"Monday mg." "Very good work, in which I get utterly absorbed."

"Tues. night. My Darling I wonder so very much what you are thinking."

"Thursday mg. My Darling—Your letter has come."

"Evening." Very poor—£50 overdrawn. "Contemplating lecture on 'Mysticism and Logic'."

"Sat. evg." Tuesday to see Whiteheads. When "Mysticism and Logic" done, will write preface to Poincaré. "Then I shall go on preparing my lectures on Theory of Knowledge."

Has had a task that will last rest of his life. Hardest part of work done at: Beetle & Wedge, last spring, in September, and these last days.

"Monday night." "I am giving a new course of lectures this term, on the basis of physics, and it seems as if I should have quite a crowd at them." "Today I have been working at Poincaré; I must finish him this week. Also I read a ms of Whitehead's about space, very good. I enclose his note about it, which please burn. [Not burnt, and attached to Russell's letter at Texas.] Although the paper is full of admirable things, one sees he was on the verge of a breakdown—it is full of mis-spellings and small errors, and he even forgets the name of our joint book and of an article of his own. What a strange thing the intellect is."

"Tomorrow I go to the Whiteheads."

"Dear Bertie I enclose my re-written paper on the Relational Theory of Space."

"Tuesday aft." Going back to Chelsea to talk about work with Whitehead.

"He has been rather overdone, but there seems reason to think he is past the worst."

Talked a little to Mrs. Whitehead about their troubles.

"Sunday night. My Darling—Your letter which reached me this evg. is very dear."

"Wed. aft." Getting prepaid £100 for publication of Lowell Lectures.

Good talk on work with Whitehead last night.

"To talk to, he seemed perfectly well; I think he is better."

"Thursday mg." "I am re-writing my paper on Mysticism and Logic ... it doesn't aim at eloquence, but only at careful exact statement. I have postponed Poincaré, and shall have to do him during term."

"I was worried about money and also about Whitehead, but on both heads my mind is easy now."

"Thursday night." "All but finished my paper on Mysticism and Logic."

"Friday mg." "I finished 'Mysticism and Logic' at midnight last night."

"Sat. aft." "My paper on Sense-Data and Physics has come from the typist. It is very good! I don't believe I have ever done anything better, at any rate as regards clearness and manner of exposition."

"Sunday evg."

Gave classical don Stuart 'Forstice' to read. BR really admired La Nouvelle Révue Française. Göttingen is thinking of asking BR to lecture there next year.

"Hilbert ... has grown interested in Whitehead's and my work."

"Last June I hoped I was doing well, and then Wittgenstein reduced me to despair again. But this time I am sure I have done well. Worry about work colours all one's thoughts and feelings about everything, and takes the joy out of life. I know Wittgenstein would like the work I have done lately."

"Wed." "All the creative part of the work is done—and it is that that is the load, because one can't do it by merely using one's will."

"Thursday mg." On Robb.

"Friday night" 150 at lecture yesterday.

Reads his paper on "Mysticism and Logic" tonight [at Queen's].

Sunday dine with Whiteheads.

"Tuesday evg." On Wiener's work—and BR's first publication ("A Review of a Dutchman") [G. Heymans, Die Gesetze und Elemente des Wissenschaftlichen Denkens, Mind, n.s. 4: Apr. 1895, 245-9.]

"... re-write one of my popular lectures" today. [Could this concern the insertion of the long passage, near the end of Ch. III, on perspectives and perspective-space, which BR says in MPD is one of the new discoveries made in early Jan. 1914 and which was first written up in "The Relations of Sense-Data to Physics"?]

"I can't quite take Wittgenstein's line: 'Wiener good at mathematics? Then mathematics must be no good.'"

"Monday night" £5 for Poincaré preface tonight.

"Wed." F.H. Bradley.

"Sat. mg." Point in lectures worrying him: "It has to do with time and the definition of instants.* It must be put right quickly as I want to send them away to get printed."

*Lecture IV of Our Knowledge, where Wiener's first paper (see #976) is footnoted.

"Thursday aft. My Darling Your dear letter of yesterday has just come."

