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.

On voting details in the U.S. Presidential election.

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.

Watson responds to BR's inquiries on image and recollection in psychology and encloses notes.

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.

Dated with reference to the letters by Wells and BR in Letters from Russian Prisons.

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.

Whitehead comments on "Absolute Direction" re BR's review of Heymans (B&R C95.01).

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".

Lowe identifies Charlie as Jessie's uncle (in vol. 2).

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.

On the "failed" tea-party with Vernon Lee.

3475

BR has annotated this "Socialist millionaire"'s letter.

Wilshire is constructively critical of BR's references to syndicalism in Why Men Fight.

3476
3477
3478
3479
3480
3481
3482
3483

Von Wright, for Wittgenstein's literary executors, proposes the publication of Wittgenstein's letters to BR.

BR's reply is in RA1 750, 10 Nov. 1953.

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.

Wood discusses letters he has found: to Beatrice Webb, Clifford Allen, Mrs. Trevelyan, Miss Rinder. He encloses them (not present in file).

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.