BR and the propaganda committee of the No-Conscription Fellowship approve of Housman's pamphlet but lack the funds to publish it as a pamphlet at this time. The text may be the article "The Mind of To-morrow" published under Housman's name in the next issue of The Tribunal, no. 66 (12 July 1917): 1. No other work by Housman is mentioned in the next four months of The Tribunal.

BR tries to fundraise: "If you know any one who would be willing to contribute to our funds, I should be deeply grateful for your assistance in begging—which is always an odious job!"

Frank Russell acknowledges Housman's report of additional members on the Committee of the Men's League (for women's suffrage). He cannot say how many people support "my House". Russell invites Housman to "come down and see our beautiful house on the Downs in August or September". The reference is to the new building of Telegraph House.

Russell has now read "Mr. Trimblerigg" in order and found a greater understanding of it. Inadvertently, he has plagiarized Housman's idea of "capturing broadcasting" in an enclosed article (not present). He goes on to praise Housman's writing and thanks him for the book, which he will "dip into... again in the future, as I do the Pickwick Papers". He closes with a postscript scolding him for failing to use the full infinitive with "to help make".
 

A business card for the Swedish publisher, Natur och Kultur, was inserted between pp. 38-9 of Aspelin, Wedberg and Tigerstedt's Bertrand Russell, tre studier (Russell's Library, no. 3239). The book was published on the occasion of the award to Russell of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Russell has signed this copy.

A blue sheet of mathematical formulae was inserted between pp. 378-9 of Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Russell's Library, no. 924). The note is in an unknown hand; a number of pressed flowers were also at this page. The book had several owners prior to BR, including Ludwig Wittgenstein, J. Hay Beattie, and W. Laing M.D. of Fochabers.

A blank slip of paper was inserted between pp. 554-5 of Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. 1 (Russell's Library, no. 916).

A leaflet for books  (including W.S. Churchill's The Malakind Field Force) published by Longmans, Green and Co. was folded and inserted between pp. 548-9 of Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. 4 (Russell's Library, no. 919).

A "with compliments" slip was inserted between pp. 48-9 of Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. 3 (Russell's Library, no. 918). The slip is for Atheneum Publishers' Western Intruders: America's Role in the Far East (1967).

A pipe cleaner was inserted between pp. 540-1 of Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. 2 (Russell's Library, no. 917).

"You may remember my visiting you together with Stephen Spender about a year ago, at the time I was secretary of the British Society for Cultural Freedom."

He encloses a draft of a pamphlet, "Russia New Look or Old?" and a previously published work of his, The Communists' New Weapon—Germ Warfare.

A brief unaddressed note, which reads "With thanks for the promised early reply. Would 5000 words do?", was inserted between pp. 50-1 of Urmson's Philosophical Analysis (Russell's Library, no. 1473).

BR argues that current poor conditions are the direct and logical result of past idealistic conditions. Where Ossowski argues that patriotism (especially that of Poland) can be good, BR challenges that ideals do not lead to the ideal.

This may have been an enclosure for a lost personal reply; the typescript, which has corrections in Russell's hand, lacks the normal features of a letter. It is the delivered copy of record 2429 and is presumably the version published by Antoni Sułek in Stanisław Ossowski w pełnym blasku.

Ossowski's draft of his second letter to BR, record 61742, in which he defends his view of patriotism against BR's reply to his first letter (record 61741).

An article titled "Biddle—Praying Colonel of the Marines" (torn out of Reader's Digest) was removed from The Arabian Nights, vol. 4 (Russell's Library, no. 1512).

The business card of Col. Ernest A. Loftus was inserted between pp. 562-3 of Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, vol. 3 (Russell's Library, no. 1036).

An invoice for Which Way to Peace? (Russell's Library, no. 3127) was found in that book. The invoice is addressed to BR at 212 Loring Ave., Los Angeles, California.

A short note, in Patricia Russell's hand, was inserted between pp. 270-1 of vol. 1 of Oeuvres de Descartes (Russell's Library, no. 1082). It is written on Telegraph House notepaper and concerns a point in the Méditations.