"Friday aft." "My audience yesterday was still enormous—it is odd."

Probably see Whiteheads Sunday.

"I am distracted with odds and ends of work—correcting small errors in mss and so on. It is tiresome and destroys one's mind."

"Sunday night" "Today I spent the day with the Whiteheads, and had a happy time there. I discussed Time with Whitehead, as I had got a result that struck me as odd, but he didn't think it odd."

[Either incorrect envelope or mailed later.]

"Thursday My Darling Thank you for your letter."

"Sunday My Darling Thank you for your letter."

Poignant letter—breaking again—children.

"Sat. mg. My Darling I can't tell you what a comfort your letter is which has just come."

"Sunday My Dearest—Thank you for the telegram."

"Tuesday night" "Mrs. Whitehead has been reading Chance and felt as I did about it. As she talked, I found myself taking your side—I generally agree very much more with you than with her about literature."

Alys* is trying to make difficulties between Desmond McCarthy and Mrs. Whitehead.

*Russell.

"Thursday mg. My Darling Darling—Your dear letter just come is such a joy."

[Letter no. is not on letter.]

"Friday aft." "Since I began writing this, I have had a letter [not extant] from Wittgenstein saying he and I are so dissimilar that it is useless to attempt friendship, and he will never write to me or see me again. I dare say his mood will change after a while. I find I don't care on his account, but only for the sake of logic. And yet I believe I do really care too much to look at it. It is my fault—I have been too sharp with him."

Balfour's Gifford Lectures he's reading. Dine Whiteheads Sunday.

[Letter no. is not on letter.]

"Sat. aft." "Balfour's lectures to read."

"Oswald Sickert wrote to say he had to bring out an abridgement of the Encyclopaedia Britannica and wanted to know how the mathematics was to be done."

"'Matter' goes on in my head all the time."

"The prospect of Göttingen has taken the colour out of Harvard."

"Sunday night" "Whitehead (whom I found alone, as Mrs. Whitehead is ill in bed) has been telling me that my mind has improved very greatly the last two or three years, that in fact it has risen to an altogether higher class. He says I used to have great ingenuity in defending rather narrow and limited points of view, but now I have an altogether broader scope, and that if my present work develops as it promises, it will put me among the few great philosophers."

"Having the stimulus of Wittgenstein...."

"I wrote to Wittgenstein, and I hope he will relent."

"Tues. evg." Looking at her first year's letters.

"Wed. night" "I have been writing on Balfour—not finished yet. It is incredible balderdash."

No fur coat! "What I should like is a pocket edition of Hume's Essays if they are to be had in tolerable print."

"Wed. mg. My Darling Darling—I can't tell you what a joy and happiness your dear letter is to me."

"Thursday evg." This morning I finished writing on Balfour*, prepared my popular lecture for this afternoon, and corrected the proofs of an article in the Monist  on W. James and the New Realists**."

*"Mr Balfour's Natural Theology", Cambridge Review, 35: 4 March 1914, 338-9.

**"Neutral Monism", The Monist, 24: Apr. 1914, 160-87.

Tomorrow argue with Bosanquet about mathematics and logic at Moral Science Club.

On Saturday evening reading "Mysticism and Logic" again.

On Keynes's mind.

"Sat. mg." "I am most awfully busy—I have been translating and copying and classifying the notes of Wittgenstein's work, as I shall want them for lecturing on Logic at Harvard—that takes a lot of time, but is now finished."*

*BR's re-written version of Wittgenstein's "Notes on Logic". See McGuinness's article in Revue Internationale de Philosophie, no. 102 (March 1973).

Has "Moore to instruct in Wittgenstein's system, as Moore is going to visit him in hopes of understanding him."

Jourdain and his secretary in love: "She is the person who took down Wittgenstein's remarks in short-hand in the autumn and who does most of my typing."**

**If this statement is correct, Jourdain and she did not marry, for Laura Breglia, Jourdain's only wife, denies ever being his secretary. See her letter to K. Blackwell [not in BRACERS].

"Sat. night. My Darling Love I wish I were with you tonight—I have been hearing some of Musorgsky's songs, which I had never heard before—they are absolutely marvellous."

