Mary Trevelyan's mother died from her thigh injury and operation at 88.

"Mama" was devoted to Edith and to Bertie. She must be Elizabeth Trevelyan.

She appreciates Farley's photograph book.

Trivedi asks if Edith was helped to self-realization through knowing BR.

Edith writes a comprehensive answer to a question on BR's outlook and the difference it made to her. She read BR's books and many of his articles as they were published over 50 years.

The enclosure is "a first day cover" of BR's Indian postage stamp; it is one of four—the others are of Vemana, T. Prakasam and Bhai Vir Singh.

He asks for a signed photo of BR and Edith together and where BR is buried.

Edith had warned him that she would probably not answer another letter from him. His first she answered fully (record 133446).

Re the cleaning of lace. Levey returns an unidentified letter that was with the lace.

A printed invitation to attend a reception on 19 May 1975 to celebrate the final victory in Vietnam.

Edith declines the invitation. She includes a lengthy message of congratulations on "the Great Victory of the Vietnamese People."

A printed invitation to a reception on 2 September 1975 to mark the DRV's 30th anniversary.

This letter, written in French, was posted in Furnes, Belgium. Edith is unsure of the spelling of "Vorsmissi". The writer asks for a signed souvenir, it would appear.

The writer request materials for his thesis "The Philosophical Concept in BR".

Edith recommends he read the end of My Philosophical Development and BR's other books for his concept of philosophy.

This letter is written in Italian.

This letter is is a translation of record 133455. Edith's draft reply is written on it, advising Vincenti to get in touch with Kenneth Blackwell at the Russell Archives.

A photocopy of her reply was sent to Blackwell; a copy is at record 133482.

Edith translated this letter from Italian, writing in English above each typed line of Italian. Her draft reply is also written on this letter. She advises consulting BR's published writings.

Vincenti tells her that Blackwell at McMaster did not reply to him. (However, he did reply, on 9 Nov. 1973, the day that Vincenti's letter of 12 September arrived; see the RA Staff Correspondence.)

See also record 133482, Edith's letter of 7 November.

Edith supplies a date for this letter by means of her subscription renewal.

The petition that the mimeograph cites is not extant here.

Edith's reply to record 133459 is written on the verso of that letter. It concerns her message to British Women on disarmament.

Wyngaard encloses a soft cover of her book of poems, The Never Lost Years, with the date 15 July 1975 inscribed. Also enclosed is a photocopy of a letter from Robert Stolz to Wyngaard.

A Happy New Year card from Commander and Mrs. E.P. Young, signed by Amicia; enclosed is a typed mimeograph. Edith wrote on the envelope: "Well Well. No reply needed, I think. ER. | from Amicia Young."

In the letter on the card Amicia "never went along with him [BR] in his taking up cases which aided the Cold war ... nor the use that the unscrupulous made of him."

The poem is the Autobiography's dedication to Edith. It is contained in a Notebook on which Edith wrote: "Two Most Precious Enclosures." The other precious item was Russell's 1961 letter from Brixton prison which has been placed in Box 8.01, record 20274. Also in the notebook is a pressed four leaf clover in paper which has separated.

"TO EDITH" is written in pencil and signed but is undated. Beside the word "peace", Russell placed an inked asterisk; below his signature he wrote: "*[substitute] I have found both ecstasy & peace".

There are other versions with slight differences in RA.

"(Dedication of Autobiography) To Edith". The typescript does not contain the alteration in record 133463, and it transcribes BR's elongated periods as dashes.

This fragment of the Autobiography's dedication is written in ink, "To Edith", followed by three lines of text. The last word is "madness" rather than "anguish", which appears in the published book.

Unwin encloses a proof of the Autobiography's dedication "To Edith" and notes on a compliments card: "Herewith a proof of the latest version of the dedication which I imagine you will agree will do all right." The proof matches the published text.

This manuscript, 10 lines of text signed, from Principles of Mathematics, p. 102, was found taped to the back of the Punch cartoon by Ronald Searle in a copy of the issue of 27 March 1957. The cartoon is in an oversize folder made by Conservation.

These lines and the cartoon were published in Farley and Hodgson, The Life of Bertrand Russell in Pictures and His Own Words, pp. 88, 89.

This manuscript, 10 lines of text, was found taped to the back of the Punch cartoon by Ronald Searle published in the issue of 27 March 1957. The cartoon is in an oversize folder made by Conservation.

These lines and the cartoon were published in Farley and Hodgson, The Life of Bertrand Russell in Pictures and His Own Words (1972), pp. 88, 89.

This manuscript concerns walking in the gardens of Pembroke Lodge as well as his son John and daughter-in-law Susan.

The original was photocopied and sent to BR in 1967, and the text is published in Volume 3 of his Autobiography. The original must be in RA1 or RA2.

