERS as the missing enclosure for a 1912 letter from Silcox, record 80369. A clue to dating its place in Russell's correspondence is that the Russell Letter No. on the extract is 742. The documents with Russell Letter Nos. 740-741 and 743-744 are all dated in February 1916. (This numbering was applied when Russell kept his correspondence sorted by year.) Therefore it is reasonable to date Russell Letter No. 742 as February 1916. It may indicate a missing covering letter for the extract.

Also a transcription and a carbon copy.

125463

BR corrects a point taken from Melincourt in Pantin's article on Alfred Russell Wallace in Notes and Records of the Royal Society.

125464

BR declines a speaking engagement.

125465

There is no way to get to BR by air.

125466

The Mind subscription is to be increased to £1.50.

125467

BR refers him to "University Education".

125468

"NO".

125469

"Peace Committee invite to conference > Collins when he comes."

125470

"Home Secretary > Rotblat."

125471

Thanks for unnamed magazine.

125472

"Wood and Tait children."

125473

BR asks for a list of his anti-nuclear writings, and he will fill in any gaps. BR fears limited war expanding to nuclear war.

125474

BR analyzes the anti-English forces opposing his CCNY appointment in 1940. On Beacon Hill School; on anaesthetics in childbirth.

125475

BR approves including "Vagueness".

125476

On influenza in 1892, 1918 and since.

125477

Autograph.

125478

BR recommends the bibliography in Common Sense and Nuclear Warfare.

125479

BR declines to reply to Cory's letter in Journal of Philosophy.

125480

"Hertfordshire re Watford Lecture—NO".

125481

On type theory in Sommers' article in Mind.

125482

Powell is a Communist, which accounts for their differences.

125483

BR cannot form a critical judgment on his letter without detracting from his own working time.

125484

Send K. Tait £100.

125485

"NO > Davies Inst. Mem. lecture."

125486

Renewal of membership for BR and Edith.

125487

£3.7.6.

125488

BR denies he has any "solipsistic" correspondents.

125489

Science for Peace is fellow-travelling, and includes Bernal and Burhop.

125490

BR sends a cheque for Xmas presents for Jonathan and David Wood.

125491

Brandy to be sent to her.

125492

"Book signed > Brazil."

125493

BR thanks him for his book Culture.

125494

Thanks for poem.

125495

BR cannot accept an invitation.

125496

BR discourages an interview—"nothing to say about the literary scene".

125497

BR signs a letter (re Jews in Romania).

125498

On the walking exploits of the man who built Plas Penrhyn. BR praises Pantin's New Scientist article.

125499

On Hoyle's view of space; the creation of galaxies.

125500

On Gellner's book, in reply to Kassman.

125501

BR replies to questions from Soviet Russia.

125502

"£100 from John Bull > Child".

125503

"On the whole, Ryle has had rather a bad time of it." (Re the Gellner controversy.)

125504

BR refers him to Schilpp and Egner for a bibliography of his work.

125505

OK to print sherry party invitations with BR's name. He encloses a letter from the Home Office.

125506

BR declines an invitation for February.

125507

BR can't form an opinion on Ducaroffe's work from a table of contents.

125508

The TLS review is "rather satisfactory" (re Wisdom of the West).

125509

Re his grandmother's poem for Basic Writings.

125510

BR has done his bit in replying to critics on Ryle-Gellner.

125511

On extramarital homosexual relations and divorce.

125512

BR agrees to be Honorary President of a discussion club for nuclear disarmament.

125513

BR asks for his grandchildren to be sent to Ruabon and put into a through train to Penrhyndeudraeth.

125514

BR can see him at Plas Penrhyn.

125515

"Ans > Gilbert Harding".

125516

"Have written to Secretary of Moreton Hall about return on Dec. 16 > Sarah".

125517

BR agrees to the Humanist Guild of Toronto's suggestion [re The Faith of a Humanist].

125518

This appears to be a draft of the letter that Strong wrote on images, sense-data and perception. See record 80805.

125519

BR thanks Strong for his letter of 1930/11/05 and says he will reply when he has more time.

125520

Huxley is reluctant to join a committee of trustees for Strong's Philosophical Fund and suggests Dr. Joseph Needham in his place.

125521

Moore is willing to be one of C.A. Strong's trustees. Moore won't be able to come to Oxford on the weekend due to his health.

125522

Cumming arranges a debate on "Is Modern Morality Moral?" between Rabbi Wise and BR.

This may have been the debate that was reenacted for film by the participants.

125523

Cumming arranges a debate on "Is Modern Morality Moral?" between Rabbi Wise and BR. See record 125522. Cumming states it is being held under the auspices of the Seven Arts Guild.

This may have been the debate that was reenacted for film by the participants.

125524

"Signed letter".

125525
125526

Re Kazakstan.

On undesirable acts by one's own side.

125527

BR favours legalizing euthanasia "with suitable safeguards".

125528

Re viewing On the Beach.

125529

BR will attend conference on Dec. 13.

125530

Can't accept engagement.

125531

Garage.