BR is happy to arrange a meeting with him before or after August 8-23 as he will be away.

"I do not know what you mean by 'transcendence' or by 'infinity'."

BR thanks him for sending him a morocco-bound copy of Bertrand Russell Speaks His Mind.

BR is unable to attend the general meeting as he now only speaks on matters related to nuclear warfare. "The British and Foreign School Society has been familiar to me since childhood, as my grandfather built a school for the Society at Petersham where we lived."

"£5 > Horobin (boy's holiday)".

"It is a novel idea to give a peace prize to a nation and not to an individual." BR's country's government is not peaceful, but a large part of the population is.

BR claims he has not got (complete) MSS or typescripts of any book of his. "I have generally made it a practice to throw away MSS or typescripts as soon as a book was published. I now realize that this was a regrettable practice."

[Nevertheless he kept some complete book MSS.]

"I am not a believer in pantheism as I am a complete pluralist."

"Autographs > Rev. A. Stanislaw".

"Allen and Unwin are getting impatient about corrections in my History of Western Philosophy...."

"Kindly send a copy of my Common Sense and Nuclear Warfare to ... Williams." (record 126239)

BR thanks him for the invitation to the Geriatric dinner at Portmeirion, but is unable to attend as he expects to be in London at that time.

"Letter signed and sent to Univ. of Ill.—Mowrer".

"£5 > Labour Peace Fellowship".

"I should doubt whether, in Canada, the time is ripe for a political campaign against current superstition."

"Mrs. Ward Central Office of Inf. (NATO publications)".

BR thanks him for the enclosed typescript of "Camp David on Spy Planet".

"I enclose a statement which I hope you may think suitable for Sanity or Suicide. I like your last year's issue very much." BR encloses his statement for Sanity or Suicide on a separate page.

"Amabel & Clough > drinks". <Re the Williams-Ellises.>

"Griff > Cottage".>

"Smythe—War Resister's—letter signed and sent".

"I am entirely willing to sponsor a German march on the lines of the Aldermaston marches. These marches have had a very notable effect upon British public opinion...."

BR is sorry that he cannot take time away from work on nuclear disarmament to read his MS.

BR has a different opinion on Davies' MS from that of the reader for Cambridge University Press. "I liked your 'Mr. Smith', especially in his early naïveté, but I thought that, like Descartes, he allowed himself, later on, to have some unfounded beliefs."

"I am sorry to say that I am too ignorant of both medicine and surgery to be able to express any opinion whatever about this paper."

"I am sorry that it is quite impossible for me to read or criticize your essay on 'The Theory of Forced Movement'."

"I agree with what you say about the importance of human love and I think what you say is very well expressed both as regards style and as regards precision." However, Smith should work, think and read for sometime longer before aiming at publication.

"I shall be happy to do such an article as you suggest, but I think I ought to tell you that an article <on Neutralism> which I wrote for the New York TImes Magazine will, in all likelihood be published during this month and may also be published in England."

"I enclose an article which was asked for by the New York Times Magazine and is, I understand, to be published there on July 24.... I shall be glad if you think it suitable for The Observer."

"I have followed your advice by sending my article about neutralism to The Observer, as the New York Times consents to publication, on any day on or after July 24." BR suggests Collins should assure Astor that he has the "blessing of the CND". 

BR refers him to an international organization, which he leaves unnamed (Pugwash?), to which Porter should direct his questions.

BR agrees with only one of his three propositions regarding "transcendence". The other two propositions are linguistic and not meaningful otherwise.

"Wrong address > Postal department, H of L".

"Voltaire's influence on me > American Medical Center at Denver".

"I am very sorry that I could not be in London during your visit to the Royal Society."

"8 Aug > Brondanw".

"1 Aug—Pack". "Brondanw" was the home of the Williams-Ellises.

"Yukawa | Zukerman > Rotblat".

BR will be in London on August 9 and they can fix a date to meet when Swartz arrives in London.

"I am quite willing that the little essay "Can Scientific Man Survive?" should be reprinted in your anthology on the terms suggested in your letter." (Bushman was coeditor of the anthology Read and Write.)

"I have made such an infinite number of faux pas in the course of my life that I am quite unable to select one." Getting born was the first.

"I am sorry that I am too much occupied with work already undertaken to be able to contribute to your suggested symposium."

"Erik Gramlis—No".

"I have received the enclosed bills and, if they are in order, I should be grateful if you could pay them and put them on my grandchildren."

"Shalom on Wittgenstein > Shalom".

"The £100 which you still owe me has not yet been paid to me although your letter of May 23 acknowledges that it is owing." (BR's next step is his lawyers.)

"Kindly place to my account the Sterling proceeds of the enclosed cheque for $300."

"I have now learnt that the article which I sent to the New York Times Magazine will not be printed in The Observer and I have not offered it to any other newspaper." BR encloses a shortened version of the article in which he is free to offer wherever he would like, except in the United States, and preferably to the Sunday Times. CND is printing it as a leaflet.

BR offers to pay for the secretary's salary up to £500 for at least the first year.

BR encloses a cheque for £100 for the ex gratia payments to Mrs. Grace.

"Lockspeiser > Rotblat".

"I am afraid I have nothing of interest to say about Hannah Whitall Smith...." Mrs. Catherine Marshall had inquired.

