She wants to purchase a gold pocket-watch.

She is sending three gold pocket-watches on approval; shipping list is attached (sent under separate cover).

She is returning three gold pocket-watches; not suitable.

Re repair of pocket watch. There is also an invoice indicating that Edith Russell purchased a pocket watch on 21 November 1969.

"I have been very much aware of the extent of the movement in Canada for I have received many hundreds of letters in the past weeks from Canadians, and I have been familiar with the vigorousness and efficacy of the Canadian movement for nuclear disarmament."

Re the storage of her goods and effects. Enclosed are a storage estimate, an inventory list prepared by the company and a handwritten list by Edith Russell indicating the items went into storage on 21 February 1951.

Re: Elizabeth Tichay.

All Edith's goods are to be delivered to 6, Paradise Walk, Chelsea on 11 February 1953; the account to be sent to 41, Queen's Road, Richmond.

Receipt is for a subscription for a membership.

Ms. and drawings are re "Birotor".

Forms concern Edith's account at Selfridges.

Ts. is titled "The United Peoples Association".

"Thank you very much for the cheque for £17 for the sale of five of my dresses. I believe you still have the following dresses and coats to sell for me:" a list of nine dresses including prices follows.

"The majority of people the world over, I believe, are still surprisingly indifferent and even opposed to any form of world government or even to banning nuclear warfare. It seems to me that we must convert more people to our way of thinking by coming at them from various directions and in various ways in order to break through the apathy of people of differing temperaments and capabilities, traditions and circumstances."

Lists are of dresses sold for Edith Russell; all but one are dated 1952, the other is from 1953. Lists include prices.

Typed on copy of letter sent to The Observer, signed "Concerned Mother".

On the verso of Todd's letter.

On the verso of Toffolo's letter. Re: infidelity.

Invitation to an exhibition of paintings.

BR appreciates that Togliani has painted him.

Re Toldi's American Kaleidoscope (Russell's Library, no. 2499); American youth and the Amish in Pennsylvania.

On the verso of Toldi's letter. BR gives permission for Toldi to quote from his letter of 5 August 1960.

A thank-you for autographed books to raise funds for the education of Tibetan children.

Agrees to meet him.

De la Torre translated the Reith Lectures into Spanish for the BBC Transcription Service.

BR has not been able to get a newsclip from a Hungarian paper translated yet. (Not present.)

Re: Leslie L. Erdos. BR is unable to recommend him, doesn't know his work.

Re: anti-nuclear work.

"Some years ago when you had trouble with garbled newspaper reports of your views about the atom bomb you startled two Cambridge undergraduates living at the top of a staircase in St. John's by paying them the honour of a visit. Even though we were reading for the Moral Sciences Tripos we did not on that occasion find much to say, though you were very considerate to us."

Townsend's 1948 interview with BR is B&R E48.03. [K. Blackwell corresponded with Townsend about that interview some 45 years later.]

Townsend asks BR to read and comment on his new book, The Family Life of Old People (1957).

Re Joe Toyoshima.