"28 Apr. 1872. A copy from Kate's journal in Amberley's hand expressing her last wishes shortly before BR's birth. 5 1/2 pages."

"Kate's Journals. 1856 - 21 Jan. 1866; 22 Jan. 1866 - 1 Dec. 1866; 1 Dec. 1866 - 5 Jan. 1868; 1 Jan. 1868 - 1 Jan. 1872."

The range of document numbers is .079700 to .079703.

"Amberley's Journals. Feb. 1854 - Dec. 1859; Jan. 1860 - Aug. 1860; June 1862 - July 1863; Aug. 1863 - Feb. 1874."

The range of document numbers is .079704 to .079707.

Amberley's journal from 1854 to 1859 is in Box no. 4.19, from 1860 to 1874 see Box no. 4.20.

"Sep. 1860 - Feb. 1864; 1868 - July 1869. A notebook containing daily prayers in Amberley's hand (enclosed are 2 packages containing a lock of his mother's hair and a lock of his own hair)."

The first notebook contains "Miscellaneous Thoughts." The second notebook contains notes on Foucaux, Bacon, Hobbes, and Locke. The third notebook contains prayers.

The range of document numbers is .079708 to .079710.

"Address Book. Names and addresses of friends."

"An inventory of the Amberley's personal effects done by Miss Maude Stanley in 1876."

"3 large bound volumes of newsclippings, etc., spanning the political careers of Kate and Amberley. A collection of newsclippings reporting speeches by Lord John Russell and Amberley and details of Amberley's election campaigns, and obituaries on their deaths and short biographies. Also several clippings devoted to Frank Russell's divorce case in 1891."

The three large bound volumes of newsclippings are not present in box 4.21.

The range of document numbers is .079713 to .079748.

".... A manuscript of the Introduction by Sir H.M. Stanley to the book Three Years in Savage Africa by Lionel Decle."

"'Introducing Douglas Spalding' (Frank's tutor) by J.B.S. Haldane (reprint from the British Journal of Animal Behaviour, Vol. II, No. 1, Jan. 1954)."

"1937. A large collection of reviews of The Amberley Papers."

"6 Dec. 1941. Holograph note by BR describing the part played by Lady (Patricia) Russell in editing The Amberley Papers." Embargoed Box 8.22 (PR).

The range of document numbers is .079838 to .079883.

"Undated. A list of names of family and friends in Kate's handwriting."

"1 Sep. 1849. 6 folios headed 'Diary of a Prime Minister' (Lord John Russell) with a lithograph of Balmoral Castle attached. The diary runs from 29 Aug. to 31 Aug."

"Undated. A handwritten list of postal establishments in Rome."

"23 Dec. 1851. A handwritten copy of Epilogue spoken by Amberley aged 9 at Woburn Abbey."

"Undated. A hand drawn map showing a camping spot."

"Undated. 2 picture cards showing Jerusalem and a mountain pass in Cradock, South Africa, respectively, both inscribed to Earl Russell; the 2nd reads 'This represents the difficulties which the noble Earl has with the Jewsih E[mancipation] Bill'."

"Undated. A translation from Tacitus's Germanicus 18 in an unidentified hand."

"Circa 1860's. A collection of 20 unidentified letters to the Amberleys and to the Stanleys."

The range of document numbers is .079757 to .079782.

"1860-1875. A bundle of 11 letters all relating to Amberley's financial affairs and one note detailing his income 1867-1870."

The range of document numbers is .079783 to .079797.

"20 July 1872. Dinner menu headed 'Strawberry Hill'."

"24 & 25 Feb. 1862. Theatre playbill 'W. Empty House Theatricals, Never Acted....'"

"29 May 1863 theatre programme."

"Sergeant Major Hockey of 1st Battalion will call at 2 o'clock tomorrow."

"Undated. A note from Johnny Stanley."

"20 Dec. 1865 to Mrs. Grote (wife of the historian) from Helen Taylor (J.S. Mill's stepdaughter)."

"28 Dec. 1863. to (?) from Nancy Eccles."

"Undated. A note about Mr. Trevelyan."

"Nov. 1861. A note about Alice Lister."

"Undated. A note about travelling in Egypt."

"4 Oct. 1872 to Henry Crompton from his mother."

"Undated to 'dearest Mama' (Lord John Russell's first wife) from Victoria."

"Wife and I have read some of your books and wondered if you could help us get our 600 square foot rear land back...."

"We shall meet not in the past but in an everlasting future. Now, please set to work on Volume II."

"Crank".

Letter is addressed to "Fernand Russal. The great Philosopher, London."

"Sad crank—does not ask for anything."

"Crank".

Re BR: "Your philosophy is directed and influenced by your country's interests only."

"Only God can make a tree but you can help him,—by planting many trees in the good earth on each side of Russellville's wide streets and school lawns etc." Written on a document with a printed sketch of BR, from Wilson College, where her daughter Barbara attends.

"Crank".

"I beg an immediate answer because your answer may turn out to solve the core problem of a non-Kantian combination of Analytic Philosophy and Psycho-Bio-Physical Problem the nature of which might quite possibly put an end to the goddamn H-bomb."

"The ultimate truth must account for everything—why matter exists, why energy exists, why life exists."

Handwritten notes re a 'play' titled "The Universe" opening July 22, 1969. The sender casts BR as the Director.

Re disarmament, the Warsaw Treaty and an inquiry about where to find a place to stay in Wales for a few months.

