BR thanks him for the copies of the advertisements of Has Man a Future? and is glad that the book has made a good start."It was kind of you to send the two reviews. I do not think Sidney Hook [New York Times Book Review, 14 Jan. 1962] worth answering. I have had long controversies with him in the past, but on the whole they seemed futile. The other review that you enclosed was very encouraging and I hope that the book will continue to sell in spite of Mr. Hook."

" > Lu and > Sa".

"If you have not already done so, I should be grateful if you would send a copy of my letter to you making a correction as regards expenditure on armaments to Simon and Schuster, and also, to anyone who is translating and publishing Has Man a Future?." BR would also like a copy for himself, his own being mislaid.

"Toronto Committee for Survival | 329 Bloor Street West | Toronto, Ontario, Canada (Chairman Rabbi Abraham L. Feinberg)".

Perhaps this is an address BR means to send to David F.J. Hughes. See record 127731.

BR thanks him for the enclosed protest to the New York Times. "I think your protest admirable and I very much hope they will publish. My only suggestion is that, towards the end of the last paragraph but one, after 'he has changed his mind', you should add 'with changing circumstances'. I am grateful to you for your defence of the book." (See record 127732.)

"The quotations from Admiral Radford, General Twining and General Anderson concerning which you inquire are all on page 332 of Juggernaut: The Warfare State by Fred J. Cook which is a special issue of The Nation of October 28 1961."

"Jean 8 February cheque". "F&M Daimler".

"Many thanks for sending me your book Banking on Death which I have read with pleasure. I observe from the cover that you are two ladies but I cannot believe both of you have read Principia Mathematica. Hitherto I have only known of six people who have read it, three Poles who were liquidated by Hitler and three Texans who were absorbed by osmosis into the general population. I wonder whether you found the book a help in writing fiction."

"Thank you very much indeed for sending me the book Ikonen. It is a beautiful book and I have derived very great pleasure from the pictures that it contains."

"My hesitation about David Spencer-Brown is fourfold...." "I think what I can understand of his own work is brilliant."

BR would have answered his letter earlier, but he had been struck with a severe attack of flu. "It is very interesting that you and your brother have discovered a proof of the four colour theorem. It is very worrying that no competent person has been found to examine your logical work. I am inclined to think that Quine might be the best person if he were willing.... I do not think your situation is so very unusual among mathematicians and logicians who have afterwards become famous. Take for example Grassmann and Frege and, in a different line Mendel."

"I am quite willing that you should publish Human Knowledge in a paper backed edition, and the financial arrangement that you suggest is entirely satisfactory to me."

"Mehta".

"I am amused by what you say about Urmson and I greatly admire the word apoplexigenic. I don't think you need regret getting interested in philosophy again. In fact, it is an anchor of sanity in this mad world."

"I have been ill for some time and I greatly regret that, in consequence, the piece by Henry Newmann which you sent has been mislaid. ... I am glad to see a facsimile of the President's tribute to Mark Twain."

"Cheque—$3 > Child".

"I have no objection whatever to your printing the Shaw correspondence that you write about."

"You speak of 1919 as long ago, but my recollections of your mother <Tiny Grant Duff> go back to the 1880's. She did a lot for my literary education and first made me aware of Tourgeniev <Turgenev> and Verlaine and a number of others."

Re his youngest granddaughter's application to the school. "You say that children cannot be admitted unless they and their parents or guardians have been seen by the School Authorities." BR cannot bring her until Easter holidays which would still be difficult for them.

"I am quite willing to address the rally on September 27 that you write about provided I am not prevented by illness or by some other unavoidable impediment."

"I quite sympathize with the motives which make you wish to start a school, and I think the sort of education that you envisage is very desirable.... If nuclear disarmament were achieved, I think such a school as you project would become very useful. Meanwhile, I do not wish to see energy devoted from the immediate prevention of nuclear war."

"I have been faced with a similar problem to yours since I have three young grand-daughters for whom I am responsible. I have not thought it desirable to send them to the Southern Hemisphere because I do not believe that, in the event of a nuclear war, the Southern Hemisphere would be safe...."

BR refers him to Why I Am Not a Christian.

"I hope you will succeed in persuading other people to agree with your opinions."

BR thanks him for the enclosed photograph cutting and poems. "The poems are powerful, but it is very difficult to get poetry published. I am passing your poems on, but I do not feel at all confident of getting them printed."

"Thank you for sending me Newman's The Rule of Folly. I have been looking at it and I shall be quite willing to send you something in praise of it...."

BR thanks him for sending his book Within the Four Seas, which he is looking forward to reading. "I am glad to see your dedication to Bernard Berenson whom I knew well and much admired."

