Total Published Records: 135,560
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. |
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| 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". |
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| 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". |
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| 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.) |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 52363 | |
| 52364 | Not a letter, but a statement re BR's pacifist work. |
| 52365 | There is some shorthand on sheet 2. |
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| 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. |
| 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. Document .054846, record 79640. |
| 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. |
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| 52383 | Two copies, one being of the signed ribbon copy and the other of its carbon. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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