"My wife and I wish to express our best thanks for the trouble taken by you and Mr. Holland to diminish the discomforts of prison. ... Would you also be so good as to express our thanks to Mr. Macpherson for his extremely successful action in getting our sentences reduced from two months to a week."

"I shall be glad if we can arrange such an interview as you suggest, but I am here until October 23 and do not know whether you are willing to make the journey to North Wales. If you are, I can manage almost any time convenient to you."

"I am glad that the wheelchair frustrated the police. I have written to your friend John Gengel agreeing to his proposal if a date can be fixed."

"Woodstock Gallery—No".

"Santiori—list of books".

"I am very grateful for the offer of one of your recordings, but I should like you to choose which one you prefer to give. I very much wish that I could accept your invitation to the Festival Hall on October 11, but unfortunately I have to be here in North Wales at that date."

"Vicar Tunstall—Act or Perish; 2 Birmingham pamphlets; Common Sense and Nuclear Warfare. Committee of 100 will send further literature if desired."

"Old People's Home—Cornish".

"I am very glad that in what is of most practical urgency we are agreed. I think it is just as well that there should be various methods since different methods appeal to different people."

"I am sorry the Brixton authorities did not allow me to see you when you were there but I am touched that you should have troubled to make that long journey." BR had to decline the Duke of Bedford's invitation.

"Dear Michael—thanks for whisky." It is not certain to which of the prominent Michaels BR is writing.

"WFMT Perspective < No".

"No > Humanists of Imperial College".

"I am glad to hear that there is a prospect of an anti-nuclear movement in Modena." BR encloses a leaflet for the campaign and refers him to the Committee of 100.

"List of works > Meyer".

"Lady Welby wrote a book called What is Meaning?. This book had some importance since it influenced various subsequent writers. They, in turn, influenced me and turned my attention to the problem of meaning which I had previously ignored." BR refers them to My Philosophical Development for what he knows about Mr. Hudson.

BR is glad for Ralph (Schoenman) that conditions at Drake Hall are not bad. "It is quite untrue that Michael Scott's bad relations with the Canon are the result of 'petty personal squabbling'. I think what the Committee of 100 ought to do is to produce a small pamphlet stating its own aims and policy, positively, but without any mention of the CND."

"I enclose herewith the signed letters of which you sent the draft. The only person to be seen that I can think of in addition to those in your list is Edouard le Ghait former Ambassador and Chief of Cabinet, Belgian Foreign Ministry, and author of an admirable little book No Carte Blanche to Capricorn."

"Your husband's death was a sorrow to me after sixty years of friendship. I remember dining with him on the day that women got the vote."

"The U.S. has announced that it favours general and complete disarmament under certain conditions. Khrushchev has repeatedly stated that he favours general and complete disarmament under certain conditions. The conditions proposed on the two sides are not identical and, formally, these differences are the only matters in dispute. It seems incredible that the continued existence of mankind should be jeopardized by this divergence...."

"I have had no answer from you to my letter of August 19 concerning a meeting of the Welsh CND at which you invited me to speak. As I am being pressed to make other engagements on November 1, and as October 25 is impossible for me as I have already told you, I shall be grateful if you will let me know within a few days whether the provisional engagement of November 1 is to stand or not."

"ER > Pages".

"£20.14.0 > Madams".

"£2.1.1 > Western Union".

"No > April Carter".

"Secretary > Mrs Simonson: and send it to Unwin."

"Secretary > Geo. Kennedy".

"Miss Pilmore < Secretary—No".

"I feel much honoured that the British Council for Rehabilitation of the Disabled should have included my name amongst the men of the year and I greatly wish that I might accept their invitation ... on November 10. Unfortunately, I have a previous engagement on that day...."

BR is willing to be a sponsor of the future conference Bernal mentions. BR encloses a copy of a letter he sent on the Berlin problem to the Conference of Neutrals at Belgrade.

