BR has no new message but proceeds to give a short one.

"I enclose an enormous sheaf of forms from the U.S. taxation authorities. As you know I am no longer an U.S. citizen, so I suppose they are not necessary."

BR thinks the omission of his name from a letter to The Times does not matter.

There is no truth in the rumour that BR is going to India.

"I return your estimate of expenses for the year ending April 1960, and where there is a change I have written in a new estimate opposite the old one. I enclose also the account of my free lance income." BR will not claim Schoenman's salary but will continue to claim Edith's ("still fully employed as my secretary in other matters").

"Re Man's Duel with H-Bomb > Houghton Mifflin".
 

BR thanks him for the published interview in the Health Education Journal.

BR identifies as passage as coming from Human Society in Ethics and Politics.

On whether Lindley's paper claims more than that classes and propositional functions are identical. BR is "stale" on the subject.

BR thanks Caraco for his Le Désirable et le Sublime.

"£6.13.3 > D. Jones, Joiner".

BR thanks Wilson for The Concept of Language, which BR says has a sympathetic point of view.

BR will consider whether to part with his Wittgenstein letters to Dr. Stonborough.

See Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy for what the mathematician has to say on infinity.

BR agrees their appeal is well worthy of support, but currency regulations forbid any contribution from him. The typed reply at record 145 shows it addressed to Robinson; the other original correspondents were Harry Belafonte and Sidney Poitier.

"We find we shall not be requiring accommodation at your house any longer. I do not know how much we owe you, and I shall be grateful if you will send me an account." BR thanks her for "being so kind to the two young men" while they were with her.

"London University Humanist Society—No < Secretary".

"What further I have to say about Mill you will find in the chapter on him in Portraits from Memory. I am very sorry that I am too busy to write the introduction that you suggest, though I am glad that the book is being done."

"Cheque—BBC > Child".

BR is willing to be a sponsor of the National Youth Peace Conference. He encloses a short message. "I am glad that so many of the young are making their voices heard in protest against governmental plans which entail an imminent risk of universal slaughter."

"I am in entire sympathy with your objects and I am sorry that press of work makes it impossible for me to accept your invitation to speak."

Re nuclear disarmament and world government. BR is not inclined to agree or disagree with Mosley's views, but he does think that Mosley is "rather optimistic" in his expectations. BR provides criticism of his main two objections. (A polite letter.)

"The work you have been doing sounds to me extremely valuable, and I think it would be most regrettable if you have to abandon it. I gather that your difficulty is mainly financial and I hope that a way may be found of helping with funds." BR suggests that he should try Michael Scott as he is unable to speak to his group of Glasgow school teachers, due mainly to medical reasons.

"Act or Perish and Signed photo > Milwaukee Welsh paper and regrets".

"Kovda > UNESCO—Impact—No".

"What crime are they accused of? Don't feel can intervene without more knowledge. Should like to know more about it."

"I have the greatest sympathy with the cause about which you write to me. I have not ceased in any degree to deplore the Franco régime and the friendship which Western Powers have shown to it." BR is unable to accept the invitation to the meeting to his regret.

On the verso of the sheet with documents 0000001 to 0000005, records 127724 to 127728, there is a drawing in pencil which, from the beard, appears to be of Ralph Schoenman.

"I have read your book A Small Armageddon with a great deal of pleasure. ... I hope your book will have many readers and that they will be made aware of the insane absurdity of current Governmental policies." BR gives his permission to make any use he likes of the letter.

There is a drawing in pencil of an unknown person's face on the same page as this letter. 

BR's youngest granddaughter, Lucy, wishes to leave Moreton Hall at the end of the summer term and transfer to Dartington at the start of the autumn term. "She is a clever girl as well as a very nice one.…"

BR hopes that he will "keep writing and working against nuclear weapons and war." Hughes thinks well of Has Man a Future?. BR assumes that he is already in touch with the "vigorous" anti-nuclear movement in Canada, but BR still provides two addresses.

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.