Wants 2 typed speeches returned.

BR decided to buy some neckties from this disabled person.

Neckties: BR bought them again.

On verso of Gordon's letter.

"I know nothing about medicine".

Leaflet concerns priestly income.

[About these Victoria, B.C., lads: Tom changed his surname to "Balloon".

Charlie still hunts for books for the Russell Archives (1991).]

Ts. is titled "The Treatment of Ambiguity and Paradox in Mechanical Languages".

Ts. concerns BR's position in the nuclear debate.

"My position is not quite as you put it. The deterrent is the most immediate source for a nuclear war. Rockets cover the planet poised on a hair trigger. The radar on which they rely is incapable of distinguishing natural phenomena from missiles. Governments are basing their policies on a willingness to exterminate human beings in their hundreds of millions. It is not a decent way to live. That is the core of my position."

Answered by Edith Russell as secretary, with p.s. from BR: "Glad Which Way to Peace? is still useful".

Russell-Einstein Manifesto as published in The Birmingham Mail, 9 July 1955, p. 1.

Typed copy of his letter to the editor, International Affairs, 18 May 1960, and reply from Horace Alexander, 18 June 1960.

Ts. is titled "Continuity and Number".

Tear-sheet is from a book of poems.

Photocopy of published letter to editor of Commonwealth Digest, 29 Sept. 1961.

Also photocopy of article, Mar. 1960.

BR's draft reply is on top corner of letter.

In it he identifies J.B.S. Haldane as the man living in "open sin" on p. 180 of the Allen and Unwin edition of Marriage and Morals but asks Grainger to keep the secret.

"There is not one atom of truth in the rumour that I have ceased to be an agnostic. This is a malicious falsehood such as the orthodox have always invented about freethinkers."

Also enclosed: offprints.

"I am not surprised by the response that you got concerning the article about me in the Sunday Pictorial. Evidently my opinions shocked the Daily Mirror Newspapers, Ltd., and they had no wish to lend you even the slightest assistance in spreading such pernicious views."

On verso of Grant's letter.

"I have read the manuscript that you sent me and I am returning it herewith in case you have no other copy. I am not able to accept your view that time is God though there is a fragment of Heraclitus suggesting that he held a view somewhat similar to yours. My main objection to your theory is that I regard time as merely a system of relations."

"Your letter seems to me entirely too occupied with your own private world and rather self-indulgent. I am saying this to you so that you seek some more realistic expression of your desire to do more than vegetate in a retrograde environment. This requires courage to deal with real problems and to undertake hardship and serious effort in their behalf. If you wish to study, then study and do not moon about wishing to do so. Manual labour is no great tragedy; it is the failure to take oneself less seriously which marks immaturity. I hope you will consider this."

BR provides Graves with Khrushchev's address and that of the Committee of 100 (13 Goodwin St., London).

"The real issue is mass murder."

Impolite letter in response to Gray responding up the extreme in Russell's letter to him.

Enclosures are miscellaneous religious writings.

Newsclip is a review of A History of Western Philosophy.

On verso of Graydon's letter.

Also signed by the Committee.