"The note that I had thought of inserting in Has Man a Future? I have decided against on further reflection. The advance copy of Fact and Fiction which you promise me has not yet arrived, but I shall welcome it when it does." BR is glad that he does not have to do the Penguin proofs.

"I am sorry to say that work already undertaken makes it impossible for me to do the review that you suggest."

"Welch | Power | Cheque > Nic".

"I am very conscious of the importance of Glasgow in our movement and I wish I could undertake to come at some time. ... The fact that my engagements have already so mounted up during the next months make me think it necessary to decline your invitation to speak at Glasgow...." BR refers to the "strain" of public speaking and long journeys.

BR has made inquiries about his granddaughter's education and feels as though she ought to leave Moreton Hall at the end of the term as she wishes to go to an art school.

"We are glad your prison conditions are no worse...." [Unfinished.]

"No > Birmingham College of Technology".

"Mrs Boond (glad to hear she has written to Diefenbaker protesting)"

"Thank you most warmly for your very kind letter. Such a letter is a great encouragement during this difficult and somewhat arduous campaign."

"We agree entirely with what you say about the Soviet resumption of tests and the U.S. resumption of underground tests. It seems, also, that you are right in expecting a peaceful solution of the Berlin problem, since the U.S. Government seems to have discovered that facts do not cease to be facts if unrecognized." The Russells "much enjoyed" seeing Lamont in August.

"We were sorry that we could not accept the Duke of Bedford's invitation as we have been, and still are, completely overwhelmed with work."

"I am sorry that I am too busy to write such a book as you suggest, but I have written a book which is to be published next month called Has Man a Future?." BR suggests including 2 speeches in a translation for the book requested by Ruetter and Loening.

"I have answered your questionnaire, I hope not too briefly, and return it herewith."

"I wish a way could be found to bring the Hiroshima Ballet here and I am sending it to the Committee of 100 for their consideration."

"Hoglund letter > Nic".

"I have signed the sketch, but I very much hope that you will reconsider the shape of the nose."

BR informs Tylor that his granddaughter will not be returning to Moreton Hall after the end of the term as she wishes to become an art student. "We hope that she may be able to go to the art school at Corsham near Bath next year, and meanwhile she is to spend the two next school terms with Euan and Susan Cooper-Willis ... who will coach her in preparation for Corsham." Susan is the daughter of the Clough Williams-Ellises. Euan and Susan are friends of the granddaughters' parents, John and Susan.

"I look forward to receiving your book and memorandum which may cause me to revise my estimate of Confucius."

BR thanks him for a kind letter and the enclosed article which he is unable to read.

"I am glad to know that you are publishing a bilingual souvenir in which you advocate the cause of peace. You have my warmest good wishes for your success."

"Dear Prof. Martin, Thank you for your letter of Sept. 25.…" "I hope that when you are in London you will visit the Committee of 100 and I am sending your letter to them."

"No fresh article on Gandhi, but send article on civil disobedience > Thapar, Seminar".

"As for the strange sympathy between Conrad and myself, I cannot pretend that I have ever quite understood it. I think I have always felt that there were two levels, one that of science and common sense, and another, terrifying, subterranean and periodic, which in some sense held more truth than the everyday view. You might describe this as a Satanic mysticism."

A testimonial for E.A. Gellner. "I am quite sure that, if appointed, he will make an unusually admirable and brilliant Professor of Sociology."

"I am very anxious that our movement should have international strength, and I am sending your letter and summons to the Committee of 100 for their consideration."

"Send Dassler letter and summons > Committee of 100". See record 127485.

BR thanks him for the offer to send him a famous Chinese picture which he would be glad to have. BR is sorry he cannot read the Chinese enclosures.

"Acknowledge Windle letter and send it to YCND < Secretary".

"I am sorry about Schoenman, though not surprised."

"Send letters about Schoenman > Nic".

"My warm thanks for your very encouraging letter. Such letters are a help in a difficult campaign."

