Why is U.S. only now receiving Common Sense and Nuclear Warfare?

BR cannot produce anything by early January.

BBC £19.

BR is glad to know Plas Penrhyn was the home of Casson's parents.

BR can't participate in his research.

BR provides facts about his anti-nuclear activities for a thesis.

BR complains about the "grossly unfair" review of Gellner, with no mention of Ryle's doings.

"OK".

His enterprise is too vast for BR to undertake at his age.

BR thanks her for the kind message from her father.

BR thanks him for the synopsis of his book.

BR approves of statements by World Federalists of Japan.

Autograph for this Bombay person.

BR has nothing to send him to print.

A certificate for 2 shares costing £1 each. Glyn Mills & Co. (Child & co.) had kept the certificate in its strong room, but the company wound up in 1913 and the shares were now worthless. See record 23944 for the covering letter in 1967.

The telegram is addressed to Constance Malleson at The Avenue, Ashford Carbonell, Shropshire, where she was staying with BR. Miles will meet her at Crewe on Friday [17 August 1917].

[Crewe is in Cheshire.]

Miles writes to Clare about marrying her sister, Constance Malleson.

Re the Trondheim incident, 1948.

Photography with Morris.

Thank you for the New Year's card.

Thank you for the Christmas card.

"Generally the people who live in beautiful places are bad—e.g., Sicily."

Thank you for Ursula's picture.

BR sends Collins an unidentified letter with BR's reply on the verso.

BR cannot form a view on Clarke's proposal.

BR's autobiography is not to be published "until I am dead."

BR asks Dr. Boyd for his opinion on new drugs that might cure his son John, mentioned in New Scientist.

"No."

"Child < £15.16.0 from Ogonek".

BR has received payment only for the Ogonek article.

BR would like to see her during her visit, admires SANE, and refers to photos of sculptures of "your very charming children".

"£61.1.0 > Tylor for Griff's wages".

Whatever D.H. Lawrence knew of Freud or Nietzsche he probably learned from the dominant influence of his wife.

Thanks for her letter and card.

Re condensing "The Expanding Mental Universe".

BR hopes to see her in London in February.

BR has no objection to Hyde tape-recording the debate with Copleston.

"6/9 > Manweb".

"£2.15.0 > J A Jones (for > Bangor)".

BR is returning Leitch's documents as he cannot do anything about the matter concerned.

BR sends cheques to Madams.

BR agrees about nuclear test negotiations at Geneva and that a conference is desirable. He has signed the two letters Rotblat enclosed.

BR thanks "Will" for The Epic of Clare Market and will write to the publishers after reading it.

BR cannot spare more than an hour or two for their meeting.

BR thinks "a noticeable badge" is a good idea, evidently for nuclear disarmers.

"Mrs Price's letter > Peggy Duff".

Having the rights, BR gives permission to reproduce "The Expanding Mental Universe".

BR agrees with Little on bull-baiting.

BR sends his "sincere wishes for the success of the Hindustan Times".

"Feeling so old" "grows gradually more difficult to avoid."

BR feels a kinship between Menuhin's attitude and his own in a paper by the former.

On custody of the grandchildren.

The reports of Khrushchev's speech are too incomplete for BR to comment on.

"Signed Contract > Ass. Redif<f>usion T.V."

BR declines Heineman's offer to work as BR's secretary during the summer.

Re his letter about blinking.

BR, who has read and respects Priestley's book, declines the luncheon in his honour.

[Despite efforts using the date Russell gives, 1959/12/28, the recipient remains unidentified.]

BR thanks her for her husband's drawings.

"Mrs. Price's letter & sketches of possible CND badge > P. Duff".

BR thanks him for his 2 "monumental volumes with appendices", and is grateful for the errors pointed out in Wisdom of the West.

BR forwards Gourevitch's letter about 2 errors in Wisdom of the West.

BR cannot participate by correspondence in a projected conference.

BR asks for someone to be found to translate a Russian newspaper article by him.

BR provides a testimonial for Yourgrau for the philosophy chair at Leeds.

BR knows little about the growth of Muslim nationalism or affairs in Pakistan. He points out the long journey to N. Wales. (The train leaves Paddington at 10:10 a.m. and arrives at Penrhyndeudraeth at 5:30.)

Re A.L. Smith and Arthur Russell.

Thanks for stamps for granddaughter.

BR encloses a paragraph about Margaret McMillan and nursery schools.

BR's dictation of this memorandum follows his letter to Canon Collins of same date (record 119194). BR's handwriting is found in revisions of a few passages. The memorandum concerns the priority to be given to British nuclear disarmament.

"No".

BR cannot see Smith.

BR declines to review Sciama but has told the publishers he thinks well of The Unity of the Universe.

BR declines to review Wollheim's Bradley.

BR agrees with avoiding "any suspicion of a pro-Communist bias".

BR praises I.F. Stone and his Weekly for the award of the Emergency Civil Liberties Committee.

"Newman Chevy Chase Maryland

Sorry cannot review Gellner. Russell".

Send fee to Plas Penrhyn.

BR declines to make an engagement "so far ahead". His time for the next months is fully booked.

BR is not convinced that there is pre-cognition.

"I think the mystic experience has its utility in the sphere of values, but becomes misleading if thought to give insight into the nature of the world."

BR provides answers to 3 questions on international relations, including the "hope that China will abandon its present imperialistic policies".

The Russells will come to view On the Beach on 14 November.

"I am glad you agree that it is as well we should meet." BR invites him to tea in London.

"Sarah's eyes--£3.3.0".

"Red Hackle > Plas P. & #43". It is assumed that this is a communication with the Red Hackle supplier/distillery.

Re arranging a date to meet.

BR has nothing favourable to say on Bergson's centenary.

BR will autograph Sceptical Essays. "... this was Einstein's favourite among my books."

BR read his thesis on astronomy with much interest.

BR declines to write on Khrushchev's disarmament proposals, the reports being "too incomplete to make a reasoned judgment possible."

On the international scene and Khrushchev's proposals.

29 Millbank "has been pulled down to make way for skyscrapers".

BR cannot afford the time to take part in his interesting experiment, despite "the pleasure of a new technique".

BR strongly approves Neville Anderson's policy statement on disarmament in the Bulletin of the North West Region.

BR declines to speak as "My time and thought are completely occupied with the campaign against nuclear weapons".

BR agrees to be a sponsor of a meeting.

BR thanks Dr. Boyd for the information provided [on drugs?].

BR disagrees with Plato. "I think that any collection of wise men, if given power, would quickly cease to be wise."

BR suggests that Father McCarthy telephone before journeying to North Wales.