"Sorry about difficulties in getting publisher ... no further advice … Glad to learn if you hear from Mr Gordon Lansborough".

What I have to say about "le mal du siecle" is summed up in one sentence, which I have called 'The History of the World' and written for use in Martian Infant Schools".

"I am now recovered from my indisposition and it would be a pleasure to my wife and me if you could manage to pay us a visit on two or three nights at any time before the end of the month."

"I am very sorry not to comply with your suggestion, but I am pretty certain that it would be useless to do so. I wrote directly to Krushchev [Khrushchev] in the case of Mme Ivinskaya and her daughter, but I had no acknowledgement and nothing came of it."

"My wife and I are very sorry that we were out when you were kind enough to call." BR thanks him for bringing a number of detective stories.

"As you no doubt know, I do not agree with your point of view, but you have stated it forcibly and well." BR encloses Win We Must, a speech which explains his position.

"I enclose a letter from Mr. Madams about a tax reserve certificate."

"I cannot quite agree with you that in a nuclear war English women will suffer more than English men and children." BR encloses Win We Must and suggests that she get in touch with the Committee of 100 and write to Peace News suggesting a campaign.

"From my point of view, I shall be very glad if you can come to an agreement with Penguins."

Re Krishna Menon. "When he was Secretary of the India League and I was President, he did all the work and I merely endorsed his activities as I had a great many other matters that occupied my time."

"I have been invited to do a Penguin book on the title Has Man a Future?. I should like in this book to say something about Pugwash and, if you approve, to quote the whole of the Kitzbühel declaration."

"The information you give is interesting and the voting in Norway is most encouraging. I wish larger countries were equally wise."

"I have had a letter from Sir Stanley Unwin suggesting that, if and when, you reach an agreement with him about his doing a hard back edition of Has Man a Future? you should let him deal with the translation rights if foreign nations desire them." BR does not know what he "ought to feel about this".

"May I congratulate you most warmly on your speech against the proposal to make a motor road through Christ Church meadows ... I care immensely about the beauty of Oxford, which, like what is beautiful in other parts of England, is being destroyed by the worship of Mammon."

"Alonzo Gibbs—Letter? No—Commend friendly tone—".

"Encounter—too busy—No".

"Gellner—Entirely willing to give R as referee.—Signed R".

Re the children travelling to Cornwall.

"I entirely agree with your protest against German troops in Wales, but I am sorry that the protest does not extend to the rest of Great Britain. Unfortunately, I cannot accept your invitation to speak owing to other engagements already made."

"I hesitate to write to Russians in the sense suggested in your letter, because the Conditional Agreement that you send calls for a Democratic Federal World Government ... the Russian usage according to which the word 'democratic' means a military tyranny imposed by alien armed force...."

"Wish them well, but has been ill and can only send best wishes".

"Did write this stuff but don't remember where. Send Win We Must".

"Dear Brown". Re autobiography.

"I still think that inextricable difficulties will arise if Unwin is not to be the publisher of your work. He is one of my literary executors and will feel, I am sure, that he has a prescriptive right as regards anything that I have written." BR encourages Spencer-Brown to edit a volume of his letters and write a critical account of his work.

"I am sorry that I am so overwhelmed with work that I cannot undertake to give you advice as to the fellowship you propose to found which would involve a considerable amount of thought."

"I am very sorry that I cannot give you the help you ask for in regard to literature of logic." It is over 50 years since logic was BR's main pursuit.

BR encloses a chapter on Pugwash from the Penguin book manuscript, which he would like Rotblat to read for inaccuracies or undesirable content.

"All being well, I shall be glad to speak at the public meeting on either of the dates you suggest—October 25 or November 1—suits me equally well."

"I am much interested by what you say about the Duke of Bedford. It would interest me to make his acquaintance, but I am no longer up to much travelling."

"I should like to accept your suggestion, but my energies are not what they were and I have to limit my commitments rather severely."

BR is "completely recovered" [from shingles]. "I will tell Sir Stanley that you wish to reserve the translation rights ... I find, as I feared might be the case, that it does not very closely follow the suggested synopsis ... I have always found that books have a will of their own and come out as they choose and not as I expect."

