Edith asks if more copies of the bronze 90th birthday medallion, 1962, which Ironside designed may be made.

Ironside agrees to making more copies of the 90th birthday medallion, although he raises the question whether the original lot was advertised as limited. "The medal was cast by Messrs Morris Singer. I do not recollect if a master bronze cast was made—probably not. [I think Ralph Schoenman has the original plaster]."

"The existing medallions were taken to the United States by Ralph Schoenman when he broke with my husband ... I believe I have the original plaster framed in Wales." She asks if an edition in silver is possible.

He will visit the Singer Foundry to see whether they want to work with "the original plaster or one of the bronze casts." He thinks the Royal Mint could be brought to participate.

He has an estimate from the Singer Foundry. £40 in bronze and £136 in silver.

Edith asks if the medallions may be advertised before ordering any.

Utley's Odyssey of a Liberal is not possessed by the London Library.

Christmas card.

Lloyd includes a remembered BR question from a lunch at the Grosvenor Hotel: "Tell me; do you think that on the whole it is desirable for the human race to continue to exist?"

On listening to a BBC programme on BR. Ted Lloyd died in 1968.

She is grateful for the large print books. John Lloyd and his brother Richard had a "much valued talk with Bertie"; The year isn't mentioned.

The enclosed statement,  "Tillingbourne Housing Association" is a typed carbon dated April 1970. Lloyd invites Farley to see the homes.

Farley withdraws his interest as his family needs 5 bedrooms and cannot afford to live in Hemel Hempstead.

On Linus Pauling. On insufficient women on the editorial board of The Spokesman, which has made a small start on rectification.

Re replicas of Jacob Epstein's bust of BR. The BR Society is interested. 

Re making copies of Jacob Epstein's bust of BR and the Tomkiss bust of BR.

John Lloyd has the cast of "the other one", meaning the bust by Tomkiss.

This letter is described as "not a copy but a sketchy 1st draft of reply."

She critiques the Tomkiss bust with profound knowledge of the subject, and compares it with Epstein's.

Makino hopes very much to visit Plas Penrhyn. He hopes also to attend the BR Centenary Celebrations at McMaster.

Edith thanks Makino for sending his book; she has kept the envelope the book was sent in.

He has started reading several books by BR and hopes to engage in correspondence with Edith.

The content of this letter is almost the same as that of record 133062. He says Edith did not reply to it, but she marked "Ans" on the original envelope.

She wants any personal belonging of BR's, for which she is willing to pay. She assumes Schoenman interfered with a previous request. Edith notes that she sent a photo.

Re the death of Lucy Russell.

She will do her best to come to the meeting on BR on 8 June.

A change in local representation.

Edith notes in the margin of this letter that she sent a cheque to this painter on 22 Oct. 1966.

Christmas greetings.

McLeod is writing a book on British prime ministers and asks Edith's help.

Re miniatures: Edith thinks that Agatha Russell sold some of the contents of Pembroke Lodge but gave "what she considered to be its treasures" to Woburn Abbey.

She has obtained a used copy of Edith's biography of Wilfrid Scawen Blunt.

Re books, with nothing particular about Edith.

Transcendental meditation is mentioned as beneficial.

He sat down with BR and was at his birthday concert. They do pottery.

Colette thanks Edith for her letter and notes that Edith "gave B. peace & happiness after all his bad times." She also commented that she admires Christopher Farley "for the calm way he has treated Schoenman's ravings."

"B.'s birthday roses for Edith from Colette, 1970."

A postal strike may interfere with the roses Colette ordered to be sent to Edith on 2 February.

"There seems to me now no greater pleasure than to keep in touch with someone who loves Bertie, and I cherish your letters."

On BR's death. She was a friend of Edith and Lucy Donnelly at least as early as 1940.

She recently visited Plas Penrhyn and hopes "the teeth come out on schedule".

The Carey Thomas award is mentioned.

Re Hasker St.: she hopes Edith hasn't sold it and that "your most encroaching granddaughter doesn't really have a lien on it".

Manning broke her leg.

She asks if BR minded the infirmities of old age.

She must use 2 canes.

On people she knows.

On close friends and having no terminal illness.

Her travel days are over.

This is an empty envelope addressed to Miss Hawksley, 44 Redcliffe Gardens, London. It is postmarked Mortlake, S.W. 14, 30 January 1952. Someone has written in pencil on the envelope, which may be a return address: "SCC's friend: Mrs. Terry Martin, 37 College Circle, Stillwater, Oklahoma, U.S.A."

