Total Published Records: 134,898
BRACERS Notes
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132708 | Barclays confirms that funds deposited in the UK will be transferred to Boudin's New York account, but the cheque must first have Exchange Control Authority endorsement by Stetler's bank. |
132709 | Standard confirms Stetler's understanding of his ability to be in England for an extended period of time given his 3-A status, but does recommend that he notify the Board of his overseas address. |
132710 | BR requests his bank to endorse the cheque for Boudin's legal fees so it may be deposited at Barclays and transferred to the US. |
132711 | Stetler thanks Boudin for sending his current information questionnaire to the Draft Board and is still waiting on Standard's reply to his other questions. Stetler is going to Copenhagen today for the 2nd IWCT session and will try and make the information from that session available as promptly as possible. |
132712 | Stetler instructs the post office to forward all of his US government mail to Rabinowitz & Boudin. |
132713 | Farley asks for advice as he is unable to get BR's statement notarized, but can have his signature witnessed by a Commissioner for Oaths. Alternatively, Farley can have a statement by the Foundation Director notarized. |
132714 | Boudin directs Farley to get "both Russell and Foundation director statements as cabled". The meaning is unclear. |
132715 | Farley encloses three copies of a statement which will be sent to a notary in London and then be forwarded to Boudin. He apologizes for the delay as there are no notaries available in remote North Wales. |
132716 | Stetler thanks Standard for his reply and asks him about the best way to notify the board since he has already left the United States. He also asks him to tell Boudin that he will have information for him in the next few weeks related to the tribunal for his cases. |
132717 | Boudin asks Stetler to take care of a matter with Barclays Bank with the enclosed letter. He is still waiting on the affidavit from BR. And finally urges him to send "with all possible speed" the materials from the IWCT proceedings in Copenhagen. |
132718 | Boudin sends a copy of the letter from Barclays and asks Stetler to look into a missing deposit of £800. |
132719 | Stetler outlines the course of action that has gone on regarding his payment and the slow process. He apologizes for the delay and trusts that it will be sorted out in the near future. |
132720 | Boudin asks what is being done by Stetler to ensure that his £800 is being cleared through an alternative procedure. |
132721 | Boudin is representing Dr. Benjamin Spock (one of the "Boston Five") and asks Stetler to send all testimony and all documents secured by the Tribunal that would be relevant whether or not the material was formally presented to the Tribunal. He asks Stetler to let him know if he can have it sent within the week as well as recommendations for witnesses to be subpoenaed. Copies of this letter were also sent to Wales and to Schoenman. One of those copies is included here. |
132722 | Boudin asks if Stetler to send a copy of the Gallimard French edition of the Stockholm Tribunal judgement. |
132723 | Schoenman (the letter is unsigned but is assumed to be from R.S.) notes that he has paid $4180 of the $8100 owing and asks if that is not reasonable assurance that he will pay in due course. |
132724 | Boudin asks Stetler to confirm whether he will be able to send material related to the Tribunal in time for Dr. Spock's trial. |
132725 | Boudin inquires about the reports in the press that Schoenman and the BRPF have severed ties. Does he represent the New York (branch of the) Peace Foundation? |
132726 | BR confirms that there has been a complete separation between the BRPF and Schoenman. Legal matters related to this are being handled by Rosner and Rosner, who will send a copy of BR's statement on the matter. BR was unaware of Schoenman consulting with Rabinowitz & Boudin since a matter related to his passport two years prior. "… he does not have my permission to use my name in any way." |
132727 | Stetler outlines a plan for him and his fellow students at Haverford College to raise money for medical supplies for the Liberation National Front. To this end, Stetler has organized a speaking tour at Bryn Mawr, Swathmore, Vassar, and Yale. He asks for any advice BR can give about matters of publicity and anything else in relation to the Vietnam War. Also a photocopy. |
132728 | The letter is unsigned but assumed to be from R.S. encloses two copies of a letter sent to Stetler (record 132740) (the original letter is at record 132455). |
132729 | Stetler thanks BR for putting him in contact with Boudin and plans to send the money they have raised via the British Vietnam Committee. He asks BR to send the substantiating evidence for BR's letter to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch regarding Diem's attempted negotiations with the North. Finally, he suspects his mail is being monitored by the FBI and is concerned that their May 2nd demonstration may be disrupted. He asks BR if he can send any names of "respectable" contacts in the US who might be able to support the demonstration. |
132730 | Stetler thanks BR for clarifying the accusations against Diem and his successor. He discusses the views of Black nationalist groups in relation to the war and testing on non-white populations. Some of these groups may also support the May 2nd demonstration. He has been well received at the University of Pennsylvania and Swarthmore College, where he also showed a propaganda film made by the National Liberation Front. He offers to send BR a copy if there is not one available in the UK. |
132731 | BR directs Stetler to the Committee of 100 regarding demonstrations in the UK and says he will have a directory of Peace Organizations sent to him. He will also contact the British Vietnam Committee regarding the matter of medical supplies. |
132732 | Stetler has contacted the Committee of 100 and a number of others. The medical aid project is progressing well. Stetler's speaking engagement at Columbia University "drew the largest audience of any political meeting there in the past eight years". |
132733 | Stetler details the series of events that lead to his group's Vietnam medical supply fund announcement. He encloses three clippings about the announcement. |
132734 | BR suggests Stetler contact Dr. Tom Brewer of San Francisco, regarding the demonstration he is organizing. |
132735 | BR thanks Stetler for the update and promises to send letters to the newspapers he has suggested. There are two copies of this carbon. |
132736 | Schoenman writes to ask how the demonstration on May 2nd went, having seen no news in the British press. |
132737 | BR is impressed with his success and outraged by the Haverford College authorities' response. |
132738 | Schoenman informs Stetler of Russell's planned conference on Indochina and Southeast Asia in London on 9 July 1964 and hopes he has received BR's introduction to his book by now (document .400219a). |
132739 | Stetler reports on his visit from the FBI.