Letter is signed "Freedom citizen" who wishes to organize a "... World Anti-Fascist Movement which I will call WNFITM (World Naturist Freedom In Time Movement)."

"I just came from Dachau, Germany, where I saw a small gasthof called WIENERWALD."

"I would not expect your answer, if I didn't count on your understanding."

"Homosexually yours, One who thinks your mind perverted."

"I pray that you, too, will see His light."

"Crank."

"Crank".

"Reading a chapter of yours on the character of Christ you said Jesus was not wise."

"Utter Crank".

"In reading one of your books you mentioned people saying, 'The Lord will provide'. You then said, 'He hasn't done so before so why should He now'."

"Crank."

"Nuclear war comes in this gamut just as your hunger comes. So also is Russell's efforts to prevent nuclear war...."

"Crank."

"Crank."

"Crank."

"The belief in the classless society having rational and non destructive conflicting aspirations is possible. But the belief is non plausible—only the practice is plausible."

Letter is signed: "Homosexually yours, A stinker—I mean thinker."

A telegram sent to BR c/o Allen and Unwin: "Brian Bell coerced and physically interfered with by refusing to answer civil liberties questions he took a severe thrashing".

"Crank."

"True Britains don't lie down and make fools of themselves."

"Crank File".

Sender is a 27 year old woman from Toledo, Ohio. Dated by what is surely a reference to BR's article in the March 1964 issue of The Minority of One.

"Crank".

"After watching the BBC T.V. Birthday tribute to you I would like to wish you further good health...."

"Crank".

"Under date of November 13, 1963, I was informed by letter from the Earl Russell of the existence and purposes of your foundation...."

"Crank".

"The following thoughts I am sure you would want brought to your attention ... I refer to the blue-red process of mass psychology and the subsequent ignorance of my parents which then accounted for my years stay in four different mental institutes. In my one previous letter to you it was hoped you would consider reading a treatise on this entire subject."

"Crank".

"I see in the paper that you hope for less world tensions, and that your organization is working towards this end."

"Crank".

"Bertrand Russell was a genius, but not wise and kind. He is conceited."

"Crank".

"I think Mr. Russell you are either gullible or never met Jews in dealing or you wouldn't feel compassion for them. ... Jews are the instigators of crime in the U.S....." Letter is signed "A jew victim".

"Para la Comisión Europea de los Derechos del Hombre".

Letter was sent to Jenny to translate. Jenny responds: "Not worth translating: written by Spanish exile in Costa Rica and completely CRANK (peculiar tract against Roman Catholicism and Italy in general—quite incomprehensible)."

"CRANK".

"I am a science graduate, from Victoria University of Wellington ... I know that you were a co-author of mathematica principia and I would very like to obtain a copy, to study it."

"How about revising your philosophy—which is all very fascinating—but what can beat Christianity as a combination of all the best of all the philosophies thru' the ages?"

"Einstein's face is similar to yours."

"Only man's will separates him from God."

"FILE—ILLEGIBLE."

"Excerpts from Le Dawn, alias, An Enquiry Into the Growth of Man through Nationalism, War and Peace."

A crude letter—unsigned. A newsclipping is attached including a photo of BR re his announcement for his plans of a war crimes tribunal.

A handwritten note is attached to a summary: "110 copies of this summary plan were handed in at the office of the ACCRA 'World Without the Bomb' Assembly. But this summary may not have been seen by you, and it is therefore forwarded with respect."

Enclosed is the summary with the title: "A Plan to Ensure against Surprise Attack and Guarantee Disarmament without Complete Agreement on Inspection by means of Volunteers as Pledges of Peace".

"Still a beast but rather a loveable one always trying to hurt others and always winding up hurting yourself the more the world approved applauded and bowed down the more hatred grew from within but unable to find escape in equal measures it chewed away inside and almost destroyed you (Unsigned)."

The sender says that he is an invalid and an ex-Nazi prisoner.

"For I am the Great White Queen who was to come with the Dawning, to prepare the Way for Our Dear Socialist Lord's 2nd Coming."

"I just come from Dachau Germany where I passed a small gasthof called Wienerwald stop it looked as if it had accommodation available."

"Crank".

"The people of the City of Liverpool resent your continuing to be known as Lord Russell of Liverpool. You should resign your title...."

"If Jesus was a pacifist there would be no values."

"And so you will run for the last time against thy inner true self which I have tried to prevent with all my strength I wanted you to live".

A newsclipping from Christianity Today. The article is titled "A Philosophy of Despair".

"In his recently completed autobiography Russell displays no allegiance to religion. ... Dare we hope that even at this late hour Bertrand Russell will listen to the music of the Gospel...."

A little book titled "Revelations II" by Giles Adams. On the inside cover is a note: "I have loved you for a very long time. You have been looking for the Truth all your life, Here it is at long last but not too late."

Presumably a fragment of a letter.

BR has "... influenced my thinking profoundly and had more influence on my mind than anyone else."

"There are more political prisoners behind the Iron Curtain than in any other given place, but you seem to ignore this fact or pretend that this is not so—WHY?"

"If you feel Russia is so good, so peace loving why not live out your life there."

"To Canon Collins and Bertrand Russell, or another pacifist". The letter is written on brown paper bags and is from a Christian nun.

"I have been studying human nature for many years and have made many startling discoveries about it."

The letter was sent to be translated. The translator attaches a note to the letter: "This is the work of a disturbed mind, entitled 'God is a Woman' and besides being only semi-legible is only semi-comprehensible. I believe it to be not worth translation, as it would not make sense in any case."