He inquires about BR's brusque break from Ralph Schoenman.

Edith directs him to Russell's "Memorandum concerning Ralph Schoenman", "piratically published" in The New Statesman of 11 Sept. 1970.

As a BRS member, he wants to help on International Civil Liberties.

Edith writes at length on political prisoners and refers to Farley's reply, too, at record 133095.

Farley draws distinctions between the work of Amnesty and the BRPF in regard to political prisoners.

"[F]ollowing a lead from the most helpful of librarians, Kenneth Blackwell", McGuinness requests a meeting with Edith because he is writing a biography of Wittgenstein and wants to see a couple of books in BR's library. She noted in the margin that she would meet with him.

McGuinness will see Edith on 2 September.

He thanks Edith for the visit and letting him see Russell's Library. This sort of contact with great men is rather humbling.

Re a biography of Lord John Russell by John Prest. Edith's reply is written in the margin. She has no photographs of Lady John Russell apart from those already published. She suggests McMaster University, Anton Felton, and Woburn Abbey as sources.

Anton Felton has provided a photograph of Lady John Russell.

"Kenneth Blackwell, at the McMaster University Archives, is now closely in touch with me, checking material he is trying to track down, mentioned in letters. He sent me a newspaper interview with Ralph Schoenman and another indicating that BR finally had to repudiate him...." If there is any income from McMaster publishing BR's old material, does any come to Edith? 

Medlock explains the enclosure. She's "not trying to convince".

She has shipped Edith a copy of her growing book ms. on BR. She is waiting to hear from the RA what material can be supplied to her.

Notes written attached to Julie Medlock's envelope for her book ms., and letter of 18 May 1970, record 133103.

Edith has sent Medlock notes on inaccuracies in her book ms. on BR. She begs that her name not be mentioned as approving it, and she says this generally. For the draft of this letter and the notes, see record 133148.

[At McMaster] "Ken Blackwell has finally come through with 120 photocopies of my letters to BR and some of his to me, and some others in general". Now Medlock can check some facts.

The offprint is from The Sunday Standard Magazine Section, 28 June 1970 re Auroville.

Postal strike in Canada has held up "photo-copies promised by Kenneth Blackwell".

Medlock responds to a number of Edith's notes on her book ms.

The enclosure is a typescript carbon 3 sheets, of letters in August 1970 to and from Medlock's literary agent, Barthold Fles. One sheet summarizes the tale of her book ms. with Fles. She has not managed to get her files from New York. She is "in touch with Blackwell".

Medlock agrees to remove intimate points from her book ms. 

Someone sent her the Observer report on the Schoenman memorandum.

She has mentioned some centennial possibilities to Kenneth Blackwell.

This long draft letter describes Edith's serious dental problems but is mainly about the Schoenman memorandum. 

She clarifies the story of the ceiling that fell at Richmond.

Medlock refers to Edith's problem with her teeth as "toofies".

On whether Edith would mind if Medlock wrote on BR's "spiritual experiences": it doesn't matter whether Edith would mind. "You must write what you think and believe." On Blackwell.

On the saga of her book ms. on BR. Medlock was "greatly disappointed" by what Edith wrote about Blackwell. "All his contacts with me have been excellent, and his cooperation unusually good. I asked him for background on how he got into this work...." [See KB to JM, 22 Sept. 1970, RA staff correspondence.] She asks Edith if it's OK to send him her book ms.

Medlock sent this letter to Edith in her letter of 17 December, record 133113. She is sending her book ms. on BR.

Medlock sent this letter to Edith in her letter of 17 December, record 133113. Medlock says she's heard from Blackwell that Unwin was recently at McMaster.

Medlock sent this letter to Edith in her letter of 17 December, record 133113. Her book ms. has been rejected.

Medlock sent this letter to Edith in her letter of 17 December, record 133113. It's a rejection letter.

The typed note on a form reads: "Mrs. Julie Medlock asked us to send you this."

She asks again for plans for the centenary in 1972.

Medlock has decided to send Blackwell (who sent her a money order) her book ms. on BR, despite Edith's warning to be careful. Conceivably he could be helpful in placing the ms.

