Ts. is revisions to poem "The Death of the Hare".

Re: Sonning Prize.

Donation sent.

Re his son, Jonathan Brittain.

Re Roger Dean Brittain.
 

Newsclip is San Francisco Chronicle item, "Russell's Frightful Birthday", 3 Feb. 1962.

Ms. is long untitled essay addressed to BR.

Ts. is titled "Dringlicher Weltaufruf!!".

On verso of Brok's letter.

Ts. is titled "On a Matter of Light".

On verso of Bromley's letter.

Ts. is titled "Roundtable on World People's Conference".

Encl. with Valentine Brooke's letter 1957/01/28.
 

Ts. is titled "An Important Political Message to Every Woman in Great Britain".

Forwarded to BR. Re BR's use of "only".

"... The greatest asset that we have: the conviction of the great majority of humanity that it does not want to die."

Re St. Augustine's Confessions.

Ts. copy of original.

On verso of ts. copy of Brown's letter.

Ts. is titled "A Universal Nuclear Deterrent Force".

"Thank you for your letter of July 6 and for the interesting proposal which you enclose. I was intrigued by your suggestion as to the parentage of the proposal and curious to see what would be the offspring of such miscegenation. It seemed to me, however, that Kahn's genes were dominant and mine recessive. One of the things that I have found strange about Kahn is that, although it would be an act of madness to initiate a nuclear war, he seems to think that, once started, it could be conducted on purely rational lines by means of telephonic communication between the White House and the Kremlin. I thought I found something of the same spirit in your paper. While mutual hostility between East and West remains as it is at present, your universal deterrent would be an object of constant intrigue, inclining now to one side and now to the other. I think, also, that there would be unwillingness to supply the funds necessary for the deterrent. I do not believe that there is any road to nuclear safety short of convincing the governments of East and West that any agreement is preferable to war, even if it involves serious sacrifices, probably from both parties. I am sorry not to be kinder to my supposed infant, but I cannot convince myself that there is any feasible short-cut."

Copy to BR. Poem is titled "Unilateral Nuclear Disarmament".

"Thank you very much for your letter. I read with both interest and enjoyment. I am sending you an old and rather well-used pipe which I hope will give you pleasure as it has me. I am also enclosing some literature which may interest you."

TLS(CAR) is to the editor of the New Republic dated March 29, 1963.

Carbons were sent also to President D. Eisenhower and Senator E. Kefauver.

Carbons were sent also to President John F. Kennedy and The Dallas Morning News.

Untitled ts. on peace.

"I understand from your letter that you have a compulsive wish to die. A death-wish such as yours may be gratified without inflicting your illness upon 3,000 million human beings. Your local chemist, I should imagine, will supply you with the rat poison necessary for your purpose." [Drafted and signed by ?]