A testimonial for Kevin Holland to Professor Jensen. "Mr. Kevin Holland has been a friend of mine for four years and I have had many opportunities of discussing philosophical problems with him. I have, in consequence, formed a very high opinion of his philosophical abilities and particularly of his power to present difficult matters with clarity and precision. I have no doubt whatever that he will be found a wholly desirable member of the Department of Philosophy in the University of Natal."

"I have today sent a testimonial to Prof Jensen which I hope will be satisfactory. We miss you here in London where we are in the midst of the trial." For BR's testimonial of Holland to Prof. Jensen, see record 127759.

"The invitation gives me much pleasure and I feel honoured by it, but I had already been asked, and agreed, not to accept any invitation to any sort of celebration outside of London for my birthday, as plans for some sort of celebration in London were going forward."

"? OM ?".

A letter concerning his youngest granddaughter's transfer to Dartington Hall for the "next term".

Another letter is sent on April 7 noting that there was an error in the previous letter and that she wishes to stay at Moreton Hall for the "next term" (the Summer Term) and start at Dartington Hall afterwards. See record 127765.

A typed carbon copy of the letter at record 127763, the letter concerns his youngest granddaughter's transfer to Dartington Hall for the "next term".

Another letter is sent on April 7 noting that there was an error in the previous letter and that she wishes to stay at Moreton Hall for the "next term" (the Summer Term) and start at Dartington Hall afterwards. See record 127765.

"In our letter to you of April 5th we made a very serious error: Lucy does not wish to go to Dartington Hall for the next term, the 'Summer Term', but very much wishes to attend Moreton Hall for that term. It is next September, for the three school terms of 1962-63, that she would like to go to Dartington Hall."

On trains.

"Anne rang up from Cornwall last evening to say that she had hatched a new plan for getting from there to Plas Penrhyn. She plans for the three children including herself, to go from Penzance to Shrewsbury by train next Tuesday, April 10, and to be met there by car and driven to Plas Penrhyn."

"I have not as yet received the complete manuscript of Mr. Fred J. Cook's book to which I am to write a preface. I should be grateful if you could let me have the complete manuscript, and if you would also give me the latest date by which you must have the preface."

"We are very thankful to be coming home on Tuesday, and expect, as I believe Lord Russell told you on the telephone, to arrive on the Cambrian Coast Express at 6.57."

BR and Edith are happy to accept his invitation. "It is very kind of you and Crawshay-Williams to have taken the trouble to organize such a delightful celebration of my birthday."

"Thank you for your very nice letter which gives me a great deal of pleasure."

"U.S. Information Service—OK".

"Cheque > Child".

"Thank you for your letter of May 4 and the cheque for $ which you enclose."

"Very sorry not in London during the time you are to be there and fears impossible to see them, owing to previous engagements."

"I very much approve of your booklet, except that I think it would be better to omit Goa which raises different issues on which pacifists are not invited." The New Statesman is "a namby-pamby review".

Letter is marked "Private".

"My own opinion is quite definite: that you should, on your own authority, suspend Wayland Young as publicity officer until the matter can be considered at the next meeting of the Pugwash Continuing Committee. This should be done, in my view, on the sole ground that he refuses to obey the instructions of the Committee.... If such action is not upheld, I shall be obliged to resign."

"Thank you for showing me your correspondence with Wayland Young about your history of Pugwash. I totally disagree with his criticisms of your work.... I do not see how any honourable man of science can for a moment endorse such a view.... I should like to take this opportunity of expressing my profound admiration for the untiring and self-sacrificing work that you have done for Pugwash." BR criticizes Young's critique of Rotblat's "sober" style and signs himself "Nobel Prizeman for Literature".

The carbon of this record is available at record 117567 and the ribbon is available at record 132398 .

BR is "ashamed" of letting Powell's letter of February 6th go so long unanswered. "It came just as a great bout of work descended upon me—partly post-flu arrears—and shortly after I had written Rotblat a private letter <record 127777> attempting to tell him what your letter afterwards suggested he should be told."

"I admire Camus and Gide, and I admire Sartre as a playwrite <playwright> but not as a philosopher. Literature has at times been of very great importance. The great Russian novelists, for example, prepared the way for the overthrow of the Czarist régime. It is impossible to know at present whether any writer has any importance, since we do not know whether there will be any readers or other human beings ten years hence."