Compliments card: "Julie Medlock International Director, The Accra Assembly' Public Interest International Conference; Conference Committee for the Public Interest, Auroville, Pondicherry, India."

The envelope contains letters that Julie sent to Edith as as well as a photograph. The letters and the photograph have BRACERS entries. The other enclosures do not but they have been assigned document numbers:

312977, "Let Us Face Some Facts", ts. carbon, n.d., 2 pp.; 312978, Peace News, typed carbon extract quoting Margaret Curwin, 19 March 1971; 312979, reprint "Project Prometheus and Krishna" by Oliver L. Reiser from World Union, April-May-June 1970.

This letter was sent to Edith Russell by Julie Medlock with a compliments card, record 133121. The ribbon copy is in RA staff correspondence, box 15.29. The letter concerns sending the 3rd carbon of her book ms. to Blackwell.

This letter was sent to Edith Russell by Julie Medlock with a compliments card, record 133121.

This letter was sent to Edith Russell by Julie Medlock with a compliments card, record 133121.

This letter was sent to Edith Russell by Julie Medlock with a compliments card, record 133121.

This b&w photograph was sent to Edith Russell by Julie Medlock with a compliments card, record 133121. On the verso of the photograph Julie wrote: "Love to Edith! Julie M age 61!!". She is holding a cat. [She sent the same photo to K. Blackwell, box 15.29.]

Medlock enclosed a copy of the letter she sent on 2 February, record 133120 as well an invoice from The Spokesman, 17 July 1970 on which she wrote: "Can't pay, no funds." Document numbers 312982 and 312983 are assigned to these items.

Medlock encloses a typed carbon of two letters on one sheet of paper, record 133129 and record 133130. She also enclosed two printed pages, pp. 52 and 54—one is a poem by Addison Parker addressed to Albert Einstein and the other is prose by F. Radiata.

Medlock enclosed this rejection letter in her letter to Edith of 23 April, record 133128. It is typed on the same piece of paper as the other enclosed copy of a letter from Kenneth Blackwell (the RA file copy of which is in box 15.29).

Medlock enclosed this in her letter to Edith of 23 April, record 133128. It is typed on the same piece of paper as the other enclosed letter from Peter Schwed. Blackwell tells Medlock that he and Professor Slater have read her book ms. and find it "delightful". She appends criticisms of his critique.

"In going through my BR files I found these snaps—taken in that rendezvous we had in Paris in January 1958 just as I was leaving for India, at the Dupont Royal." The photographs are not extant here. Medlock told Russell that she had refused to learn shorthand so that she wouldn't have to use it someday to which BR replied: "On the same principle I have always refused to learn how to make beds!" She notes she will use the quotation in her book. She never found a publisher for her book, a copy of which is in RA.

Missing are the copies of her correspondence with Blackwell, which she is enclosing. See box 15.29 for RA file copies of them.

This envelope contains a news clipping. Edith wrote "ans[wered]" on the envelope and dated The Times clipping as 27 October 1971. The article, "Peace in India's `Universal Town'", is about Auroville, where Medlock lived, near Pondicherry, India. Edith has made computations in English currency of the verso of the envelope.

Medlock enclosed a letter to Ronald Clark, telling him of her own book. She describes great progress on her book ms. to Edith.

Medlock enclosed this letter in her letter to Edith, record 133133. She tells Clark of her own book ms.

Medlock's poverty will be over. She is to receive her late husband's S.S.

In addition to the letters Medlock enclosed she also sent News from Auroville; a photocopy from The Sunday Standard, 13 August 1972; and a tear-sheet from The Sunday Standard magazine section, 3 September 1972. She mentions enclosing a copy of a letter to Blackwell, but it is not present.

This letter was enclosed with Medlock's letter to Edith, record 133136. Medlock asks Singh to send the Russell Archives a copy of G.L. Mehta's article on BR in the 21 May 1972 issue of Illustrated Weekly of India.

This letter was enclosed with Medlock's letter to Edith, record 133136. Wade rejects Medlock's book ms. on BR.

This letter was enclosed with Medlock's letter to Edith, record 133136. Medlock requests that her book ms. be sent to Blackwell.

"I was going to send you and Kenneth a cable for the McMaster Archives festivities...." She asks about Edith's money problems and her dental surgery.

The letter lists what she is sending them. There is also a pale blue envelope belonging to Edith on which she wrote: "J. Medlock, Ans."