BRACERS Notes

Record no. Notes, topics or text
52302

Not a letter; rather, an office memorandum listing the sums paid to BR in December of each year from 1965 to 1969.

52303

Not a letter; rather, ms. notes re books by and about BR written on the verso of a leaflet listing members of "'Who Killed Kennedy?'; the British Committee".

52304
52305
52306

Not a letter; rather, a statement of royalties to which is attached detailed tss. titled "Approximate Sales to 30th June, 1969", and "Earl Russell; Breakdown of Subsidiary Rights for Half Year Ending 30th June, 1969". Documents .140519-.140521 are photocopies.

52307
52308
52309
52310

The enclosure is titled "A Defence Committee". The letter is marked "Confidential".

52311

A Bodleian transcription is described at record 79240.

52312

On Murray's translation of the Hippolytus, which brings out "whatever is noble and beautiful in sorrow".

Record 79080 is a transcription with a carbon copy; record 79241 is a Bodleian transcription

52313

There is a corrected transcription, with carbon, at record 79083, and a Bodleian transcription at record 79242

52314

On moral axioms, utilitarianism, pleasure, eternal objects.

52315

On providing a bull for Jane Harrison.

BR has annotated the Webbs differently on the 2 copies, only once in his own hand.

52316

"I was quite overjoyed by the peace".

52317

BR congratulates Murray on Basil's birth and provides his view of platitudes.

52318

On Henry D. Harben, whose acquaintance Murray ought to make.

52319

On R.C. Trevelyan's blank-verse tragedy. BR is deep in proofs and symbolic logic, where he has touched perfection, and Whitehead agrees. On doctors. "I have scarcely had a day's illness in my life."

52320

BR is living "in town" (London) but can still see Orion rise and Saturn set.

52321

There are miniscule ink drawings on a blank page of the letter and some numerical notations. BR will be visiting Aunt Agatha.

52322
52323

There is also a typed transcription, evidently by Murray.

BR provides detailed praise of Murray's translation of The Bacchae. Atlas. BR is reading The Republic.

52324

Re M.I.5.

52325

On interruptions of one's private moments. Blake. The Storrs. Sleeplessness: "Sometimes sleepless nights are a time for thoughts that remain with one as a comfort through the day: I find darkness a help to isolating the essentials of things and fixing one's whole attention upon them."

There are phrases from "The Pilgrimage of Life".

52326
52327

On depression, BR's shrine, Sir Francis Jeune, Plato and his cave, and BR's Carlyle paper.

52328

On beautiful houses vs. privation and the contrast with the mental furniture. Glory. Calculus.

52329

BR expresses what he gets out of tragedy. See "The Free Man's Worship".

52330

BR sends Murray a copy of The Philosophy of Leibniz.

52331
52332

Written from Hotel du Lion d'Or.

52333

On visiting Naworth Castle. The Mosely report. The Webbs. Harrison.

BR and Alys will be at 13, Cheyne Walk when they return to London.

52334

On the value of having children; on self-control and the emotions.

Two photocopy copies and a typed copy are also in the file.

52335

Written on the letter described in record 60285. The text asks Chris Farley to "Please read this load of balls and draft an answer as from BR. Thanks, Ralph".

52336
52337
52338
52339

On Tragedy, the fiscal question, and the English and the Irish.

52340

Written on Land's End Hotel letterhead. BR is at Sennen, along the coast from St. Ives, Cornwall. "The sudden sense of rest blends with the landscape most curiously."

52341
52342

BR has used the letterhead for his 14 Cheyne Walk address. He neglected to cross it out and replace it with "Ralston Street".

52343

On Brailsford's passport crime. BR "reached" Lower Copse on Easter Monday with its "palatial" study. His disciple, young Dakyns, is mentioned.

52344

Written from Providence House.

52345

BR is en route to the Tyrol and Italy.

52346

BR sends Mary his condolences on her father's death. (He was George Howard, Lord Carlisle, who married BR's aunt, Rosalind Stanley.)

52347
52348

BR tells Murray that The Problems of Philosophy deals mostly with theory of knowledge and presents his own views. He lists the 11 chapters so far.

