BR requests a permanent reader's ticket for Christopher Farley, including access to Colindale.

Also in file: a second TL(CAR), document .110268.

Schoenman requests "reading cards" for Eric Blumenson and Joe Meyer.

Brittain thanks BR for his full letter. She will take up the matter with Peace News.

Britton writes in distress requesting that BR send a letter of support for his application to the Royal Literary Fund.

Also in file: a TL(CAR), document .110272b.
 

BR has written to the Royal Literary Fund on Britton's behalf.

Broad cannot find a way to pay £20 to Constance Malleson but suggests how BR might manage it.

(The envelope enclosing this letter is not addressed but is annotated by Malleson. The letter may have been a gift to the Russell Archives.)

BR asks Broad to advise Ellen Haring of Wellesley College.

Schoenman asks Broad to write BR for his 94th birthday.

John G. Slater and K. Blackwell have been in touch with her about "the YMCA Government of China" book typescript.

On China.

Removed from BR's copy of A History of Western Philosophy (Russell's Library, no. 3136).

Lieut. Brown of the U.S.A.F. corrects a point re the atoms of Epicurus in History of Western Philosophy.

Brown's printed card states that BR's clothes are ready for fitting.

These German correspondents are unknown. The verso is a depiction of "Deutsche Luftkreuzer Bombardieren die Englische Kuste" (German Zeppelins bombarding the English coast).

Brudno would like both BR and Dora to return to Cleveland, and asks BR for lecture subjects.

Brune thanks BR for the pipe and jocularly asks for his left foot.

BR sends Brune "an old and rather well-used pipe".

Buber has sent "the manuscript" with his letter of April 15.

BR is asked whether he received an express letter from Martin Buber posted on March 4, 1962.
 

Schoenman thanks Buber for his message, which will please BR. (It is included in Into the Tenth Decade.)

BR sends Buber literature on the Peace Foundations.

Bunge and Marta Bunge have named their son after BR.

Burbank tells BR that he is more interesting in person than in his books.

Note in Edith Russell's hand: "This is from the chap who knocked BR down inadvertently."

Burdett is "touched and delighted" to hear that BR would like them to meet.

Burn thanks the russells for drinks on her birthday and a gold-medal cyclamen.

Burn thanks the Russells for allowing a Hungarian friend, Erno, to meet BR, despite the thought of "another potential maniac".

Burn is concerned about BR's illness, particularly as workmen are in the house.

Burn encloses an outline of "A Dinner Party of Guests You Might Like Not to Choose" (document .110301).

BR thanks "Micky and Mary" for the posthumous missive with the signatures of his heroes. For an image of the signed ribbon copy, see record 121102.

A transcription of document .047923; BR has corrected it.

Bynum had to cancel his appointment to talk about "your discovery of Russell's paradox and your correspondence with Gottlob Frege".

Pollitt invites BR to come to Cambridge to receive honorary membership in the Union.

BR declines to visit Cambridge. He was an ordinary member of the Union for some 20 years beginning in 1890 or 1891 and wonders if he became a life member.

Also in file: a transcription, TL(CAR), document .110317b. A leaflet for the Presidential election of the Society.

The Camerons thank BR for vol. 1 of his Autobiography. He recalls arguing about Plato with BR in the Donnelly-Finch household. Peggy refers to her father's rendition of "Harvard's standard professional speech about the deplorable loss of the three great philosophers".

The microfilm of BR's Autobiography is still in the vault of the Cincinnati Library.

Cant presented BR as a Lord Rectorship candidate at Glasgow in 1919. His writings have been a guide to her ever since.

BR is glad that some of his works have been of help to Cant.

Carmiel queries BR on Inquiry into Meaning and Truth.

BR explains that he means by "first language" a language solely of object words.

Robinson is the mother of Jackie Robinson. She asks for a contribution.

Hobday claims to have read almost all of BR's books and encloses an unpublished work, "Press Conference at the Pentagon". A draft reply from BR is on the letter.

BR endorses the Carver work but directs his resources to work against nuclear war and to the BRPF.

BR is most honoured by the Carver Award.

BR encloses (not present) his Manchester speech and 2 letters concerning it.

Schoenman includes literature on the Peace Foundations and solicits financial support.

Catlin has taken BR's advice on not replying to the American Tom Paine Society. He praises Has Man a Future? but recommends a reference to John Strachey's book.

Re auction of BR's goods to pay fine and court costs.

Reproduced in S. Turcon, "Russell Sold Up", Russell, n.s. 6 (1986): 77-8.

Attached is Catling & Sons' inventory of BR's goods as auctioned, with prices, document .110337.

Francis thanks BR for agreeing to be on the British Committee to celebrate Rolland's centenary.

In French.

Marie Rolland hopes BR will come to France for the Rolland centenary.

BR agrees to be on the Centenary Committee but "all my time is fully consumed trying to prevent nuclear warfare."

