BR is unable to obtain another copy of the Baron photograph but is sending a different one. "I have written to the publishers to send you my book On Education, but I think I ought to tell you that I no longer agree with what is said in that book about the first year which I now consider unduly rigid."

BR recommends Cheyney's Encyclopaedia Biblica on controversial matters.

"Telegram > Ld. R of L".

BR believes Millet does not know of his writings on education.

"I am very sorry to hear of your car accident."

BR is "quite willing that the material I gave to you should be deposited with Dr. Stonborough". Wittgenstein told BR bluntly he no longer wished to talk philosophy with him.

"I have not yet had time to consider your paper and I do not quite know when I shall have time." BR asks for forgiveness for "the apparent discourtesy".

"Signed and sent Ode to the West Wind > Bittern, Sidmouth"

"Children's Holiday books > Harrods"

"... I live at a great distance from London (7 1/2 hours by train) and, on the rare occasions when I come to London, my time is completely filled with necessary business ... it may not be possible to see you."

"I have no doubt that the book with which you have written would interest me if I could find time to read it, but I am fully occupied in the attempt to prevent a nuclear war...."

"[Same as above with added phrase: and that your ideas would interest me if I could find time to discuss them with you]". See record 126442.

BR will take part in the meeting on Feb. 15 with a short speech.

"No > Meeting of War on Want".

"My Philosophical Development > Tietz"

"I am very sorry that I am too busy to be able to review Leonard Woolf's new autobiography, though I have no doubt that it would greatly interest me."

Bangor Refugees-Week | Leeds—Indian Association

"No >"

BR has sent an inscribed copy of My Philosophical Development to Tietz.

BR gives Heineman permission to quote anything he likes.

"I enclose £50 and I should be grateful if you will deposit it in whatever bank your organization is using ... I do not feel quite confident that you are right in choosing the War Ministry since that choice may enable the police to evade the issue that we are concerned to raise...." There is more on principles and tactics.

The Russells will call her if there is time to see her.

BR autographs a book to be sent to Lady Halsey.

"I do not know of any statements beyond those that you have already come across and I have nothing fresh to say about Mathematics and Music."

BR approves an editorial footnote for Common Sense and Nuclear Warfare, perhaps for the Russian translation.

"Jackson—No".

BR cannot come to Hull for Nuclear Disarmament Week.

"Copenhagen University permission to publish "Old and Young Cultures" > Unwin".

BR gives more priority to prevention of war than to freedom of the press.

On BR's quip about the paradox of the liar and G.E. Moore.

"BR encloses a statement of his support for the march. "The proposed European March has my whole-hearted support."

BR could see her in London.

"When you published my Case for Unilateralism you made a prefatory statement which contains some inaccuracies."

"Send papers about Brian's loan to #43".

"Cheque for two guineas > Barclay's Bank, Portmadoc".

Re permission to quote from the debate with Copleston.

"Signed photo and note > Mrs. Kipling".

"I am afraid your project is not one of which I could be a sponsor as I think ill of all organized religions."

"£25.10.0 > Pugh".

The ringing of church bells in England is controlled by law, so BR cannot sign Muste's document.

"I have not answered it sooner because I hope to have something encouraging to say, but I have approached the few people I know in the art world and their response has been wholly negative."

"Signed document > Studio Basel".

"I am afraid I shall not be able to come to the Committee meeting on the 10th and 11th September. I have to be in London for a television discussion on September 13 when I take part in a debate with Mrs Roosevelt, Gaitskell and, perhaps, Hailsham."

"RSVP > Faces in Wales".

BR declines an invitation to lecture.

"Your table of contents looks interesting and I am willing to read your book as soon as I can find the necessary leisure." BR thinks that parts of his book seem similar to his Conquest of Happiness.

BR reveals that, although he did not have his children baptised, 2 of his children have become "earnest Christians" and he is not sure about taking steps to keep one's children inorthodox.

"Kindly place the Sterling proceeds of the enclosed cheque for $4 to the credit of my current account."

"Cards to Trinity—No".

BR thinks that it would not be worthwhile for him to read Principia Mathematica. "Whatever in it might be of interest to you you would find in my Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy which I wrote while in gaol."

"List engagements for London".

"I think that what you want is contained in the end of a volume that I am sending you herewith which is supposed to be a transcript of my television remarks in connection with Woodrow Wyatt." BR is glad that her branch of the CND is doing well.

BR agrees it is too late to revive the Gellner-Ryle controversy in the press.

"I am a little puzzled at the legal status of On Education in the U.S., but I assume that it must be all right and I therefore return my signature as you suggest." BR has revised the booklets What Is Democracy? and What Is Freedom?. Unwin is to omit The History of the World in Epitome from Fact and Fiction.

"£22.5.6 > Red Hackle".

"I enclose a small book which I hope you will think suitable for your library."