A spoof of Milton's sonnet about losing his sight. See record 133471.

Edith comments on this poem in a letter to Barry Feinberg, document 315147, Box 17.62, F.9. Note: The letter has not yet been entered into BRACERS.

A spoof of Milton's sonnet about losing his sight, "When I Consider How My Light is Spent". 

This is the typed version of BR's ms. at record 133470. On it Barry Feinberg wrote: "R.S. [Russell Stetler] This poem has recently come to light:.... I wonder if you could supply the missing word?" "Fondly" is the answer, printed below Feinberg in Edith's handwriting.

This poem is four lines long and ends "B.R." Noted at the top: "January, 1954 (just before hospital for operation)".

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

This is a typescript hand-corrected  by BR. See the correspondence with Neurath in 1938 for allusions to this contribution.to the International Encyclopedia of Unified Science. The paper is 22 in Collected Papers 10.

Both the manuscript and the typescript are photocopied on the same page, 5 lines of text, ending "B.R." The handwriting is Edith's.

This text was written out again by BR on 1966/09/12. He noted the original date of composition "Fec. c.1913".

This seems to be a "poem" to aid in recalling Latin grammar.

A two-line "poem". Daniel Defoe (1660–1731) was put in the stocks for three days in 1703.

"The Ape, so all the books of wise men say ... by Dennis Robertson". Below the four lines of text is typed "('The Ape always represents the morals of the last generation. B.R.')" Robertson may be Sir Dennis Holme Robertson, 1890–1963, a British economist, but this poem cannot be confirmed as his.

The peacock poem is from the Puffin Book of Nonsense Verse. It is not clear if this is Russell trying to remember the poem or re-writing the poem. Some of the lines are variants and are not in proper order. At the bottom are three lines in Edith's hand. Edith has written another version of this poem; see F.8 in this box.

This manuscript was written in ballpoint ink by BR, 8 lines. On the bottom Edith wrote: "(Learned by B.R. at age of 12.)". She also wrote out the text with the title "Learned by B. from his tutor when he was 14. His tutor knew Mary's daughter." She also wrote "Tutor sacked by B's people for his agnosticism (1 January 1958)". The poem was composed by Ebenezer Elliott (1781–1849).

Edith provides Vincenti with the address of Kenneth Blackwell, who is in touch with many of the scholars working on BR. See record 133457.

The copy of her letter was sent with Vincenti's letter to the RA dated 12 September 1972, arriving only on 9 November 1972.

"The Establishment: those who hold no news that are an obstacle to be included in the Honours List. BR 9 April 1962"

All manuscripts in F-5 were dictated to Edith by BR and are in her hand.

"Mr. W.H., the inspirer, in his own view, of Mr. W.S. [suggested story—12/8/66 Plas P.]".

All manuscripts in F-5 were dictated to Edith by BR and are in her hand.

There are two versions of this: One (document 313232a) ends "BR's Eeny meeny miney mo", and the other (the current document) "[BR's infant 'Eeni Meeni Mini Mo' remembered 26/9/66 Plas P.]".

All manuscripts in F-5 were dictated to Edith by BR and are in her hand.

""I didn't sew my wild oats, I sewed my tame oats' B.R. 10/6/67", [ER misspelled "sow" and "sowed".]

All manuscripts in F-5 were dictated to Edith by BR and are in her hand.

"B plans a book: The Blasphemer's Vade Mecum. 7/5/68 evening PTO. B's description of his life: 'Like the Curate's Egg: Parts of it, My Lord, are Excellent!' 7/5/68 P.T.O."

All manuscripts in F-5 were dictated to Edith by BR and are in her hand.

"Now the descendants of Eve wrought Evil in the sight of Melchisedek. Only he & his descendants were to inherit the blessings which the Lord hath designed for all mankind. But the descendants of Melchisedek were to take refuge in the Ark [start of a story by B in 1968]".

All manuscripts in F-5 were dictated to Edith by BR and are in her hand.

"I prophesy the unparalleled embarrassment of a battalion of harassed postilions guaging the symmetry of a potato peeled by a lovable grisly Sibyl."

This is apparently a dictated spelling test. BR corrected by hand 2 errors by Edith ("batalion" and "Sybil"). He missed "guaging".

All manuscripts in F-5 were dictated to Edith by BR and are in her hand except as above.

In full: "Notes for Intension & Extensions (has to do with Godel's paradoxes)". There are no notes relating to this little slip of paper.

All manuscripts in F-5 were dictated to Edith by BR and are in her hand.

In full:

"The Escalation of Horror.
War is horrible. What is being done in Vietnam? We are used to Concentration camps. They were in the beginning. Then 'weed killers.' Then Napalm. (explain these) Now dams, Bombing hospitals & orphanages first.
Get ready for nuclear war."

