"We are re-releasing the album entitled 'Notice to the World' that was released July 1955 as the 'Message the World Ignored'."

George asks BR for a reply to the question: "In your opinion, which are the positive stimuli and values Europe has received from the United States?" for publication in Aufbau.

Re Dyason Lectures.

An extract from the original letter and enclosed with the Institute's letter of 2 March 1954, record 5303.

Lynton invites BR to dine as their guest of honour.

BR will dine with them as guest of honour on February 11, 1953. The title of his talk is being announced as "The Influence of Fiction".

An invitation to speak at the Avery Hill Training College on nuclear disarmament and the United Nations.

BR is unable to come to their meeting.

Pastor writes from Cartagena. He explains that Baladre "es el  nombre de un grupo de universitarios y  artistas" [the name of a group of university academics and artists]. The letter concerns publishing a Spanish edition of one of the three books, Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits, Mysticism and Logic, and History of Western Philosophy. BR would reserve all rights.

A request for permission to reprint BR's "The Springs of Human Action" (The Atlantic Monthly, March, 1952) in Dimensions in Prose (tentative title), a book for college English courses.

BR replies to Ball's request (see record 5311). "I am uncertain as to whether the article that you wish to reprint from the Atlantic Monthly for March 1952 is or is not the same as the chapter called 'Politically Important Desires' in my book Human Society in Ethics and Politics."

"I have been invited by Messrs. W. Heffer & Sons of Cambridge to edit a collection of articles on the recent controversy about Plato's political philosophy. ... The publishers and I would be most grateful if you would consent to allow your article to be included."

The article they wish to include is BR's "Philosophy and Politics" from Unpopular Essays.

Bambrough is spending five months at Cornell University.

"If my publishers agree, I should be delighted to give my consent for you to reprint the article from Unpopular Essays."

"I have received a letter from J.R. Bambrough about a book partly of reprints from my writings which he wishes to publish for the use of students. I learn that he has had to abandon the project because the fee that you ask is beyond his means. Is there any possibility of reducing the fee? I should be quite willing to forgo my share of the fee if that would help."

This letter is an enclosure to the letter to Bambrough at record 83329.

Banerji has quoted a line from BR's Unpopular Essays (page 135) in his book Snakebite and encloses two copies of the book.

A request for BR to contribute an article in Bangiya Parishad in commemoration of the birth centenary of Tagore.

BR cannot contribute an article on Tagore.

"My parent company, Bantam Books Inc. of New York, are publishing in the United States a paperback edition of Marriage and Morals, by arrangement with the Liveright Publishing Company. Bantam have requested me to get in touch with you to ask whether you would be prepared to write a new Introduction for their edition of the book."

"I enclose a letter from BR which I hope will meet your needs at the London Library."

BR cannot write a new Introduction to Marriage and Morals for Bantam Books' paperback edition.

Bunting sends BR a copy of Verena Sladen's first novel And Loving I Despair.

A request for BR to write a book.

A proposal for BR to write a book on Asian affairs.

Gibson sends BR a complimentary copy of the Larousse Encyclopedia of Mythology, "which we are publishing in the autumn of this year." Gibson would welcome any comments BR might have on the book.

Gibson asks BR if he may use BR's comments on the Larousse Encyclopedia of Mythology for pre-publication promotion of the book.

BR cannot contribute to their proposed volume on Asian affairs. "I am very strongly in agreement with you about the importance of bringing about an understanding of Asian affairs in Western nations. From the time of Vasco de Gama until 1941 Europeans dominated Asia. For the next few centuries we must expect Asia to dominate Europe."

"I am enclosing proofs of your essay to be included in the book entitled The Bomb—Challenge and Answer, edited by Gilbert McAllister, and I shall be very grateful if you can return these proofs with any corrections or alterations as early as possible, as they must be returned to the printer in order that the book can be published by an agreed date."

Baworowski asks BR three questions concerning nuclear warfare and disarmament. "I assure you, Sir, my intentions sincerely are to see answers to these questions fairly and fully presented in a newspaper, and I hope you will give me the chance."

BR provides answers to Baworowski's questions (see record 5331).

Arnold sends BR an advance copy of Paul Blanshard's The Irish and Catholic Power (Russell's Library, no. 251), the final volume in his trilogy. Arnold asks BR if he would write a brief paragraph commenting on the book.

"The Beacon Press has recently signed a contract with Abelard-Schuman for a paperback edition of your book, Authority and the Individual." McCagg asks BR if he would write a prefatory note introducing the book.

"I am sending you, under separate cover, two copies of our new paperback edition of Authority and the Individual. ... We have high hopes for this title, especially with the addition of 'Philosophy and Politics', in this new format."

"I am glad to know that the Beacon Press is issuing a paper back edition of Authority and the Individual, but I am sorry that pressure of work makes it impossible for me to do a new preface...."

"The translations which you sent me and which I return herewith seem to me admirable and I am happy that you are publishing them. I enclose herewith, also, a photograph which I hope you may find suitable."

"I understand that Secker & Warburg have sent you an advance copy of my book The Frightened Giant (Russell's Library, no. 1821) in uncorrected proof. I would be very interested to hear whether you have been able to read it and what you think of it."

