BRACERS Notes

Record no. Notes, topics or text
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.

BR thanks Edwards for sending him The Encyclopedia of Philosophy. "I look forward to reading from them...."

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".

3947
3948
3949
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.

3951
3952
3953

For the ribbon copy (with postscript) of this letter, see record 125405.

3954
3955
3956
3957
3958
3959
3960
3961
3962
3963
3964
3965
3966
3967
3968
3969
3970
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.

3974
3975
3976

Also in file: a TL(CAR), document 110557.

3977
3978
3979
3980
3981
3982
3983
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.

3987
3988
3989
3990
3991
3992

Newsclips, documents .110585-.110588.

3993
3994
3995

BR suggests covenanting a donation to the BRPF. 

3996
3997
3998
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