All manuscripts in F-5 were dictated to Edith by BR and are in her hand.

A title but not followed by any content.

All manuscripts in F-5 were dictated to Edith by BR and are in her hand.

"'Dividends are NO Use to Corpses' Bertrand Russell [embossed at the foot of all begging Letters to the very rich]".

All manuscripts in F-5 were dictated to Edith by BR and are in her hand.

"BR's oath as Cox:
By the Holy Hind Leg
of the Holy Lamb of God
SWING!"

BR was a rowing cox as an undergraduate at Trinity College.

All manuscripts in F-5 were dictated to Edith by BR and are in her hand.

"The little Bertie's imaginary country.
Country of Pincha-Dincha.
Republic—'How do you know?'
'Because the people know how to govern themselves.'
2 children, playmates.
Leka—good. Ganninrudelation—wicked.
Leka has the room next to nursery when Bertie thought the lady's maid of some visitor was Leka.
[Leka is pronounced Leeka]"

All manuscripts in F-5 were dictated to Edith by BR and are in her hand.

"BR's recipe": One version begins "to keep the temper" and is followed by cube root equations. "BR's recipe" is written on the foot. The other begins "the factors of" followed by the same equations. The ink copy appears to be a fair copy of document 313243a in pencil.

All manuscripts in F-5 were dictated to Edith by BR and are in her hand.

"'You are requested to learn your God outside.' (BR's friend Fitzgerald)". I.e. Edward A. Fitzgerald.

All manuscripts in F-5 were dictated to Edith by BR and are in her hand.

"D. MacCarthy on Dr Stone of Eton & Broadstairs
'That sometimes extravagantly gay old man with a wise heart and a random fastidious mind.'"

All manuscripts in F-5 were dictated to Edith by BR and are in her hand.

These are fragments in Edith's hand with two in BR's and one in a third. They are listed individually; some are copied from published materials.

Some are evidently in connection with BR's project of a book on the Bible in 1968. (From record 133487 we learn that the title was to be The Blasphemer's Vade Mecum.

Five fragmentary single-leaf typescripts. One is copied from The Times; another is a well-known limerick ("There was a young bride of Antigua").

Untitled list, numbered 1 to 42; all items are transcribed from files 4 to 7 in this box. Some further information is added in the list.

"Private Memorandum concerning Ralph Schoenman by Bertrand Russell, Plas Penrhyn. 8 December, 1969." Signed "Russell" on p. 16 and again after the postscript, p. 18; also, intialled "R" near the foot of the left margin on every page. There are no handwritten alterations on the document.

Attached to the Memorandum is a note signed "Russell" and dated 12 December, 1969. See record 133503.

Also in this file are two photocopies of this typing of the memorandum, copies of Black Dwarf and the New Statesman where it was published without permission, and many news clippings providing reaction to the memorandum.

There are no known drafts of this complex document, known also as "The Russell Memorandum".

The letter is unaddressed.

"This is my memorandum. I told my wife what I wished her to type and she has typed it. I have read it over to myself twice carefully and she has read it aloud to me once. I entirely endorse it as being mine and what I wished to say." Signed "Russell". Attached to the "Memorandum on Ralph Schoenman", record 133502.

This notebook contains practice signatures by BR in various forms that his name could take (except for "Bertie" but including "Grandpa" and "Diddy"). Eleven sides of paper are used. Kenneth Blackwell confirmed that the handwriting is Russell's and not that of an imitator.

BR's poor eyesight affected some of the signatures.

This was in answer to a "Question posed by Christopher Farley & answered by E.R. for McMaster T.V. 13/10/72." Her transcription of the ms. was left with Kenneth Blackwell. For the transcription see Box 8.01, document .105113, record 120332, where other documents related to the ms. are described.

At the Russell Centenary Celebrations at McMaster Edith Russell was asked what BR was really like. She also prepared herself to meet criticisms of her husband. These is her draft. Up both sides of the page she wrote updates that are dated 1972 to 1977.

For the copy she handed K. Blackwell see record 120332.

The proofs are undated, but BR must have read them in 1966. The volume was published in March 1967.

BR's unbound page proofs of the Autobiography, Vol. 1, are in 15 trimmed gatherings placed inside loose boards joined together; the illustrations are loose on two folded pages. Not all the illustrations listed on page 11 are included. Russell corrected pp. 67, 68, 73, 75, 80 and 84. The second to last gathering has uncut pages. The index is not included.

Page 65 doesn't have a correction. Instead, in BR's hand it has "Press [underline] B.R."

BR missed a number of misprints. E.g., on p. 16 it states "In 1876 my parents went to America..." His parents were dead by 1876. They went to America in 1867. It is not known whether anyone else read the proofs.

There is also a separate piece of paper listing the pages with corrections in this set of proofs; noted in an unknown hand.