BR's dictated answer appears at the head of this letter (see record 130655).

"I write on behalf of this firm to ask whether you would, by any chance, be inclined to undertake a book of 'Syndicalism'."

Answer at head of letter: "Terms?"

"This is to confirm that the Canadian portrait photographer, Gaby of Montreal, is most grateful to Earl Russell for granting a sitting; as arranged, Mr. Gaby will visit Plas Penrhyn at 4:00 p.m., this Sunday, 1st October."

"We are enclosing our permission form hoping you will sign and return it to us for future use."

Re D.H. Lawrence's correspondence with BR and Lawrence's similarities with Nietzsche. "Of particular interest to my own inquiries is the 'book of philosophy' he <D.H. Lawrence> refers to in his letter to you dated 26.2.15. He appears to have sent this manuscript to Lady Ottoline Morrell at one stage. Is it possible that such a document may have passed into the possession of someone in Lady Ottoline's circle of friends...?"

"I always thought that Lawrence owed whatever he knew of Nietzsche or Freud to his wife who had a dominant influence upon him. ... As to the manuscript which you ask about, I have no knowledge of it whatever and had never heard of it until I received your letter. Lady Ottoline's papers came into the keeping of her daughter Mrs. Vinogradoff."

"I must apologise for not having replied to you sooner but I am afraid that I have been overwhelmed with work following the trial at the Old Bailey of six members of the Committee of 100." BR declines Gottschalk's request for an article by BR for his anthology.

Re Janet Beveridge's book An Epic of Clare Market on the birth of the London School of Economics. "Janet's book you will find easy reading, with much unpublished stuff—about Beatrice and Sidney Webb on honeymoon and the like. ... She dictated her last paragraphs to me two days before her stroke in April, and I had only to see it through the press."

BR thanks him for the gift of Janet Beveridge's An Epic of Clare Market (Russell's Library, no. 1528). "It is a very good thing that she was able to complete the book."

"The help that I gave to the School of Economics in its early days was very limited. I had a fellowship at Trinity lasting six years and bringing in £210 a year. I handed this over to the School of Economics to be used for awarding fellowships. The first award was given to F.W. Hirst. I was the first or nearly the first of the lecturers at the School of Economics where I lectured at the beginning of 1896 on German Social Democracy."

"I enclose a preface to your new edition of Bertrand Russell's Best, which I hope you will find satisfactory." See record 128172. BR asks for a correction.

"I am writing on account of the birth of the London School of Economics, and I am hoping very much that you will help me on a very important matter. Sidney Webb often spoke to me of your great generosity in giving substantial funds which enabled him to make the great venture of opening the School in 1895." Beveridge asks BR how he first met the Webbs and any memories.

"I have brought to the stage a powerful message and technique of Gandhiji in a play, 'Gandhiji's Sadhana'. Based on his 'Experiments with Truth', it depicts the moving story of how he forged himself and the weapon of Satyagraha against aggression of every kind." Rangappa asks BR to write a foreword to his play.

BR declines to write a foreword to his play.

"I have been alarmed and distressed by both the belligerence of Indian public opinion concerning the border dispute and the response of the Indian Government, which appears to have disregarded the threat to India and, indeed, to all men, of general warfare with China. I was, therefore, pleased that your own view is moderate and constructive."

"Thank you for your letter of October 9 requesting a message for the birthday of Prime Minister Nehru. I have already written a very full message for Mrs. K. Lakshmi Raghuramiah of the Sunday Syndicate which I should be pleased for you to use as well."

"We are bringing out a number of the Bharat Sevak on November 14, 1962 to highlight different facets of the dynamic and inspiring personality of our Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. ... Will you be good enough to oblige us and our wide readership by agreeing to send us your 'Reminiscences' or 'Tributes' by the 25th Oct., 1962."

Sellers asks to reprint from Human Knowledge lines on page 27 to appear in the April-June 1956 issue of Bible Lessons for Youth.

"I am quite willing that you should quote from Human Knowledge concerning which you write to me, but I hope your readers will realize that it is intended ironically."

(The reference is the U.S. edition, p. 27, on there being an unlimited supply of hydrogen [for bomb-making] in the sea.)

"I do not expect that you remember who I am, but actually my husband and I visited you some twelve years ago when you were living in London. David Astor was with us, and I remember the visit very well." 

Bielenberg and others are collecting materials for a future biography of Adam von Trott. She asks if BR has any correspondence with him.

"I know that Adam was a tremendous admirer of yours ... and I think he must have stayed with you in July, 1933, and again possibly in the spring of 1935."

"I did not myself know Adam von Trott at all well, but he was a friend of my former wife who is now called Mrs. Spence.... The only thing I remember at all vividly about him is a walk to a very stormy Cornish coast during which he expressed admiration for Hegel as to which I disagreed."

Sosnow requests material from BR, either fresh or published previously in a journal.

Dictated answer by BR in Edith Russell's hand on letter: "Enclose typescript of article 'The Greatest Present Service to Mankind' Published in NY Times Magazine, Sept. 27, 1953."

