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".

"In reply to your letter, I enclose [not present] a short pamphlet published in Japan and I should advise you to write to the Japan Council against A and H bombs whose address is given in the pamphlet."

"Read the best books of the kind that you would like to write." "I think the first necessity in writing is to have something definite that you very much wish to say, and, the second is to practice clarity and simplicity." BR suggests starting with Defoe's Journal of the Plague.

"The danger of overpopulation is imminent and it seems almost inevitable that there will be a lowering of the standard of life in Asia, Africa and South America ... research on a wide scale should be promoted with a view to the making of a satisfactory anti-conceptive pill." BR allows Best to use this letter in the meeting he wrote about.

BR thinks that his suggested paper for the young is not practicable. BR suggests a more feasible project: "... a campaign to improve the teaching of history in schools which at present is too apt to encourage an undesirable outlook. It is too nationalistic and too much concerned with war."

BR encloses a cheque for £50 and asks how much of his tax reserve certificate will remain.

"The sombre horror of your pictures expresses better than words can do what is felt by those who have imagination and the courage to use it. They express not only the hatred and the evil, but also intense compassion towards the victims ... You are welcome to send this letter to Dr Dale and to let him use any part of it that he and you think would be useful as an introduction."

"I am quite willing to give the permission that you ask for in your letter of February 1." Theobald had asked BR if he could reprint "Prospects of Mankind" in his Britain in the Sixties.

BR sees the importance of his work, but his time is completely booked and he does not have competence in the field.

"It is a pleasure to send a message of good will to the Congress at Ahmedabad which I hope will be both successful and fruitful. I much regret that I cannot be present in person."

BR is unable to accept an interview as his time is taken up with a demonstration on February 18 and likely consequences.

" > Children and Flora and Medlock".

"Return MS & Secretary—No time to read it > Sifer".

"You are entirely right in saying that the pill must be sugar coated and the sugar coating must deal with other matters than nuclear disarmament."

BR advises her to apply to the CND headquarters as they would likely be willing to help with her campaign.

"No > Shrewsbury—Forum Society".

"I am glad to know of your missionary activities and I hope they will bear good fruit."

"I am much touched by your generosity in sending £5 for the Committee of 100 and also for your kind wishes that I shall escape injury from police, dogs, horses and humans." Since adopting the liquid diet, BR has had no discomfort, except for increasing deafness.

"I enclose a cheque for £5 which has been sent to me."

"I am glad to note your favourable opinion of the volume concerned. I enclose the agreement duly signed by me."

"Blurb for Fact and Fiction".

"Thank you for sending me the New Republic of February 6 and for your accompanying letter inviting me to reply to Mr. Tucker. I enclose a reply herewith."

"I am sorry I exceeded my allowance of words. In your original letter you mention 1500 as a suitable number. I have now made cuts in the proof which ... make the article consist of exactly 1500 words."

"Thank you for your report of the Moscow Pugwash Conference, which is admirably done and, on the whole, gives ground for hope."

BR will be completely occupied with the demonstration on February 18 and its aftermath and foresees that it will be impossible for him to come to Rome.

"The passage in Lucretius that I had in mind was the one just before the end of book IV. It is translated by R.C. Trevelyan where he says that certain women behave in a manner 'that Venus may give men more pleasure. But of this surely our wives should have no need.'"

"I am very sorry that work already undertaken makes it impossible for me to contribute a paper. I much regret this as I have a great respect for Popper."

"Income—U.S.—forms > Madams".

"I enclose an envelope originally addressed to you and forwarded by you to Telegraph House, Harting, Petersfield. I have not lived there since 1938." [I.e., 1937.] BR asks him to forward any letters for him to his address on the letterhead.

"I have read with very complete sympathy and approval your Chairman's address 'Why We Are Here'. I am very glad that such energetic work towards nuclear disarmament is going on in Canada...."