BRACERS Notes

Record no. Notes, topics or text
133308

BR is attracted to the idea of doing a heft for Einheitswissenschaft, but as he is preparing lectures for Chicago would prefer to write it later.

133309

BR doesn't wish to say anything in print yet, as his views are as yet unformed. Discussions with Carnap in Chicago are likely to help.

133310

BR recommends supporting Dr. Karel Resch, synopses of whose work in symbolic logic and semantics he has read.

133311

BR has received Modern Man in the Making by Neurath. BR invites him to Cambridge , B Great Court in Trinity College for talk.

133312

BR invites Neurath to dine with him in Hall on the 13th.

133313

BR has asked Patricia to say he knows nothing of the logician Löwenheim and is extremely sorry he will not be attending the Copenhagen conference.

133314

Patricia states that BR is sorry he will not be able to read a paper.

133315

Writing on the letterhead of the Hotel Claremont in Berkeley, Patricia states that BR is sorry that engagements in England prevent his attending the congress at Harvard in September.

In fact, the Russells did not return to England for 5 more years. BR did not attend the Harvard congress. He was busy preparing lectures for his sudden job at UCLA.

133316

Neurath invites BR to attend the international congress for the Unity of Science.

133317

Neurath and others are happy BR will attend "your" congress. Will he read a paper?.

133318

Neurath hopes BR's health has improved.

133319

Neurath invites BR to introduce "the congress work".

133320

In Neurath's absence, BR is sent various coupons for travel and lodging for the congress.

133321

Neurath reminds BR of his promise to introduce the proceedings of the congress. He sends (not present) examples of visual work for children.

133322

Neurath thanks BR for his introduction to the congress proceedings.

133323

Neurath invites BR to another conference and to write a second article for the Paris proceedings.

133324

Neurath asks if the logician Löwenheim is alive. He invites BR to a Unity of Science congress in Copenhagen 21–26 June.

He will send BR his Erkenntnis report on the Paris congress.

133325

Neurath invites BR to write an essay for the International Encyclopedia of Unified Science.

133326

Neurath invites BR to join the advisory board of the International Encyclopedia of Unified Science. He lists promised essays, which Chicago will prublish.

133327

Neurath invites BR to attend a Unity of Science congress in Cambridge, UK, on 14–19 July.

133328

In German.

133329

In German.Neurath thanks BR for corrections to his Encyclopedia paper.

133330

In German.Re Kurt Grelling.

133331

In German. It appears that BR's Enclopedia contribution is published and enclosed (not present).

133332

In German. 

133333

Neurath invites BR to attend and speak at the fifth International Congress for the Unity of Science at Harvard, 3–9 September. He sent the letter to Amberley House.

133334

Neurath wants to thank BR personally for his kind help while he and his wife were interned. Neurath heard BR on the Brains Trust.

133335

Neurath sends BR Modern Man in the Making and refers to BR's positive attitude to happiness. He wants to talk with BR about fascism.

133336

Neurath will be in Cambridge 12–14 December when he could meet with BR.

133337

Neurath will meet BR on 13 December in his Trinity rooms.

133338

Neurath asks BR to indicate what parts of his essay "Foundations of the Social Sciences" he likes and dislikes.

On HWP: Plato, Rousseau and Romanticism.

(Neurath died of a stroke on 22 December 1945.)

133339

On taking a couple of courses at L.S.E.

133340

Schoenman promises a "berth" if Stetler comes to London.

133341

Stetler describes his speaking activities and reception at certain women's colleges. He would like news of his pamphlet.

133342

Stetler is asked what his position is vis-a-vis the Justice Department.

133343

Schoenman writes of UK politics and an upcoming interview by BR on "New Line" and releases information from the upcoming BRPF annual report. Mark Lane is coming. Stetler should finish his Haverford degree.

133344

The enclosure is by Stetler and was published in Rights.

Stetler comments on Wayne Nielsen in Saskatoon and Staughton Lynd.

133345

On a project for billboard propaganda.

133346

Schoenman likes the project for billboard propaganda.

A second carbon follows.

133347

Stetler has received War and Atrocity in Vietnam. The envelope had been slit open en route to Stetler. 