"Tuesday night. My Darling Here I am home again, having dined and written many letters."

"Wed. night. My Darling I have only a moment before the post."

"Thurs. mg. My Darling Love Your dear letter just come is such a great joy."

"My Darling Darling This is just one word of love to go with you on your journey."

"In the train. Sat. mg." "At the station I found Whitehead but not my carriage, till Younghusband called to me just as the train started. So Whitehead had the pleasure of seeing me get in while the train was in motion. His theory is that I always shave trains—so he will make a good story and I shall never hear the last of it."

"Train to Boston. Friday 13 March. I wrote a letter during the voyage and posted it in the ship, but I have doubts as to its catching tomorrow's mail."

"Colonial Club." "I don't feel any physical recoil from them" [coloured people]. Munsterberg. Met Mrs. Perkins.

"Thursday." "My first Lowell Lecture was a failure. There were 500 people, I was seized with shyness, [see Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy, ch. on Russell] I felt they couldn't like what I had to say and that it was foolish of them to come; so I didn't speak loud enough and half couldn't hear." Lowell.

"Thursday night." "When I got back from the [second Lowell] lecture, I had to dictate an abstract of it to a reporter." [Not found]

"Nobody here broods or is absent-minded, or has time to hear whispers from another world—except poor old Royce, whom I like, though he is a garrulous old bore."

"Tuesday."* "My Darling The fourth day at sea is now nearly over—it seems as if I had been all my life on this ship, and should be on it all the rest of my life."

*R.M.S. Mauretania

"Sunday mg." Dewey "Monday mg."* "Then I had one of my pupils to dinner, a youth named Lenzen [see Victor Lenzen, "Bertrand Russell at Harvard, 1914", Russell, no. 3 (autumn 1971): 4-6] from California—able, and very nice—I quite loved him. Obviously my coming here is worth while from the point of view of teaching."

*23 March 1914.

"Friday." "My Darling Love. I wrote you a very dull letter yesterday because I felt rushed with work."

"Thursday" "Craigie hall." Hollond "is incredibly kind and nice" to him; moved into his rooms. Converted to Morton Prince. "One man (Lenzen) comes often, and I give him private teaching on Matter." Mrs. Perry is Berenson's sister. "Dewey pleased me most so far; and Royce has a lovable quality."

"Craigie Hall. Sunday" "I have had a letter from Mrs. Whitehead, entirely taking Mrs. Wedgwood's side and believing Josiah behaved very badly."

"Thursday Craigie Hall." Violent on Noyes.

"Sunday aft." "I enclose some rigmarole [?] I am sending to Cambridge paper—the one Ogden edits—he talked about the subject, so in an impulsive moment I said I would send him a letter. (This is a rough draft—I have sent him a copy.)"

"In the train Monday." "My Darling Love It was such a joy to get yr letter from Paris."

"Wednesday." "My Darling Two letters from you were waiting for me when I got home on Monday—the first two you wrote when you got back to London—also the Manchester Guardians, for which I was very grateful."

"Monday" Flexner liked New York—and tallest skyscraper. "What you say abut Nijinsky is really terrible—I can't bear to think of it—it is horrible." "One's fastidiousness is offended at every moment. But [I] think of my Greek pupil [Demos] who earns his living as a waiter—and Lenzen, German-Dane from California, who, I hear, writes long [long?] letters about me to a young lady at Bryn Mawr, full (I am told) of passionate devotion."

"Wed. aft." Gave "Mysticism and Logic".

At Wellesley yesterday evening.

Speaks on Women's Suffrage in Boston on Friday.

"Thursday night My Darling—Two letters from you today were a great treat—I had had more since Friday."

"Evening. My Darling Darling—Your very dear letter of this mg. has just come—it is such a joy to me—it is so wonderful the happiness in each other now—I feel so full of affection for all the people here—love seems to brim over—I have seen all the world, lectured, dined, shopped, written letters, and walked out to the only wood, where I gathered a bunch of bluebells, the first I had seen this year."

"Forstice." [Envelope doesn't belong to this letter.]

[Newsclips follow this letter on the microfilm.]

