BRACERS Notes

Record no. Notes, topics or text
3301

Topolski tells BR that the next issue of Topolski's Chronicle will have 3 drawings of BR by him. He asks for a comment to print. Edith notes that the request was declined.

3302

Young, Topolski's secretary, wants BR's permission to put his head in a coronation procession. Topolski has "numerous drawings of Lord Russell". Enclosed is Topolski's Chronicle, 4, nos. 7-8, whole nos. 67-8 (1956).

3303

Tork, a displaced Estonian in W. Germany (U.S. zone), would like a job in order to support his intellectual work.

3304

Townley writes on N.C.F. matters.

3305

Towell asks about Broom Hall, Teddington (where Frank Russell lived).

3306

An invitation to dine in Cambridge, Mass. BR has indicated April 16.

3307

Woodcock notes that BR has written to the New York Herald Tribune that the European edition was in error in saying BR had protested against the T.U.C. loan to the Belgian General Federation of Labour.

3308

The T.G.W.U. congratulates BR for his role in the Cuban Missile Crisis.

3309

The T.G.W.U.'s letter has given BR the greatest encouragement.

3310

Trautwine greatly appreciates BR's "Is a Permanent Peace Possible?" and encloses (not present) a paper of his own.

3311
Tree, a poet, would like to see BR one day.
3312

Trend reports to BR that Eugenio d'Ors of the Institut d'Estudis Catalans would like him to lecture in Spain for a week.

3313

Trevor-Roper tells BR that the Foreign Literature Publishing House, Moscow, will pay royalties to BR if he asks for them.

3314

BR has been reading "with the greatest interest" Trevor-Roper's broadcasts as reported in The Listener. (They concerned "The Rise of Christian Europe".)

3315

Duff seeks a donation towards a portrait bust of Lord Adrian upon the Master's retirement.

3316

BR is willing to subscribe £25 towards Adrian's retirement gift.

3317

These booksellers and court stationers present their invoice for BR's order of stationery. Edith Russell notes at the top that the order was repeated on 1953/01/15 and 1953/04/08.

3318
3319

Amethe von Zeppelin's husband, Michelangelo, is dying.

3320

Re Boxer Indemnity Fund. Tsai, Chancellor of the National University of Peking, encloses a memorandum by him.

3321

Tucker thanks BR for his services last Thursday week at a meeting for conscientious objectors. He refers to a Frenchman who will be executed if he returns to France.

3322

Tuckett returns BR's manuscript (perhaps that on Bergson) and will be at the Heretics.

3323

Tudor-Hart is joyously grateful for BR's treatment of her in Cornwall.

3324

She wants BR's opinion on her book ms. and notes that he is being summonsed.

3325

Tufts invites BR to speak to the mathematics and philosophy students at Chicago.

3326

From the Oxford observatory, Turner is sorry for the unspecified things that BR has mentioned, but "the Society" must not shirk any of the consequences of absolute freedom of thought.

3327

Turner asks for a meeting with BR for his book on Rupert Brooke.

3328

Turner refers to the Labour member, Trotter. She would like to hear BR on "infinity" and will look up trains. The year is a guess, and is now changed from 1908 to 1911?/. in "Bertrand Russell Speaks to Chicagoans", an interview, Mary Borden related that she obtained BR's permission to attend one of his Cambridge lectures on mathematics. This was surely in the period 1910-16. See the interview as reprinted in Russell, o.s. no. 14 (Summer 1974): 16-18.

3329

Turner likes The Conquest of Happiness and asks BR to write a thought on a post card.

3330
3331

Re the Cranium Club dinner and various members. Turner refers to BR's letter stating that he (BR) ought to resign.

3332

BR tells Turner that his account of BR "seems to me to contain no misrepresentation".

3333

Turnpenny encloses a synopsis of "Alice in Blunderland" and asks for BR's permission to quote an extract.

3334

Edith Russell tells Turnpenny that BR "begs" him not to send the ms. of his book as BR has no time to read anything but the facts concerned with nuclear warfare.

3335
He asks BR to suggest literature in favour of "communistic anarchy".
3336

Urquhart asks for something of BR's to be auctioned in conjunction with the treason trials in South Africa. She met BR during Schweitzer's last visit to London.

3337

BR declines to support Lithuli's nomination. BR knows nothing of him but what he has read in the newspapers.

3338

Schoenman tells her that he has sent the ms. she sent to Charles Ellis to Allen and Unwin.

3339

Utley is immensely glad that BR spent time talking with her about economics and politics, though she still prefers Communism.

3340
3341
3342

BR tells Utley it is impossible for him to see her before she leaves for Africa.

3343

Edith explains why BR cannot see Utley in the period after his illness, when his schedule is booked for weeks, even months, ahead. She defends the way Schoenman spoke to Utley. Edith speaks of BR's energies.

3344
Utley wants badly to see BR again.
3345
3346

BR asks for Nation's Business for October 1959.

3347

Ullendorff, a professor of semitic languages and literature, has read BR's "The Queen of Sheba's Nightmare" too late to mention it in his enclosed article on her.

3348

BR's describes Ullendorff's article as "profoundly interesting". It is on the Queen of Sheba.

