BRACERS Notes

Record no. Notes, topics or text
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.

Also in file: "Statement about Lady Chatterly's Lover", document .055000a. BR asserts that Lawrence "had no pornographic intent whatever".

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.

The surname is doubtful.

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.

The document lists the sponsors, directors and councils of the BRPF.

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.