Acknowledging the receipt of BR's "The Greatest Present Service to Mankind".

"In the last case of 'How to Be Happy in 1953' I was compelled for editorial reasons to shorten the text slightly."

"I would like to invite you, as a distinguished philosopher, to participate in a symposium on 'Post-Christian Man' which will be featured in Big Table #6."

"I am sorry that I am too much occupied with work already undertaken to be able to contribute to your suggested symposium."

"I am very keen to give publicity to your views on the present world situation, particularly as we cater for trade-unionists in Birmingham and District, and I am therefore writing to you in the hope that you may be able to grant my request for your co-operation in printing an article on this subject."

"I am now writing to ask whether or not you can arrange a date when it would be possibly for one of our reporters, as I should not myself be able to come, to interview him. He would probably have to travel to Portmadoc the day before and stay overnight, so it is probable that he could see Earl Russell in the morning if that is convenient."

"I enclose the result of my interview with you, as promised."

"He is returning to North Wales on Thursday and would be glad to see one of your reporters some time next week there."

"Please disregard my previous query ... I quite carelessly overlooked 'Individual and Social Ethics' before I wrote you."

Blackburn asks BR if he has any Joseph Conrad letters he could use. "As you know, hundreds of Conrad's letters became widely scattered in the 1920's. My searches have uncovered about 300, from which I shall make a final selection within a few weeks. My project, perhaps I might add, has the approval of the Conrad Trustees."

"We are at present preparing a Prospectus for a History Course for schools and we should like very much to use in it a statement of yours to the fact that the future of the world depends on a correct conception and fulfilment of citizenship. Unfortunately, we have not been able to trace in any of our reference books the exact wording of this statement no do we know its context."

"I am preparing a draft for a book of passages suitable for reading practice and speed practice in Gregg Shorthand and would like to include, in shorthand and letterpress, a reprint of 'Speech that was not Heard', by yourself, which appeared in The Observer of 7th June 1958."

"I am quite willing that you should include the speech reported by The Observer concerning which you write."

Pahl-Rugenstein asks BR two questions to which he would like to publish the answers in the next edition of their monthly review.

"I should like to do an article on civil disobedience such as you suggest for the Blaetter, but I should like to know how soon you would have to have it and what is the minimum length that would be satisfactory."

"I am enquiring as to the possibility of your writing an article for the magazine Bleat."

"I am distressed to learn of your news concerning the pressure being applied to television news commentators.... I was pleased to receive Blinkfuer."

"However, I take the liberty, encouraged by your views, to ask whether you would be willing to contribute a brief article, say 800 words, along the lines outlined in the enclosed appeal from the Editor of the Indian news magazine Blitz (whose London correspondent I am)." The enclosed appeal is not present in file.

"I shall be most interested to have the copies of Berliner Zeitung and Blitz which carry your interview with me."

"I think your suggestion for some of the non-aligned nations to sail their navies into the Christmas Island testing area is an excellent one.... As you may know, the Committee of 100 is co-operating with the (American) Committee for Non-Violent Action to sail a ketch into the testing area...."

Blond asks BR to give his opinion of the literary merits of the book Our Lady of the Flowers [Notre Dames des Fleurs] by Jean Genet, with an introduction by Jean-Paul Sartre.

"I am entirely occupied with the problems of nuclear war and must, therefore, regrettably decline your suggestion."

Four undated birthday cards from Kate and family to BR.

BR cannot agree to his request as his time is consumed with his work against nuclear warfare.

Amaran requests an article by BR for their bilingual Souvenir.

"I am glad to know that you are publishing a bilingual Souvenir in which you advocate the cause of peace."

"I am enclosing the last two copies of Books of the Month and two books, Across the Space Frontier and (in proof) Adventures in Tomorrow from the Bodley Head. I was today preparing a big feature on your witty and enchanting Satan in the Suburbs, and it occurred to me that it might possibly amuse you to use these books as an occasion for commenting upon the interplanetary and other futurist ideas...."

"The photostats in the NYCC case include for your information about 60 letters which Lord Russell asked us to remove from the catalogue."

"Would you consider writing an introduction to my short biography John Stuart Mill—the Man?"

"Now I have read with infinite pleasure your essay in Tempo Presente (Italian title: Autobiografia Filosofica)."

"I have not got the book from which you quote with me here in London, but the publishers have it in proof and I will get them to send you the passage that you are concerned with."

"Lord Russell has passed on to us your letter of February 8th in which you asked to see the original English version of an essay by Lord Russell entitled Autobiografia Filosofica, which appeared in Tempo Presente."

"The essay evidently comes from a book we are to publish shortly My Philosophical Development...."

"Enclosed <not present> you will find an invitation-letter sent to a few outstanding scientists, to contribute a short essay as a first step to the fulfilling of an idea first mentioned and published by you: An International University or Academy of Sciences or as some members of the French Academie propose 'Universal Academy of Arts and Sciences'."

The letter is a translated version.

"Referring to our discussion I want to tell you now that I am gladly willing to publish—in my publishing house—the manuscript which you gave me of the book Science and the Future of Mankind...."