"What you say about 'pacifist circles' surprises me. They must be eccentric circles, if such a thing is possible. I advocate unilateral disarmament for the allies of America and Russia and disarmament by agreement for America and Russia. The only reason for not advocating unilateral disarmament of America or for Russia is that it is impossible and that the propaganda would involve a waste of effort ... I take it that 'pacifist circles' do not read my writings or they would know that I am against all bombs and all tests."

"I am very grateful to you for sending me your Physics and Politics which I have read with very great interest and very great approval.... What you say against determinism particularly interested me. I had thought that statistical probability still ensured macroscopic determinism, but I gather from what you say that this is not the case." BR agrees with Born on political issues.

"Thank you for sending me your sonnet which I like even better on reading it carefully than when I heard it."

"It is a pleasure to tell you once again how deeply grateful I am to you for your participation in the ceremony on May 19 and for the very delightful speech that you made on that occasion. It is comforting to feel that in my somewhat bold enterprise I have your support and can feel that I am living up to the family tradition."

[Bedford's full family name was John Ian Robert Russell; he used Ian.]

BR thanks her for the introduction to Lost Illusions [Illusion, B&R B93]. "I am quite glad that you should tell the story of Shaw's brutal refusal to help you. I am writing to Cyrus Eaton as you suggest, but I gravely doubt whether he will be willing to do anything and whether it will be effective if he does. I tried myself to do something for Ivinskaya and her daughter without the slightest success."

"Freda Utley, whose name is probably known to you as an ex-Communist whose Russian husband was purged by Stalin, in consequence of which she became a McCarthyite. She has been unable throughout all these years to ascertain whether her husband is alive or dead. She has asked me to ask you whether you are willing to approach the Soviet authorities with a view to finding out something as to his fate."

"My warmest thanks both for the very kind things you say about me in your birthday message and for the gift of three hundred pounds every penny of which will be usefully spent for anti-nuclear work." BR's 90th birthday celebration was "a truly remarkable occasion".

"Thank you very much for the bust of Socrates which was presented to me in your name at the concert. I was gratified to think that you felt me a suitable companion for him."

"We are not going to Moscow as some papers have erroneously stated so I am afraid we cannot present your gift to Khrushchev."

"Thank you for your very kind birthday letter which I was very glad to get. I am gratified that you think that I have worthily carried on the Whig tradition."

"I remember your great grandfather, Lord Charles <Russell, 1807-1894>, who was a half-brother of my grandfather."

"Thank you very much for your kind birthday letter. It is pleasant to have your approval."

" > Amethe".

"Thank all of you very much for your birthday letter and for the photograph of the family which is very nice." "P.S. I was especially glad to see my youngest grandson."

"I hope Sarah's ghost stories are not too terrifying. It was nice having her and Lucy at my birthday celebration."

BR was glad that they went to his birthday celebration. "I have had several nice letters and lovely birthday card with many signatures from your school friends. Please thank them all for me."

"We expect to go home to Plas Penrhyn on Thursday and look forward to your coming. Pudding's name is now Peanut <the dog>." More copies of the History of the World can be got by writing to Ralph Schoenman, 3 Elystan Mansions, Elystan St., London SW3.

"I am delighted to have such a nice edition of The Decameron, especially with my grandfather's name as subscriber. The tea is peculiarly delicious and I like to think it as called after Kwan Yin, the Goddess of Active Benevolence."

"How very kind of you to send such lovely Amaryllis and such an extraordinarily good photograph."

Above this letter and under the date is a deleted sentence: "The armament interests and the Governments have made a bogey out of the economics of disarmament." Perhaps the sentence was intended for Has Man a Future?

BR encloses £10 towards his grandchildren's fares when they come at half-term on June 8.

"It would be delightful if Gaitskell and Brown could be expelled from the Labour Party, but I am afraid it will be a long time before this becomes possible."

"My warmest thanks for the exquisitely beautiful robe that you have so kindly sent me. I shall wear it on great occasions such as Christmas and birthdays and shall think of you and your husband with gratitude as I do now."

There are photos of BR in this red robe.

"Very warm thanks from us both for the very lovely and precious Chinese bowl that you have so kindly sent to us ... We think anxiously of you and Michelangelo and very greatly hope that things may be going a little better for you."

BR thanks them for a loving cup. "Did you make the design with the Doves of Peace? I am very glad indeed that you included Edith in the design. The velvet case in which it has come is so charming that I can hardly bear to take the cup out of it. Of all the delightful things that you have given us and done for us this seems the crown...."

"Copy S. Unwin's suggested letter of June 1".

"> Unwin—written to Purdy".

"U Thant > Plas Penrhyn July 5 at 11.30".

"I should very much like to see you, but I am in a remote country place in North Wales and you may feel that you cannot afford the time for the journey which is 7 1/2 hours by train from London or 5 hours by car."

