Lucas notes that BR has signed the documents and forwarded them to Jack Black. One concerns the autobiography.

Re several points in BR's will arising from a phone conversation with Anton Felton yesterday. Evidently BR wished to put in a letter to his trustees why the will does not provide for certain members of his family.

BR and Edith have signed their wills. 

Re provision in BR's will for his son, John Conrad Russell.

The enclosed draft codicil, 18 November 1966, document 313436A, provides John Russell with an annuity of £300.

Lucas thanks BR for a cheque for the burglary policy.

The letter was sent to BR with a compliments slip. The letter records the fact that Lucas sent BR a draft codicil (for John Conrad Russell).

Re the removal of Harriet (Barry) Ward from Burke's Peerage. BR is concerned, too, that Debrett's continues to have her deleted. Dora acknowledged that Harriet wasn't BR's child, and Harriet's wish is that her true father be acknowledged.

Farley provides further clarification on Harriet Ward.

BR will sign the codicil once it is in final form.

Re Harriet Ward, Burke's Peerage and Debretts. Does BR have Harriet's wish in writing?

Re Harriet Ward.

Croft Baker encloses the final Codicil (not present) for signature.

Re BR's will and signed codicil. Felton is to have copies of both.

Photocopies enclosed (not present).

Lucas forwards 3 bills of costs from Coward Chance (not present).

Re the paternity of Harriet Ward. Mr. Lock of Coward Chance never had any information on the impossibility of BR's being the father, e.g. on which ship he had travelled to America on.

A Christmas and New Year's card.

Stetler will get copies of the pamphlet into bookstores, but meanwhile will hold off on remitting sales income. He shares Farley's regret for the printers' incompetence.

Another batch of pamphlets is being sent. Farley is back from Hanoi after 4 weeks.

"If you have been libelled, sue the bastards."

The letter is mistakenly dated 1964.

Stetler describes dissemination of the pamphlet and recent publications.

There is a second carbon, document 400263a.

On publishing matters.

Stetler's activities will come to an end with the end of the school year. "If I could be paid enough to live on, I could see about paying the passage fare myself [to UK]."

Stetler asks for glossy prints of photos in "Death and Pillage in the Congo".

(His Lysistrata campaign is amusing.)

"Bertrand Russell and Chris send their very best."

Schoenman will pass the photo request to Africa and the World.

Stetler encloses (not present) the first number of Free Student. He will send a list of donors; his own name is to be kept secret.

Schoenman mentions his travel plans and likes Free Student.

A second carbon is present, document 400268a.

Stetler has received 300 copies of War and Atrocity in Vietnam. Air strikes against North Vietnam have started.

BR has made 2 statements (on the bombing).

On Free Student; the bombing of Vietnam and new activities.

On the death of Malcolm X, whom Schoenman saw shortly before X's return to the US.

Stetler's film from the NLF was confiscated, and he is going to court to retrieve it. The result may be an indictment for smuggling or being an agent of a foreign power.

The enclosures, documents 400273 and 400274 in an envelope, are clippings from the Cincinnati Enquirer about the seizure of the film and a May Second Movement statement on it, promising a showing of the film at CCNY on Feb. 26.

Stetler's film from the NLF was confiscated, but the FBI have returned it.

He spoke at Briarcliffe College ("another of those colleges of beautiful women") on Vietnam.

More copies of War and Atrocity in Vietnam are being sent. The Progressive Book Shop in Los Angeles is expecting copies from Stetler.

Schoenman is due back in London on 12 March and is due to leave on 16 March to visit President Nyerere.

Stetler describes the reception of War and Atrocity in Vietnam. 

Stetler believes he cannot manage the airfare to the UK this summer, but offers his services in the US, including research.

More copies of War and Atrocity in Vietnam have been sent to Stetler.

Schoenman encourages Stetler to come to UK.

Schoenman encourages Stetler to remit funds from the sale of the pamphlet.

