Total Published Records: 135,510
BRACERS Notes
Record no. | Notes, topics or text |
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1701 | BR provides what he knows of Spalding. |
1702 | Jeger reminds BR of a meeting of the Cyprus Conciliation Committee. |
1703 | BR "renounces membership" from the Cyprus Conciliation Committee as he is unable to attend its meetings. |
1704 | On D.H. Lawrence. |
1705 | BR states that he did not make copies of his letters to D.H. Lawrence. |
1706 | Rev. Jenner asks BR to sign a Petition for Mercy for Robert Marwood, condemned to death on the basis of his confession. |
1707 | A transcription of document .051496, provided by Jenner. |
1708 | Jevons could not, in the end, make it to hear BR lecture on Mill. He encloses a letter (record 1709) to the Foreign Secretary, Eden. |
1709 | Jevons has an anti-war proposal for the Prime Minister. The letter is enclosed with record 1708. |
1710 | BR thanks Mr. Jinarajadasa for the review in New India and mentions the competitive spirit in education. |
1711 | Johnson knew BR in Richmond: "Used to trudge back with you from Grosvenor College at Twickenham to Richmond." He was known as "Pudding" Johnson. His 3rd initial seems to stand for Dijnn or Dynn. He lives now at Alkali Lake, British Columbia, Canada, and his daughter married the Lieutenant-Governor. |
1712 | Johnson took the Chair for BR "at a large meeting in Manchester in Nov. 1917 when we jointly welcomed the new Soviet government." He sends a book of sermons. |
1713 | |
1714 | Johnston very much liked Why Men Fight. |
1715 | A transcription of document .057834; also a carbon. BR has added a note on Wittgenstein's furniture. |
1716 | Dr. Jonas tries to interest BR in his book, Irritation and Counterirritation. |
1717 | BR is interested in Jonas's book. |
1718 | Lief Jones, a politician, returns Couturat's review. |
1719 | Jones would like to attend BR's "Thursday lectures on the Concepts of Mathematics". |
1720 | |
1721 | On the teaching of mathematics. BR has written at the top: "Show ANW". |
1722 | Not the same writer as she at record 1733. Jones wants references to Peano's works, with a view to applying symbolic logic to biology. |
1723 | Jones asks if BR has received telepathic messages from him, for he has "seemed to have had access to and replies from your mind". |
1724 | BR states: "I have never received telepathic communications either from you or from anyone else." |
1725 | Jones has "got a very good mould and cast of your head". Jones, a sculptor, sculpted BR. (See document .051599.) |
1726 | BR gives Jones permission to exhibit and sell his new bust of BR. (For a photograph of the bust, see J. Jones, The Gallipoli Diary.) |
1727 | Jones, wife of Jonah Jones, congratulates BR on receiving the Jerusalem Prize. BR has told her that he met her father, Prof. Grossman, at the (1912) Mathematical Congress. |
1728 | BR is grateful for Jones's offer re receiving the Jerusalem Prize. |
1729 | "I have greater affection and respect for you than for any other living man", Rev. Jones tells BR on the eve of his imprisonment. |
1730 | Jones, who heard BR in World War I at Balliol, asks if the humanities are taking an active enough approach re nuclear war. |
1731 | Jones wants to dedicate his play, "The High Jinks of Canon Saull" to BR for his 90th birthday. |
1732 | BR asks to have a copy of Jones's play. |
1733 | Not the same writer as he at record 1722. A note in Edith's hand states: "From Miss W. Tudor Jones (later a teacher at Telegraph House School)". A Japanese professor wants BR to have his The Principles of the Moral Empire. [Edith is referring to Beacon Hill School housed in Telegraph House.] |
1734 | Jordan writes on behalf of a southern anti-segregationist, P.D. East. |
1735 | Jordan sympathizes with BR at this time of "martial law" in England. |
1736 | Jordan asks BR to sign a card for her collection. |
1737 | On true propositions following from false ones, after the discussion "last night". |
1738 | Joss was caricaturist and cartoonist of the Star and in 1938 visited BR to draw him. Now Joss is in a mental hospital. He was certified insane in 1956, he says. |
1739 | Jovanovic is sending BR his book Nucleus. A translation of the letter is in the file. |
1740 | BR thanks him for his book in the pursuit of peace. |
1741 | Lord Jowett asks BR to vote in the Lords on 20 November 1953. |
1742 | Joynt sends (not present) BR an article on Toynbee. |
1743 | BR enjoyed Joynt's article on Toynbee. |
1744 | Also in file: a second TL(CAR), document .155065. |
1745 | |
1746 | Students from the Socialist Society of the London Institute of Education would like to visit BR in Wales. |
1747 | |
1748 | Jurick, a student, poses some religious questions. |
1749 | BR does not believe in the miracles or prophecy, and the Bible is a mixture of myth and history. |
1750 | Kallen arrived in Oxford Oct. 1907 and soon corresponded with William James about his conversations with BR and Moore. This letter seems to be early in his philosophical relationship with BR, but it might be Jan.-Mar. 1908. |
