Total Published Records: 135,556
BRACERS Notes
| Record no. | Notes, topics or text |
|---|---|
| 3401 | In French with two dozen questions in English re BR's published writings. Van Cutsem was doing a bibliography. |
| 3402 | BR tells this bibliographer: "I am immensely impressed by the trouble you are taking and I wish that I could think that I deserve it." |
| 3403 | BR is invited again to address the Philosophical Society of Amsterdam and probably the students at the University of Leiden. |
| 3404 | Vander Linden is prepared to substantiate claims of German atrocities in Belgium. |
| 3405 | In French. The surname is spelt "Vassiliev" in the signature. On BR's letter to a commission; on international meetings. |
| 3406 | Vaux sends Edith £5 for the sale of her tire chains, which he removed at the time that Caroline Robbens sold Edith's car in the U.S.A. |
| 3407 | Vazir encloses (not present) a translation of BR's message in Ogonyek. The editors did not include BR's remarks on Khrushchev from a telephone interview. |
| 3408 | For translation, BR sends Vazir his answers to a questionnaire as they were published in Soviet Russia. BR has written Vazir's address on the letter. |
| 3409 | The writer refers to his brother's manuscripts on philosophy. |
| 3410 | Congratulations on BR's Fellowship. |
| 3411 | Vestey invites BR to visit Kingston Russell House in Longbredy, Dorset. |
| 3412 | BR has long intended to visit Kingston Russell House. |
| 3413 | On "The Essence of Religion". |
| 3414 | Vetter discloses that Countess Zeppelin is in need of support. |
| 3415 | BR hopes to find a way of helping Countess Zeppelin. |
| 3416 | |
| 3417 | On education, following BR's book. |
| 3418 | Edith Russell is invited to a meeting in Toronto re "World Peace Year". The agenda, list of directors (including Edith) and the 15 July 1961 issue of Voice of Women are enclosed. |
| 3419 | |
| 3420 | Mueller invites Edith to join the American branch of Voice of Women. |
| 3421 | Mrs. R.S. Early reports the Calgary branch of Voice of Women's commendation of BR and Edith Russell for going to prison rather than forsake their principles. |
| 3422 | Dennett asks BR to refer to specific laws for his statement on the illegality of disseminating birth control information to uneducated people in England. |
| 3423 | Waley sends BR an article with more of the Chinese poems that BR heard at Trevelyan's. |
| 3424 | Waley would like to see her in London. |
| 3425 | BR comments on Waley's translations of Chinese poetry, "refreshing and delicate". |
| 3426 | Edith invites Waley to Wales — "my husband was greatly pleased to see you at the [90th birthday] dinner", which gave no time to talk. |
| 3427 | Wallas asks BR about Jevons' laws of thought. |
| 3428 | BR writes from the Deanery, Bryn Mawr. |
| 3429 | Ward congratulates BR on his Fellowship and thinks BR might make "an excellent monograph" of chapters 1, 2 and the appendix on Lotze. Re An Essay on the Foundations of Geometry. |
| 3430 | Ward asks BR if he would serve, if elected, on the Council of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies. |
| 3431 | Campbell, daughter of James and Mary Ward, asks BR to look at her new book ms., "The Cruel Century". Enclosed are her notes on the book. |
| 3432 | BR has provided the year. She refers to BR remembering a poem by Leopardi. |
| 3433 | BR's syllabus is "first-rate" for the London School of Economics. But there must be six lectures. The day of the month looks like "4" but could well be "11". The letter is published as dated the 11th. |
| 3434 | A "with compliments" slip was inserted between pp. 86-7 of World Technology and Human Design (Russell's Library, no. 1896). |
| 3435 | The letter is a result of BR's new title. He hopes that his grandfather's robes will turn up. |
| 3436 | Holograph note with only Beatrice Webb's name in BR's hand. |
| 3437 | A transcription of document .056199; also a carbon copy. |
| 3438 | |
| 3439 | On the Wimbledon by-election: "We do so want men like you in the house." |
| 3440 | Ethel Wedgwood wants BR to list his writings on universals. |
| 3441 | Ralph has seen BR's letter to Josiah Wedgwood and writes of the war and old friends with a reference to the "Wheeler episode" in the U.S. |
