"2 leaflets > Lawson Smith".

"I should be happy to arrange for such recordings as you write about provided you would be content with speeches in favour of nuclear disarmament."

"Thank you for your very kind letter and for the enclosed Challenge."

"No > Cowley & Andersen Ltd. 5 November 1958".

"No > Colfe's Grammar School".

"I am sorry to refuse to read your manuscript, but I receive several such requests daily and, if I did not refuse them, I should have no time for my own work."

"Take BBC cheque to Barclay's—15 guineas".

"I was not in the slightest degree displeased with you and my only reason for silence was an accumulation of necessary business." (Re her letter to The Times on the Gellner-Ryle controversy.)

"Letter from Menon > Randle".

"In any case, in view of the probable nature of a nuclear war, if it should occur, conscientious objection has rather lost its point. Civilians and armed forces, alike, will only be asked to die quietly."

"2 leaflets > Edward Averill (from Earl Russell)".

"I enclose an article in the somewhat doubtful hope that it may be thought suitable for the New York Times Magazine; perhaps with a reply from Mr Kahn or from someone else."

"I have already promised to speak at the Midlands Conference for Peace in Birmingham on March 11 and I do not think that I can speak twice on the same day in the same place."

"No > Indian Y.M.C.A."

BR advises him to get in touch with Michael Scott by writing to the Committee of 100.

BR deals at length with five numbered points.

"What makes me hesitant to resume the presidency of the Welsh National Council is that I have gathered, chiefly from you, that many members of the Council strongly disapprove of those of my actions which led to a breach with the National Executive and I fear that this disapproval might cause difficulty."

"I enclose herewith £50 for the quarterly payment to Mrs. Grace."

BR asks if he "... would be willing to publish in the New Statesman a short article explaining the purpose and urgency of the civil disobedience demonstration which the Committee of 100 is organizing for February 18."

"Kindly place to my account the Sterling proceeds of the enclosed cheque for $10."

"I am, as you know, in entire sympathy with the Homosexual Law Reform Society and I enclose £5 towards its expenses."

"Thank you very much for sending me Demain le Soleil Se Levra and for the very kind things that you say on the accompanying card."

BR is unable to think of any way to help, but refers them to the Rationalist Press Association.

"If you and your friends do contemplate visiting me here, I should advise you to ring me up on the telephone to arrange a time...."

"I should like to accept your invitation to speak at the conclusion of your conferences, but my commitments in the campaign of the Committee of 100 make it difficult for me to make firm engagements until April...."

"I enclose an article on disarmament which may possibly be suitable for your purpose. It will probably be published in America and possibly here, but I imagine you do not mind that."

"I was surprised to see in the Times this morning a statement of the sentences on the two ladies. I was also surprised when I was rung up by the N.Y. Times to ask whether it was true that I had interceded with the Soviet Government on their behalf. I do not know how these facts came to be known to the Press."

"No > Goldsmith".

BR declines Schuman's invitation to become a sponsor of the conference on the situation of Spain.

"I am completely in sympathy with the purposes of your association and I wish you all possible success."

BR thanks her for sending him her novel, which, so far, he finds very interesting.

"I am entirely willing that you should make the quotation for which you ask permission."

"Thank you for your letter of December 27 and for the enclosed Address which deals with a very important subject...."

BR advises him to write to the Rationalist Press Association for a list of their publications.

BR declines an invitation to address the Oxford Majlis. "I hope you will find a speaker who will make a thoroughly convincing speech against nuclear weapons."

"I am sorry I shall not be able to be present at the Labour Peers' dinner on January 30...."

"Declaration > Bayerische Rundfunk".

<A Sterling calculation?> "18 X 7 = 126 = 6.6"

"Refusal > Bulgarian Embassy".

BR refers him to New Hopes for a Changing World. "You speak of the 'historical universal interpretation', but it is only universal among Christians who are a minority in the population of the world." BR judges the character of Christ "solely from the Gospels".

"Jean & Margaret".

"Signed papers for pension for Mrs. P. Daincey".

BR has to refuse Cooper's invitation to write an introduction to The Seed of Light. "I have read it with much interest and admire your cosmic imagination." BR believes extra-sensory perception is a superstition.

"I am very sorry to hear that you have suffered so unjustly at the hands of Gaitskell's followers." BR will pass on his "Theses on War" to the Committee of 100, but there is unlikely to be unanimity on the economic issues.

"I could publish my letter to Krushchev stating that I have had no reply or acknowledgement and that I totally disbelieve the hostile statement about Mrs Ivinskaya by which the Soviet Government endeavours to justify the savage sentences upon her and her daughter."

"I am very glad that you are willing to have an article, and I will certainly send it to you before February 10." "I like your advice re libel."

"I am sorry that you met with a 'reserved' attitude from the CND." BR thinks he may get help from the Direct Action Committee.

"I am, of course, just as much opposed as you are to armed intervention against Castro, but my time is fully occupied by a civil disobedience campaign in this country." "Alien intervention" might do harm.

"In reply to your circular appeal for funds, I enclose £25."

"Deeply regret pressure of work already undertaken makes review of Nagle [Nagel] impossible."

BR thanks her for sending her husband's paper. "Although my mind is now completely turned towards political matters, and away from philosophy and mathematics, I was most interested in seeing it...."

"I understand that you are considering the advisability of bringing out a paper-backed edition of Why I Am Not a Christian." BR thinks that it would have a wide sale.

"Send copy to Edwards". See record 126853.
 

"Copy of letter to Guardian of January 20 > Jeremy Larner".
 

"No > reception in honour of The Family Doctor."
 

"The enclosed letter originally addressed to Sir Edward John Russell has been forwarded to me ... but as it is in Japanese or Korean, I cannot read it."