Stetler hasn't been able to write in more than a month. He can't borrow the money needed to get to UK this summer. He will be student coordinator for ECLC. He apologizes for not having remitted funds from selling War and Atrocity in Vietnam. He is not optimistic on finding distribution-for-fee of BRPF material.

The letter is unsigned but appears to be from Farley since it refers to Schoenman. No cheque has been received for literature sent to Stetler.

Stetler describes his summer of work, study and activism on Vietnam. A cheque will be sent shortly. 

Schoenman is back from the Helsinki conference, which he describes.

Stetler mentions the Helsinki conference, "us hard-care communists", and Free Student. He may return to Haverford.

Schoenman mentions Philip Luce's article in the Saturday Evening Post and asks Stetler's view of it and the present position of the May 2nd Movement, the Progressive Labor Party and the effect of Luce's article.

SDS and the duBois Club are mentioned.

Unsigned but likely Farley. He hasn't heard from Stetler or the May 2nd Movement and asks for a cheque for the literature sent to him.

Schoenman mentions that a decision on visas for the NLF is expected soon.

Document 400294 is a duplicate carbon.

Farley says the matter of a cheque for the pamphlets is "now very urgent".

Document 400296 is a 2nd carbon.

Farley would like a cheque for the pamphlets and refers to his letters of 9 July, 9 August and 13 September.

Schoenman has in mind a War Crimes Tribunal, a national conference and various actions under their Campaign against Imperialism. He sends (not present) BR's statement for Cuba, one to TASS, and his own speech in Djakarta; also a list of their new directors.

Another talk by telephone would be good, since letters aren't secure. Stetler describes communists and others.He expects to be married in 2 weeks and is moving back to Philadelphia.

On 20 December the BRPF is holding a meeting in solidarity with the NLF's 5th anniversary. On 26 and 27 March a National Conference from which a Solidarity Committee will be formed with its onw bulletin. This will "take the militants away from the revisionists and peace formula people." Plans for the War Crimes Tribunal are growing. Schoenman is critical of the immense scope of Stetler's plan for research on Latin America and Asia.

The May 2nd Movement voted to disband, despite Stetler's wish. Most political groups are not anti-imperialist. He is completing his B.A. He and Susan could come to UK in early June. The draft looks to be a problem for him and asks if enrollment at LSE is possible.

Wood welcomes Stetler if he is able to come to the UK and work for the BRPF.

With the letter is an early photocopy with a 4-p. attachment titled "American Liberation League". Both have been photocopied again as document 400280 but moved to follow 400303, the original of the letter.

"It is all too easy for wel intentioned people to fall for the peace proposals of Bobby Kennedy...." Stetler would return to the US in the fall. He suggests establishing the BRPF in the US.

Schoenman is critical of the disbandment of the May 2nd Movement and is theoretical on the matter of anti-imperialist strategy and working with liberal groups.

Stetler details plans for Studies in the Third World, Inc. They printed 10,000 copies of the first number of Liberation USA and asks for an article from Schoenman for the 2nd number. Travel plans will be settled in a week.

Schoenman refused to hand over his passport, and FBI agents retreated. Plans for action are detailed. Cooperation with the American Liberation League needs to be discussed. The first issue of the Solidarity Bulletin is publiished, soon to be moved to letterpress.

The Stetlers will arrive 2 June. They have spent time with John Gerassi. Stetler refers to "the despicable and untrustworthy characters of Morse and King".

Schoenman describes his interviews on French TV and sends the directors' addresses Studies in the Third World, including that of David Horowitz.

Stetler requests cabling addresses of Farley, Horowitz, Lane and Schoenman.

Morse and King "operate within all the premises of imperialism". Schoenman is happy with a Trotskyist tendency. He asks about World Outlook, Ernest Mandel and Deutscher. He suggests defoliating the cherry trees in Washington.

Stetler refers to the pace of his comprehensive exams and to political meetings and Trotskyism.

On H.H. Wilson, Staughton Lynd, Tom Hayden, Marcuse at a Yale conference.