"I had a letter from Pevsner of Penguins confirming the 2/3 concerning which you inquired, but rejecting your suggestion of handling the translation rights on the ground that Penguin is good at this sort of job."

"I am quite willing to be a Patron of your magazine on the assumption that no work is required of me." BR encloses a short message.

"... I shall be delighted if you could make such use of Satan in the Suburbs as you suggest...." BR also recommends Nightmares of Eminent Persons, which may be suitable.

"It would give me much pleasure to accept one of the medals (plaques) for this year, but I much regret that I am too old for long journeys and cannot, therefore, travel to India. I do not know whether this constitutes a fatal objection to awarding me the medal."

"So far as I am concerned, I am entirely willing that you should re-print the speech [Win We Must] I made on March 11 and I do not think it likely that the organizers of the Conference to which I spoke will raise any objection."

"I have had a letter from Canon Collins asking permission to reprint and distribute as a CND pamphlet the pamphlet containing my speech at Birmingham on March 11 ... I shall be grateful if you will let me know whether you also consent...."

"... I entirely approved of the plans you outline for the Conference in September. I am very sorry that I shall not be present at the Conference owing to other commitments."

"Photos signed and sent (to Jennifer Strong and Little African Girl) > Rupert Strong".

"Unwin—Chandler photos and London".

"Minnesota Students' Peace Union—No".

"Parl World Govt.—No—no date near that time".

"Ok > Park College (Jerzy Hauptmann)".

"CND—No—Husband Energies appearances few. Heartily wish him well. Enclose Win We Must and send other later".

"Coxon—Boston nurses—No".

BR is glad of the good news about Eatherly. "I am sorry that I shall not be present at the conference...."

"OK > John—3.30-4".

"Good wishes > Japan Council vs H-bombs".

"Seldom read popular press and have nothing to contribute".

"Win We Must > Link".

"Signed photo > Bachiller—Argentina".

"Cheque £125 > Childs from Lansdowne Studios (Chandos)".

Re the terms of the contract. "But if it means that for five years I am to hold my tongue about nuclear weapons and nuclear war or any of the other subjects on which we touched then I can give no such undertaking."

"... I am communicating your letter and your scheme to the Committee of 100, an organization with which I am connected and which seems likely to co-operate with you."

"If America chooses war, England will be no safer than America—in fact, the official view is that all inhabitants of Britain will perish."

"Associated Press—No—too busy".

"Send cheque. Agree insurance should be increased Plas P. > 10000 & Hasker Street > 1500 if you think reasonable.

"Can't remember what article on World Government is. Can't remember a broadcast on it. Suggest the Prof sends a copy of the text and perhaps you can identify it."

"We expect to be in London for a short time from the 26th July to about August 9 and we should be glad to see you during that time."

"I expect to be in London July 27 and should be happy to see you on that day...."

"Card and Win We Must > Worstell, Pittsburgh".

BR thanks him for ordering the book of Pasternak's poems. Peter Russell is not related to BR.

"10/- > Mr Ibbetson of Melwyn Back, Gresor".

"Thank you for your letter of July 1 and for the present of elephants which I greatly appreciate and have put on my mantelpiece where it is in sight all day."

"Dear Mrs Robertson...."

"The first and third of the articles you write about were never published in English; the second, I think, was published in English in the reference that you give viz., Mind, 1902."

"Read Why I am not a Christian and also my Philosophy of Leibnitz—[signed BR]".

"I am now completely restored to health and am grateful for your solicitude."

"I should much like to see awareness of the danger among Australian students and if you can promote this, you will be doing an exceedingly useful work." BR encloses Human Life Is in Danger.

BR will not be in London at the time mentioned and so will be unable to meet Shelby.

BR encloses a list <not present> of the books that he has written since 1950. "I am interested by what you say about causality, but it is a tangled subject and one about which I find it difficult to be dogmatic."

"Your experiences with the PhD that you mention do not at all surprise me. A PhD degree is no guarantee of either wisdom or virtue." BR tells her he leaves most letters unanswered.