"I quite agree with you that the things you mention will have to be done before the world is safe from the weapons of mass destruction."

"I think the love of wanton cruelty is very widespread ... I cannot feel that I can alter my own ethical convictions to suit a majority."

BR is unable to attend the celebration of the centenary of Whitehead's birth. "I should have liked to recall my first meeting with Whitehead in 1877 when his father ... succeeded in persuading me, more or less, that the earth is round...."

BR asks for a record of his speech that he made in the House of Lords, in 1946 or 1947, concerning nuclear weapons and the H-bomb before it was invented.

BR refers him to Human Society on Ethics and Politics. "I should say myself that all the problems of ethics are still outstanding." "I have never been able to think of an ethical theory that really satisfied me."

Re the children's allowances of £8 a term. "It seems as if it would be necessary to give them a serious talk about extravagance...."

"The judge decided yesterday about the children ... Lady R[ussell] and I were awarded custody...."

Re Mrs Ivinskaya and her daughter's sentencing: "... I find it impossible to resist the conclusion that savage sentences such as were passed on them were passed only because they were friends of Pasternak."

"I am very glad that you and 6 friends are willing to join the civil disobedience demonstration on February 18." BR asks them to fill out the pledges in the "Call to Action".

"I have replied to the enclosed letter and sent Miss Powell the copies of Act or Perish and 'Call to Action', and asked her and her 6 friends to fill out the pledges...."

"I should say that the argument of the powerlessness of single individuals, which I hear constantly, is an example of a well-known logical fallacy called 'the fallacy of the heap'." "The illusion of powerlessness is a mistake."

BR declines his invitation re "purely philosophical matters".

"I am very glad to know of the unanimous vote that you report and, in view of it, I will with great pleasure withdraw my resignation to the Presidency of the Welsh National Council."

To the logician.

"I should have thought that what your students need in respect to the theory of descriptions could be got from the following: On Denoting (Mind 1905); Knowledge by Acquaintance and Knowledge by Description (Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 1911); and my reply to Strawson in My Philosophical Development...." Strawson would have to be read, too.

BR thanks him for the pearl which Yomiuri Shimbun sent. "I hope your newspaper will have great success in advocating your common cause."

"I am very glad that the Moscow conference has been successful and is having a continuing influence."

"As your readers are aware, the Committee of 100 and its supporters propose to commit an act of civil disobedience by sitting down in front of the Ministry of Defence."

"March 11 Birmingham | Sat. April 15 Birmingham Youth CND".

"The case of Leo Koch which you write about is outrageous and I hope there will be considerable protest against his dismissal."

"I do not recognize the quotation concerning which you ask and I cannot give you any help as to its origin."

"In view of the change of date of your meeting, I am now able to accept your invitation to speak on April 15, which I do with much pleasure."

"I am very sorry that I shall in all likelihood have to be away during the whole of the first fortnight in April and I am afraid, therefore, that there will be no opportunity to welcome you here."

"No < Secretary [BR] can't make engagements so far ahead".

"I have read the enclosure with the greatest interest and with complete sympathy with Eatherly ... I do not feel that there is very much that I personally can do about Eatherly, but if it is thought desirable to draw up a letter, or letters, to the Press about his case, I shall in all likelihood be willing to be a signatory." Gunther Anders is mentioned.

"I enclose some stuff which might be either an article or a review. In either guise, I should be very glad if you thought it suitable for The Observer."

"Crawshays | Blount".

"No > Univ. Inst. of Ed."

"You will find the postulates of the mathematical logic that I advocate in Vol I of Principia Mathematica."

"Unfortunately, my whole time is booked...."

"The enclosed form in duplicate has come with the enclosed cheque for $10."

"I am quite willing to be a sponsor of the conference at Oslo that you write about and I regret that I cannot be present at it."

"No > Young students at University of London—(speaking at London School of Economics on February 16)".

"I first became aware of the existence of Frege through a review of him by Peano ... this whetted my curiosity and I got hold of all Frege's books."

"My row with Barnes seems now very distant, but I am still, as usual, immersed in rows." BR encloses 2 leaflets about one row.

BR thanks Ireland for sending the number of Hansard that he wanted. In his request, he had mistaken the year.

BR requests a complete English translation of Lucretius, preferably R.C. Trevelyan's translation.

"I have read your typescript [Politics] with interest and, except on a few points, with agreement.... The only thing I question is whether there is much that is novel in your point of view." BR rescinds some of his views on Russia.

BR has written a short preface from the English translation of Jean's work on induction. He hopes that she may translate the preface into French.

"I quite agree with the suggestion in your letter that I should make a donation to the National Campaign for the Abolition of Capital Punishment, and I enclose £5."

"I am warmly in sympathy with the efforts to secure justice for your husband. I do not, however, think the cause would be furthered by adding my name to an appeal as my activities in regard to nuclear disarmament have made me unpopular with the American administration and I am afraid that a letter from me would do more harm than good."

Re the custody of the grandchildren: "On the whole, after reflection, it seems to us that it might be better to raise no question at present, as to the meaning of 'reasonable access'." Better to await a specific issue.

BR encloses £200 for the Committee of 100. "I gather from Scott and Schoenman that our affairs are going well. Congratulations!"

"Cheque from Schuster and U.S. bills > Child".

"Some time ago I sent you the copy for Fact and Fiction and asked your advice as to whether I should omit a dream in which I met God and also whether there were any other items that you thought not worth including." BR has not received a reply from him regarding this letter. See record 126782. 

Re Imber. "I hope you will win a complete victory over the War Office. I enclose £10 towards your expenses."

"No > Lord".