BRACERS Notes

Record no. Notes, topics or text
25702
25703

Ts. is titled "Philosophy".

25704
25705
25706
25707
25708

Re: determinism.

25709
25710
25711

On verso of Leone's letter to the head of the Italian government.

BR's letter is mistakenly addressed to "Nicola Morosini".

Morosini was Leone's street address.

25712
25713
25714
25715
25716
25717
25718

Ts. is titled "To All Those Opposed to Atomic Warfare".

25719
25720
25721
25722

Re human happiness, and justice in the education of children.

25723

Newsclip also enclosed; tear-sheet is from The Deliverer, April-May, 1959.

25724

BR's letter is mistakenly addressed to "L. Levane".

25725
25726
25727
25728
25729
25730
25731

2 issues of War/Peace Report, Aug. 1961 and July 1962.

25732
25733

Dated from greetings for his "milestone" birthday on May 18.

25734
25735

"As far as I know, Whitehead never read Wittgenstein."

Then the two poles story.

25736
25737

"I have had disagreements with Gandhi, but I believe that his method of non-violent civil disobedience is a tremendously powerful one."

25738
25739
25740
25741
25742
25743

Suggests BR speak on the BBC on the "recent thermo-nuclear experiments".

25744

Says he sent BR's reply to the BBC.

25745
25746

Ts. is titled "1959—and a Cyclical Theory of History".

Tear-sheet is a mention of BR in a review by Robert Hillyer in the New York Times Book Review.

25747

"I do not believe that history is cyclical, but I am too much occupied to set forth my reasons."

On verso of Lewin's letter.

25748

Letter actually dated 22.v.59.

25749

BR declines a present of Our Changing Human Nature by Samuel D. Schmalhausen, which is inscribed "To Bertrand Russell, the Freudio-Socrates among the Moderns, Sincerely S.D. Schmalhausen".

Lewin had purchased it. [Evidently BR had once owned it and therefore it counts for Russell's ex-library.]

On verso of Lewin's letter.

25750
25751

On verso of Lewin's letter.

Re: Lord John Russell and Lord Amberley.

"Thank you for your letter and for the enclosed poetic effusion from my father to my grandfather which I am very glad to have. I am amused to find my father twitting his father about the famous advice to 'rest and be thankful'."

25752

Offprint from Canadian Psychiatric Association Journal, vol. 6, no. 4, August 1961: "Lilliputian Hallucinations in the Functional Psychoses".

25753
25754
25755
25756
25757
25758

Against broadening C100's activity to include world hunger.

25759

The enclosed "World Men", "a new quarterly advocating Anglo-Soviet economic co-operation in the war of world poverty", is dated Jan. 1962.

25760
25761
25762
25763
25764

On verso of Lewis's letter.

Explains remark about G.E. Moore in Portraits from Memory was a quip not to be taken too seriously.

Re liar paradox.

25765
25766
25767
25768
25769
25770
25771
25772
25773
25774
25775
25776

Writing a paper on Alexander Berkman; BR answered this letter but his reply is not here or in RA 750.

His "Ans" appears at the top.

(K. Blackwell wrote her on 30 Oct. 1991.)

25777
25778
25779
25780

Sending book on Lattice theory.

25781

On verso of Liebers' letter.

25782
25783
25784
25785
25786
25787
25788

Newsclips concern interviews with Leo Szilard in New York Herald Tribune.

25789

Proofs of Lewis Fry Richardson's Arms and Insecurity: the Theory of Arms Races actually left at Hasker Street during visit.

25790
25791

She is 14 and wants to demonstrate for C100.

25792

Letter is mistakenly dated 1961.

25793

Attended BR's lecture, "The Philosophy of Physics", at Michigan U. in early 1930s.

25794

Re: Freedom, anarchy and the experiment in living in freedom in Rye, New York.

25795

Ts. is press release, "Vancouver Berlin Peace Campaign".

25796
25797
25798
25799
25800
25801