"Low buildings." Carey Thomas "refused to have me asked to give a public lecture here; but at the last moment she changed her mind." Hodder. "On Friday I spoke on Suffrage to a crowd of fashionable ladies in a Boston drawing-room—a futile proceeding."

"Bryn Mawr to Princeton. Wed." "I long to see [the President]."

"Friday" "From five to 11:45 I was engaged in a discussion with a philosophical club on a paper of mine previously distributed (the one I wrote immediately after the day at Leysin) ["The Relation of Sense-Data to Physics"]. It roused great opposition, as I knew it would. The most effective criticism was from Dewey, who again impressed me very greatly, both as a philosopher and as a lovable man."—This was at Princeton [surely New York (Columbia)?]

"Craigie Hall. Monday" Rockefeller, Jr.

"Friday. My Darling Thank you for your letter and the lecture on education."

"Wed. aft." I am busy correcting a French translation of my article on Sense-Data and Physics, from the same people whose efforts I was correcting at Seaford."

"Monday" "My Darling Love—Your letter of April 24 came this morning—generally English letters come Sat., but this time it was late."

"Wed." "To my mind, most things worth having mentally are only to be got late at night, but college authorities never take that view." Demos.

"Craigie Hall." "I am sorry to hear Janet Trevelyan is on Mrs. Wedgwood's side—my whole feeling is with Josh. When I get home I shall have to argue it with Mrs. Whitehead, which I dread." "In teaching able men, it seems to me one's relation to them should be like that of Columbus to his crew—tempting them by courage and passion to accompany one in an adventure of which one does not know the outcome."

"Monday aft." "My Darling—The mail is late this week, so I have no letter of yours to answer."

"My Darling—Two letters came from you today, one written May 1st, and one May 5th—I don't know why they were so slow."

"My Darling Love—No letter came from you by this mail, which was sad—I suppose you were too much occupied with Julian."

"Evg." "My whole morning was occupied with Lenzen." Rupert Brooke.

"Friday night" "My Darling—Your letter about your grand dinner party came just after I had posted my letter—I was very much interested—I don't suppose you really made any of the mistakes you thought you had made."

"Tuesday. In train to Chicago" "Coolidge, a mathematician who loves me because I recommended his book to the Clarendon Press." [Julian Lowell Coolidge, The Elements of Non-Euclidean Geometry (1909) or A Treatise on the Circle and the Sphere (1916).]

"Chicago to Madison Friday" "My Darling Your letter to Chicago reached me yesterday and I was very glad to get it."

"Between Chicago and Ann Arbor" Dudley, Helen—all about.

"Monday mg. My Darling Your letter of yesterday has come."

"Monday night. My Darling I long too to see you again—yes I will be here at 11 tomorrow—I am so thankful you will come."

"Tuesday night." "My Darling Love All day I have felt so strangely happy and light-hearted—it was so divine while you were here, my Dearest."

"Stocks Cottage" "Thursday" dine with Whitehead Monday.

"Friday mg." "I have been having a very severe dose of the Whiteheads' affairs."

"Sat. aft." "Proofs of my Lowell Lectures have come."

"Sunday night My Darling Love Almost all day I have been seeing people—now at last they are gone, but it is late."

"Monday night" "My Darling it happens that tonight I am unusually clear-sighted, so I will put down the simple truth, as I may lose it again tomorrow."

"Wed. evg. My Darling—Friday night the Society dines, and tho' I haven't gone to the dinner the last few years, I feel I must go this time, as Sanger is president."

"Tuesday night" "You and the woman I cared for many years ago are the only two human beings who have touched that in any way." ["Spiritual loneliness" ...]

"But both in your case and in the other, physical instinct was left unsatisfied, and its insistence interfered with the real spiritual companionship, until it had been got under."

"Thursday night" Attended Ottoline's party, which the Prime Minister* also attended.

*H.H. Asquith.

"Tuesday night My Darling Darling It was a joy to see you tonight—it really was a surprise this time."

"Thursday mg. My Darling Love Your little line came this mg and I was very glad of it."

"Monday mg. My Darling This is only one line to say here I am."