| 3442 | Welby has found The Principles of Mathematics absorbing. |
| 3443 | On Isaac Don Levine's collection of letters and Levine's wish that Wells would write an introduction to them. |
| 3444 | BR comments at length on The Open Conspiracy and seeks Wells' help in fundraising for Beacon Hill School. |
| 3445 | Wells sets out his attitude to conscientious objectors and the Labour Leader group. |
| 3446 | H.G. Wells' son provides theories of the origin of the British rabbit. |
| 3447 | |
| 3448 | An officer, West writes to support BR after hearing of his being banned from prohibited areas. |
| 3449 | The year is provided in Edith Russell's hand with a query. Mackenzie, who heard BR lecture to the Fabian Nursery, describes her non-militaristic approach as an elementary schoolteacher. |
| 3450 | West tells the story of Anthony West, H.G. Wells' illegitimate son by her. |
| 3451 | BR sends West literature on the BRPF. |
| 3452 | BR has provided the year. |
| 3453 | BR provides a lengthy abstract of M. Pieri, I Principii della Geometria di Posizione. BR does not include his sender's address. Presumably he is at home. He asks Whitehead to "Please keep or return this [letter]." |
| 3454 | A transcription of document .057507; also a carbon copy. |
| 3455 | Re furniture belonging to "Mrs. North Whitehead", i.e. Evelyn. |
| 3456 | North Whitehead, born Dec. 31, 1891, writes expectantly of a meeting with BR. |
| 3457 | "Private". Roberts asks what BR thinks of North's character and of his strong inclination to go to East Africa. |
| 3458 | A dinner invitation and Evelyn's health. |
| 3459 | "Mummy wants you to know" what the Whiteheads know about Eric's probable loss in combat. The letter is addressed to "Charlie". |
| 3460 | On the series of sensation-intensities. |
| 3461 | BR has annotated the letter. |
| 3462 | BR is invited to become Patron of the newly formed Voltaire Society at Oxford, and to be guest of honour at the annual dinner, March 5. Enclosed is a printed card listing the officers and members. |
| 3463 | BR mistakenly addresses this reply to "Mr. Gardener". Carboch's title in the Society is "Gardener". BR would like to attend the dinner in May 1958. |
| 3464 | A "with compliments" slip. |
| 3465 | In German. The enclosed photograph is of a sculpture by Willi. |
| 3466 | A photograph of BR's appreciative letter on Willi's sculpture. |
| 3467 | |
| 3468 | |
| 3469 | |
| 3470 | Also in file: a second TL(CAR), document .155223. |
| 3471 | In German. |
| 3472 | |
| 3473 | |
| 3474 | Dated by BR. |
| 3475 | BR has annotated this "Socialist millionaire"'s letter. |
| 3476 | |
| 3477 | |
| 3478 | |
| 3479 | |
| 3480 | |
| 3481 | |
| 3482 | |
| 3483 | Von Wright, for Wittgenstein's literary executors, proposes the publication of Wittgenstein's letters to BR. |
| 3484 | |
| 3485 | Wodehouse is proud that BR has enjoyed his books and read Satan in the Suburbs the other day. |
| 3486 | A letter in homage to Wodehouse's Bertie Wooster novels. |
| 3487 | Wood writes from Australia about History of Western Philosophy. |
| 3488 | Vinogradoff, who knew BR as a child, holds him to be "probably the greatest intellect alive anywhere". |
| 3489 | "The Basis of Realism" is biographically important. BR has begun to think about the account of "My Philosophical Development" to be included in Wood's other book. |
| 3490 | |
| 3491 | Wood has heard from the Brussels man (van Cutsem) who is compiling a bibliography of BR. |
| 3492 | |
| 3493 | Quine encloses transcriptions of four letters from BR and gives his views on the rights in them. |
| 3494 | Mary Seaton Wood acknowledges Quine's sending copies of BR's letters. |
| 3495 | Carr-Saunders asks BR if Alan Wood may look at Beatrice Webb's papers concerning him. |
| 3496 | Stevens objects to BR's jibe, in Wood's book, about the alleged backwardness of Oxford science in the 1890s, and to Wood's treatment of sex and marriage. |
| 3497 | She was Mary Seaton. She proposes arrangements for dinner with the Woods and Morris Weitz and his wife. |
| 3498 | BR's obituary of Alan Wood "was written from the heart." BR makes a fundraising suggestion. |
| 3499 | Also in file: a second TL(CAR), document .155238. |
| 3500 | Mary Wood sends a half-pound of farm butter for BR, and lurid-coloured cigarettes for Edith. |