"No > P M Jackson".

"I am very sorry that I cannot see you on the 17th as I shall be travelling all that day and on the morning of the 18th I have another engagement."

"No > Yearsley—University College, London".

"I shall be glad to see you and Underwood while I am in London if a time can be arranged."

"The best that I can get out of Stanley Unwin so far is his consent that, after he has published 'The Theologian's Nightmare' in a collection, he will not object to your publishing it separately."

"I am glad that you agree with me that it is time to set about a membership organization of the CND ... with a scheme for a democratically elected executive.… When I speak in Trafalgar Square on September 24, I plan to say something in support of those who practice direct action."

"Social Responsibility of Scientists > Prof Gunther".

"I should be glad to see you sometime during October if a time suitable to us both can be arranged."

"I have always been an admirer of Henry George with whose writings I became acquainted when I was a boy, but they have not, in this country at least, become the programme of any politically important group."

Re Mr. Donnelly's letter in the September 5 issue: "He takes me to task for having changed my opinion in 1939. He, I gather, has never held any opinion which he now believes to have been mistaken. In other words, he has never learnt anything from experience." The Soviet policy "is both foolish and wicked".

"List of London engagements".

"Chinese telegram > Rotblat".

"Lunch food=soup and ice cream > Morgenthau".

"Tax deduction etc. > Madams".

"Fribourg & Treyer bill".

"New Statesman bill renewed".

"Dates of seeing Erni > Foges".

For practical purposes, BR is an atheist.

"As regards your projected 'Bertrand Russell Reader', there is a book coming out, edited by Lester Dennon and Robert Egnor, which may be an impediment to your project."

"Criccieth Labour Party < No".

"I should be quite willing to have you reprint my chapter on education in the book which, in America, is called 'Why Men Fight', but, in England, 'Principles of Social Reconstruction'."

The ribbon for this letter is at record 132040.
The carbon for this letter is at record 85380.

Re Heraclitus; "but I do not think that the road to peace can be through any metaphysic". "Your theory of thrust and counter-thrust is imaginatively attractive ... I think that your book could do nothing but good and might induce some to adopt an anti-nuclear point of view, who would be deaf to other ways of presenting the argument."

"Childs > Madams".

This first draft was expanded. See record 126590. "Your letter consists of vulgar abuse. The remark about crawling upon my belly to Moscow is an invention of my opponents, if it has ever been made at all."

"Card > ".

"I should much enjoy a talk with you, but I do not think I shall have any free time until November."

"I have every sympathy with your wish to convert your fiancée to free thought and I hope you will succeed." But don't "enlist the lusts of the flesh to tempt her".

"I read Canon Collins's letter carefully and I think that some of his points are valid. It is undoubtedly true, as he says, that the great majority of the delegates at Scarborough will be mandated already and not open to last minute influences." BR is prepared to ignore Collins on direct action.

"I think the Great Powers of East and West will see to it that no human beings exist at the end of the present century, but it will not take 8 minutes to say this."

"Father's Natal address."

"Signed photo > Striebeck".

"I very strongly support your plans for welcoming the Foulness prisoners on their release and I will gladly send a message to that effect to your projected meeting if you wish for one, but I do not think I shall be able, myself, to be present at the meeting." BR sends £10.

"It is interesting that Jonathan is so concerned about the appalling state of the world—but, indeed, I think that very many young people are."

"£9.9.0 > Boyd".

"Look up Trebull's and Cluyten's correspondence."

BR has read Joseph Novak's anti-communist book in proof. "If it is not too much trouble, I should be grateful if you would give me a sort of 'Who's Who' account of Mr Novak."

Novak's book is The Future Is Ours, Comrade. "When I was in Russia in 1920 I thought the kind of state and the kind of society that the Bolsheviks were out to create was exactly such as you describe."

"There is one point in your letter which I think must be wrong: I think my father was born at 37 Chesham Place, not at 39. 37 was my Grandfather's house as is indicated by a plaque."

"I am sorry I cannot do such an article as you suggest as my time is completely booked with work already undertaken."

"I regret that I shall not be able to attend the conference on Sept. 13, and I think it unlikely that I shall be able to attend the Forum on Jan 29, but, as you know, I am glad to be a sponsor."

"You will find all that I have to say on your problem in my book Human Knowledge."

Lort-Phillips may quote BR's sentence for the 2nd edition of his anti-nuclear book. "I look forward to meeting you when we are both to be thrown to the Lions of Trafalgar Square."

"I can think of some kinds of Hell, but to illustrate them would require, for photography, too elaborate a set to make it worth while."

"Thank you very much for sending me the book about the making of the embankment."

"Dr Müller > Unwin".

"If I am here on the 4th or 5th of October, I shall be glad to see you on whichever day proves most convenient, but owing to the crisis in the Labour Party about nuclear policy, I cannot be certain where I shall be on either day."