"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."

"What I think about consciousness is stated in Chapter XII of My Philosophical Development. I do not think that my rejection of 'consciousness' as a fundamental concept precludes the use of such terms as 'preconscious' or 'unconscious'. I do not think, however, that I have ever published a definition of these terms." BR refers him to Alan Wood's The Passionate Sceptic for his biography.

BR says that the concert at Festival Hall "was for me a very moving occasion".

"I got to know your husband through lecture tours in America, as to which he gave me much helpful advice based on his long experience. ... I am very glad that you have been able to be at some of the anti-nuclear demonstrations."

"Thank you for your kind and encouraging letter."

"I much enjoy both your couplet about St. Thomas Aquinas and your verses about philosophers disagreeing, with both of which I, for one, agree."

"Batteries for ear machines".

"Towels".

Re the controversy over translating Wittgenstein's Tractatus.

"I am sorry that, as lapse of time has made me doubtful whether I can rely upon my memories, I prefer to take no side whatever in the controversy upon which you are engaged."

"As regards matters in America, I should advise you to consult, if you have not already done so, The Shelter Hoax and Foreign Policy and Mr. Gerard Piel who has just sent me his Phi Beta Kappa oration made at Harvard College on June 11 which bears directly upon the economic consequences of disarmament."

"> Norman Frankin about Roe's MS".

"It would be a very great pleasure to my husband and me if you could find time to visit us here."

There is no indication in the Dictation that Edith composed the letter, except for the reference to "my husband".

"As you know, I have had a letter from <Powell> suggesting that 'it would be very unwise at this stage to take any steps which would prejudice the freedom of action of the continuing Committee.' ... before taking any line or replying to him, I should wish to know your opinion. The letter from Rabinovitch to you which you sent me seems to take a similar line." BR is glad that Topchiev supports them.

BR corrects a mistake in a letter which Ralph Schoenman, on behalf of BR, wrote in reply to Randle's letter. "His letter says that when I was at Brixton in 1918 the Gov, at first, refused permission to have the manuscript of my Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy sent to the publisher. This is not true. He accepted my assurance that there was nothing political in the manuscript and altogether his behaviour was as kindly as the regulations allowed."

"I am much honoured by your suggestion that I should become an Honorary Member of the Union ... For many years I have refused all invitations to either Oxford or Cambridge because so many different Bodies invite me and I fear to give offence if I accept some invitations and refuse others. ... I cannot come to Cambridge." "P.S. I was an ordinary member for some 20 years, beginning in 1890 or early 1891, and I do not know whether I became a life member during that time." Did he, he asks.

"I agree that it is undesirable and untrue to represent the U.S. as solely responsible. On the whole I should prefer to send a somewhat different message...." BR encloses a message.

"I see that the Daily Express reports this morning that I am 'out of the Labour Party—because he forgot to renew his subscription', and I should like to correct this Press report: ... I understand that the treasurer of the local party has been planning to collect my dues, in which case I should have paid them."

"I should be glad if you would let me know where I stand in regard to the Parliamentary Labour Party. I have hitherto been a member of the Parliamentary Labour Party and I had always supposed that members of the PLP were, ipso facto, members of the LP."

"Your letter of June 22, which I received this morning, unlike most of the hostile letters that I receive, is argumentative and not merely abusive and I am therefore answering it." BR answers points concerning human nature, nuclear war, nuclear disarmament, British neutrality, and the British nuclear deterrent.

BR thanks him for sending his book of poems. "We find them very remarkable and very interesting. There are many that we like, and best of all the one called 'Remembrance Day'."

"Don't remember ever saying it and if ever did can't find reference > Durrell". Deleted: "All great books are in parts boring."

"There is no relation between the Communist Party and the CND or the Committee of 100. For the sake of world peace, we deplore fanatical anti-Communism but we equally deplore fanatical pro-Communism. We have no mechanism for excluding anybody who sincerely works for peace, and therefore it may be that there are some Communists among us, but, if there are, they are neither numerous or influential in our organizations."

"Such letters are a great encouragement in a difficult campaign."

"I am sorry that your earlier letter remained unanswered. I am quite willing that you should <quote?> in German the essay of which you write."

"I am not a poet and therefore have no poems to send you, but I enclose a photograph which I hope will serve your purpose. It was taken during one of the anti-nuclear demonstrations of the Committee of 100."

"I wish to bring to the attention of this Conference the case of Heinz Brandt who has been sentenced in East Germany to thirteen years of prison with hard labour. ... Heinz Brandt has been throughout his active life a devoted and self-sacrificing worker for peace and against West German re-armament. For eleven years during Hitler's régime, he was in prisons and concentration camps, including Auschwitz and Buchenwald. ... I hope that the Congress will pass a resolution asking for his release on these grounds."

