Total Published Records: 135,546
BRACERS Notes
Record no. | Notes, topics or text |
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2801 | BR describes the first time he heard of Nietzsche. It was in connection with The Cambridge Observer. |
2802 | Rosenberg asks BR to describe Nietszche's reputation in England in the early 1890s. |
2803 | Rosenblatt asks BR to allow the use of his name with SANE, a new anti-nuclear organization. |
2804 | Roshwald, who has been reviewing BR's recent books, asks to meet br. |
2805 | Ross has read "Why I Am a Guildsman" and hopes BR will speak in Montreal. |
2806 | In German. |
2807 | In German. |
2808 | "With best wishes from Rothschild. 24/4/55". |
2809 | "... To the best of my belief I have not got mss or typescripts of any book of mine though I have some portions of some of them. I have generally made it a practice to throw away mss or typescripts as soon as a book was published." Re Archives. |
2810 | In French. Rougier thanks BR for 2 "brochures" and discusses topics in the philosophy of mathematics and logic. |
2811 | Rouse warns BR of the use of a "radio telepathic instrument". One has been used to terrorize her, she claims. |
2812 | "I should be extremely grateful to you for a letter expressing approval" (of the engagement of BR and Alys). |
2813 | |
2814 | Alys is on a journey, refers to reading Hauptmann, and hopes BR is "not too much bored with thy Marx". |
2815 | A small piece of blank paper has been inserted between pp. 18-19 of Atkinson Firth's The Way to the Devil (Russell's Library, no. 1832). |
2816 | A cue card with "If they give you ruled paper, write the other way. Juan Ramon Jiminez" typed on it, was inserted between pp. 92-3 of David Karp's One (Russell's Library, no. 1740). |
2817 | A newspaper clipping from The Times, titled "Daughter of China" was inserted between the front endpapers of Han Suyin's The Crippled Tree (Russell's Library, no. 1739), it is a review of the book. |
2818 | A "review slip" and a receipt have been inserted between pp. 132-3 of Alexander Trocchi's Cain's Book (Russell's Library, no. 1735). |
2819 | This message is contained in a letter from Gladys Rinder to BR, document .054817, record 79611. "CEM delighted to have M.S.S., says she is 'just parching for one of his refreshing winds from the heights!'" |
2820 | BR, if he could be present at a centenary symposium on Whitehead, would recall his first meeting with Whitehead, in 1877. |
2821 | Rinder writes in her letter, document .054817, record 79611: "Also got message from Lady Ottoline 'Please tell BR....'" Ottoline writes that she and her husband have been driving around the country. Massingham asked her to send his love and says he thinks of him often. Ottoline hopes BR will send a message to Hirst and will be sorry to hear Sassoon is in France. The Morrells saw Asquith and Sir John Simon yesterday. |
2822 | |
2823 | The subscribers would like BR to give "the longer course" during the winter. |
2824 | |
2825 | James Ravell ("a coloured man") has translated Why I Am Not a Christian but it is expected to be suppressed. |
2826 | BR thanks Roux for the translation of Why I Am Not a Christian and terms the South African Government "the most zealously Christian Government in the world". |
2827 | Mrs. Roux reports the death of Edward Roux. |
2828 | BR writes: "Your husband was a worthy addition to the long list of victims of bigotry from Socrates to the present day." |
2829 | Rowntree, a Quaker C.O., is writing a handbook on war and the way out and wishes to quote BR's "Men fear death ..." passage. |
2830 | Roy, an Indian musician, asks BR about going to China. |
2831 | BR cannot lay his hands on Roy's questions. "In any case it is really difficult for me to find time to write long and serious letters. I get a good many letters making similar requests, and if I dealt with them as I should like to do, I should not have five minutes a day left for my own work." |
2832 | BR advises Roy to contact a Canadian committee, the National Committee for the Control of Radiation Hazards. |
2833 | Roy and her neighbour find BR's resignation as Chairman of CND to be quite a blow. |
2834 | Roy asks BR for a personal message on peace. |
2835 | BR provides a message on peace. (Schoenman annotated it "India (3) 15-3-63".) |