BR thanks him for the enclosed <not present> suggested letter to Macmillan which he approves and returns signed.

"I have learned with regret that Professor P.N. Savitsky has been arrested and various friends of his, who are in no way hostile to your Government, believe that his arrest is the result of some misunderstanding, and that he is not guilty of anything which could justly incur the hostility of your Authorities."

BR encloses a copy of the letter he sent to President Novotny. See record 127493. "I did not feel that I could make it any more emphatic than it is as I know nothing about Professor Savitsky except what is contained in your letter."

"The question you ask me is one which has to be faced by all parents with unusual opinions." Re Hyde's question of sending his daughter to Sunday School.

"I like your poem very much indeed and should wish to see it published. Can you let me know whether The Friend accepted it. If not, would you like me to try to get it published elsewhere?"

Act or Perish > James MacLean "You may make any use of this you like".

"No not 'your Mr Russell'—only once in Minneapolis, in 1927 or 1929. < Secretary".

BR and Edith were treated kindly in prison. They both hope that when Raymond returns to England they may meet again. The Governor of Brixton showed no desire to enjoy BR's conversation.

"Thanks and enclose signed photo".

"Thanks and enclose signed photo".

Re her husband's paintings: "It is very generous of him to offer one of his paintings for reproduction." BR is sending her letter to the Committee of 100.

"Send above letter to Committee and ask them to consider offers and reply and send stuff." See record 127502.

"Secretary reply to Wilkes—American Moscow Marchers".

"... I see that my coming interview with you on October 25 is said to be on my autobiography. This is a mistake. I have written an autobiography but it is not to be published until after my death. The book to be published on October 26 is in no sense an autobiography."

"Acknowledge Davidson < Secretary".

"Mothers of Canada | Frederico Garcia Tondero > Committee of 100".

"Kurz—Suggest Basic Writings and other Egner book 'BR's Best'."

BR refers him to "Inconsistency?" in Common Sense and Nuclear Warfare. "I do not think that your recollection of what I said ten years ago represents accurately what I then thought."

"Send V. Smith and Turkish article to V. Smith > Committee of 100".

"Send V. Smith paper Conquest of Happiness—Signed".

"23 November Foyles".

BR sends him a signed copy of Unpopular Essays and encloses £5 towards their expenses.

"Thank > Sadako Yokoyama".

BR is glad that her letter got so many signatures and had such favourable Press.

"I did not know Horace Liveright very well and I possess no photograph of him. I am afraid I have nothing to contribute to your volume...."

"My belief not as you think > Peacock".

"There is not one atom of truth in the rumour that I have ceased to be an agnostic. This is a malicious falsehood such as the orthodox have always invented about freethinkers."

"Signed photo > Pampuch".

BR refers him to his book Human Society in Ethics and Politics and his new book that will be coming out next month, Has Man a Future?.

"It is comforting to get support from distant countries and to feel that there is hope of a world-wide revolt against frivolous universal death."

Numbered 10a in the day's Dictation.

"I enclose herewith a poem which I have told the author, an old friend of John Cowper Powys, I would try to get published."

"Thanks—as above—Leder". See record 127522.

"Thank you—forwarding letter to Committee of 100 > Mannock".

"Mannock letter | Sitka Mother's letter > Committee <of 100> and Midland letter | Brazil letter."

BR is sending their "admirable suggestion" to the Committee of 100.

"I remember <Thomas W.> Lamont's visit to China and my dislike of the plans of the Consortium which I still think was justified—but I can throw no light on the questions that you ask." BR does not remember <Putnam> Weale.

"This is to confirm that I am saving the 27th and 28th for Mr. Rogosin's work. As you and he doubtless know, I have to speak in Trafalgar Square on the 29th."

"It is good news that the Sunday Times is giving the book such excellent publicity and especially good news that the book is to appear next month as I have been anxious that the publication date should be as soon as possible since parts of the book are topical."

"O.K. > Don Carlos".