BR sends him a copy of the letter he sent to the Moscow Conference on Disarmament regarding the case of Heinz Brandt (see record 127854). "I hope you will agree with me that clemency, in this case, would further the cause of peace."

"I have now read A Voyage to Arcturus and I am sorry to say that I do not like the book and do not feel that I can write anything for you about it. I am forwarding my copy of the book to T.S. Eliot."

"... it seems to me that the difficulties you have when confronted with new problems are normal and are encountered by everybody who is not of rare and outstanding ability."

"Newspaper income notice > Madams".

"On the whole, I think that no obstacle should be placed in the way of children receiving such religious instruction as is given in school, but that parents should not conceal their own unbelief." Experience has commended this "compromise" to BR.

"I cannot myself do anything about the picture you mention without seeing it, and that is difficult as I like in a remote place. So I am sending your letter to the Committee of 100 and asking them to deal with it."

"I am very sorry that, owing to some confusion, I did not send the promised book for the Tibetan Fête. The correspondence has been mislaid and perhaps you would be so kind as to let me know whether there is any special book that you would like me to send."

BR has noticed that under "Future Action" in the minutes of the Committee of 100 meeting that he had been reported to be "holding a public meeting during the week of the Labour Party Conference." BR does not know anything about this or when the Labour Party Conference is, and asks if he is committed to holding this meeting.

"> Cuban Embassy—No cannot be in London 26 July".

"Gladys Thompson's letter > Alistair" <Alastair Yule>.

BR is surprised about what Chen tells him of the Hong Kong newspapers; the newspapers in Britain are "much the same". BR has no photograph of him and his wife together and so cannot send him one.

BR infers that he is following in his father's <I.F.'s> "honourable footsteps". BR has received today Preventing World War III. "I am honoured by your suggestion that I should contribute a review to the Yale Law Journal, but I regret that pressure of other work makes this impossible." It is marching plus "a quite enormous correspondence".

"Kindly send me Home Life with Herbert Spencer by Two."

"I want to say, to begin with, that you needn't worry about the misgivings that I had concerning the leaflet, though I was worried at the time." They concerned adding possibly irrelevant social goals to the programme. Ralph Schoenman had read the draft hastedly to BR before leaving for the airport.

"In view of the enclosed opinion from Professor Rotblat, in whom I have confidence, I am sorry that I cannot undertake publicity for your theories."

"Return cuttings to St. Paul".

"One of the things that I have found strange about Kahn is that, although it would be an act of madness to initiate a nuclear war, he seems to think that, once started, it could be conducted on purely rational lines by means of telephonic communication between the White House and the Kremlin."

"I have been considering what to say, but on the whole I do not think that I can speak at the meeting on October 1 to which you invite me as I have already many engagements about that date."

"We hope you have been having a pleasant time with your parents and that this week of travel and explaining and begging goes successfully." The Russells have grown very fond of Alastair Yule.

BR cannot undertake any work in connection with the World Constitutional Convention as he is already overwhelmed with work against nuclear war and nuclear weapons.

"I think the only discussion that I have made of the principle of Excluded Middle is in Chapters XX and XXI of the Inquiry into Meaning and Truth. I cannot remember to have anywhere discussed the Law of Contradiction." Gould is to remember BR to Copilowich [Irving Copi].

"... there cannot be complete freedom where there is any sort of social life and, if anarchy were permitted, there would be freedom only for the strong and brutal. But I cannot admit that it is worthwhile to restrict freedom merely to placate bigots."

"As to the alternative 'Red or Dead', it is a quite unreal one. It would be perfectly easy, if the West so desired, to reach an accommodation leaving part of the world Communist and part Capitalist, and letting semanticism debate the amount of freedom in either and whether it is greater in one side than on the other."

Re his paper "The Trojan Horse". "So far as my experience goes, I have not found more nuclear ferocity among Catholics than among Protestants. And I certainly do not think that it would be a wise thing to stir up sectarian intolerance." BR writes that he is not Lord Russell of Liverpool, "who is quite a different person."

"I am very glad indeed that you found my writing helpful in a time of sorrow." "As for Esperanto, I cannot remember to have ever said anything about it. I think the problem of a universal language is more difficult than it was since one must not forget the Russians, the Chinese and the Japanese."

"I shall be very grateful if you could send me an advance complimentary copy of One Hundred Million Lives by Richard Fryklund. It sounds like the kind of book about which I shall have comments to make."

"Could you let me see my last years return as I wish to be reminded of the expenses that I claimed."