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132740 | BR endorses Stetler's "program" and provides (not present) the text of statements BR has made on Vietnam. He requests Stetler keep him advised to his progress, and suggests he discuss the matter with Leonard Boudin, general council for the Emergency Civil Liberties Committee and the legal representative for the BRPF. He wishes Stetler and his colleagues to have access to good legal council if they are subject to prosecution. The original letter is available at record 132455. |
132741 | The original letter is in the Odgen papers, McMaster U.
Sedgwick inquires about contacting Mrs. C.R. Buxton. He complains of hardships due to the US entering the war. "We are all immensely anxious." BR answered this letter on 1918/02/01, record 54328. |
132742 | BR encourages Stetler's Vietnam protests and sends a message in this letter. |
132743 | BR acknowledges the likelihood that both their mail is being tampered with. He briefly discusses Diem's attempts to negotiate with the North and de Gaulle's involvement. |
132744 | BR thanks Stetler for identifying the finer details of negotiations, Diem, and the junta. He also notes the assertion in I.F. Stone's Weekly that the US wishes to prolong the war as Vietnam is a good training ground. |
132745 | BR's introduction for Stetler's article "Vietnam: the Whole Brutal Business". It seems not to have been published. BR sent the signed original with his letter of 1964/05/28, record 132467. Document 400219a is a photocopy of the original. |
132746 | Stetler has made good progress on his Vietnam book. He expects to meet with Senators Morse and Gruening early next week to try and coordinate protest actions. The Philadelphia School Board has allowed him to keep his scholarship.
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132747 | BR encourages Stetler to speak to Leonard Boudin regarding his visit from the FBI. BR encloses (not present) the article he is about to publish regarding the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
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132748 | Schoenman reports that BR met with Linus Pauling and J.D. Bernal on July 9th and they have drafted a statement. (BR and Bernal also wrote jointly to The Guardian, B&R C64.48). He also mentions the statement by U Thant and that he expects to meet with him in London on the 23rd.