A slip of white blank paper was inserted at the title page of Opere varie di architettura prospettive, grotteschi, antichità sul gusto degli antichi Romani (Russell's Library, no. 1296). The enormous volume, inscribed "To Edith from B.R. Christmas 1952", contains two works bound together. The slip of paper marks the divide.

A printed with compliments slip, reading "From the Author", was inserted before the title page of Trevelyan's The Bride of Dionysus (Russell's Library, no. 1268).

BR agrees to add his signature to Goulding's copy of Wisdom of the West, but would not a card suffice?

The addressee's name is obscured in the digital print by a rectangle of white paper. See Goulding's initial letter (record 24031) and reply (record 24033) for the identification.

(The book was sent by Goulding for signature. It was signed and was for sale to the Bertrand Russell Society or a member in May 2016.)

A review copy" slip was inserted between the plate and p. 211 of William Irvine's Apes, Angels, and Victorians (Russell's Library, no. 2824).

Catherine Sutherland (Deputy Librarian (Pepys Library & Special Collections) Magdalene College, Cambridge CB3 0AG) summarized the letter to K. Blackwell on 23 May 2016):

"Patricia Russell thanks IAR for ‘the kind note and invitation’ but she (and Bertrand?) do not go out for lunches because they interfere with work, but they do accept invitations to tea. She then talks at length about titles: ‘of course titles are silly: so few that matter are Gothic cathedrals’ (presumably Richards had commented on this in previous correspondence or conversation), and that ‘Professionally, naturally, he prefers to go on being Bertrand Russell.’"

The letter, an ALS of 2 sheets, is filed in box 56 of the Richards Papers.

Catherine Sutherland (Deputy Librarian (Pepys Library & Special Collections) Magdalene College, Cambridge CB3 0AG) quoted the diary entry to K. Blackwell on 26 May 2016):

"Went 4.30 pm to Russell’s lecture – “4 truisms, 1 radical mistake.  3 Witticisms, 7 pleasantries – great success”.  Huge crowd – grand manner."

The lecture was the first of Russell's series of William James Lectures at Harvard in the autumn of 1940. See Michael D. Stevenson, "'My Personal Ruin Passes Unnoticed': Russell, Harvard, and the 1940 William James Lectureship" (https://mulpress.mcmaster.ca/russelljournal/article/view/2887/2569).

The diary is in the I.A. Richards Papers. Pillay is Richards' wife.

BR sends Rajput a signed photograph and recommends he contact Mrs. Triska Sundra at "Shangri La", Faridabad N.I.T., to assist the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation in India.

A greeting card was inserted between the cover and the flyleaf of Philip Hofer's Edward Lear (Russell's Library, no. 5378).

A Christmas tag in Russell's hand to Peter from John was inserted between pp. 152-3 of Digges' The Compleat Ambassador: or two Treaties of the Intended Marriage of Queen Elizabeth (Russell's Library, no. 1054).

A scrap piece of paper was inserted over pp. 3-4 of Agostino Gerli's Opuscoli (Russell's Library, no. 32). Because it is on ballooning, the book probably belonged to Ludwig Wittgenstein but does not bear his signature. The scrap appears to have come from an Italian ledger book. The number 3098 has been written perpendicular to the original text, possibly as a call number.

An advertisement for Chambers's Encyclopædia was inserted between pp. 338-9 of Mind: A Quarterly Review of Psychology and Philosophy, vol. 65, no. 259 (Russell's Library, no. 3349).

A typed extract from "The Free Man's Worship" was inserted between pp. 416-17 of The Independent Review, Vol. 1, no. 3 (Dec. 1903) (Russell's Library, no. 3464).

A notice announcing the change of the journal's title to The Albany Review, plus an advertisement with further elaboration, was inserted between pp. viii-241 of The Independent Review, Vol. 12, no. 42 (March 1907) (Russell's Library, no. 3495).

