An invoice and a receipt for various items from Samuel Carter, a dispensing and photographic chemist.

An invoice and a receipt for BR's purchase of small Egyptian cigarettes and golden mixture.

An invoice and a receipt for BR's purchase of coffee and China tea.

A receipt for rent of 34 Russell Chambers.

An invoice for rent of 34 Russell Chambers.

An invoice for repairs.

An invoice and receipt for small Egyptian cigarettes and golden mixture.

A receipt for BR's subscription to the Times.

A notice for the water rate

An invoice for the fees for professional attendance in January.

An invoice for car repair and haulage.

A notice for the water rate for 31 Sydney Street.

A receipt for BR's payment of his water bill for 31 Sydney Street.

A receipt for BR's rent payment for 34 Russell Chambers.

An invoice and receipt for cleaning BR's windows at 31 Sydney Street.

An invoice and receipt for BR's purchase including soap, matches and a saucepan.

An invoice and receipt for BR's purchases in March.

An invoice and receipt for a repair.

An invoice for moving furniture from 34 Russell Chambers to 31 Sydney Street and other services.

An invoice and receipt for haulage in May and July.

An invoice and receipt for car hire and luggage.

An invoice and receipt for repairs made in BR's breakfast room at 31 Sydney Street.

A receipt for BR's payment to the Parish of St. Luke, Chelsea.

An invoice for BR's payment due to the Parish of St. Luke, Chelsea.

A notice and a receipt for a telephone service.

An invoice and a receipt for BR's purchases of small Egyptian cigarettes and golden mixture from January to March.

An invoice and receipt for the professional attendance of A.H. Richardson.

An invoice and receipt for BR's purchases of coffee and China tea.

A receipt for BR's payment of rent at 34 Russell Chambers.

An invoice and receipt for BR's purchase of coffee and China tea.

A prescription and directions to follow.

An invoice and a receipt for professional attendance.

A receipt for the amount of £37.17.9 BR paid to the Gas Light and Coke Company.

A receipt for the amount of £37.17.9 BR paid to the Gas Light and Coke Company for maintenance repairs at 31 Sydney Street.

An invoice for maintenance repairs at 31 Sydney Street.

An invoice and receipt for Dora's purchases from Samuel Carter, a dispensing and photographic chemist.

An invoice and receipt for BR's purchase of "compound lenses in tortoiseshell spectacles."

An invoice and receipt for BR's purchase of coffee and China tea.

An invoice and receipt for BR's purchase of coffee, China tea, a waterproof coat and a Schappe shirt blouse.

A receipt for BR's rent payment at 34 Russell Chambers.

An invoice for repairs made on 31, Sydney Street.

An invoice and receipt for Dora's purchases of various items including a corset, a Mahogany chest of drawers and a baby plate.

A receipt from H. Chappell & Company.

An invoice and a receipt from The People, a Sunday paper.

An invoice and a receipt for window cleaning at 31 Sydney Street.

An invoice and a receipt for window cleaning at 31 Sydney Street.

An invoice and a receipt for BR's purchase of coffee beans and China tea.

An invoice and a receipt for professional attendance including a Clinical Research fee for analysis of milk.

An invoice and a receipt for various purchases for the month of June.

An invoice and a receipt for BR's purchase of coal.

An invoice and a receipt for BR's purchase of striped cashmere trousers.

A receipt for the amount of £18.9.8.

A receipt for his telephone service.

An invoice for goods.

A receipt for BR's payment to the Parish of St. Luke, Chelsea.

An invoice for BR's payment due to the Parish of St. Luke, Chelsea.

A receipt for BR's yearly subscription to the P.E.N. Club.

A receipt from R. Chirgwin & Son, Ltd.

A receipt from the London County Council.

BR critiques The Experience Universe. While he is sympathetic to many of the ideas, he ultimately does not agree. The complete postscript is missing. However, on the dictated (record 126091) and TL(CAR) (record 3230) forms of the letter, the complete postscript states: "You say that mathematical logic should only be employed where number or quantity is concerned. The main point of mathematical logic is to extend mathematical methods beyond this narrow region."

"Ruja's reply was interesting but obscure to me. He said that BR ended up in the arms of Arafat or something like that. Didn't know BR had taken a position on the Palestinian question, too."

"My autobiography is in I hope the last stages. I hope it won't be a posthumous work."

Hook thinks Ruja was "too kind" to Langhammer in his review for Russell. Langhammer, according to Hook, quotes from BR's Theory and Practice of Bolshevism, but  "... ignores the remarkable analyses and predictions in the book of how Lenin's terror would transform the Utopian dream we all shared into a totalitarian nightmare."

"The really unforgivable theory about Russell is that knowing the truth about totalitarian communism his last political words, so to speak, were 'Long live Ho Chi Minh!' whose triumph resulted in the next to the worst Holocausts of modern times!"

"I have received the transcript of my 'debate' with Russell. Incidentally, there was no rehearsal. We just engaged in general conversation before we went on the air."

"I am looking forward to receiving your letter anent my Russell piece in Encounter. I can now, thanks to you, date that exchange between Russell and me on his Glamour article. It was not published during the hot days of the controversy. It came out when there was some hope of taking an appeal and before he won his judgment against Barnes. My memory of my expostulations with him is sharp and strong because we were trying to emphasize his purely scholarly achievements in the public mind and blot out his role as advisor to the love-lorn."

