"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."

"You have a Town suit of mine which I have been expecting you to send to above address."

"Thank you very much for the very pleasant edition of my History of the World. I particularly enjoyed your picture of Adam and Eve at their elevenses, they look so different from their portraits by the Old Masters."

"The article of which I sent you the typescript has been published by the New York Times Magazine on July 24 with a reply by Gaitskell of which I enclose a typed copy together with my rejoinder to it." BR suggests they be included in publishing BR's article.

"Richards > Bangor".

Re CND.

"I learn from Colleg Harlech that they expect me to get there at 4.45 which is earlier than we had supposed."

"I shall be in London at 43 Hasker St from August 9-22, and I shall be happy to see you if a mutually convenient date can be fixed during that time."

"£35.4.1 > Deudraeth Garage (Tait's car)".

"Perrin > Rotblat".

BR advises that Humphreys should get in touch with Schoenman as he has many plans for a campaign and may be useful. He points out the value of letters to the press.

"I do not think that I could make an inaugural speech at the start of your march, but I could probably send you a message of good will if you would remind me nearer the time."

"The codicil of which Mr. Tylor sent me a draft is not altogether easy for a layman to understand, but it seems to express my wishes and I am quite willing to sign it."

BR passes on some photographs.

"Your interesting letter of June 28 deserves a full and considered answer, but unfortunately I am so overwhelmed with work of a totally different kind that I have not been able to make up my mind as to how far I agree with you and how far I disagree."

BR disagrees with his theory that "all mental events are beliefs".

"I no longer believe in mnemic causation except as derivative from ordinary causation." BR has no time to consider such questions "deeply" at the moment.

"I think, in your paper about Kant's Categorical Imperative, you are right in saying that I misinterpreted Kant, which I am sorry to have done." "Kantian exegesis is a dark labyrinth, and I no longer feel that I can wander in it." BR's ethical perplexities haven't changed.

BR does not disagree with him on either of his two papers: "Confusion in Contemporary Linguistics" and "Some Comments on Demarcation and Empiricism".

"I am quite willing that you should reprint my essay which, on your side of the Atlantic, is called 'Faith of a Humanist'." BR notes that it has been published in Canada as a leaflet, but gives him permission to publish it in the United States.

"£5 > NCCL—General Secretary, Martin Ennals".

BR sees nothing to correct in the typescript. He is unable to meet with him as he will be in London from August 9-23.

"Thank you very much for sending me your delightful book Platypus at Large. I have enjoyed every word and line of it, and hope it will be earnestly studied by politicians."

"£200 > Brown, Shipley".

"I think the proposals in your memorandum would be admirable if they were adopted, but I do not see any hope of their being adopted until public opinion in every country has undergone a very profound change." Khrushchev "lost his temper on the U-2 episode."

BR corrects her on "a few small points" from her paper on BR and Einstein. "What I wrote in 1915 about wars that could be justified is rendered completely obsolete by the invention of nuclear weapons."

BR thanks him for the photograph of his sketch and will try to find a use for it in the British anti-nuclear campaign.

BR encloses the photograph of Walt Ruhman's sketch which he may find useful in the British anti-nuclear campaign. The Russells have posted Schoenman's coat to him in London.

"Sept. 12 BBC TV (Morgenthau) 5-6
Mrs. Roosevelt (moderator) Tory Gaitskell BR".

"Formal No > Indonesian Embassy".

"My plans are somewhat uncertain, but I may be in London during the last few days of August."

"But I am sorry that neither my wife nor I will be able to come to the Conference in the Doges Palace."

"I am glad to know Hans Erni would like to illustrate 'The Queen of Sheba'. As this has no propaganda element, I think that I should prefer the limited edition with lithographs."

BR thanks Toldi for sending him American Kaleidoscope. Re America's troubles, which are "largely due to increased wealth": "I wrote a fable once about a tribe of bears who unexpectedly found vast stores of honey. All died of over-eating, except a small ascetic sect who considered all pleasures sinful." Re the Amish, to whom BR lived close in Pennsylvania.

BR refers him to his "Free Man's Worship" and Why I Am Not a Christian. "I do not think that parents ought to attempt to promote their children's happiness by saying things that they do not believe to be true."

