Total Published Records: 135,510
BRACERS Notes
Record no. | Notes, topics or text |
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1601 | BR wishes to take the oath. |
1602 | On the death of Wilbur Burton, who did not believe in fighting for the British Empire. |
1603 | |
1604 | Howe praises The Problem of China and The Prospects of Industrial Civilization. |
1605 | In praise of The Prospects of Industrial Civilization. |
1606 | On unilateral nuclear disarmament following the television programme with Gaitskell, Mrs. Roosevelt and Lord Boothby. |
1607 | On unilateral disarmament and Britain's role. |
1608 | BR is ill. |
1609 | Powell says BR is overwhelmed with correspondence since his release from prison. |
1610 | Hughes asks BR whether agnostics should bring up their children as such. |
1611 | BR is unsure that steps should be taken by agnostics to keep their children inorthodox. |
1612 | The widow of Rear Admiral C.H. Hughes-Onslow likes to carry important writings and encloses Rachel Russell's love letters to Lord William Russell, who was committed to the tower. |
1613 | BR thanks her for the interesting extracts. |
1614 | BR's late note at the top reads: "Huntington was a Harvard logician." Huntington has revised a paper in light of BR's previous letter. |
1615 | Hutchinson asks BR to visit again to meet Sir John Simon (who resigned from Asquith's cabinet on Jan. 1, 1916 over conscription). |
1616 | In the file is a note from BR: "This letter is about a Hindu barrister who undertook to defend...." Chappelow is mentioned in the present letter. Probably BR's note was meant to accompany document .051333. |
1617 | A Canadian, Hyde sends (not present in BR's library) his novel in woodcuts, Southern Cross (1951), claiming that it is the first anti-nuclear book. |
1618 | BR is grateful for Southern Cross. |
1619 | A Marxist, Hyndman objects to a point in the syllabus for BR's lectures on German Social Democracy. |
1620 | In German. Pauling and Stopp tell BR that the Essen meeting protests BR and Edith's imprisonment. |
1621 | Hellman requests BR's favourite recipe for a book. |
1622 | BR chooses "Lord John Russell's Pudding" from Mrs. Beeton. (See Celebrity Cooking, 1967.) (Hellman could not locate the recipe.) |
1623 | BR sends his best wishes for the conference. |
1624 | Kabadi invites BR to the Association's Indian Republic Day dinner. |
1625 | The Association wants BR to speak at its convention while BR is touring India. |
1626 | Indiana would like BR to send any letters from Upton Sinclair to be preserved in their collection. |
1627 | Dobrich thinks BR will be interested in the enclosed letter to Churchill reminding him of the financial oligarchy that controls the world. |
1628 | Dobrich takes Churchill to task for certain war decisions and reminds him of the worldwide financial oligarchy. |
1629 | BR is invited to become a vice-president of the League. |
1630 | Lang asks BR about Couturat and an international or auxiliary language. |
1631 | BR, who is ill, knew little of Couturat's interest in Ido. |
1632 | Mezerik met BR at the Pugwash party in Vienna. He sends BR Let Us Reason Together and requests BR's view of his "Early Warning System for Peace", an enclosed paper. |
1633 | BR thinks that Mezerik's system for obtaining peace might be very useful. |
1634 | Pelikan asks BR for a message for a congress in Baghdad. |
1635 | Isaacs asks BR for an interview with a view to saving the life, or the reason, of a young man. |
1636 | Ishida asks BR to meet K. Tomatsu. |
1637 | BR's secretary tells Ishida that BR will not be in London during 11-18. |
1638 | Ishido's short letter on p. 9 is preceded by a long list of questions concerning World Federation. |
1639 | BR tells Ishido that the problem lies in inducing governments to accept a scheme for world government. |
1640 | Ishio sends BR her poetry on war and peace. |
1641 | BR sends his best wishes for a programme, asking that quotations from his works be clearly indicated. |
1642 | BR gives Israel permission to quote from his works in a radio programme. |
1643 | Iversen sends BR his Danish book, Two Essays on Human Knowledge, which concerns Principles of Mathematics. |