1751 | BR thanks Kallen for his letter and offprint. |
1752 | "Pax" suggests that Kallen advise BR to curtail his "dictating" what Americans should do, referring to his "base attacks against France" made in the New York Times, 3 April. |
1753 | Count Karolyi sends BR a translation (not present) and hopes to see him in London. BR has written Karolyi's name on a separate slip of paper. |
1754 | Countess Karolyi asks BR to review Michael Karolyi's memoirs, BR being "so well acquainted with central European affairs". |
1755 | BR is willing to be patron of the scheme to support writers and artists. He has been "very busy with the consequences of the open letter". |
1756 | Kastner encloses a bulletin from his Superintendent of Schools in Indiana. The copy here was made by BR's secretary. |
1757 | |
1758 | |
1759 | |
1760 | |
1761 | On Dulles's reply to BR's "Open Letter to Eisenhower and Khrushchev". |
1762 | On probability. |
1763 | King asks BR to sign a letter to the press about the International College at Geneva. Enclosed is the draft letter. |
1764 | King's note is written at the top of a mimeographed TLS with the following signatories: J.D. Beresford, Noel Buxton, John Cockborn, W.H. Fyfe, A.D. Lindsay, W. Manchester, Parmoor, A. Ponsonby, BR, M.E. Sadler, H.G. Wells. This letter appeared as B&R F26.04. In document .051811, there is a "preliminary memorandum" about the International College, and a pamphlet about it that lists BR and most of the above signatories as supporters. |
1765 | BR is assumed to be the author, since he mentions "on going to Geneva this autumn" and in letter 1651 (record 18862) to O. Morrell he tells her that Dora and he "are going to Geneva for a week ... primarily to look at a school connected with the League of Nations" (8 Sept. 1926). |
1766 | King-Hall, Intelligence Officer of the Mediterranean Fleet, likes BR's On Education. |
1767 | BR likes Defence in the Nuclear Age but is in doubt about the efficacy of non-violent resistance. |
1768 | BR urges a Penguin edition of Defence in the Nuclear Age. |
1769 | |
1770 | This letter belongs to the Mudd-Crowley correspondence. The original has yet to be located. |
1771 | Kaiser has used BR's Nightmares in his humorous course on "Shakespeare's Insomnia". |
1772 | BR wishes he could have heard Kaiser's lecture using his Nightmares. |
1773 | Le Lionnais informs BR that he will be considered for the Kalinga Prize, if he is willing to visit India. |
1774 | Friedweld informs BR that he has been nominated for the 1957 Kalinga Prize. |
1775 | Auger tells BR that he has won the prize of £1000 for 1957. |
1776 | Reception details are provided. |
1777 | Tabbush includes newsclips and the script of a radio programme on BR (not present). |
1778 | Steigner informs BR that the South African Broadcasting Corporation broadcast BR's Kalinga Prize speech on 7 March 1958. |
1779 | Maheu, Acting Director-General of UNESCO, recalls BR's visit and congratulates him on his 90th birthday. |
1780 | |
1781 | BR accepts the nomination but would not be able to go to India. |
1782 | BR could come to Paris for the Prize in the latter half of January. |
1783 | BR will make a short speech on Jan. 28, in French if it is translated for him. |
1784 | Drafts of biographical data on BR, sometimes corrected by him. |
1785 | BR is "completely occupied with nuclear work" and cannot write on Aldous. He would like to know what Juliette thinks of Ottoline. |
1786 | BR thanks Maheu for his 90th birthday message. |
1787 | Kar has proofs of a photographic sitting for BR re Epstein. |
1788 | BR wants to replace his copies of J.L. Austin's "Excuses" and Bernard Williams's "Personal Identity". |
1789 | Kaufmann is a conscientious objector on his way to Wormwood Scrubs, sentenced to "two years' hard labour". |
1790 | |
1791 | Kaufmann seeks a blurb for Critique of Religion and Philosophy. He recalls inviting BR to speak at Williams College on "The Basis of Morality" in Nov. 1940 and breakfasting with BR the next morning. In 1950 BR dined with the Philosophy Department at Princeton. |
1792 | BR considers Kaufmann "too kind to the Old Testament". |
1793 | BR thanks Kedzierski for his book in Polish. |
1794 | Kellogg is Supervisor of the Schools. She sends BR a paper on children's problems (not present). She is on a first-name basis with BR, since BR had stayed with her when she was Mrs. Stanley Rypins in 1939. Enclosed is a print of a child's "folded finger painting". She wrote books on the psychology of children's art. |
1795 | BR cannot spare the time to read Kellogg's manuscript. |
1796 | BR is too ill to write, and is forbidden to do so by doctors. |
1797 | Full name: Frederic Richard Kelser. He is glad BR spoke "tonight" against the basing of U.S. submarines in Scotland. |
1798 | BR is encouraged by Kelser's campaign. |
1799 | Kemble writes about his hesitations in joining Committee of 100 demonstrations. |
1800 | BR "could only give positive praise to those who do not hang back" from civil disobedience since large-scale destruction may occur at any moment. |