A "with compliments" slip was inserted between pp. iv-v of Myra Buttle's The Sweeniad (Russell's Library, no. 3567).

A brief letter was inserted between the cover and half-title page of Sorel's Moon Missing (Russell Library, no. 3565). The letter sends best wishes for Christmas and the New Year as well as admiration for BR's words and work.
 

Not truly a letter  but a list headed "BR" of the travel and dates for his American lecture tour, 20 October to 10 November [1951]. The schedule is filed at the end of BR's letters to Edith. Possibly she made a copy for BR to take with him. Julie Medlock's name and address is written on the top.

A "with compliments" slip was inserted between the front flyleaves of Niels Bohr's The Theory of Spectra and Atomic Constitution (Russell's Ex-Library, no. 3706).

An envelope addressed (not in BR's hand) to Times Book Club with travelling directions in one corner was inserted between pp. 44-5 of Vasiliev's Space Time Motion (Russell's Ex-Library, no. 3704).

A Chatto & Windus leaflet advertising recent books was inserted between pp. 44-5 of Vasiliev's Space Time Motion (Russell's Ex-Library, no. 3704).

A "request for review" was inserted between the front endpaper and flyleaf of Lodge's Atoms and Rays (Russell  Ex-Library, no. 3703).

A "request for review" slip was inserted between pp. 4-5 of Berthoud's The New Theories of Matter and the Atom (Russell's Ex-Library, no. 3702).

A clipping titled "The Defects of English Prose" (a review of L.P. Smith, A Treasury of English Prose, TLS, 15 Jan. 1920, p. 22) was inserted between pp. ii-iii of What is Socialism? (Russell's Ex-Library, no. 3666).

A "with compliments" slip was inserted between the half-title and title page of Drake's Mind and Its Place in Nature (Russell's Ex-Library, no. 3634).
 

A "with compliments" slip was inserted between pp. 18-19 of Broad's Perception, Physics, and Reality (Russell's Ex-Library, no. 3631).

Blank slips of white paper were inserted between pp. 30-1, 48-9, 58-9, 190-1, 342-3, 348-9, 352-3, 356-7, 360-1 of Galton's Hereditary Genius (Russell's Ex-Library, no. 3717). The slips correspond to marginalia BR made in to the book. Also included with the book is the book's auction description from 1980. The auction description takes detailed note of BR's annotations and may be the source of the slips of paper.

The letter was included with Galton's Hereditary Genius (Russell's Ex-Library, no. 3717). The letter discusses the impending marriage of Anthony Lightfoot and Juliet Mostyn (15 May 1952), Constance Llewellyn, and a number of other individuals by first name only. No connection to BR is known.

A "with compliments" card was inserted between pp. 14-15 of Bowley's The Mathematical Groundwork of Economics (Russell's Ex-Library, no. 3660).

A "request for review" slip was pasted to the inside front cover of Luce's Bergson's Doctrine of Intuition (Russell's Ex-Library, no. 3619).

A "request for review" slip was inserted between the front flyleaf and the half title page of Rivers' Medicine, Magic, and Religion (Russell's Ex-Library, no. 3657).

An envelope with a yellow flower pressed inside was inserted between the inside front cover and the front flyleaf of Ranke's The Popes of Rome (Russell's Ex-Library, no. 3642). The flyleaf is inscribed "A. & B. Russell 1 Aug. 1897".

A leaflet for the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science was inserted between the inside cover and p. 10 of the periodical Mind, vol. 59, no. 234 (Russell's Library, no. 3326). BR is listed as a member of the editorial board.

A "request for review" slip was inserted between p. 302 and the advertisement for The Reign of Relativity of Viscount Haldane's The Philosophy of Humanism (Russell's Ex-Library, no. 3608).

Weisz, on behalf of Henry Talbot de Vere Clifton (Harry Clifton), asks for BR's thoughts on the enclosed proposal to UN Secretary-General, Dag Hammarskjöld. The proposal calls for a body of military and medical personnel who can estimate the potential cost to human lives of using nuclear weapons.