1644 | BR has evidently suggested (on 14 Sept. 1962) that Iwamatsu join Pugwash. He is writing on BR's letters for the university bulletin. He lives in Nagasaki. |
1645 | BR sends Iwamatsu "a recent work". |
1646 | She admires BR "for the perfectly splendid stand you have made for principles against the whole of England." |
1647 | Collier attended BR's lecture last night, which "showed that tenderness to the human soul". |
1648 | Collier is related to Jackson, who with her husband was a pacifist. Collier was at Summerhill but does not think Neill did much for formal education; BR visited Summerhill. |
1649 | BR remembers Dr. Collier's mother. |
1650 | |
1651 | Hu Shih would like to meet with BR. |
1652 | On Jackson's wish to convert his fiancée to agnosticism. |
1653 | BR warns Jackson of "sexual blackmail". He should confine himself to arguments having more "logical cogency". |
1654 | |
1655 | Jackson asks if man can change his ways. |
1656 | Lady Hobhouse's mother was Annabel Huth Jackson, née Claire Annabel Caroline Grant Duff (1870-1944). |
1657 | BR remembers her mother from the 1880s. |
1658 | BR has a note in the file saying "William James". |
1659 | |
1660 | Santayana encloses BR's article with James's comments. |
1661 | BR's little note in the file identifies Joachim. |
1662 | Ellen Joachim congratulates BR on his (Fellowship) success. |
1663 | Joad recalls being introduced to BR at Oxford when BR came to debate with A.D. Lindsay. He wants to discuss relations with BR for a book on monism. |
1664 | Doreen "joad" is keen to begin working for BR one day a week. BR has written a telephone number on the letter. |
1665 | Joad is grateful for the Russells' kindness. |
1666 | BR would be delighted to pose for John. |
1667 | John still intends to come to north Wales to do a portrait of BR. |
1668 | BR will be away in September. |
1669 | BR is ill. If John were to speak Welsh, BR would have a bewildering time. |
1670 | |
1671 | |
1672 | |
1673 | |
1674 | Jourdain encloses (not present) some papers on which BR had written the paradox. He describes a writing by Cantor. |
1675 | On an Introduction to Modern Logic, a book BR would like to write; revising The Principles of Mathematics; on first reading Cantor and coming across Peano. |
1676 | Jourdain writes again about his proof and suggests he is at the end "of my tether". |
1677 | About Jourdain's illness and proof, and Open Court. |
1678 | Ja'fari, a Tehran philosopher, asks about free will. |
1679 | BR states that quantum theory raises doubts about the complete predictability of behaviour; but that does not confirm freedom of the will. For the ribbon copy, see record 131387 (there is a holograph postscript). |
1680 | Jack encloses (not present) a typescript of his conversation with BR on "Saturday" and asks his permission to publish it. |
1681 | Jacks asks BR to answer the letter from Shelby (?) on which he has written his note to BR. See record 77872. |
1682 | Jackson congratulates BR on his Manchester Guardian letter. |
1683 | A message for a meeting in support of Sacco and Vanzetti. |
1684 | Also in file: a second TL(CAR), document .155059. |
1685 | Jackson would like to meet BR again. |
1686 | Jackson writes on points in The Problems of Philosophy. |
1687 | |
1688 | Russell declines an invitation to speak to a Labour audience unless Feakins approves of it. |
1689 | Jager asks BR what he meant by "denoting complex". He encloses an offprint of his "Russell's Denoting Complex" in Analysis. |
1690 | BR has reread "On Denoting" in order to respond on "denoting complexes". |
1691 | The Women's Institute at Iffley wants BR to write a few lines on Hannah Pearsall Smith, who lived at Court Place. (BR declined.) |
1692 | James journeyed with BR from Australia by Quantas "a decade ago". |
1693 | Jameson sends BR a "philosophical" work by Dora Marsden. Jameson has had a letter from BR when she was with Knopf. |
1694 | The chargé d'affaires asks BR to meet Gizo Tomabechi, a Parliamentarian. |
1695 | The Ambassador asks BR to lecture on Buddhism in Tokyo. |
1696 | BR declines an invitation. |
1697 | BR was pleased to meet Mr. Nishimura. |
1698 | Japolsky quotes briefly from a letter from BR in 1935. |
1699 | Jastrow wants BR to lecture in Madison. |
1700 | Jaynes asks about Douglas A. Spalding. |