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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.)

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.

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.

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.)

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.)

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". 

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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.

Clark wrote to arrange to meet BR at the BBC for a broadcast.

Re BR's library subscription at Harrods.

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.

BR asked Mrs. Garnsey to buy gifts for Jonathan and David Wood with his enclosed cheque for 5 pounds.

BR asked Mrs. Garnsey to buy gifts for Jonathan and David Wood with his cheque for 5 pounds.

BR asked Mrs. Garnsey to buy gifts for Jonathan and David Wood with  "the note" he enclose.

BR asked Mrs. Garnsey to buy gifts for Jonathan and David Wood with his enclosed cheque for 5 pounds.

A. Gordon sold ties and adds a handwritten postscript. Edith noted on his letter that she was sending a cheque for two ties.

BR orders 2 dozen bottles of Red Hackle Whisky.

On improving confidence in the UN.

A reminder re Russell's subscription. Edith has written on the letter: "2 guineas sent 17/6/68".

This letter is not dated, but other letters from Parisen are from 1967 and 1968.

Alternative transcriptions of her surname are provided.

Re BR's private memorandum on Ralph Schoenman. BR needs solicitors' advice before making any public statement.

BR asks for his sales account. The envelope is stamped but unfranked. Hence the letter was not sent.

Edith wrote a note on the top of this card about cheques that were sent as requested on 1968/12/28.

David, in Paris, will write to let the Russells exactly when he would like to visit them in Wales.

Re taking Russell's robes to the House of Lords

Re taking Russell's robes to the House of Lords.

The writer is permanently unemployed.

Two mimeographed document, 2 sheets.

Re the purchasing of philosophical journals that BR might have.

In French. Condolences on BR's death.

The writer wants to get in touch with BR over "a matter of great mutual interest". He will first authenticate any reply.

The date is the date of the postmark. Robuck requests an autographed photo of BR.

Taylor wishes BR well for the pleasure he has given him in reading BR's publications.

The writer seeks BR's autograph.

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.

Eight Christmas gift cards signed either "B" or "Bertie" expressing his love in messages. Also one Christmas card with envelope.

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.

Edith orders champagne and spirits.

Edith ordered liquor plus 2 bottles of vodka to be sent to Michael and Mary Burn Minfordd.

An invoice for storing BR's parliamentary robe and bad during 1977.

Kassman (again) requests permission for T.M. Olshewsky to reprint "Knowledge by Acquaintance and Knowledge by Description".

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.

The letter is tucked inside the card, which itself has a brief letter. Both are handwritten in Greek.

Andrews informs Edith of her new address and telephone number.

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.

Edith tells Rayner Unwin that the list of books by BR is "slipshod" and points out errors in what is said about several titles. 

Unwin will improve Allen and Unwin's pamphlet list of books by BR.

Johnson replies to bibliographical criticism of Allen and Unwin's pamphlet list of books by BR

Edith wants to know when Allen and Unwin's new list of books by BR would be available, so that they will minimize the number of erroneous pamphlet lists being sent out.

Unwin provides the copyright reason for describing the 1966 printing of Mysticism and Logic in the way it was described. (He surely means Philosophical Essays.) He praises the "moving and well attended meeting" in honour of Russell at Central Hall.

Edith hopes for more detail in describing individual essays in Mysticism and Logic [and probably Philosophical Essays]. Unwin's comments on the meeting to honour BR on 8 June make her happy.

Re Mysticism and Logic.

Re three translations (Persian, Gujarati and Tamil, and Rumanian) of BR's books, sent under separate cover.

Re four translations of BR's books, sent under separate cover. Edith wrote a note on Dadlez's letter: The Italian paperback edition of The Impact of Science has a photograph of BR which she has never seen before. She would like a copy of it. She notes various errors.

Rayner Unwin thanks Edith for her letter (not extant) to him about his mother's death. He encloses a notice of the publication of The Publishing Unwins by Philip Unwin.

Dadlez encloses a photocopy of a letter; see record 132818. 

The Italian publisher replies about the photograph of BR that appeared on the Italian paperback edition of The Impact of Science. Prints of the photograph were enclosed (not extant here), at Edith Russell's request.

Re four translations of BR's books, sent under separate cover.

Ross encloses six copies of the newly reprinted Allen and Unwin list of BR's books (not extant here).

Re two translations of BR's books, sent under separate cover.

Re three translations of BR's books, sent under separate cover.

Re two translations of BR's books, sent under separate cover. Edith made notes on this letter.

Re three translations of BR's books, sent under separate cover.

Re the Collected Stories, which may not be published in time to mark BR's centenary.

Re the Collected Stories; an agreement has just been sent to Continuum 1 Ltd.

Re three translations of BR's books sent under separate cover.

Re two translations of BR's books sent under separate cover.

Re two translations of BR's books sent under separate cover.

Edith is "greatly distressed" that there appears no hope of the Collected Stories being published in time for BR's centenary and the art exhibition at Woburn.

Re the Collected Stories: the binder says May publication may still be possible, with advance finished copies available at Woburn.

Re the Collected Stories: there will be a special publication of the Collected Stories on 18 May.

Re the Collected Stories: it is splendid news that copies will be available at Woburn.

Re two translations of BR's books, sent under separate cover.

Re two translations of BR's books, sent under separate cover.

Re two translations of BR's books, sent under separate cover.

Re two translations of BR's books, sent under separate cover.

Re three translations of BR's books, sent under separate cover.

Re the third edition of ABC of Relativity. Edith wrote a draft reply on this letter which she then crossed out; see record 132840 for it.

Re the ABC of Relativity. Edith is replying to Unwin's letter of 22 June, record 132839.

She marked the letter "Copy" and noted "ER (Signed)".

Re three translations of BR's books sent under separate cover.