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132749 | The auction was held 9 November 2022. Lot 258, to which this letter belonged, was sold for £11,000. The auction house states: "The letters were collected by Sheila Zinkin who acted as Bertrand Russell's secretary in 1951.... The collection has remained in the family until now." Woolf sends BR a book in which she has written about her great-grandfather Pattle. (BR then mentioned the book, Cameron's Victorian Photographs of Famous Men and Fair Women [1926] in The Amberley Papers, 1: 94n.) |
132750 | The auction was held 9 November 2022. Lot 258, to which this letter belonged, was sold for £11,000. Huxley thanks BR for "Causes of War", which is an entry in his An Encyclopaedia of Pacifism (London: Chatto and Windus, 1937). Until now this writing had not been ascribed to BR, and it is not so ascribed in the book. |
132751 | The auction was held 9 November 2022. Lot 258, to which this letter belonged, was sold for £11,000. According to the auction site Bell asks BR for a letter of introduction for his son Julian as he applies to teach at a Chinese university. (Julian Bell died in the Spanish civil war on 18 July 1937.) The image available is incomplete showing only the front of the letter which discusses the Bell's travel plans. |
132752 | The auction was held 9 November 2022. Lot 258, to which this letter belonged, was sold for £11,000. Forster has found among G. Lowes Dickinson's papers several letters from BR. Would BR care to have them? (They are in RA.) |
132753 | The auction was held 9 November 2022. Lot 258, to which this letter belonged, was sold for £11,000. Forster now asks if he may see any letters from Dickinson that BR has kept. (Forster was writing the biography.) |
132754 | The auction was held 9 November 2022. Lot 258, to which this letter belonged, was sold for £11,000. As summarized for the auction, Wells puts the behaviour of Dora Russell down to "that phase in a woman's life when motives become moody and incalculable", thanking his stars that men do not go through that state and pronouncing Marie Stopes' The Change of Life to be "a perfectly crazy book". |
132755 | The auction was held 9 November 2022. Lot 258, to which this letter belonged, was sold for £11,000. Congratulations are offered on BR's Order of Merit. Sutherland was principal of Dalton Hall, Manchester and succeeded John W. Graham. |
132756 | The auction was held 9 November 2022. Lot 258, to which this letter belonged, was sold for £11,000. The Aga Khan thanks BR for a philosophical explanation. He has been reading Human Knowledge and has History of Western Philosophy. The copy of this single-sheet letter comes in two images. |
132757 | The auction was held 9 November 2022. Lot 258, to which this letter belonged, was sold for £11,000. The signature is difficult to read, including the initials (or initial). The writer encloses (not present) a message for BR from South Africa. He offers to find out more. |
132758 | The auction was held 9 November 2022. Lot 258, to which this letter belonged, was sold for £11,000. Only the recto of the presumably single-sheet letter is in the copy. The auction house states: "The letters were collected by Sheila Zinkin who acted as Bertrand Russell's secretary in 1951.... The collection has remained in the family until now." BR wants to send Zinkin a copy of his short stories (Satan in the Suburbs) with this inscription: "To Miss S.Z. / The Onlie Begetter of / The Corsican Ordeal". Cf. Collected Papers 26: 328. |
132759 | The first half of the letter is the same as the on sent on the 15th with some additional comment and is concluded with a post script asking if Stetler will be able to provide an account of his experiences for a book they are working on. The names of Ayub Khan and Julius K. Nyerere are at the top of the second page because they were added to the letterhead list of BRPF sponsors. There is an additional carbon on this letter in the file. |
132760 | Stetler is still waiting to hear about his meeting with Morse and Gruening. He has some updates for the footnotes in his article and will send them if the type has not been set. He is very happy to join Russell in the book on the Vietnam war. Schoenman has written his response in the margins of the letter; see document 400228. |
132761 | Schoenman requests that Stetler confirm receipt of his letters dated 16 June and 15 and 23 July. Schoenman received Stetler's letter of22 July. The carbon of this is also in the file. |
132762 | With the letter is a drawing of BR autographed by him. The double item was offered at a live auction by Hunt Auctions in December 2022. The typed carbon of the letter is at record 35319. Friedman's letter of 5 July 1963 is at record 35318. |
132763 | This public letter is addressed "To all, in whatever country, who are still capable of sane thinking or humane feeling". Typed and signed carbon copies in the file alter the wording of the recipient from "humane" to "human". There is also a typed mimeograph headed "Letter from Bertrand Russell on Committal to Brixton Prison: 12.9.61", with more frequent paragraphing. The dating comes from the mimeo. As a leaflet the letter was published on 13 Sept. 1961 and quoted in full and almost correctly in The Times, 14 Sept. 1961, p. 6 (B&R A119). |
132764 | BR has heard that Pevsner of Penguin Books is not able to use Stetler's manuscript. The Philadelphia School Board has dropped its action against Stetler. |
132765 | Schoenman encourages Stetler to go ahead with his account and also sends BR's article, "16 Questions on the Assassination" and two statements on Goldwater they are circulating widely. There are two copies of this carbon. |
