BRACERS Notes

Record no. Notes, topics or text
135510

Radical daily newspaper Liberazione is suspending publication for a short time, but requests that other radical publications send their "news bulletins and everything concerning radical battles that minority groups are carrying forward in your country."

135511

In Italian.

Labor asks Coates to check the addresses listed, and complete any missing ones, for the meeting on the prospects and strategy of the Left in Europe.

135512

Communiqué regarding the victims of the Ba'ath Party in Iraq.


 

135513

Communiqué calling for the freedom of Communist party member Kareem Hawas.

135514

Draft letter advertising a new monthly publication.

135515

"Ken, +1 for our office at RSSF, 160 N Geneva St, NI. Thanks."

135516

Palmer's secretary remits payment of £2.14.0 to the Merlin Press.

135517

BR encloses (not present) a blurb for Authority and the Individual.

Jonkers displayed a group shot of the 3 documents purchased; 

 

135518

It is assumed that Mr. Smith worked for Allen and Unwin. 

Baron did some excellent photos (of BR). BR himself has no non-copyright photos.

135519

"Returned with thanks | Russell" is all that BR wrote in the note.

The letter, otherwise undated, is date-stamped.

135520

Bulletin No. 2 of the Ministry of Information of the Black Panther Party, Algeria.

135521

"Heartfelt congratulations on long overdue liberation. On behalf of Foundation offer any assistance in cause of proving your innocence to world."

135522

Wood shares a confidential list of contacts, provided by Sigurd Zienau, interested in receiving BRPF publications. With the enclosure is a note from Farley to "Ken".

135523

Farley sends a list of contacts interested in posters; he suggests Fleet "send the posters with comp. slips and Spokesman blurbs".

135524

The British Board of Trade sends a list of importers of magazines in Italy and France.

135525

Coates asks for a response to BR's letter of 12 September, inviting Tvardovsky to become a corresponding editor of the new Spokesman journal. Coates asks Tvardovsky for a response to BR's letter of 12 September, inviting O'Brien to become a corresponding editor of the new Spokesman journal.

135527

Coates asks for a response to BR's letter of 12 September, inviting Gorz to become a corresponding editor of the new Spokesman journal.

135528

Coates asks for a response to his and Farley's recent letter inviting Chomsky to become a corresponding editor of the new Spokesman journal.

135529

Coates asks for a response to his recent letter inviting Vincent to become a corresponding editor of the new Spokesman journal.

135530

Coates asks for a response to his 3 October letter inviting Sillitoe to become a corresponding editor of the new Spokesman journal.

135531

Farley asks if the credit limit on his recently issued Barclaycard could be increased from its current £100, against the possibility of emergency. Schoenman's Barclaycard, paid from the same account, had a limit of £700.

He encloses a list of contacts Coates requested in order to follow up on recent invitations to prospective contributing editors of the Spokesman.

135532

A change of address notice.

135533

Halloran thanks Fleet for his advertisement, which will appear in the next issue of the Black Dwarf.

135535

BR declines an invitation, presumably to an event to which Harold Russell was also invited. Harold Russell was a cousin of BR.

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135536

BR suggests himself as a substitute for the invitation to his wife, Dora.

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135537

Letter concerning offprints by Kurt Gödel sent to Russell by Smeaton/McEwan/von Zeppelin, sending a copy of a book by Friedrich Waismann to Amethe, and a proposed visit from her after the Russells' proposed walking tour.

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135538

BR declines to write a preface to The Problems of Philosophy.

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135539

BR found a letter from Amethe dated 17 Jan. 1950 (not in BRACERS) to which he had not replied. He declines again to write a preface to The Problems of Philosophy. He refers to the "dreadful" account of what she has been through.

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135540

BR and Edith are coming to Vienna for Pugwash and propose meeting Amethe there.

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135541

The Russells send Amethe the US dollar equivalent of £100 via Louise Watson.

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135542

Edith thanks Amethe for book gifts. 

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135543

BR is grateful for the gift of a Sung bowl and maintains that Chinese culture is being ruined by Western contact. Carl Johan Sonning is founder of the Sonning Prize (which BR received recently).

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135544

BR thanks von Zeppelin for her gift of The Silent Traveller in London, by Chiang Yee. 

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135545

BR writes about his opposition to the Vietnam War, and Edith tells of an accident suffered by Russell, in which "a stout, large, young American fell on him."

With an autograph addendum from Edith Russell.

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135546

BR writes on Vietnam and pipe-smoking — and with a reference to "the dwarf companion of Serius".

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135547

The letter concerns the Russell Tribunal ("our 'Nuremberg'"), Russell’s opposition to the prosecution of the German foreign office politician Ernst von Weizsäcker at Nuremberg (see B&R C49.32), and the gift of a pipe.

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135548

BR thanks Amethe for her birthday letter and Chinoiseries.

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135549

BR sends Amethe Volume II of his Autobiography (1968).

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135550

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135551

Blackwell writes to ask von Zeppelin for "at least copies" of the letters she received from BR to be included in the McMaster University collection.

"I enclose a copy of a letter from Lord Russell authorizing the provision of such copies to us."

135552

Christmas card in the hand of Edith Russell, signed by "Bertrand" and "Edith". The card has a printed quotation from Bertrand Russell Speaks His Mind.

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135553

A Christmas card in the hand of Edith Russell, signed by "Bertrand and Edith Russell". 

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135554

Christmas card in the hand of Edith Russell, signed by Bertrand Russell and Edith Russell. 

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135555

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135556

A Christmas card in the hand of Edith Russell. BR is recovering well from being desperately ill.

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