133348

The letter is followed by a second carbon. Farley is sorry for the incompetence of the printers with War and Atrocity in Vietnam. He describes Victor Purcell's views on Malaysia as not those of the BRPF.

133349

The letter is preceded by a second carbon. Farley is sorry for the incompetence of the printers with War and Atrocity in Vietnam. He describes Victor Purcell's views on Malaysia as not those of the BRPF.

133350

Drake tells Edith about the Captain Cook Memorial Museum in New Zealand. The Museum holds Bertrand Russell content. There is also a Russell Centennial Trust Board.

133351
133352

F-16 has an issue of The Northlander; five pamphlets; typed mimeograph "The Bay of Islands", 2 pp.; 7 postcards; photograph of 2 photographs of Lord John Russell and Bertrand Russell displayed in the museum; and 3 b&w photographs with no apparent Russell connection.

King sends visitors' information.

133353

Edith was touched that museum of the town Russell flew the flag at half mast on BR's death. She sends a pipe.

133354

King states that visitors often claim that Lord Russell of Liverpool is involved, but he is not.

133355

Robbins asks to see Edith in London.

133356

It was lovely to see Edith and her "delightful retreat".

133357

Robbins comments on job possibilities in history for Conrad Russell.

133358

Robbins will bring back "the [Mary] Cassatt [print] if it is not in a frame."

On her travels and Bryn Mawr College.

133359

Robbins asks if there is any hope of Edith visiting USA.

133360

Robbins is president of the Conference on British Studies. 

133361

Robbins hopes to see Edith again. She sends news of the people they know.

133362

Robbins writes of her work on the papers of William Penn.

133363

Rotblat found Clark's biography of BR well researched but rather heavy going. Rotblat evidently filmed Edith.

133364

Edith has been reading Poisoned Power and asks about British "peaceful" atomic installations. She hopes for another  visit from Rotblat and Lindop.

133365

Nuclear Reactors is a new book on UK nuclear power stations by Walter Patterson, in reply to Edith's query.

133366

Edith hopes Rotblat will be successful in encouraging public discussion of nuclear reactors.

133367

Re Ralph Schoenman memorandum. "I knew Ralph even before you did, and saw not only his charm and intellectual grasp, but also how dangerous he could be if crossed." Denny contacted Russell several times to ask if "directives which Ralph had asked us to put out under Lord Russell's name" were in fact his. "In each case I found that this was not the case." She is glad the Memorandum has been published.

Denny was National Secretary of the Committee of 100.

133368

Re the Ralph Schoenman memorandum. Edith is glad that it has "cleared away some of the many misapprehensions".

133369

Re the Ralph Schoenman memorandum. Coates has written a memorandum (enclosed, document 313142cc) on Private Eye's report that The Observer wanted to publish BR's memorandum. Farley has attempted to shorten some sentences.(document 313142cd).

133370

This document was enclosed with Farley's letter to Edith, record 133369. There is also a photocopy of the document with marked corrections by Farley

133371

Re the Ralph Schoenman memorandum. Encl. is a photocopy of a draft typed letter to H.S. Crossman of The New Statesman.

133372

Re the Ralph Schoenman memorandum. This letter was enclosed in Heald, Johnson & Co.'s letter to Farley, record 133371.

133373

Re the Ralph Schoenman memorandum. 

133374

Re the Ralph Schoenman memorandum. Enclosed letter is to Clive Goodwin, Black Dwarf.

133375

Re the Ralph Schoenman memorandum. The letter was enclosed in record 133374.

133376

Re the Ralph Schoenman memorandum.

133377

Re the Ralph Schoenman memorandum. Edith wrote on the envelope: "Ans[wered] by Chris" Farley.

133378

Re the Ralph Schoenman memorandum.

133379

"I do not understand your continued pursuit of your wish to have the Observer publish something concerning Bertie's relations with Ralph Schoenman. The suggestion was unequivocally turned down by Bertie himself in a letter written to you as late as 30 December 1969." 

133380

This is a draft of record 133379.

133381

"A fair elucidation of the [Schoenman] matter was so important" to Scott. He stands by his contribution to Bertrand Russell: Philosopher of the Century.

133382

"Bertie not only wrote the memorandum, he discussed fully, seriously, and frequently, with those who were working with him and whom he trusted, what should be done in regard to Ralph Schoenman.... if Bertie had wished to consult you in the matter, he would have done so."