The Press encloses W. Ackermann's German-language review of Principia Mathematica to *56 from Deutsche Mathematiker Vereinigung, vol. 66, no. 1, pp. 10-11.

This mimeographed letter is not addressed personally to BR. It concerns Linus Pauling's appearance before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee.

A note on alphabetical characters (for sounds?) was inserted between pp. 416-17 of N.J.V. Warmelo's "European and Other Influences in Sotho" in Bantu Studies, Vol. 3, no. 4 (Russell Serials). Also inserted (at p. 423) is a stapled offprint of an article by C.M. Doke, with a name beginning G inscribed at the top. At p. 423 another article by Doke (with B.H. Barnes) begins. Both articles concern the Bantu language.

The issue was found at Carn Voel, Dora Russell's home, in 1986. It may have nothing to do with BR.

The letter indicates that the booklet was sent at the suggestion of P. Gore-Booth. A copy of Economic World was also included.

Dated "Berlin 15 Oct '48", this letterheaded note says merely "With the compliments of the Editor Melvin J. Lasky". It is inserted in Der Monat, 1, no. 1 (Oct. 1948): 8-9. BR arrived in Berlin on 22 Oct. 1948.

Pages 4-8 reprint B&R C48.05 in German, titled "Der Weg zum Weltstaat". Also inserted is an English-language table of contents with summaries. Not to be overlooked is the full column on BR in "Die Autoren des Monats", p. 111.

This mimeographed letter is not addressed personally to BR. It indicates that the enclosed booklet is being sent at the request of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs because it may be of interest.

This mimeographed letter is not addressed personally to BR. It indicates that the enclosed booklet is being sent at the request of the Foreign Office because it may be of interest.

This mimeographed letter is not addressed personally to BR. It indicates that the enclosed booklet is being sent at the request of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs because it may be of interest.

This mimeographed letter is not addressed personally to BR. It indicates that the enclosed booklet is being sent at the request of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs because it may be of interest.

This mimeographed letter is not addressed personally to BR. It indicates that the enclosed booklet is being sent at the request of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs because it may be of interest.

This circular is not addressed personally to BR; he is listed as one of the sponsors. The letter requests donations to the National Appeal.

This mimeographed letter is not addressed personally to BR; he is listed as one of the plaintiffs. The letter summarizes the finding from the United States Court of Appeals and the decision to appeal to the Supreme court.

An invoice was inserted between pp. 360-1 of Annalen der Physik, Nr. 4, 1926 (Russell Serials), the start of Erwin Schrödinger's article "Quantisierung als Eigenwertproblem". The journal has a note on the cover in BR's hand for p. 372 and the article contains marginalia consisting of vertical lines.

This mimeographed letter is not addressed personally to BR. The letter requests feedback on Morawetz' enclosed booklet.

This letter was sent to Fenner Brockway and copied to BR. It discusses the situation in Cyprus and details the activities of the Colonial Office since February 1957. Attached to the letter is a "with compliments" slip from the Movement for Colonial Freedom.

A note was inserted between pp. 18-19 of Albert Schweitzer's The Problem of Peace in the World Today (Russell Offprints). The note reads: "P19 Reject was for ethical reasons". In addition to the note, which is about p. 19, there are additional marginalia consisting of vertical lines in the text.

A "with compliments" note was written on the cover of Thorburn's "The Myth of Occam's Razor" (Russell Offprints) and includes marginalia from the author elaborating on the text.

Patricia thanks Richards for her note and visit, but declines lunch with I.A. Richards and herself ("we both find it interferes too much with work"), suggesting tea or dinner instead. She discusses her preferred title and goes into BR's thoughts on the matter.

The file also includes Richards' diary entry for 1940/10/04, where she reports on BR's first William James Lecture: "4 truisms, 1 radical mistake. 3 witticisms, 7 pleasantries—great success". It's as if she is quoting someone—perhaps I.A. Richards.

BR has recently written several articles for American publications and is anxious to see responses to them.

Carbon copies of this letter are filed at record 74530 and record 94614.