BRACERS Notes

Record no. Notes, topics or text
15801
Thanks for letter from 99-year-old.
15802

Glad she agrees with BR against Strawson.

15803

Jean Nicod.

15804

Mistake about lease for 29 Millbank.

15805

BR's swallowing difficulty.

15806
Declines suggestion.
15807

Everett leaflet.

15808

Declines to write article.

15809

On his typescript (recent philosophy). "Tautology". Wittgenstein.

15810
Returning letters; supply quotation for which permission is sought.
15811

Accepts offer re Delphic Amphictiones.

15812

Declines to make broadcast (because of ill health and distance from London).

15813

On inciting East Europeans to rebellion.

15814

Read his "Speculative Truth" with much interest. Meeting.

15815

Research on Dillons before Battle of the Boyne.

15816

Thanks for U.S. ed. of Why I Am Not a Christian.

15817

Meeting between Joseph Rotblat, C.F. Powell, BR and Blackham.

15818

BR's letters to Frege.

15819

Unwin will send copy of English reviews and BR's letter to Observer in reply to Philip Toynbee.

15820

Why I Am Not a Christian.

15821

Please don't send (ms. of ?) novel.

15822

Declines to speak to Westminster School Philosophical Society.

15823

Not a prophet on whether world will solve its problems.

15824

Confused BR with his namesake, who was a brother of Charles Russell and son of Lord Russell of Killowen.

15825
Meeting.
15826

Dictated ms. of letter to editor in reply to review.

15827

Getting rid of tickets to jazz concert on 3 January.

15828

29 Millbank.

15829

Christianity. Churchill on Franco. Kindly individuals in intolerant organizations.

15830

BR was diligent reader of New York Times for many years.

15831
Thanks for pleasant letter.
15832

Dictated ms. of letter to editor on ethics.

15833

Rent for Mowlem.

15834

Can't come for [memorial] for [Arthur G.] Tansley.

15835

On his letter to Sunday Times.

15836
Thanks for interesting ts.
15837

On his "Epistemology and Communication Theory". Perception. Solipsism.

15838

Declines to attend luncheon for Lord Samuel.

15839
Hopes his county will help lead world to sanity.
15840

Disinclined to reply to Jasper's criticism.

15841
History suggests hope re obscurantism.
15842
Can't help him on book.
15843
Rectorial candidature at (?).
15844

Declines to be connected with Radio Free Europe.

15845

Will read his book when there's time.

15846
Dillon history.
15847

Cheque.

15848

Permission to quote BR's letters to Robert Nichols.

15849
Declines invitation.
15850

Etymology of "sin".

15851

Train tickets for grandchildren.

15852

Genetic superiority in races.

15853

On his typescript on pre-history. Alliteration. Title. Ethics.

15854

Payment to sons.

15855

Never met a Madame Lebedeva.

15856

Cheque. Why I Am Not a Christian sales. Signor Biosca.

15857

Ethics. "The question whether ethical values are absolute is the same as the question whether there is any ethical term which cannot be defined."

15858

Just glanced at his The Urge to Mass Destruction.

15859

Agrees to be nominated for Edinburgh Rector.

15860
Telegrams.
15861

Signs his letter and hopes for more signatures.

Possibly Anthony Wedgwood Benn.

15862

On Priestley's New Statesman article. Encloses letter of support (present). Sermon to bedmakers.

15863

Letter to the editor on Priestley's "Britain's Share in Nuclear Warfare".

15864

Will send review of The Sanctity of Life soon.

15865

Will give her his meagre reminiscences about toys at tea.

15866

Doesn't know enough about Ezra Pound's case to join in protest.

15867
15868

Send 2 books on Ireland.

15869

More search on Dillons.

15870

Visited his mother many years ago.

15871

Travel plans for grandchildren. Harriet and Peerage.

15872

No need for page proofs. Will write about his "BR on Reason".

15873

Declines honorary presidency of the Union Debating Society of Cardiff.

15874

Taxation.

15875

BR can't return literature (re Swedenborg) because he threw it away.

15876
Can't read his work. Germany.
15877
Mathematical arrival at fallacy of an argument for first cause, not at possibility of a supreme being.
15878

Refers him to Human Knowledge.

15879
Declines to speak on philosophy.
15880

On her Voltaire in Love. Koenig's "forged" letter from Leibniz. Maupertuis. Einstein. Geulincx. [Checked 1967 Penguin ed., but no corrections were acknowledged to BR. K. Blackwell]

15881

Willing to do CBS interview on nuclear war.

15882

Encloses piece on death of Alan Wood.

No date on document. Date taken from physical location.

15883

Encloses message about Hungarian writers. (Dictated manuscript above.)

15884

Tax deduction for any contributions to Mrs. Wood? Sales of his book?

15885

BR willing to contribute to expenses of election contest.

15886

Encloses article [on Russia's unexpected scientific competence]. "Can Scientific Man Survive?"

15887

Obituary was "written from the heart". Financing education of her 2 boys.

15888

Rights to Why Men Fight.

15889

Mary Wood. Appleton Century Crofts. Young Korean.

15890

Ethics and H-bomb tests.

15891

Glad to cooperate with religious people working for peace. [BR in] Neue Wege.

15892

Glad of resolution on Pugwash by Science Council of Japan.

15893

Enclosing Japanese letter.

15894

Encloses £5.

15895

Glad New York Times printed the letters, though late and mutilated.

Not a BR l.

15896

Letter to editor on review of Why I Am Not a Christian.

15897

On his typescript. Preface by BR? Pythagoreans. Ethics.

15898

Sweeniad: BR expressed admiration of it to Daily Express. Return BR's letter written when he thought Purcell was a young lady. Trevor-Roper.

15899

Korean letter. Voltaire error in Why I Am Not a Christian. His indexers.

15900

Agrees to write on Voltaire.