Total Published Records: 135,556
BRACERS Notes
| Record no. | Notes, topics or text |
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| 3901 | Crawshay-Williams returns a work, presumably Max Born's pamphlet Physics and Metaphysics in which this note was found. |
| 3902 | On membership payments so that BR can have certified membership. |
| 3903 | Headed "For Rupert Crawshay-Williams", this writing is a criticism of his "Two Intellectual Temperaments", Question, 1 (Feb. 1968): 17-27. |
| 3904 | BR "begs" them to read We Accuse (as he did the Burns). |
| 3905 | Crone asks if BR recalls Stanley A. Mellor of Liverpool. |
| 3906 | Dated from the postmark. BR has also dated the letter. Crunden would like to see Beacon Hill School. She seems to call BR her "boy friend" (in quote marks). |
| 3907 | Cumming asks about the ethics of giving life. |
| 3908 | BR disagrees that even in the present nuclear age, bringing a child into this world is a sinful act. (First he runs through an abstract utilitarian calculation.) |
| 3909 | Curwen appears to disagree with BR on the prospects of education for peace. |
| 3910 | On education for peace (not likely to achieve that end). |
| 3911 | Dagenais asks if the Science Society of China invited BR to speak in 1920-21. |
| 3912 | BR has no recollection of the Science Society of China. |
| 3913 | Dakyns, widow of Arthur Dakyns' second marriage, thanks BR for remembering Arthur in his Autobiography. She has letters BR wrote to Arthur and his father (1895-1911) and quotes from a letter of January 1910 on the execution of Charles I and possibly of the House of Lords. |
| 3914 | BR asks for any letters that he wrote to Arthur Dakyns (died 1941) or his father. (None have come to light. K. Blackwell, 2014.) |
| 3915 | Daniel is the granddaughter of BR's cousin Sylvia Henley and is a philosophy student profiting from BR's books. |
| 3916 | BR would be delighted to see Daniel at Plas Penrhyn. |
| 3917 | D'Arcy has enjoyed reading BR's Autobiography. He recalls BR telling him at dinner a few years ago that he was still interested in "the mystical element". |
| 3918 | BR is pleased that Father D'Arcy wrote to him. |
| 3919 | Davies has paid BR's subscription to the Labour Party and offers to do so for the rest of BR's life. |
| 3920 | BR would prefer to pay his Labour Party subscription locally. |
| 3921 | De Bono is sending BR The Mechanism of Mind and explains his view of mind as non-computerlike and as patterning. |
| 3922 | BR looks forward to an opportunity to read de Bono's book. |
| 3923 | A cousin of Edith's brings her up to date on family news, with mention of the draft for the Vietnam War. |
| 3924 | BR writes on the death of Dedijer's eldest son. |
| 3925 | Ysabelle de Ranitz has asked about the copy of BR's book that Schoenman was to get signed for her. |
| 3926 | BR enjoyed their meeting. "i am reading your books with great satisfaction and should enjoy discussing them with you." |
| 3927 | Schoenman writes about a meeting with Deighton with a mention of "Paul". BR would be very pleased to see Edna O'Brien but in a few weeks' time "as he is anxious to finish his autobiography (1950-now)!" |
| 3928 | BR agrees that dictionaries often reflect prejudice. |
| 3929 | |
| 3930 | Ellis acknowledges receipt of BR's letter. |
| 3931 | BR asks for advice in obtaining a grant to surface the road leading to Plas Penrhyn and beyond. |
| 3932 | Removed from between pp. 200-1 of BR's copy of Aubrey's Brief Lives (Russell's Library, no. 1243). Some pages were changed in BR's copy. |
| 3933 | BR thanks Dunham for The Heretics. |
| 3934 | Re "The Existence of God" debate, Dunn disagrees that the moral standing of the Commandant of Belsen is less than that of Sir Stafford Cripps and the Archbishop of Canterbury. |
| 3935 | BR asks Eames to telephone his secretary upon her arrival. |
| 3936 | Eames encloses her article, "The Consistency of Russell's Realism". |
| 3937 | |
| 3938 | BR is asked whether he will be attending the State Opening of Parliament. |
| 3939 | The Labour group in the Town Council wishes to put forward BR's name for the Freedom of the City Award. A précis of BR's response is in the upper left corner. |
| 3940 | |
| 3941 | Also in file: a 2nd TL(CAR), document .110463. |
| 3942 | Eke congratulates BR for his "slashing attack on 'gentlemen'"; also on E.D. Morel. |
| 3943 | Ellisor asks for an autographed photo. |
| 3944 | BR sends an autographed photo. "The books I enjoyed most as a child were those of Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear." |
| 3945 | Foreman requests permission to quote BR's letter to Royal W. France. |
| 3946 | BR grants permission for the E.C.L.C. to use his letter "in any you see fit". |
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| 3950 | "In regard to your letter of the 25th October, we regret to inform you that this record by Bertrand Russell has been deleted, and we are unable to help you further." See record 4063. |
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| 3953 | For the ribbon copy (with postscript) of this letter, see record 125405. |
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| 3971 | Also in file: a TL(CAR), document 110507. |
| 3972 | |
| 3973 | "Could you please deal with the enclosed letter from one 'S.S. Hodgson' or some such indecipherable signature. In any previous attempts to turn his fiction into plays, BR has always insisted on the need for him to see the finished typescript." Letter from "S.S. Hodgson" is not enclosed. |
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| 3976 | Also in file: a TL(CAR), document 110557. |
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| 3984 | Also on file: a TL(CAR), document .110570. |
| 3985 | The letter appoints BR as honorary attaché at the British Embassy, Paris. Enclosure is BR's honorary attaché card. |
| 3986 | The document number was formerly 110576. |
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| 3990 | |
| 3991 | |
| 3992 | Newsclips, documents .110585-.110588. |
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| 3994 | |
| 3995 | BR suggests covenanting a donation to the BRPF. |
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