132766 | This is the 3rd draft of a statement on a Cuban Solidarity Conference. Large type is used. It has at least one word in BR's hand. Draft 2, document 400314q, has much more in BR's hand as he edited it. Draft 1, document 400314r, which is typed in smaller type on a different typewriter, has the date of 18/12/65; it has no changes; a carbon is document 400314s. None of the drafts is signed. Presumably there was a 4th typing that was to be signed. |
132767 | This draft, in large type, shows at least one verbal alteration in BR's hand. The deletions are consistent with his views. In the upper right corner, in C. Farley's hand, is a circled "64/65". There is no retyped copy or carbon. |
132768 | In this series of 77, mostly handwritten letters and post cards (and 10 Christmas cards), Tait writes about her memories of Alice Crunden, her niece Anne Russell, sister-in-law Susan Russell, Richard Jencks from Fallen Leaf Lake Lodge, and the deaths of her son David Tait and her ex-husband, Charles Tait. She recollected throwing out Patricia ("Peter") Russell's letters to her after keeping them for many years. Also included are:her opinion of Ray Monk as both a biographer and a person, Nick Griffin's Selected Letters, and Deborah Gorham, who wanted to write a book about Dora Russell. Tait would have liked Miranda Seymour to become her mother's biographer. Tait met Monk several times, and many letters discuss him. She also writes about the Blakeway television interviews and members of the Russell Editorial Project who came to visit. As the renovations of Carn Voel went on she kept Turcon informed of progress. There is detailed calendaring of the letters in a finding-aid in the first folder. |
132769 | Clark wrote to arrange to meet BR at the BBC for a broadcast. |
132770 | Re BR's library subscription at Harrods. |
132771 | Re Kingston Russell House, West Dorset. BR wrote about this house in his Autobiography 3:105–06. Also in the file is a classified advertisement listing the house for sale, The Times, 1 November 1963 and a note by Edith. |
132772 | BR asked Mrs. Garnsey to buy gifts for Jonathan and David Wood with his enclosed cheque for 5 pounds. |
132773 | BR asked Mrs. Garnsey to buy gifts for Jonathan and David Wood with his cheque for 5 pounds. |
132774 | BR asked Mrs. Garnsey to buy gifts for Jonathan and David Wood with "the note" he enclose. |
132775 | BR asked Mrs. Garnsey to buy gifts for Jonathan and David Wood with his enclosed cheque for 5 pounds. |
132776 | A. Gordon sold ties and adds a handwritten postscript. Edith noted on his letter that she was sending a cheque for two ties. |
132777 | BR orders 2 dozen bottles of Red Hackle Whisky. |
132778 | On improving confidence in the UN. |
132779 | A reminder re Russell's subscription. Edith has written on the letter: "2 guineas sent 17/6/68". |
132780 | This letter is not dated, but other letters from Parisen are from 1967 and 1968. |
132781 | Alternative transcriptions of her surname are provided. |
132782 | Re BR's private memorandum on Ralph Schoenman. BR needs solicitors' advice before making any public statement. |
132783 | BR asks for his sales account. The envelope is stamped but unfranked. Hence the letter was not sent. |
132784 | Edith wrote a note on the top of this card about cheques that were sent as requested on 1968/12/28. |
132785 | David, in Paris, will write to let the Russells exactly when he would like to visit them in Wales. |
132786 | Re taking Russell's robes to the House of Lords |
132787 | Re taking Russell's robes to the House of Lords. |
132788 | The writer is permanently unemployed. |
132789 | Two mimeographed document, 2 sheets. |
132790 | Re the purchasing of philosophical journals that BR might have. |
132791 | In French. Condolences on BR's death. |
132792 | The writer wants to get in touch with BR over "a matter of great mutual interest". He will first authenticate any reply. |
132793 | The date is the date of the postmark. Robuck requests an autographed photo of BR. |
132794 | Taylor wishes BR well for the pleasure he has given him in reading BR's publications. |
132795 | The writer seeks BR's autograph. |
132796 | Vestlund was a Swedish boy who wanted BR's autograph in 1962 and 1969 but could not then afford the $5 that was asked of him. |
132797 | Eight Christmas gift cards signed either "B" or "Bertie" expressing his love in messages. Also one Christmas card with envelope. |
132798 | A Christmas and New Year's card with a drawing of a rabbit captioned "He loves me!", signed "E.R." with a fountain pen, expressing her love. |
132799 | Edith orders champagne and spirits. |
132800 | Edith ordered liquor plus 2 bottles of vodka to be sent to Michael and Mary Burn Minfordd. |
132801 | An invoice for storing BR's parliamentary robe and bad during 1977. |
132802 | Kassman (again) requests permission for T.M. Olshewsky to reprint "Knowledge by Acquaintance and Knowledge by Description". |
132803 | Edith Russell apologizes for the delay in responding to Kassman's request. It is odd that her reply is dated no later than his letter. |
132804 | The letter is tucked inside the card, which itself has a brief letter. Both are handwritten in Greek. |
132805 | Andrews informs Edith of her new address and telephone number. |
132806 | Unwin is replying to Edith's letter of 20 May, record 28711. The letter concerns an Allen & Unwin pamphlet marked up by Christopher Farley, listing Russell's books. Also in the file is a photocopy of a proof copy of the list. |
132807 | Edith tells Rayner Unwin that the list of books by BR is "slipshod" and points out errors in what is said about several titles. |