Total Published Records: 135,556
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. |
| 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. |
