BRACERS Notes

Record no. Notes, topics or text
125832

"No, on grounds of health".

125833

"No".

125834

On a projected (disarmament?) conference, and Teller.

125835

BR requests return tickets to Copenhagen on April 18-20.

125836

A testimonial for Ernest Gellner.

125837

BR is already a referee for another candidate for the same position at Oxford.

125838

BR postpones a meeting until May 4.

125839

Plans for the Tait family visit, June 27 to July 25.

125840

BR declines to write a foreword for a volume on Woodger.

125841

"Wed—May 4—4 o'clock Chappells arrive".

125842

Re travel arrangements to Copenhagen.

125843

Re a visit on April 7 from 3 logicians: "you will all have to treat me as an ignoramus".

125844

BR thanks Green for the kind things he says and agrees about the strength of indoctrinated prejudice.

125845

"£26 > Chelsea rates".

125846

BR declines to contribute to Dean's volume on Gandhi, as BR never met him.

125847

On withholding income tax: "They could sell up one's goods and make one's work impossible."

125848

BR guesses at 1912 for when Karen Stephen's The Misuse of Mind was written. He has heard about Anne and Dick Singh. (BR reviewed it in B&R C22.19.)

125849

"Order from Unwin Western Philos and Freedom and Organ to be sent to Jeljaszewicz. Send from Plas P, signed, Human Knowledge".

125850

"No, as he doesn't know anything about bio-chemistry and can't judge merits of her discovery—P. Bushell".

125851

BR did not suppose that Mrs. Kay (in the CCNY case) was paying her own legal expenses.

125852

BR refers him to Meitner-Graf for the latest photo of himself.

125853

"Refusal > N.Y. Dostievsky Dinner".

125854

Thank you for a very nice and very encouraging letter.

125855

"Autographed photo > Freddy Mehta—Karachi".

125856

"By telephone Jones—12.50 at Bangor—Dec. 12".

125857

Debate with Copleston is only in English edition of Why I Am Not a Christian.

125858

"Manchester CND Record".

125859

BR asks if Georg Tietz needs a copy of My Philosophical Development. "The difficulty about money is that he is one of thousands."

125860

On Eurasian children. "I do not much believe in inherent differences between the East and the West."

125861

BR praises J.B. Priestley's Literature and Western Man, especially for the part on the Romantic Movement.

125862

For free will (a "very difficult" question), BR refers Ramstead to the "Sin" chapter of Human Society and Chap. 8 of Our Knowledge.

125863

BR declines to write a foreword to Hyam's Sex, Sin and Society.

125864

"The penultimate chapters of The Scientific Outlook were intended to show the inadequacy of such an outlook if it stands alone."

125865

BR has not "grown less hostile to Christianity", despite his remark about Christian love.

125866

"£1 to Staff Superintendent, House of Lords".

125867

"£23.5.0 > D. Pugh & Son".

125868

"No > Merioneth Rural Community (Art Exhibit)".

125869

BR will not have time to see him in London to and from Copenhagen.

125870

BR finds it "tiresome" to be so occupied by business.

125871

BR encourages Tanaka to issue the series of text-books he mentions.

125872

BR hopes to find a reference in a book in his London house, Coulton's Mediaeval Garner. The reference is not in Lee's History of Sacerdotal Celibacy.

125873

"£2.3.11 for the Amberley Papers > Barclays Bank".

125874

"5.6.9 > R". ("R" is possibly Redmond's husband.

125875

"3.10.9 > Jean".

125876

BR is grieved that he cannot undertake more meetings in Copenhagen.

125877

BR provides a foreword to New Moves in the H-Bomb Struggle (enclosed).

125878

BR is agreeable to recording a message and would like an indication of what "such a message should say".

125879

BR believes he only undertook to see off the CND deputation to Paris at the airport.

125880

BR sends £5 towards film-making expenses.

125881

"No > John Ruskin Grammar School".

125882

BR provides a travel schedule to Copenhagen.

125883

Banking business. BR wishes to know as soon as he is overdrawn "as I have funds available at my London Bank".

125884

On the dialectic method in Marx-Engels, and the axiom of internal relations in Leibniz. "A Broad-Church Marxist could easily eliminate it [the dialectic]."

125885

"No > Secretary-General of XIX Congress of Sociology in Mexico".