"Recovered but must husband energies. Therefore no".

"Article in Family Planning—Publishers might consent to his reprinting article—No time to write new one—Entirely agree about importance of the matter".

"I am sorry that I cannot contribute an article to your Review as I have already undertaken as much work as I can manage."

"It is unpleasant to be surrounded by people one disagrees with, but I gather that in spite of that, you enjoy a sense of liberation."

"I am very sorry that, after giving considerable thought to your letter of July 5, I still think that my intervention would be more likely to do harm than good, especially in the present very tense atmosphere."

BR hopes to have time soon to read his translations of Three Spanish Poets.

"Send Birmingham, April 15, speech > Canadian, Vizinczei".

The addressee is "Dr. Gotschaft", but this is an error. BR refers him to Alan Wood's biography of him, The Passionate Sceptic.

"Footnote to p. 23".

"It is somewhat ironic that those who are most apt to quote Patrick Henry on Liberty or Death regard anybody who appeals to the First or Fifth Amendment to the Constitution, both of which were carried mainly by the efforts of Patrick Henry, as ipso facto a traitor."

BR encloses the typescript of Has Man a Future?.

BR requests an up-to-date list of the member States of the UN.

"We are very sorry indeed that we cannot manage to see you during the week end." Big affair on August 6.

BR refers him to the Committee of 100. On the difficulties of publicity: "I was approached today by Associated Rediffusion, who offered me two minutes of generalities; but when I said that I wished to speak on Berlin, they withdrew the offer." BR is telling Schoenman of him, "one of the most active and informed members".

"In case I should not be on hand when you call for the photographs, I should like to say that the four which we prefer are (in that order) numbers 12, 3, 14, 1."

"I am writing to ask that the Home Office should continue the visa of Mr. Ralph Schoenman...." Marked "Draft". See record for an earlier letter referred to.

"I feel very much honoured that the YCND wishes me to be its President and I should like to accept their invitation but ... it seems to me that I must decline the invitation to become President of the YCND for the same reasons as I felt obliged to decline to become again the President of the CND."

"My wife and I recently had a conversation with Sir Stanley Unwin on the subject of your project. He thought there was no reason why the publication of your work should wait till after the publication of my autobiography." 

BR is unable to contribute to the proposed book on the House of Lords because of work already undertaken.

"As regards the poor sales of my books in Germany, my wife suggests that they confuse me with Lord Russell of Liverpool. Do you think this likely?"

Re an article BR is writing. "I note that in your letter you do not include Macmillan among world leaders. Am I to infer that I must say nothing about him? You also do not mention any Asians or Africans, but it seems to me that it would be an anachronism to ignore Asia and Africa."

"I am very sorry that I am too busy endeavouring to induce the human race to refrain from mass suicide to have time to do anything unless and until the K's come to an agreement."

"I can hardly suppose that either Simon or Schuster pretends to be a Christian."

BR is so occupied with the attempt to prevent a nuclear war that he finds it impossible to turn his mind to the philosophical subjects that he used to write about.

BR refers him to Schilpp's Living Philosophers for "a very nearly complete bibliography" of his writings. Denonn has been working [more] on it.

BR thanks him for the enclosed handbills. "The one about the crisis in 1878 might be read as contemporary by a very few verbal alterations."

"I shall be grateful if you will send a photostat to Allen and Unwin, as the typescript that I have does not embody recent corrections and it would take my secretary some time to embody these corrections."

"I think your American friend ought to be informed that there are a great many non-Quakers and even non-Christians in America who stand for peace. The principal organization of this character is SANE". (She was partnered with Arthur Waley.)

"I thoroughly sympathize with the aims of your proposed dining-cum-discussion society, but I hesitate to accept an official position in connection with it, partly because I am so busy that I should very seldom, if ever, be able to attend the meetings and partly because, owing to a difficulty in swallowing, I have to live entirely on liquid nourishment and therefore cannot dine."

"Secretary > Sawyer".

"I have seen only small parts of the Eatherly-Anders correspondence, and I should wish to see the whole before giving a definite answer to the question of writing a preface."