"Tea Tuesday fifteenth satisfactory. Russell".

BR thanks her for extracts from the letters of Rachel, Lady Russell.

On "agnostic" and "atheist" and proving non-existence.

On religion and comfort with lies. "I think sympathy without lies is better."

Their differences may not be as fundamental as they seem.

BR accepts honorary membership in the Aristotelian Society.

BR cancels the standing order for his annual subscription to the Aristotelian Society.

BR complains of the review of Gellner. If Gellner is a protégé of BR's, so would Descartes and Leibniz be.

"BBC £2.1.3 > Barclays".

BR provides the address of his bank, Child & Co.

BR declines to write an article on the principles of mathematics and does not know what recent authors should be recommended.

What friends of peace should do.

"I agree with you that Miss Seton's approach seems a little far fetched and I do not feel that there is anything that I can do about it."

"From the further work you have sent me, I have not gathered any refutation of my previous doubts about your economic system.... I am very sorry that it is proving so difficult to get them published, but I think that the publishers you have approached are probably right in thinking that they would lose money if they published your book."

BR thanks her for sending him a copy of "Can We Afford to Keep Open Minds" and agrees that it should be reproduced. "I find nothing in it contrary to my present opinions and I am therefore quite willing that it should be reproduced."

"I am whole-heartedly with you and am willing to do what I can to help in the campaign that you are inaugurating." BR wishes to set up a date to meet and asks him if the Pentagon report, which estimates "the deaths of 160,000,000 Americans", was correct, and asks for 2 publications mentioned by Schoenman.

BR thanks him for the statement "The Supreme Unity or World Disaster". BR is in agreement with what he says and wishes that the statement will have influence.

BR thanks her for the children's stories. "I have been thinking over the question of stories for adults, and I do not think that, as yet, there are enough of them to make a little volume; and I think, also, that as they are intended as propaganda I ought, when there are enough of them, to secure as large a circulation as possible."

"I think you might do well to get in touch with <blank> Schoenman … <address> who is busy concocting plans which might interest your teenage friends."

"It seems to me that your paragraphs 9-13 make very good sense and I cannot understand why you have encountered objection to them. I am sorry The Guardian would not publish your communication."

BR agrees with her aims but is too occupied with other matters to give his help. "There is just one point with which I am not in agreement and that is your statement as to the selfishness of young people." The young are not worse than the old.

"Red Hackle arrived safely Russell".

"I am quite willing to sponsor the Education Forum about which you write. I think it may prove very useful."

"£6.12.6 > Black—Who's Who".

"As for relations with the Liberal Party, I think that we should support any Liberal Candidate who is a unilateralist unless he is standing against a Labour Candidate who is also a unilateralist." Party whips. BR agrees with Fletcher's reply to Beveridge.

"£44.15.6 > Tom Brown. Where is new suit?"

"Pritchard Jones Corresp."

"Nuffield Foundation > Rotblat".

Re Whitehead. "His first precise disagreement with me was when he told me that one should adopt some such philosophy as Bergson's, since otherwise there would be no justification of induction." This was made as a criticism of BR.

A long, valuable, detailed letter on agitation.

"There have been three movements in Britain from which we can learn: 1) the anti-slavery movement; 2) the anti-Corn Law agitation; and 3) the votes-for-women campaign."

"£22.5.6 > Red Hackle".

"Edsall | Tomonaga | Meyer > Rotblat".

"No > USSR".

"I should be glad to see you here on almost any day before August 7th (after that I shall be in London)."

BR, in describing Shelley, thanks Dowling for sending him the "... very interesting investigation of the attack on Shelley at Tanyrallt." BR asks for a copy if Dowling publishes the essay.

Re BR's reply to Mr. Petch on the policy of the CND. "I thought I ought to know whether you endorse the opinions that I express."

"I also send herewith a copy of the typescript of the speech that I delivered to Copenhagen University. As I dictated it, it never existed in manuscript."

"Mr Abbott has asked Griff when the children are to return to school. They are to return on September 23." Re Lilian Griffiths: "Her chief reason for leaving is that she cannot work with the Welsh servants...."

A letter to the editor of The Guardian regarding Desmond Donnelly M.P.'s statement in their issue of July 27: "There has never been in modern political history a more pathetically muddled or foolish policy than the Nuclear Disarmament Campaign." Published as "Disarmament Policy". 

"Collins—15 Aug—4".

"On the whole I think that Dora had better have the £100 the [sic] cheque for which I sent you."

BR describes the "inadequacies" of his History when it treats recent philosophy. "I have, in general, in my History confined myself to philosophers who had some genuinely new idea. Among these I include James and Dewey. But most of the fairly recent philosophers whom I have neglected seem to me to have little that is genuinely novel."

"I am sorry that I overlooked the Labour Peers' Fund Account and I enclose a cheque for one guinea."

"Wilkinson | Bullard | Lockspeiser | Frisch > Rotblat".

"I have not written any book called On the Notion of Cause, but there is one essay with this title in the book called Mysticism and Logic which is now a Pelican Book No. A270."

"No > BBC".

"I have not the least idea as to the cause of my vitality concerning which you ask. The question is obviously medical.…"

BR addressed the letter to "Miss (?) Clive" as he could not read her signature. Re arranging a meeting.

"I am quite willing that you should reprint the passage in question about the importance of logical form."