"It just suggested itself to me that the tapes I mailed by first class postage from here are being held up somewhere at Canadian customs." Blackwell notes in the margin that only one tape has arrived.

"P.S. Did you get the Reprint of the Russell Encounter article 2 March 1984"?

"Here is the article I mentioned last week" (not present).

"Have the tapes reached you? They were marked Feb. 24."

"I have not yet received a reply to my inquiry about whether or not you have published or intend to publish my exchange with Bertrand Russell in the Bertrand Russell Archives." The exchange between Hook and BR occurred in 1953 on the BBC.

"This will authorize you to reprint in the Bertrand Russell Archives my exchange with BR over the BBC in 1953. Perhaps you have already done so. I rely on you for an accurate transcription."

"I trust this finds you well and that the powers that be at McMaster are aware of how much they owe you for your life long dedication to the BR project."

"Thank you for your kindness and hospitality in showing me around the Russell Archives. You are certainly devoted to Russell and his memory."

Hook describes his plans for his trip to see the Bertrand Russell Archives. 

"I have in my possession the only tape of my discussion—debate with Bertrand Russell over the BBC in the Fall of 1953. I describe the way in which this exchange took place, and the pleasant post-lude in a forthcoming chapter of my autobiography (Chapter title: Bertrand Russell: Portrait from Memory). The chapter may be published in Encounter this Fall."

"I am writing to enquire whether the Bertrand Russell Archives is interested in acquiring the tape."

"The only recording referred to in the exchange of letters you enclosed was to Russell's recording of his commemorative address on the Warsaw Ghetto uprising delivered in April 1953. Was something omitted from what you sent me? Has Lady Russell's recording been transcribed? If it is Patricia who recorded would it be possible to see a transcript."

Hook mentions that he has completed the draft of his chapter on BR, "Portrait from Memory".

"I made a passing reference to Santayana's anti-Semitism on the basis of a remark he made in his volume in the Library of Living Philosophy. ... Enclosed is the article in which my remark appears. There is correspondence about this in the January 1977 issue of American Scholar."

"I finished some time ago a first draft of the chapter 'Bertrand Russell: Portrait from Memory" ... I have not yet decided what to do with it—I have so much on my dish ... and have not yet read the three new biographies on Russell."

"If I send you a copy of my draft would you be willing to look at it and correct it for errors ... I shall make acknowledgements of course ... Some of it is highly personal stuff ... I have not quoted from any letters of Russell—they are scattered between here, NY and Vermont. And I have a photograph of Russell and me taken at Amsterdam at the International Congress of Philosophy 1948."

"I am not at all surprised that Russell spoke as you report he did at the 10^th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. (Is a copy available?) It doesn't gainsay the fact that his personal feeling about Jews was what Leonard Woolf and others report about him. Nor would it alter matters if he could say (which to the best of my knowledge wasn't the case) 'Some of my best friends are Jews....'"

This letter was not sent.

Hook annotates the letter: "Not sent. Upon advice of friends, I decided not to dignify Berman's piece with a reply. Russell once told me that he would never engage in another debate with Louis Fisher, (I believe it was on British policy in India) because Fisher was so abusive. Another anecdote. He said that when he lectured on foreign policy and was asked about England's treatment of Indians he always began by asking: 'Which Indians? Ours at least, are alive!'"

"As I recall Russell did mention that he was thinking of writing a book on Democracy. The only thing of his I saw was a pamphlet published by some group in London after World War II. This was during his anti-Stalinist-Communist phase."

"Actually most of the material I have on Russell is in my head—and I hope some day to get it down before my memories fade. Russell had a remarkably accurate memory. He once told me of an article by the Archbishop of Canterbury written in Mind who claimed that the source of Plato's theory of Ideas was in his pederasty. 'Wasn't that a peculiar article for a future Archbishop to write?' he asked. ... I found the article and when I told him I had and was surprised at his accuracy he expressed surprise that I should have doubted his memory."

"He was completely unbuttoned with me puzzled only by the fact that although so close to Dewey I should take his side against Barnes. He used to say 'What I like about you, Hook, is that we contrast to others who help and offer to help me—you don't expect anything from me'—which was quite true."

"My account of the relationship between Dewey and Russell is based on my memory of what Dewey told me with considerable reluctance since he very rarely gossiped."

"When I publish my 'Portrait from Memory: Bertrand Russell' (a chapter in my political autobiography), there will be some interesting details about Russell's life and experiences in the United States that will in no way affect Russell's philosophical stature but that will give a complete view of him, despite his faults, as a remarkable human being."

Tylor thanks BR for his cheque for £50 and has sent the cheque to Maw "... with a letter informing him that you found it very difficult to make the payment."

BR describes Dora's behaviour while John and Kate were visiting him for the holidays. "I think this behaviour ought to be brought to the notice of the Court in connection with the alimony suit, and that a condition of the alimony should be that she does not stay in the immediate neighbourhood of this house."

"I agree with you that it is intolerable that Mrs. Dora Russell should spoil the children's stay with you, but I am afraid that the Court which deals with Maintenance will not impose any obligation upon her in this respect."

Tylor encloses a copy of the letter he sent to F.G. Maw (see record 130913).

"I write this letter feeling that you will be in full agreement with me, and I have no hesitation in asking for an assurance on Lady Russell's behalf that she will do her best to avoid all such incidents in the future."