"I have no objection to your submitting your article to The Guardian as an interview, and, though I should enjoy seeing you, I do not think it is necessary."

Re the Good Citizen's Alphabet: "I am glad it has been published in America and amused that it has been published by the Philosophical Library."

"As far as I am concerned, you are entirely at liberty to reprint my article on Gandhi."

"I am willing to make a contribution to your projected book and I hope that the book will have considerable influence upon informed opinion." The carbon is dated August 6 and the dictation August 7.

Re The May Fourth Movement which he is reading. "I have learnt from your book things about the reactions to me in China which I did not know before." The carbon is dated August 6 and the dictation August 7.

"Your characterization of my views as pure reason reaches me at the same time as a Labour M.P.'s description of  them as 'muddle-headed emotionalism'."

"I am glad you enjoyed the talk yesterday evening."

BR is impressed with how much she has read. "I cannot think of anything else of great importance for your purpose, except perhaps Ramsey's Foundations of Mathematics and Mathematical Logic."

"I think your idea is a very good one and I am sending you two rather short books as contributions to your projected library."

"Wise > Rotblat".

"I am sorry that I have no influence with the officials of the City of London, and if I approached them to advocate your project, I should ensure its rejection." The City government consists of pious rich men.

"I am quite willing, if nothing unforeseen interferes, to speak in Trafalgar Square on September 24."

"I am entirely willing that you should quote my History of the World in toto, by which I mean that you should not omit the last two words, namely, 'THE END'. These words are an essential part of what I have to say."

On the 2 "knows" in French and German.

"12/6 > May & Son".

"I am a little surprised by your finding a similarity in the styles of Free Man's Worship and the conclusion to Pater's Rennaissance. I  think myself that the style of the Free Man's Worship is due to the fact that I had been reading a great deal of Milton's prose."

"Bernadini > Rotblat".

BR is willing to be a signatory. "I am much honoured by the invitation to be one of 'the first nucleus'."

"Signed PC photo > Montague Ashford".

"If mankind is to survive, Russia and America must learn that they have a common enemy namely, the H-bomb—and they must combine to combat this enemy, not each other."

"I shall be happy to see you while you are at Oxford if a date can be arranged."

Buchanan's letter was "exceptionally nice". "I thought well of Mr. Cory's article when I read it and I am glad that you are publishing it."

BR cannot accept her offer to be Vice President of the Tagore Centenary Committee as "The general outlook set forth in Tagore's works is so very different from mine that I do not feel that it would be appropriate for me to be associated with it."

"I enclose a letter from the Indian Acting High Commissioner. It is disappointing, but I do not see that there is anything to be done about it at present."

"The Singalese Post Office, for which you speak, plays, like other post offices, a very essential part in helping different parts of the world to become acquainted with each other."

"I am very sorry that it does not seem possible to arrange a meeting with Lord Simon during this month as I am only in London for a few days longer."

"Children and money".

"I am sorry that I do not feel able to join in the celebrations of Tagore since, although I respected his work for peace, his general philosophy was very alien to my way of thinking and I should not wish to seem to agree with it."

"As far as I am concerned, I should be glad to have the book you mention included in your Torch Book paper-back series, but I am not at the moment certain as to the legal position."

"I suppose that you will wish me to write to the original American publishers to ask if they will let the rights revert to me, but I do not wish to do anything without your concurrence."

"I am horrified by the action of the Internal Security Sub-Committee of the Senate. It seems to me that they demanded of you what almost any honourable man would feel to be a dishonourable action."

BR thanks him for the copy of his letter to Linus Pauling.

On civil disobedience. The matter is urgent, "but we have to appeal to people who do not yet feel this urgency.…"

Re the prosecution of Lady Chatterly's Lover on grounds of obscenity.

BR encloses two letters from Weissel and asks Collins if he knows him and whether he deserves support.

BR cannot undertake to read Fleming's very long book. BR fears he is no longer persona grata with Cyrus Eaton and Philip would have a better chance of success if he directly approached Eaton.

"I was, however, a little surprised by your suggestion that those who have no Christian allegiance may feel a difficulty in working with Christian Action, as I have never myself felt any such difficulty."

BR sends a blurb for the book Discovery and Exploration by Frank Debenham. "My only criticism of it concerns the maps illustrating migration routes."