125886

"Autograph (again) to Karanjia, Bombay".

125887

BR advises Lockhart to ring him up in London before going to Wales to see him.

125888

"Thank you for your letter of March 31. I am glad to know of your interest in logic. As regards your contradiction derived from the principle that a law cannot be applied to itself, I think that the doctrine of types will deal with it as well as with Gödel's problems. The point is that the law is not one law, but as many as there are types, and, when one seems to be applying a law to itself, one is applying the law of the N+1th grade to the law of the Nth grade.

I wish you well for success in your logical investigations."

125889

"No—Venezuelan Embassy".

125890

Boynton's lecture involving BR's Nightmares must have been "great fun".

125891

"From the Earl R > Author's Who's Who".

125892

"As for D.H. Lawrence, you will find what I have to say about him in my Portraits from Memory." Lawrence did not keep BR's letters, and BR did not make copies.

125893

BR does not know where his "Ten Commandments" was published.

125894

"Haddow | A. Buchan | Mott > Rotblat". (These would be Pugwash letters that BR is forwarding.)

125895

Re permission to use "Reflections on Being Eighty".

125896

"Zemenides letter 'not acknowl.' > Unwin".

125897

BR declines to do a preface for lack of working time.

125898

"Dora's income tax > her lawyers".

125899

BR thanks Bickersteth for "the amusing photograph of myself when young". (It is of BR climbing a studio prop.)

125900

"You say all the things that I most like having said about myself."

125901

"£49.5.7 > John Brown". (This may be John Brown of Oxford U. Press, but why would BR send him money?)

125902

"Autograph, photo > Marjorie Harrison".

125903

BR makes a joke about "Disinterested Management".

125904

BR is too busy to write for the 40th anniversary of Choi's newspaper.

125905

BR hears first from Kate that Harriet is getting married.

125906

"Send Buzzard letter to Rotblat". BR is sorry Admiral Buzzard cannot attend Pugwash and invites him to talk in London.

125907

"Children's 3 Tax forms > Tylor".

125908

"No > Sheffield, etc."

125909

This is a note at the top of the page: "John Knight of Sunday Pictorial tel. about interview Ring Hasker St. Wed. eve. to fix date."

125910

"£1.10.0 > Daimler Hire".

125911

BR will ring up the Embassy because he wants very much to make Santamarina's acquaintance.

125912

"R. Carrington—No".

125913

"No > MIT".

125914

Heffer's is to send Whitehead's Universal Algebra to von Zeppelin and the bill to BR.

125915

"5/6 > Bell & Croydon".

125916

BR has nothing to say on the Street Offences Act 1959.

125917

"Will write on return from continent".

125918

On who was right in BR's two controversies with Poincaré. They were each right once.

125919

BR will send Joux his open correspondence with Eisenhower, Khrushchev and Dulles.

125920

Appointments for April 21-25:

21 April - Thursday: 4 Rotblat and Lindop
22 April - Friday: 11.30 National Portrait Gallery photo - 49 Queen's Gate, S.W.7
4 Helen Manning
23 April - Saturday: 11.30 Spencer Brown
24 April - Sunday
25 April - Monday: 4 Admiral Buzzard

Mrs. May
Canon Collins
Goswami
Cuban Ambassador
Sir Anthony Buzzard
Commander Godden

125921

Edith noted "Plas Penrhyn" at the top and circled it.

On permission for the Copleston debate, paperbacking Why I Am Not a Christian—and the debate with Teller.

125922

BR can only give the Conference his sincere good will.

125923

BR sends his warmest greetings for the Dutch National Manifestation.

125924

"> Rotblat". (Possibly the letter answered at record 125923 was sent to Rotblat, but the letter exists at record 63002.)

125925

"> Unwin".

125926

BR could not make the statement Gullett wanted because he was away in Copenhagen.

125927

The statement of aims included by Brooke has BR's "complete sympathy".

125928

Foulkes' corrections (to Wisdom of the West) have BR's "complete approval".

125929

"It looks as if the Labour Party, next October, will come over entirely to our policy in spite of vehement opposition from all the Big-wigs."

125930

BR will be delighted to sit for John.

125931

BR agrees to be on the Honorary International Committee and sends his best wishes to Casals.