Essays in Analysis (1973), edited by Douglas Lackey, was published by Allen & Unwin in 1973. "Specimen from Clowes to George Allen & Unwin Ltd. ... 26 July 1972"; begins with Chapter IV, p. 109 and ends p. 112. Two sheets of paper folded.

F-14 contains documents 313255, 313255A–F. They consist of a file folder of Blackwell's with notes as well as draft index to Vol. 2 of BR's Autobiography. There are also many pages by him on a draft or drafts of Vol. 3. Pages are headed "Notes on BR's Autobiography Vol III" (18 pp.) and "Literary Notes on BR's Autobiography Vol III" (5 pp.); and several more pages (3 not by Blackwell).

The folder has an undated note in Blackwell's hand addressed to "Bill": "I thought you might like to take a closer look at what I found today. [T]hey're in my very own typewriting on an electric IBM! [B] do leave them out here -- I need them for work today." "Bill" could be William Sorsby, with whom and his wife Blackwell was sharing rental quarters. The IBM typing was likely what he found in researching at the Public Record Office, London, in the Home Office files on BR. (Sorsby was also researching at the PRO.) The typescript was sent to BR.

F-15 contains correspondence between Blackwell (6 letters) and Feinberg (4 letters), documents 313255G–P, concerning Blackwell's index to Vol. 2 of the Autobiography and the Russell Archives catalogue.

Blackwell inquires whether W.G. Constable is the Constable mentioned in Vol. 2 of BR's Autobiography.

Geis replies for W.G. Constable who is ill; see record 133511.

Constable "knew [C.P.] Sanger well and used to go frequently to his house and there met Bertrand Russell occasionally."

This unsigned letter has a handwritten postscript by Constable.

Blackwell writes: "You were identified in time to have the index corrected." That is the index to Vol. 2 of BR's Autobiography.

Christmas gift and card lists are very detailed, usually handwritten but occasionally typed.

F-12 contains lists of the Russells' London appointments, documents .313281 to .313198. The last one is a list for 11–18 November 1966, when BR opened the London session of the International War Crimes Tribunal and dealt with financial, legal, medical and personal matters.

The typescript list begins 23 July 1952 and ends 18 May 1966.

The typescript list begins 31 July 1952 and ends 26 April 1966.

The typescript list begins 8 May 1951 and ends 26 April 1966.

Edith complied this list of BR's  activities. The typescript dates are: "July 19 (app.) 1951, 25 May 1954 to 5 November 1960."

Edith complied this list of BR speeches. Typescript dates are: "Oct 19-Nov 11 1951 to 8 April ?";  there are no entries for 1957.

There were 8 visitors in 1968 and 8 in 1969.

Notes by Edith concerning the running of Plas Penrhyn and 43 Hasker Street London. Mostly undated, some are dated 1970, 1971 to 1974.

The map was published in 1951. BR dictated places of interest to Edith, who marked them on the map with numbers and letters which were identified in a list. See Sheila Turcon, "Richmond Park", Bertrand Russell Society Bulletin, Dec. 2022, pp. 4–7.

Until 1955 the Russells lived on Queen's Road, Richmond. Edith used a fountain pen to mark the map. Although she may have continued to use one after the move to North Wales, this fact and the map's publication date strengthen the likelihood of the view that the markings were made on a visit to Richmond Park from Queen's Road.

The American Consul confirms that Edith has renounced her American citizenship.

Edith's birth certificate had been used to obtain her American passport. The receipt was from the Department of Health, New York City and the mimeographed letter, n.d., concerned the certificate.

Edith's mother's birth name is Delia B. Gardner.

Tylor encloses Edith's first UK passport, document 313319A.

Vacation itinerary, beginning 4 May 1959, leaving from Plas Penrhyn and visiting Devil's Bridge, Brecon, Gloucester, Painswick, Wells, Bath and Bridport.

Five lists in BR's hand record distance in miles, towns, days, and highway numbers.

Scottish towns are included. The couple vacationed in Scotland in 1953 and 1955.

Re "future financial circumstances" of Anne, Lucy and Sarah Russell.

Edith requests a letter about a granddaughter's parentage.

Re Anne, Lucy and Sarah Russell.

Re Anne, Lucy and Sarah Russell.

Re Anne, Lucy and Sarah Russell. All 3 sisters should have a title in Debrett's.

Anne Russell was not entitled to the title "Lady" as the daughter of an Earl because she was adopted.

Re Anne, Lucy, and Sarah Russell (re a lost letter on the parentage of one).

Re settlements for Anne, Lucy, and Sarah Russell.

Re Anne, Lucy, and Sarah Russell.

Re Edith's trust and the late BR. Probate is expected within a week.

Re Anne, Lucy, and Sarah Russell.

Re Anne, Lucy, and Sarah Russell. Edith is disheartened.