BRACERS Notes

Record no.	Notes, topics or text
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.
135534	Lacking is the report BR enclosed on the dissertation by Theodore Redpath, "A Dissertation on Four Philosophical Controversies Engaged in by Leibniz and Certain Other Philosophers of the Late 17th and Early 18th Centuries". It is dated 1940 in the Cambridge repository. C.D. Broad was the supervisor. Benians was a historian, Master of St. John's, and Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge 1939–41. Only the verso of BR's single-page letter is reproduced in Dominic's winter 2025 catalogue, item 311. There is nothing regarding BR in Benians' papers at St. John's.
135535	BR declines an invitation, presumably to an event to which Harold Russell was also invited. Harold Russell was a cousin of BR. Transcriptions provided by Nicholas Marlowe Rare Books.
135536	BR suggests himself as a substitute for the invitation to his wife, Dora. Transcription provided by Nicholas Marlowe Rare Books.
135537	Letter concerning offprints by Kurt Gödel sent to Russell by Smeaton/McEwen/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. A much later letter from Amethe mentions her visit to the U.K. 20 years before, i.e. in 1938. Transcription provided by Nicholas Marlowe Rare Books.
135538	BR declines to write a preface to The Problems of Philosophy. Transcription provided by Nicholas Marlowe Rare Books.
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. Transcription provided by Nicholas Marlowe Rare Books.
135540	BR and Edith are coming to Vienna for Pugwash and propose meeting Amethe there. Transcription provided by Nicholas Marlowe Rare Books.
135541	The Russells send Amethe the US dollar equivalent of £100 via Louise Watson. Transcription provided by Nicholas Marlowe Rare Books.
135542	Edith thanks Amethe for book gifts. Transcription provided by Nicholas Marlowe Rare Books.
135543	BR is grateful for the gift of a Sung bowl and maintains that Chinese culture is being ruined by Western contact. He identifies Carl Johan Sonning as founder of the Sonning Prize (which BR received recently). Transcription provided by Nicholas Marlowe Rare Books.
135544	BR thanks Amethe von Zeppelin for her gift of The Silent Traveller in London, by Chiang Yee. Transcription provided by Nicholas Marlowe Rare Books.
135545	BR writes about his opposition to the Vietnam War, and Edith in an autograph addendum tells of an accident suffered by Russell, in which "a stout, large, young American fell on him." Transcription provided by Nicholas Marlowe Rare Books.
135546	BR writes on Vietnam and pipe-smoking — and makes reference to "the dwarf companion of Serius". Transcription provided by Nicholas Marlowe Rare Books.
135547	The letter concerns the Russell Tribunal ("our 'Nuremberg'"), his 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. Transcription provided by Nicholas Marlowe Rare Books.
135548	BR thanks Amethe for her birthday letter and Chinoiseries. Transcription provided by Nicholas Marlowe Rare Books.
135549	BR sends Amethe Volume II of his Autobiography (1968). Transcription provided by Nicholas Marlowe Rare Books.
135550	This document is likely the "something simple on a piece of paper that I could stick in" BR's gift of Vols. II and III of Principia Mathematica (her letters of 5 May 1959, 8 June 1959). Transcription provided by Nicholas Marlowe Rare Books.
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, published by CND, has a printed quotation from Bertrand Russell Speaks His Mind. Transcription provided by Nicholas Marlowe Rare Books.
135553	A Christmas card in the hand of Edith Russell, signed by "Bertrand and Edith Russell". It is uncertain that "Piltmeister" is part of the name of Michael Mühe. It is uncertain that "Piltmeister" is part of his name. Transcription provided by Nicholas Marlowe Rare Books.
135554	Christmas card in the hand of Edith Russell, signed by Bertrand Russell and Edith Russell. Transcription provided by Nicholas Marlowe Rare Books.
135555	Transcription provided by Nicholas Marlowe Rare Books.
135556	A Christmas card in the hand of Edith Russell. BR is recovering well from being desperately ill. Transcription provided by Nicholas Marlowe Rare Books.
135557	Included is the will's probate document, dated 2025/04/25. Farley was born c.1935 and died 2022/12/22 (probate document).
135558	The original of this letter's image was for sale at the time of record entry on eBay.ca by Markus Brandes Autographs. A carbon copy is at record 40501.
135559	A grocery list was inserted at p. 455 of Newman Ivey White's Shelley, vol. 2 (Russell's Library, no. 372). The list consists of: loaf of bread, bacon, eggs, and matches.
135560	BR expresses support for democratizing Hull University by structural reforms and includes extracts from his Principles of Social Reconstruction (1916), as a contribution to the campaign. The letter along with the extracts was published as Bertrand Russell on Student Power as a mimeographed Institute for Workers' Control pamphlet in 1968. A digital copy is provided by the "Splits and Fusions" website, 17 January 2025, accessed 12 August 2025, https://splitsandfusions.wordpress.com/2025/01/17/the-institute-for-workers-control-and-the-workers-control-conferences/. Only one other copy of the pamphlet (B&R A147A) is known; it is in the possession of the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation. The carbon is filed at record 71333.
135561	The text of a cable, provided by Colette, is attached to a letter from Malleson to Fish, 27 Feb. 1943, with the instruction to send the cable "(as below)": RUSSELL LITTLE DATCHET FARM MALVERN-R-D-I PENNSYLVANIA (USA) COLETTE ENDLESSLY GRATEFUL LETTER FIRST JANUARY ARRIVED END FEBRUARY SENDS INFINITE SYMPATHY AIRMAILING REPLY TODAY PHYLLIS FISH AXBRIDGE ENGLAND
135562	"We had a long talk about Prisons. Whitehead has not read it yet and tells me he doesn't expect to be able to get through it—anything ethical bores him. Mrs. Whitehead criticized it very severely—not the ideas, which she agrees with, but the style. She says it is dull—the most severe criticism there is. She says it appears voulu; that the emotions spoken are not spoken of so as to be felt; and that the intellectual and emotional parts don't belong together. The gist of the matter is that being written when I was happy it fails to appeal to those who are not so—not that she put it that way. I knew in my instincts she would not like it. She says the beauty of the "Free Man's Worship" is lacking. It is rather a blow. I shall show it to Dickinson and see if he says the same. I feel you knew so well what I meant that you could hardly tell if I had conveyed it to someone who didn't already know; otherwise I should trust your judgment. I don't know yet whether it isn't that what I wanted and meant to do is something that would not interest Mrs. Whitehead, or whether it really is a failure. She takes no interest in philosophy, which is a relevant fact."
135563	Dominic Winter Auctioneers had the letter for sale.
135564	On the verso of Wall's letter. Dominic Winter Auctioneers had the letter for sale.
135565	On the verso of Wall's letter. "I am sorry that I cannot write an article on 'my advice to young people' in spite of the fact that, as you say, it has been popular with philosophers. Leibniz advised them not to give up washing when they married. Most other philosophers have been less concrete." Dominic Winter Auctioneers had the letter for sale.
135566	"My Beloved, this is to welcome you back to London." A draft, showing much reworking of what she had to say.
135567	The letter is dated 1904/07/11 at the foot of p. 7. BR ms. is titled "Rémarques sur la Logique Mathématique de M. Couturat." The date is assumed to be that of the letter.
135569	An invoice from the London Library was left in Russell's copy of Roy Pascal's The Social Basis of the German Reformation (Russell's Library, no. 1251). The invoice is likely for the delivery of books.

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