2836 | BR has read the article on Rammohan Roy and looked him up in Bentham's Works: "a truly great and remarkable man". |
2837 | On Rammohan Roy. The enclosed article is titled "Rammohan Roy and the Modern World". |
2838 | Roy sends BR a booklet that attempts to bridge science and religion. |
2839 | The Institute invites BR to chair a symposium on A.N. Whitehead's birth centenary. "It is a long time, too, since the Institute had a visit from you." |
2840 | Chetwynd asks BR to become a member of the Merioneth branch and for a donation; covenanted, it would be nearly doubled. |
2841 | This message from Frank Russell is contained in a letter from Gladys Rinder to BR, document .054819, record 79614. Frank writes about publishing matters including the problems in launching Roads to Freedom. Mentioned in his message are BR's bank account, the Century Company, Stanley Unwin, Dr. Carr, the Fellowship, Withers, and Lippincott. |
2842 | BR would like to join the Merioneth branch and covenant his annual subscription of £5. |
2843 | This message from Ottoline Morrell is contained in a letter from Gladys Rinder, document .054819, record 79614. Ottoline writes that "S. Sassoon writes that his admiration of you is unbounded." She also writes about Mrs. Geach whom she dislikes who was at a party hosted by Basil Blackwell. She notes that the Snowdon Lansdowne petition is getting "well signed." She also mentions the Billings case. |
2844 | Lloyd sends membership subscription forms for BR to sign. |
2845 | Royden has sometimes met BR on platforms. She heard his lecture on "Marriage". She has quoted it in the chapter on "Modern Love" in her book, which she sends to BR. (Not in Russell's library.) |
2846 | The Rubels employed a woman, Nancy Bowen, who said she had been employed at Beacon Hill School. She turned out to be very deficient, and Rubel wonders if she did, in fact, work for BR. |
2847 | Rubinstein, acting for Penguin Books, who intend to publish an unexpurgated edition of Lady Chatterly's Lover by D.H. Lawrence, seeks BR's willingness to appear as an expert witness and a brief summary of his positive view on publication of the book. |
2848 | BR hopes the defence of an unexpurgated Lady Chatterly's Lover will be successful, although he does not greatly admire the book. |
2849 | Re Canadian butter and the use of preservatives therein. Their use has always been over-estimated. |
2850 | Dated by BR. Reilly is Dean. Although it is not possible for BR to speak at Bryn Mawr, she would like him to stay with her and her mother and meet some faculty. |
2851 | Rutgers asks BR to read the enclosed short essay on the aim of animal life. |
2852 | Lord Rutherford has enjoyed The Conquest of Happiness but not BR's treatment of envy and jealousy. |
2853 | BR is "much honoured that you should have found any merit in my book." As for taking part in the House of Lords, "politics is [not] my metier". |
2854 | Rutter praises Political Ideals, the pamphlet. |
2855 | In French. This logician thanks BR for Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy but regrets something about a possible free copy of Principia. |
2856 | Rypins would like to resume contact with BR and see any letters he has from Bernard Shaw. |
2857 | BR is ill. He thinks that he did not preserve any letters from Shaw. |
2858 | BR is asked to comment on the writer's research work on "Dynamic Geometry". |
2859 | The writer asks for an interview with BR about his being conscripted into the British or Russian army, as he objects to taking life. |
2860 | On the desirability of Persia's (Iran's) independence, and BR's The Policy of the Entente, loaned to him by Lenzen. |
2861 | BR would like Sadigh to play his violin for him on Sept. 18, in front of 2 friends. |
2862 | Cambridge news, with many of BR's "society" friends mentioned. |
2863 | A pitiful letter on the eve of Chappelow's sentencing for conscientious objection. Russell made a holograph copy of it: document .055404a, record 92351. |
2864 | |
2865 | A short letter evidently on hearing of Charles Sanger's recent or possibly imminent death. |
2866 | Sanger, strongly anti-Russian, asks BR to agitate against the Entente treaty. |
2867 | Quoted in Sanger's letter to BR of 1920/07/28, same document no.: "... I cannot ask Mr. Withers to act for me, as he said he would have nothing more to do with any Russell divorce.... Val Worthington ... could easily see Bertie about evidence of adultery as I have none." |