BR cannot accept their invitation to spend the weekend of July 15th with them at Woburn owing to work, but would be able to come for an afternoon when they are in London again.

"P.S. I owe you an apology for not having written you this sooner, but we have been inundated by journalists—5 Russians this afternoon—come to talk about nuclear warfare—and very likely to publish nothing or all the wrong things about what was said."

"I do not think any purpose would be served by my coming to the discussion on June 19 as there is no dispute about the facts. My letter accepting sponsorship of the conference in Moscow and the reasons for it as well as the fact that I do not propose to withdraw and that I shall accept whatever decision may be reached as to my membership of the Labour Party have all been published and are already well known."

"No > Mukerji".

"I am profoundly grateful to you for organizing the delightful luncheon on May 25th <at the House of Commons> and for the nice things that you say about me."

"I have received from Daedalus the letter of which I enclose a copy. It seems to me that what they want is exactly what you have already done better than I could." BR asks for his advice before replying to Daedalus.

BR apologizes for the delay in paying his expenses for his trip to England and writes a cheque for £445.12.6. "The delay was owing to the poverty—of which you know—of both the U.S. Committee for non-Violent Action and the Committee of 100 here."

"I enclose a cheque made out to Sir Robert Watson Watt in payment of a debt which I incurred to him while he was in England."

"A Canadian named Walt Ruhman has sent me a book of pictures of the world after atomic war as he imagines it. The pictures seem to us very powerful, and I think they might be useful in making people realize what is being planned. He had an exhibition of them in Canada which we understood was very successful. I wrote a preface to the catalogue. He would like to have the book published and so I am sending it to you in case Gaberbocchus would like to publish it."

"I was sorry that you did not consider it possible to send a merchant ship into the prohibited area around Christmas Island, though I realize that the suggestion was made at too late a date to affect the first tests in this present American series. ... I am grateful to you for urging the Gandhi Peace Foundation to carry out the proposed sending of a ship."

"Thank you for sending me your book on China. As yet, I have only had time to glance through it, but it looks extremely interesting...."

"You made a delightful speech at the Festival Hall which gave me a great deal of pleasure."

Letter is marked "Private".

BR strongly wishes that Dr. Schweitzer will be able to attend their demonstration. "On September 9th of this year we are holding a great demonstration at the Air Ministry, in Whitehall, London, where Air Commadore Magill has his office. It was he who said at the trial of our six colleagues that he would be quite prepared to 'press the button', even though this would involve the deaths of several hundred million people."

"Our demonstration is intended to suggest that the Hydrogen-bomber and rocket bases under the control of men such as this are our Buchenwalds and our Auschwitzes, we wish to say that such things cannot be done in our name."

BR hopes that he will take part in the demonstration of September 9. "I am writing to you because of the great respect which I feel for various pronouncements of yours in the cause of peace. As you no doubt know, the Committee of 100, of which I am President, is endeavouring to create in this country a mass movement against the preparations for nuclear war. ... We are preparing a demonstration of mass civil disobedience on September 9 outside the Air Ministry in London."

"With apologies to Lewis Carroll. I should like to reply to Col. Graham whose letter appeared in your issue of June 9:

The Peanuts answered with a grin
Why what a temper you are in

Russell".

"Appleton, etc. Letter > Unwin".

"I am sorry there is no prospect that any of our household will be able to take the Epstein bust of me to London." BR includes its measurements.

BR thanks him for the booklet The Shelter Hoax and Foreign Policy which he has read with "the highest degree of interest and approval".

"I am interested to know that we are related and that your brother came from Dorset, the original home of the Russell family."

BR thanks him for sending the paper-back edition of Human Knowledge and for the novel about Nobel Prizes.

"I enclose herewith a cheque for £60 to be spent on preparations for the demonstration on September 9. It is part of the proceeds of the celebration at Festival Hall."

"I have read your story, but I am sorry to say that I cannot think of anyway in which we could utilize it."

"Thank you for your letter of June 5 and for the enclose cutting which I return herewith. Almost all the facts in it are wrong, including what profess to be quotations."

"I am sorry that I still cannot accept your invitation. With increasing age, I find it impossible to make engagements abroad."

"I have most sincere sympathy with your wish to get your father and his wife to England, but past experience has persuaded me that I cannot do any good whatever by applying to the Soviet Authorities as previous applications in similar cases have always proved completely fruitless, and, I suspect, sometimes harmful."

"I should be glad to see Dr. Byung-uk Alin at any time convenient to us both provided he is willing to come here to North Wales."