BR thanks Larson for The Religion of the Occident (Russell's Library, no. 1468) and for what he says about the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs.

BR thanks Unwin for getting a Russian translation done (by Mrs. Vazier).

Re choosing a translator of Nicod: Michael Woods, Paul Wiener ("Has he anything to do with Norbert Wiener who runs Cybernetics?"), and Felix Pirani.

BR wants to know more about Philip Noel-Baker for his contribution on him.

BR declines because "on the whole I think that I should be allowing myself to be beguiled by the pursuit of pleasure!" and won't write an introduction to Samuel Butler's "wholly delightful" Erewhon. BR deplores Butler's "influence on Stalin via Shaw."

BR accepts Collins' explanation that no change in policy is afoot. BR asks if he is to speak on Feb. 15.

BR is willing that the recording of his Manchester speech be sold by SANE.

BR forwards Cousins' letter (record 85862) and his own reply (record 125639).

BR is glad of the chance to have read the paper by Kaplan's son.

BR thanks Chuvikov for 2 Russian translations of BR's works and asks if Common Sense and Nuclear Warfare will be done.

BR donates £50 to CND.

BR donates £50 to Direct Action.

BR predicts "there will not long be a dis-united world".

BR is reading Northrup's "admirable" book but has no time to do a review.

BR is willing to be a sponsor of the committee.

BR would like to see Holland in London.

"Zump > Children". ["Zump" may be "The Great God Zoomp" story by BR, Collected Stories, p. 329.]

BR sends "a few criticisms" of the January 1960 issue of Philosophy on himself.

On civil defence against nuclear war. Level 7 by Roshwald is much better than On the Beach. Thus BR could not be the final broadcaster in the series.

BR asks Chappell to write later in March about a meeting.

BR is too busy working against nuclear weapons to study his new "sience".

"I know nothing about medicine".

BR refers Hoch to the North West Region's recording of his Manchester speech.

BR has not, apparently, heard of the book Unwin mentions. It may be the record of TV performances for Freeman or Wyatt (i.e., Bertrand Russell Speaks His Mind).

BR asks Tylor's view on increasing the insurance on Hasker St.

BR hopes Collins will phone him to fix a meeting time.

BR approves Woods. Document .00000009 was not used in the original numbering.

BR encloses his piece on Noel-Baker.

"Mr Jones > Bangor".

BR answers 3 questions on the revival of Nazism. He mentions the racialism of South Africa.

BR declines to introduce a translation of Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary, and goes on to praise it. 

BR sends her Soviet Russia for a translation of his answers.

On Werner von Braun's Christianity and "the Londoners whom he killed in 1944".

BR has undertaken too much to contribute to the Transactions of Archer's College.

"... one who does not believe in God can only recognize the individual purposes of separate men and animals".

BR declines to open a new building.

BR is "most willing" to come to Copenhagen to accept the Sonning Prize.

BR will arrive in London on Feb. 3, evening.

BR asks Tylor to call him on Wednesday evening after 7:30.

BR would prefer sittings in Wales at the end of April.

"Mahalanobis > Rotblat".

"£1.7.3 BBC > Barclays Bk."

BR declines to open an exhibition, and praises a wig stand (perhaps he got it from Lek). 

BR suggests Hoch bring a tape recorder "and I will try to give you what you want."

Re "the cruel traffic in horses": BR is completely occupied with preventing the destruction of all life.*

On the learning of mathematics.

BR hopes to study his "Theory of Logic". 

BR found nothing to correct in McCarthy's typescript of their interview.

BR agrees to the title for his article.

BR relates "my most remarkable encounter": coming out naked from a dip before Prime Minister Asquith.

BR approves the change of title to The Faith of a Humanist but wants a note.

"Letter signed > Boycott Movement". See record 63842.

BR will be away when Glass would like to see him in Wales.

BR declines to contribute an article to the Review.

"£17.19.0 > D. Pugh & Son".

"No time to read it > Agassiz".

BR has only autographed the photo he likes.

"I do not feel that unilateral disarmament by Britain would be likely to promote disarmament by other Powers."

BR gives approval to SANE to reproduce the recording of his Manchester speech.

BR agrees to be a sponsor of Africa South.

BR recommends LSE over Cambridge for philosophy.

BR would even support a Conservative group summoning a disarmament conference. There is much more possibility than before for East-West cooperation on disarmament.

"No > C.S.A."

BR encloses (not present, but see RA2 220.148146) a statement on Mario Rossi's The Third World. For the carbon of this letter, see record 5942. The corporate recipient has been inferred, as has the first name of Miss Gray. See her letter at record 5941.

The letter was sold on eBay on 20 Jan. 2015 for US$171.40, and relisted in February 2015 at US$895.00. It was relisted in March 2020 at US$695.00.

BR asserts he has "no influence whatever" with the British Academy and can't help the writer in regard to membership there. Because of his overwhelming work against nuclear warfare, he would rather not receive translations of the writer's poems.

"Abt. Egner from Clark > Unwin".

"Tax refund form > Madams {Dear Madams, Can you deal with this, or must I do something? Yrs Sinc".

BR received 3 visits from Tagore, but no such conversation as Chatterji alleges took place.

BR asks whether tails or dinner jacket are required for his visit to Copenhagen. He hopes not.

BR and Edith will be delighted to see the Bredsdorffs in Wales towards the end of March.

"No > Bruce Lane".

While grateful for the opportunity, BR declines to write on Wollheim's Bradley.

"I enclose £5 of which part will be subscription and part donation to the Parl. Group for World Govt."

Re The Faith of a Humanist's title.

"Too busy > Mrs Shelley Leporte".

Nuclear disarmament "is only subject on which I now speak."

BR cannot spare the time to look into Dolci's work.

BR is willing to be Holland's referee for a job with the BBC.

BR identifies the Prime Minister as Asquith, though he wishes it had been Dizzy (Disraeli), when BR emerged naked from the river.

BR thanks Vazir for her translations from Russian.

Re Religion and Science.

BR is "entirely willing to join with her [Mrs. Roosevelt] in a final plea for peace."

BR praises their handwriting and is glad they are working in CND.

BR invites the Fitzgeralds to tea, and apologizes for overlooking Fitzgerald's letter of 2 years earlier.

BR calls the South African government the most zealously Christian government in the world.

"Birkbeck College Students' Union—"opened by mistake" > Russell of Liverpool".

BR is glad to hear of the association's existence, but, because of old age, he cannot undertake more engagements in Denmark.

"Same as above (4) > Students' Union, Lund". See record 125719.

The Russells are very pleased about the (Sonning) prize.

BR is very pleased about the Sonning Prize.

"No > Isle of Wight Group of CND".

"Ok. Form and £1 sent to British Parl. Anglo-American Group".

BR cannot find the source for a quotation from his writings.

BR has a "very vivid and pleasant memory" of their meeting when BR was last in Copenhagen.

Re a time for a meeting.

"I wish efforts towards rational behaviour bore more fruit."

BR is glad to send a message for a meeting on May 19.

"No > The London American".

"No > Warford".