Edith was suffering the same sort of awkwardness that Taylor felt and wishes she had invited them in.

Edith hopes Ulverscroft will go from strength to strength in its oversize books.

He wants to know if Russell ever read "Oscar Wilde's famous letter known as De Profundis, first published in complete form in 1949."

Enclosed was Trevithick's letter, record 133410, which Allen and Unwin asked Edith to reply to.

Edith is replying to Trevithick's letter, record 133410. She refers him to the Autobiography for BR's mentions of Oscar Wilde.

She thanks Edith for letting her have "the Voltaire." "I think the knowledge of all you gave him & of its immense value to him can at least make you stand up straight & feel proud." Regarding her letters: "My life hasn't been exactly a great success & I prefer to keep it within the family. I am sure [my son] David would love to have Uncle Frank's watch. He was immensely proud of his grandfather and very fond of him...." "I do have a necklace of my grandmother's, a pendant actually, one that Alys had returned to him for me. Perhaps that was the one he had in mind." Which grandmother is not said; it could well be Lady Amberley. "I think of you often with love & sympathy. All we can say is that our love was helpful to him while he was alive & now we are left holding it in our hands with nobody to give it to."

Kate Tait doesn't mind where her letters are, "As long as nobody reads [them]."

She reassures Edith: "I don't know exactly what happened and what you said and did...." "Don't reproach yourself for not being superhuman" during BR's last months. "You did what was given to you to do & you did it well; never mind if it was less than angelic." Her son David is "delighted" to receive Frank's watch.

Two invoices (one is to C. Farley) for "pottery in a wooden box", i.e. a bust of Voltaire. Handwritten note: "Received from Mr. Farley. One box (figure). One case (watch)."

Both the Voltaire bust and Frank's watch have arrived.

Her five children are fine, and she is working on her book about her father. "I am glad you saw John Thomas again. I liked him very much, and John Slater too."

She mentions Watergate.

This draft reply is written on Kate's letter of 27 July, record 133417. She offers advice to Kate about her book on her father, which she is writing. Edith asks Kate to of course include whatever she likes, but to remember the effect on those who will read the book.

Re the death of Lucy Russell.

Eidth sends her "warmest good wishes for the survivors of the atomic bombing of 1945".

A Christmas and New Year's card.

This letter is addressed to "Dear Friends". Messages are requested for the newsletter on the 25th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing.

Not a letter but a published journal, no. 2; the title is in Japanese. P. 6 has a red outline, possibly marking Edith Russell's best wishes.

Stefan Themerson sends Edith the first copy of a new edition of The Good Citizen's Alphabet. "We shall always remember with sentiments the Christmas 1952 when the Good Citizen was conceived."

Edith asks what happened to "all those recordings and the children's stories that you once had." "No one seems able to tell me" what happened to them.

This is a printed ad for St Francis and the Wolf of Gubbio on which Edith noted: "1 copy subscribed to 29/9/72".

Christmas greetings. Edith notes he sent her Special Branch, which was published in 1972.

"20th Century Studies, no. 9, has just come." It was published in September 1973 and contained an article by Themerson, "Logic, Labels and Flesh".

Stefan's new book has been delayed at the printer's because of strikes.

An invitation from the Polish Ambassador to attend the Order of Merit ceremony for Stefan Themerson, 5 April 1976.

Edith informs Stefan Themerson that she will be unable to attend his Order of Merit ceremony. (It's a Polish order.)

Mrs. Arnold Toynbee describes her husband's medical condition following a stroke. 

She writes more on Arnold Toynbee's medical condition.

Edith is replying to Veronica's letter of "a fortnight ago", record 133433 on Arnold's medical condition.

The Trevelyans would like to see Edith at Portmeirion in July.

Re his father's and BR's letters. He cannot find letters from BR except for a few late ones to his mother. Trinity has the copyright in Robert Trevelyan's letters.

Edith is glad Julian's father's letters are at Trinity; she listed McMaster's Trevelyan holdings from the Archives I catalogue.

He is sending Edith's letter to Trinity so they will have a list of the Trevelyan letters at McMaster.

The enclosed pamphlet is for her art exhibit at the Hamet Gallery from 12 May to 5 June 1971, using her birth name of Fedden. In her letter she drew a sketch of the traditional buildings in Puglia which she and Julian have just visited.

Juliette Huxley told Mary that Holroyd's biography of Lytton Strachey is full of exaggerations and inaccuracies.

This letter has been dated from reference to Edith's stay at Brown's Hotel in London.

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.