52349
52350

BR is sending Murray most of the typescript of The Problems of Philosophy. The last chapter awaits writing. There is little metaphysics.

52351

BR has written the last chapter of The Problems of Philosophy and responds on rat-catchers and earwigs, and dreams.

52352

BR responds to several philosophical points raised by Murray about The Problems of Philosophy and has "extracted the island in the western ocean, reluctantly". Plato. Hegel. On the railway strike and Asquith.

52353
52354
52355
52356
52357
52358

Dated later by BR: "[Autumn 1914]", but redated because of the reference to Murray's Conway Memorial lecture on Stoicism of 16 March 1915.

52359
52360

See record 53430 for a note on this letter that Russell wrote to Horace Liveright.

52361
52362
52363
52364
Not a letter, but a statement re BR's pacifist work.
52365

There is some shorthand on sheet 2.

52366
52367
52368
52369
52370

This document is headed: "Extract from letter from Bertrand Russell dated 9 Sep 1918". This is followed by: "Please communicate the following to Gilbert Murray and anyone else who may be able to give me the information I desire: I am trying to discover the essential principles of symbolism."

Rinder was added to the Recipients only because handwritten corrections are in her handwriting.

52371

This letter is contained in "Extracts from Letters Written by the Hon. Bertrand Russell in Brixton Prison, August 1918". This copy of the extracts was sent to Gilbert Murray. The original letter is not present.

There are four transcriptions of the letter which presumably are complete:
Document .201182, record 116691 and its carbon .200299dd, record 116690.
Document .054845, record 79639 and document .200299d, record 19329. Both of these are carbons from the same typing and contain corrections in Rinder's hand.

52372

This letter is part of "Extracts from Letters Written by the Hon. Bertrand Russell in Brixton Prison, August 1918", sent to Gilbert Murray. "Dear Miss Rinder, your letter has not yet arrived, but I will begin with various odds and ends." The original letter is no longer extant.

There are four other transcriptions of this letter which contain a paragraph about the canary and the ourang-outang but they are not complete:

Document .054846, record 79640.
Document .200299f, record 19331 (carbon of .054846, record 79640).
Document .201183, record 116692.
Document .200299e, record 19330 (carbon of document .201183).
There is another typed version, document .080040f, record 117621, with corrections and the remark about the canary annotated in BR's hand.

52373

This extract is from "Extracts from Letters Written by the Hon. Bertrand Russell in Brixton Prison, August 1918". This copy was sent to Gilbert Murray.

The original letter is not present, and unlike the other two letters that appear in this extract, there are no lengthier transcriptions. The transcription that does exist, document .054847, record 79641 matches this extract in content.

The letter contains a message for Robert Trevelyan re his book about Tibet. BR has been thinking about knowledge. (Although the extract indicates that there are messages for Miss Wrinch, Stanley Unwin, etc., those messages do not appear here.)

52374
52375
52376
52377
52378
52379
52380
52381
52382
52383

Two copies, one being of the signed ribbon copy and the other of its carbon.

52384
52385

BR is interested in writing on religion and science and asks if the publishers would have objections to specifics of his treatment where it would concern the Roman Catholic Church.

52386

BR agrees to write Religion and Science and has written to Thornton Butterworth to say so.

52387
52388

BR sent Religion and Science to the typist yesterday. He liked Murray's letter in The Times on Abyssinia.

52389

"I am very fit and working fast." Adam and Eve's navels are mentioned in Religion and Science.

52390
52391

BR is concerned in Religion and Science with the increase of both definite knowledge and definite ignorance.

52392
52393

The resumé is for the author Freda Utley.

52394
52395

BR praises Murray's Times letter on Ossietsky; Clifford Allen's letter "nauseated" him. He asks if Mary wishes to have the large picture of her mother and BR's.

52396
52397
52398
52399

Written on letterhead of West Lodge, Downing College, with the notation "As from Telegraph House", which suggests BR was not staying long at Cambridge.

"C.A. lies in his throat." Spain has been very difficult for BR—"I know Spain"—but he remains a pacifist.

52400
52401