133383

BR declines to review a book by Charles Frankel.

The letter also exists in dictation (record 15502) and as typed carbon (record 6552). The ribbon copy is online at this Melbourne University site: https://library.unimelb.edu.au/asc/whats-on/exhibitions/meanjin-80th/le….

133384

This is a handwritten draft of a letter of the same date, record 133382.

133385

"Kindly do nothing further about private memoire [sic]. Am writing." Edith means the Schoenman memorandum.

133386

The enclosed offprint is Michael Scott's "Pacifism is Not Enough", Twentieth Century, Spring c.1965, pp. 144–51.

"I cannot now accept a position in which I am stopped from thinking and speaking about it [BR's memorandum on Schoenman, or the period of his dominance] on the injunction of Chris Farley."

133387

"Bertie himself could hardly, courteously, have made it plainer to you that he wished for neither your help nor your advice in the matter .... You have shown yourself to be entirely untrustworthy .... By your rash actions you have jeopardized the hoped for effectiveness of Bertie's [Schoenman] memorandum and the possibility of clarifying matters for others in various peace movements."

133388

This is the handwritten draft of Edith's letter of the same date, record 133387. She has initialled it.

133389

"... [Y]ou can still assume such a superiority of wisdom and righteousness over others who have certainly no less concern about matters that are still problems affecting very many."

Scott declined to serve on the BRPF board of trustees.

Others can be sincere and wrong; so can Edith, he tells her.

133390

"In my worst moments I almost wish I had never seen Bertrand's memorandum [about Schoenman]."

He mentions The Black Dwarf as possibly using BR's own words.

133391

The enclosed letter is from Ralph Schoenman. See record 133392.

Scott would like to come and see Edith with an admirer and friend of BR's to discuss what to do about Schoenman's fundraising letter based on Against the Crime of Silence.

133392

Schoenman appeals for funds to get Against The Crime of Silence into libraries. Scott removed the name of the recipient and sent it to Edith, record 133391.

133393

Edith will be communicating with her solicitor with regard to Scott's letter on Schoenman's fundraising for Against the Crime of Silence of 24 November, record 133391. Two letters are typed on the verso of Edith's letter, see records 133394 and 133395. She declines a meeting.

133394

This letter was typed on the verso of record 133393. She is concerned about the case of Against the Crime of Silence being allowed to drag on for so long.

133395

This letter was typed on the verso of record 133393. Edith sends copies of her most recent letter from Michael Scott and the enclosure from Schoenman on fundraising for Against the Crime of Silence.

133396

"I told you in my last letter, 25 Nov., that I would let you know when I heard from the solicitors." This undated letter is in response to a letter sent by Scott on 24 Novermber and a follow-up to her reply of 25 November (record 133393.)

She refers to Scott's own dealings with Black Dwarf in almost a positive way.

133397

Two undated notes written on small circular cards about the Ralph Schoenman memorandum and Michael Scott's missing the point. The second note has been given the document number 313154B.

The point is that until recent years Schoenman gave more good than evil to the causes he was associated with.

133398

Edith notes in the margin that a cheque has been signed now and sent.

133399

Slater thanks Edith for the recent visit he made to her home.

133400

Slater thanks Edith for "a delightful tea in May".

Edith noted in the margin that Slater sent her a book, A Family of Friends by Parker. She replied (not present).

133401

Edith confirms reservations for August and October; she had stayed at the hotel in July.

133402

Reservations are confirmed for August and October.

133403

BR declines an invitation to be nominated for the Political Economy Club, which was established by James Mill in 1821. BR says it would be a great honour and pleasure to belong, but economics "is not my business".

BR misspells Mallett's name as "Mallet". 

133404

Gogi has decided not to attend the meeting in BR's honour.

133405

He apologizes for overcharging her for work done on Plas Penrhyn and calculates his overtime.

133406

Edith was in the shop that morning. Plomer is now uncertain whether "At Beaulieu" is a proper description of the watercolour by J.J. Harpignies, but he cannot suggest an alternative.

He hopes the drawing will please Lord Russell.

133407

Taylor is grateful for Edith's reception of their unannounced visit.