Wheeler sends BR the "Biological Revolution" issue of The Centre Magazine.

BR has passed the Center's articles to the editorial board "of our new publication The Spokesman".

Chambers presents detailed criticisms of Roads to Freedom, which BR gave to Chambers.

Chance has a mutual acquaintance in Tom Brown, BR's tailor. Chance recalls Trinity personalities of 1912-14, although he was a horseman and not a scholar.

Also in file: a second TL(CAR), document .110348.

BR was pleased to read Chance's memories of Trinity.

Chang sends BR a silk robe in Chinese style.

Chao was impressed with BR's recent NBC interview.

BR encloses typed directions for driving from London to Plas Penrhyn.

Also in file: a second TL(CAR), document .110352.

Schoenman thanks Chao for his kind letter to BR and suggests he contact T. Schoenman in Burbank.

BR asks if Hamilton knows of any papers relating to his family or himself that might be available for purchase.

Also in file: a second TLS(X), document .110361.

Chatterji asks BR about Rabindranath Tagore.

Also in file: a second TL(CAR), document .110363.

BR disagrees with the "vague nonsense" in Tagore's talk about the infinite. Dr. Seal and Cambridge.

Chauncey (1905-1997) was Assistant Dean of the Faculty at Harvard until 1945, and chair of the scholarship committee. (He later was instrumental in developing standard college entrance tests.) Chauncey had majored in philosophy at Harvard. Here he explains how John Conrad Russell could apply for a Harvard scholarship.

Chauncey begins his letter:

"Your father was kind enough to have dinner last evening with a small discussion group, to which I belong, and on the way home, he mentioned that you were interested in the possibility of coming to Harvard and also in applying for a scholarship. I promised your father that I should write you and explain the situation."

Chesters' mother, Lena, was BR's cook at Dorset House in the 1940s. She has happy memories of many times with BR, although Conrad capsized the rowboat they hired in Regents Park.

BR is very glad to have Chesters' recollections.

This parson confesses that he owes a great deal to BR's writings, although he is pained at BR saying that mathematics is tautologous.

Also in file: a second TL(CAR), document .110368; and a TLS, document .110370.

Although BR signed the unsent TLS, the sentence about mathematics being tautologous is revised in the sent version and a sentence about mathematical symbols is added.

The students favour use of the Boxer Indemnity for education. Several academic Chinese are mentioned: Drs. Tsai, Hwang, Kuo, Wang.

Gerard would like to tape-record BR's recollectons of D.H. Lawrence.

BR is too busy working against nuclear war to see Gerard.

Clark, finding that BR's number is unlisted, asks to visit him.

The Clarks are very grateful to have had tea with BR.

Clark has heard from Crawshay-Williams that BR will see him about the Huxley family.

Clarke believes that much of the conservative vote in Chelsea lacks conviction. He is an antiquarian bookseller.

Also in file: a second TL(CAR), document .110384.

BR thanks Cleaver for an inscribed copy of Soul on Ice.

Cockerell is concerned for BR's health.

Cohen needs to know BR's skin colour for the embroidered portrait she is making.

On BR's 90th birthday.

BR sends typed copies of Gaitskell's reply to his neutralism article and BR's own rejoinder, for possible use with the leaflet that Collins proposes.

Full name: The Committee to Celebrate the 90th Birthday Anniversary of Dr. Harry F. Ward.

France is grateful for BR's tribute to Ward.

BR is offered the Honorary Presidency of the Academie Internationale de la Paix, Brussels.

The Council confers upon BR its "Diploma" with the "Medaille de Reconnaissance" for his intervention during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

BR greatly appreciates the honour conferred by the Council.

Re meeting BR. She wishes Miss Sheepshanks were not coming for the weekend. Vernon Lee said that BR was charming to her.

Copi asks to see BR.

Copleston could not accept Ayer's invitation to the Café Royal dinner for BR's 90th birthday. He recalls that "your friendly talk when we were entertained by the B.B.C. [in 1948] greatly helped to diminish the embarrassing aspect of the situation."

BR hopes it will be possible for them to meet again.

Dated from the reference to the Bernard Shaw letter used in vol. 2 of BR's Autobiography. Cousens writes about her life with Hilderic and since his death.

Cowell met BR at the UNESCO Conference in Paris, 1949, when he "embroiled" BR in a trip to Chartres. He poses questions on Leibniz.

Also in file: a second TL(CAR), document .110403.

BR answers several questions on his study of Leibniz but declines to read Cowell's book because of his work for human survival.

The copy signature is not in BR's hand.

BR agrees to lease 55 Overstrand Mansions. He provides as references his bank and the landlord company for 34 Russell Chambers.

Crawshay-Williams provides news of John Conrad and Susan Russell, who have left their children with BR because "he has the funds".

Dated from Monk, 2: 356.

Because of the people mentioned, the letter seems to have been written just after BR's 95th birthday party.

BR is ill at Christmas.