BRACERS Notes

Record no. Notes, topics or text
46702
46703

Tear-sheet is from The Christian Register Unitarian, containing a commentary supporting BR.

46704
46705
The envelope has a photograph of BR lecturing pasted on it.
46706
46707
46708
46709

Cohen arranged a lecture and a debate on companionate marriage in New York and Boston 12 years earlier.

46710
46711

Two copies of a letter to the editor of the New York Times.

46712
46713

Full name: California State Prison at San Quentin Department of Education. Shuder was the director of education and one of BR's students at Harvard in 1914.

46714

Ts. is titled: "Has the Bishop Blundered?" Re Bishop William T. Manning.

46715
46716

Ts. is about his autobiography (Russell's Library, no. 2579).

46717

BR spoke at the First Unitarian Church in Los Angeles.

46718
46719
46720
46721
46722

Enclosures are copies of documents produced by the "American Student Committee to Aid Russell".

46723
46724
46725
46726

Signature is illegible.

46727

There is also a typed carbon by Patricia of part of this letter.

46728

Farley's letter is typed at the foot of BR's letter to Unwin.
 

46729

The Harvard Department voted approval of BR's list of lectures and seminar topics.

46730
46731
46732
46733
46734

Enclosure is a copy of The Arbitrator: a Humanist Monthly, vol. 22, no. 5, May 1940.

46735
46736

A copy of a resolution of the American Theological Society in support of BR's CCNY appointment is enclosed.

46737

Enclosure is from a Norton catalogue of a blurb on BR's Principles of Mathematics written by BR himself.

46738
46739
46740
46741

There is also a version typed by Patricia Russell and misdated 16 May 1940.

46742
46743
46744

This is a different copy of the previous letter at record 46743.

46745

This is a revised version, in BR's hand, of the previous two letters, record 46743, record 46744.

46746
46747
46748
46749

Enclosed letter is a copy of a letter in Gazan's possession, from Agatha Russel [sic], to Lady Agnes Bell.

46750
46751
Re extra-sensory perception.
46752
Re forests.
46753
Re immigration.
46754
46755
46756
46757
46758
46759
46760
46761
46762
46763
46764

Enclosure is a copy of an essay written by Paneth's daughter, Janice, titled "The Culture of the City of New York".

46765

"Ever since the war began I have felt that I could not go on being a pacifist; but I have hesitated to say so, because of the responsibility involved. If I were young enough to fight myself I should do so, but it is more difficult to urge others. Now, however, I feel that I ought to announce that I have changed my mind, and I would be glad if you could find an opportunity to mention in the New Statesman that you have heard from me to this effect."

46766
46767

Card is not signed but was sent from Harvard.

46768

Dewey's note to BR appears at the foot of the letter from Dewey to Hocking, 16 May 1940. The letter is undated in Autobiography, vol. 2.

46769

There are two typings of this letter.

46770
46771

The enclosed letter to Liberty Magazine is from Margaret Kleusmeyer.

46772
46773
46774
46775
46776
46777
46778
46779
46780
46781
46782
46783
46784
46785
46786
46787

There are several carbon copies of this statement. The original has corrections in Patricia Russell's hand. The statement concerns BR's protestations against being labelled a fifth columnist, communist, and alien political agent. Marked as not sent.

46788

Dewey discloses that Barnes is interested in hiring BR for his Foundation.

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