"Thank you for sending me your book and for the kind inscription. I propose to read it at the earliest opportunity as I have already discovered, on a cursory glance, that I agree with its sentiments."

"I am entirely in favour of your 'Everyman Project' and am making a public statement to that effect. I am very doubtful whether the Guardian will print such a statement, but I will do my best to get it whatever publicity I can." BR encloses £10 as part of his contribution.

"A project is being organized under the auspices of the World Peace Brigade to send a ship from London to Leningrad to protest against the threatened resumption of Tests by the Soviet Government.... I am writing as a sponsor of this Project, which has my whole-hearted support."

Re his statement concerning the "Everyman Project", which is having a funding difficulty. "If the Guardian refuses publication, could you try to get the Press Association, etc., to publish it."

"Dear Duke".

"I have been reading your Silver Plated Spoon with very great interest.... I admire your valiant struggle to preserve Woburn in its historic function...." BR offers a few points of criticism: "Was it not Round who first exposed the Russell claim to have come over with the Conqueror? Was not one of the 18th Century Dukes of Bedford Prime Minister for a time? In one place Odo Russell is alluded to as 'Sir Odo'. Was there ever a time when this was correct?"

Re his three questions: "1) I have continued to think 'The Free Man's Worship' 'florid and rhetorical' since somewhere about 1920; 2) This observation concerns only the style; 3) I do not now regard ethical values as objective, as I did when I wrote the essay."

BR thanks him for the advance copy of Gerard Piel's article which he finds "exceedingly interesting and valuable". Since he has invited BR to write an article for the Atlantic Monthly, BR would like to write "a careful discussion" of Frykland's One Hundred Million Lives.

Harrod enclosed an article on J.L. Austin's Sense and Sensibilia.

"There is only one minor point on which I disagree. You suggest that part of what we believe about physical objects that we perceive is that they are more or less permanent. This is only sometimes true. A flash of lightning lasts for a shorter time than that occupied by the sensation through which we become aware of it. There are many objects of perception which nobody supposes to be in any degree permanent, such as smoke rings, flames, and melting snow flakes. The belief in quasi-permanence which we have about a table is due to experience and does not exist in relation to all sensibilia."

Kate is departing for Uganda soon and BR encloses £100, which he usually would have given her at Christmas, but in lieu of her expenses, sends it now. "Davy" (David) has made a hero of BR.

"I should think your book may be very useful, but I do not quite see what I can do for you beyond having an interview with you and recommending your book for publication if, when completed, I think it likely to serve our common cause of which I have little doubt."

"I cannot answer your questions briefly and I think it would be better if you came to see me when I am next in London and got the answers by word of mouth."

BR thanks her for the photograph. "I don't wonder that the baby turns away from the picture on the wall. Perhaps the one enclosed will seem more cheerful. I remember the pleasant occasion that I danced with you."

"I am in entire agreement with you about the evils of Catholicism. My only dissent is that I think Protestantism very nearly as bad."

"As to your suggestion to omit altogether the paragraph that you dislike, I cannot agree. I should be quite willing that you should add an editorial note expressing your disagreement, but if that does not satisfy you, I cannot agree to publication in a mutilated form."

Re Win We Must's extempore addition: "I adopted an arithmetical measure of wickedness: if it is wicked to murder one man, it is a million times as wicked to murder a million men, and a billion times as wicked to murder a billion men. Hitler only wanted to murder all Jews, who are no more than a fraction of the human race. He was, therefore, less wicked than those who set out to murder everybody."

BR thanks him for his article in the Daily Telegraph of August 6 which he sent. "As you will of course realize, there are parts of it that I agree with and parts from which I strongly dissent. But I am glad that you come out so emphatically against the humbug of a supposed British independent deterrent."

"Kanti Shal [Shah?] > Unwin".

"Your problem is one which faces all who contemplate taking part in demonstrations involving civil disobedience. ... I should not feel inclined to blame those who hang back for the sort of reasons that you indicate but I could only give positive praise to those who do not hang back. I think it is also worth remembering that, if protests are sufficiently widespread, it will be impossible to victimize any of those concerned except the leaders." "[T]otal destruction … may occur at any moment and is likely to occur within ten years".

BR thanks him for the draft interview article on which he has a few corrections to make: "1) you spell Penrhyn wrong; 2) Plas Penrhyn is not a manor house—manor house is a legal term; 3) My wife is in her sixties, not fifties; 4) you unduly praise my book on the Foundations of Geometry which I, in common with everyone else, consider quite out of date as it was written while I still believed in German Idealism; 5) it was only for a joke that I set the term of my life at ninety years; 6) the near-by nuclear station is TRAWSFYNYDD."