3349
3350

Ulrich reports the opinions of C.H. Langford at the University of Michigan on Principia Mathematica.

3351

BR tells Ulrich what Whitehead did as a preliminary to Volume IV of Principia.

3352

Notice of the inaugural meeting concerning the War Department's use of a village as firing range.

3353

BR hopes Underwood's group will win a complete victory over the War Office.

3354

A "with compliments" review card was inserted between pp. 74-5 from Mass-Observation's Puzzled People (Russell's Library, no. 1947). The book was to be published 27 May 1947.

3355

Bonner asks BR to be President d'Honneur for the next International Congress.

3356

BR is asked to sign a letter to President Kennedy re the imprisonment of Carl Braden and Frank Wilkinson. Harvey O'Connor's enclosure describes their cases.

3357

A note with envelope was inserted between the front endpapers of Max Beerbohm's Works and More (Russell's Library, no. 1914).

3358

Judd asks for a message for the luncheon for Philip Noel-Baker.

3359

BR declines the luncheon as he will be seeing U Thant anyway.

3360

An invitation to a luncheon in U Thant's honour.

3361

BR is asked for his discarded clothing for refugees by the Penrhyndeudraeth branch.

3362

The annual subscription to the UN Association's Penrhyndeudraeth branch is due.

3363

BR requests a list of the member states of the UN.

3364

Moomaw asks BR to see Dr. Byung-uk Ahn.

3365

BR asks that Dr. Byung-uk Ahn visit him in Wales.

3366

Robbins requests permission to reprint "Human Nature and Politics" in Kontrinente. Their Erziehung printed another article in April 1952.

3367

Meyers encloses (not present) a pamphlet, Disarmament: the Intensified Effort. 1955-1958.

3368

Thompson loans BR the October 1959 issue of Nation's Business from the US Embassy's commercial library.

3369

BR returns a magazine.

3370

Streibert invites BR to reflect on the future for an international radio symposium.

3371

Jameson can forward BR's statement and make a tape recording as well.

3372

Taylor asks for a list of BR's articles written in the last 6 months on Soviet domestic or foreign policies.

3373

Wheeler is sending BR the book version of his TV conversation in 1951.

3374

Philip van Doren Stern would like to see Lord John Russell's papers in BR's hands.

3375

BR provides a list of his articles "Bearing on Russia" in the last 6 months. Most of his time since then has been occupied with technical philosophy.

3376

James tells BR that his "conversation" transferred easily into type.

3377

Minty asks BR to attend a lecture by Herbert Samuel on "The Organization of the Empire".

3378

Upcott asks to read BR's lecture on Mill to the British Academy.

3379

Urmson responds to BR's review of Philosophical Analysis. He is writing an entry on BR for Les Grands Courants de la Pensée Mondiale Contemporaine.

3380

BR comments on Urmson's portrait of him.

3381

Uvarov writes in detail (on Beacon Hill School letterhead) of his teaching of science and languages at the school.

3382

The assistant registrar tells Eugene Uvarov that his diploma will be sent to him at Beacon Hill School.

The letter was found in BR's copy of E.H. Neville's Prolegomena to Analytical Geometry.

3383
Varjas thanks BR for interceding for him and goes on to discuss logic, philosophy and the state of society.
3384

In German.

About her man, Alexander Varjas.

3385

Yolland casts some doubt on Varjas but will work on his behalf.

3386

Kuh encloses today's Arbeiter-Zeitung, Vienna, with BR's letter re Varjas. Kuh will doubtless soon publish BR's message to Hungary's public prosecutor.

3387

Ritook is very critical of Varjas. She refers to BR's letter to the Hungarian Attorney General on his case.

3388

Veblen is having mimeographed notes on geometry sent to BR.

3389

The Volkhovsky correspondence is the subject of an article by John Slatter, "Bertrand Russell and the Volkhovsky Letters, 1920- 26", Russell, n.s. 2, no. 2 (1982): 7-19. She discusses Russia, her family of emigres, and her unrequited love for BR.

3390

Von Zeppelin, who knew BR before the war and who last heard from him in 1950, would like to know if he is really coming to Vienna for the Pugwash Conference.

3391

Von Zeppelin is impressed by Edith's "past achievements" in the Cirque d'Hiver and has pawned her typewriter.

3392

Von Zeppelin is extremely grateful for a cheque that the Russells have had sent from America. She asks if BR knows that Nagel and Newman's Gödel's Proof is dedicated to him.

3393

BR and Edith will be very happy to see her on Sept. 22.

3394

The Russells were touched by Countess von Zeppelin's kindness to them. Edith sends cognac.

3395

The Russells ask Countess Zeppelin to accept the U.S. dollar equivalent of £100, to be sent by Miss Louise Watson, who manages Edith's money in America.

3396

Edith orders 2 bottles of V.S.O.P. cognac to be sent to Amethe in Vienna.

3397
Vachha seeks BR's advice about his future studies.
3398

On BR's paper, "L'Idée de l'Ordre...."

3399

In French.

Writing from Parador de Gredos, Spain, Valentin refers to young John and Kate. She refers also to books not having arrived.

3400

Vambery attended BR's Fabian Lecture on Oct. 22 and asks permission to present his notes on it as an interview with BR to be published in a Budapest newspaper.