2868 | Santayana is reviewing Philosophical Essays for "The Whited Sepulchre". |
2869 | BR has written "please return" at the top. Sassoon comments on a book by BR and his own shoulder wound. "i suppose one must go on until they get a bull's eye." |
2870 | |
2871 | This message from Elizabeth Russell is contained in a letter from Gladys Rinder to BR, document .054819, record 79614. She sends her love; she had enjoyed visiting him at Brixton Prison. "She has however been feeling that actions speak louder than words and was delighted to put it in practice last Wednesday." |
2872 | BR has written Siegfried Sassoon's name on a small slip. |
2873 | BR signed this letter "Philalethes". On a review of Counter-Attack. For the edited version in the Brixton Letters, see record 131571. |
2874 | Schiller feels he must respond to BR's "very interesting contentions of this evening" that truth cannot be the advantageous. |
2875 | Schlick thanks BR for consenting to be one of the editors of a new philosophical journal and for his suggestions of Nicod and Polish logicians as contributors. Reichenbach will send BR some of his offprints. |
2876 | BR will read Schlick's posthumous work as soon as he can. |
2877 | A "With Compliments" slip. |
2878 | Sinclair agrees with BR's recent articles and has a BR character in his new "Lanny Budd" book quoting one of them. BR, he says, once nominated him for the Nobel Prize. |
2879 | Schoenman reports on his trip to Israel so far and on fundraising in the U.S. |
2880 | On Schoenman's proposals for civil disobedience. BR cautions him about urgency with people who do not share the sense of urgency. Schoenman has annotated the top: "Britain (89) 16-8-60", for a volume of BR's political writings. |
2881 | Thanks for a weekly letter (from prison?). BR is not strong enough yet for discussion. |
2882 | On leaving Brixton and Holloway prisons and finding Schoenman's letter. In prison BR did not speak to any of the prisoners, "save to say good morning". |
2883 | Ralph Schoenman's mother expresses gratitude. |
2884 | A transcription of the original. "... We delight in him [ralph] and have, besides, grown to depend upon him for advice and information and sympathy." |
2885 | BR requests a labour permit for Schoenman, whom he will be paying £600 as his secretary. |
2886 | BR would like to know if Schoenman will undertake not to engage in illegal activities, despite the harm that would do. |
2887 | BR is "profoundly grateful" for the "delightful luncheon". |
2888 | BR requests an extension of Schoenman's visa. |
2889 | Scott asks this M.P. to contact the Home Office on behalf of Schoenman and his visa. |
2890 | Metzger sets out the Parliamentary plan to get Schoenman's visa extended. The document provides background on Schoenman. 5 copies and a list of M.P.s. |
2891 | Schoenman, about to leave the U.K., requests assurance that he will be permitted to return. |
2892 | This message from Frank Russell is contained in a letter from Gladys Rinder to BR, document .054821, record 79616. His message concerns financial publishing matters. He also writes about Cousens possibly making the index for Roads to Freedom. BR is to be given Elizabeth Russell's photograph which has been at Brixton Prison for three weeks. |
2893 | Woolf asks Sanger to review A.S. Eddington, The Internal Constitution of the Stars (Cambridge, 1926). The letter was found in BR's library copy of the book (Russell's Library, no. 2720), which has a review slip (providing the date) and "Sanger" stamped on the front free endpaper. |
2894 | In French. Schweitzer mentions BR's open letter to Eisenhower and Khrushchev. |
2895 | "Private". BR appeals to Schweitzer to attend a Committee of 100 demonstration. |
2896 | Urquhart encloses a mimeographed typescript of Schweitzer's book Peace or Atomic War? |
2897 | Mettler has been asked by Schweitzer to draw BR's attention to an article on nuclear disarmament in the enclosed journal, Hochland. |
2898 | On Alys and BR's separation. Scott mentions Frances Hand (née Fincke). |
2899 | Brock does not want to debate with BR about the war. |
2900 | BR has provided the year. Scott asks BR not to refer to their conversation of "a year ago", if Mildred talks with BR about their married life. |