Schoenman discusses Trotskyism and mentions his "intense admiration for Trotsky". There is no room in the Tribunal for doubt about the US actions and for a 2-sided approach. He ends with the anecdote about Mme de Gaulle and "'appiness".

Kalinin is glad there could be cooperation between their two Funds. He writes on a USSR letterhead.

In Schoenman's hand, at the top, is "Russian Trip File".

Kalinin is glad there could be cooperation between their two Funds. He writes on a USSR letterhead. Greetings from the people whom Schoenman met in Moscow and Leningrad.

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BR sends a long list of topics on which he understood agreement was reached during Schoenman's visit.

"[O]ur work is intended to change Western opnion on important issues related to the armament race and the Cold War."

A card conveying "Our Best New Year Wishes!"

Farley has written "Ralph These are my notes which might help yours" on the notes, which are headed Meeting with Polevoi at 43 Hasker Street SW8 and the date. The notes concern what the Soviet Peace Fund can do.

BR is disappointed that nothing concrete has emerged since discussions in January 1964. He asks for Soviet cultural performers to perform for the benefit of the BRPF.

A business card for this London correspondent of Trud, daily newspaper of Soviet trade unions.

Noted in pencil on it: USSR meeting file.

A with compliments slip with this note by Litvinov: "The lit about the young writers". In pencil: Soviet political prisoners.

The apparent enclosure, document 400314i, is "Further Developments in the Sinyavsky Affair (I)" by M. Honditsch and dated 3 January 1966. It concerns the arrest of 3 young writers who have protested the arrests of Sinyavsky and Daniel.

These are Schoenman's extensive handwritten notes on his trip to Russia in January 1964. They include a typed "Preliminary Report", documents 400314k 400314o, 1 p. See record 133720 for the included copy Schoenman's letter to Khrushchev.

 Schoenman's letter to Khrushchev thanks him for the kindness shown him. He has studied "the memorandum" with great interest.

A business card. The address for Polevoi is in Moscow.

Britten and Peter Pears are agreeable to perform for the BRPF.

The original of the letter is in the Angels file of the BRPF.

Typed copies of 3 cables on one sheet. To BR: "All well and mission accomplished."

Typed copies of 2 cables on one sheet. 

Schoenman asks Rogers to sound out every possible newspaper in UK and Continent about running a series of articles on his visit to Vietnam? He encloses (not present) photocopies of his Vietnam trip data.

Braverman refers to Schoenman's "depositions" as "prepared propaganda statements". He wants a book that is an independent investigation. 

Schoenman will arrange for delivery of Coffee's letter to his wife (document 400397).

Schoenman has a request regarding his letter to Lieut. Coffee, record 133727.

Schoenman complains of contacts not having been made for his arrival in Phnom Penh.

Underhill is Secretary to the UC Regents. The letter is a form letter for the acceptance of a faculty position at the University of California. Particulars for BR are typed in (in carbon copy). 

The period i 1 July 1939 to 30 June 1940.at the rate of $7,200.00 per month and is subject to any retirement plan deductions.

Farley sketches his movements for the next week, including a spell at Plas Penrhyn. The year is a guess for this undated note.

Farley comments on the prospectus for The Collected Essays of Bertrand Russell. "There is much to be said for the detailed care which parts of the prospectus indicate."

Harrison needs photocopies of pages from a pamphlet for his book The English Defence of the Commune.

Allaun encloses Harold Wilson's reply to him and his rejoinder.

Wilson denies there is antagonism between himself and Ken Coates.

Allaun has sent Wilson a copy of "the Bertrand Russell enquiry into atrocities in Vietnam".

Wollheim is going to a Russell centenary conference at Bloomington, IN. He encloses a copy of his lecture on BR's political views (16 pp.), which is published in Nakhnikian, ed., Bertrand Russell's Philosophy (1974).

Farley asks for a copy of Wollheim's lecture on BR's political views. The note was with record 133737.

This is the first of several pages of financial reporting on and concern with the BRPF finances.

Re Harriet Ward.