BRACERS Notes

Record no. Notes, topics or text
57803

Lederman recalls attending a BR lecture at the Aristotelian Society in the late 1930s.

57804
57805
57806

This is a typed copy from a different typing than the original, document .055010, record 79787. There is another copy, from yet another typing, in Rec. Acq. 1410d, record 119043.

57807
57808

Enclosed ts. carbon copy is titled "Syllabus of Lectures by Bertrand Russell 'The World As It Can Be Made'".

57809
57810
57811

Not a letter but a carbon copy of a document titled "Order Prohibiting a Person Residing in or Entering Specified Areas".

The order is directed specifically at BR.

57812

Typescript contains extracts of BR's speech at Cardiff, Wales, on 6 July 1916. File also contains the two questions that Trevelyan asked Samuel in the House of Commons.

A photocopy of the carbon of this letter is in Rec. Acq. 903g.

57813

This letter removed BR from his Trinity College lectureship.

The file contains the copy that was published in the Cambridge Evening News, 5 Feb. 1970. It is followed by the text of a memorial of those protesting the dismissal. The file also contains a ts. article by Lionel Munby with biographical data on the signatories.

57814

Re one of the MacPherson cartoons of BR (the 1959 one).

Another is 1966 or 1967 and shows President Lyndon Johnson handcuffed to BR.

57815

The letter is addressed to "Darlingford" from "Taylor".

File also contains an extract from Dolly Ponsonby's diary in which she describes BR and Lady Ottoline Morrell in the Villa Villa Restaurant in 1918.

57816

Included in the body of this letter is a copy of a telegram, BR to Henry W. Eliot, record 57909.

57817

Bryan, the President of Indiana University invites BR to dinner.

The file also contains photocopied correspondence to and from Bryan concerning BR's visit to and lecture at the university.

57818
57819
57820
57821
57822
57823

Enclosed photocopy is of a photograph subtitled "Frank and Rachel 1870".

57824
Re BR's watch and chain.
57825

Salutation reads: "Dear North": North was the name of Whitehead's elder son, with whom BR was very close.

Letter is written to BR's son, John Conrad Russell.

57826
57827

Madeleine was Kate Tait's roommate at UCLA.

57828
57829

BR declines to become president.

57830
57831

Re Euclid in The ABC of Relativity.

57832

BR declines Passmore's Vice-Chancellor's invitation to visit New Zealand at the end of his Australian tour.

57833

Carbon of a typed copy of a BR letter included with copies of other letters in a document titled "Greetings Received on the Occasion of the Dinner to Prof. Albert Einstein and Heinz Liepmann Inaugurating the American Library of Nazi Banned Books Sponsored by the Brooklyn Jewish Center".

57834

There are marginalia in BR's hand on Lawrence's letter to him re his reply.

57835

Two photocopies.

57836

This letter concerns Browne's Materials for the Study of the Bábí Religion (Russell's Library, no. 250).

Browne replied to this letter on 8 April 1918 (document .209211, record 106688).

57837

Although Queen's Road, Richmond, is typed on this letter as BR's address he had moved to his next home, Plas Penrhyn in Wales at this time.

57838
57839

Enclosed list is titled "List of Scientists Who Are Being Invited".

57840
57841
57842

Enclosed ts. is a draft agenda for a proposed meeting of scientists in India.

57843
57844
57845
57846
57847
57848
57849
57850
57851
57852
57853
57854

Enclosed ts. is titled "Provisional Agenda for the September Conference", i.e., the Pugwash Conference in Austria.

57855
57856

Enclosed letter is a copy of a letter sent to the editor of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, 8 September 1962.

57857

Not a letter but a memorandum of a conversation with Schoenman in London re BR's attempt to publish his letter to the editor of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, dated 8 Sept. 1962 (copy included in the document at record 57856).

57858
57859
57860
57861
57862

File includes a card from Alistair Yule asking for donations to the BR Peace Fund.

57863
57864

BR enclosed a list of things at Marlow that he needed returned. The "enclosed list" was not included with the photocopy of the letter as received from Mrs. Valerie Eliot. In a footnote to Eliot's letter of 16 March 1919, BR's letter is quoted in part. After these mentions in the letter ("tea-table and coffee-grinder as soon as possible"), the list is said to include: "check trousers, thick overcoat, top hat, fur for neck, long coat or cloak for term, rough coat for country, and day dress for term and day dress for country".

57865
57866

A galley proof was enclosed with this letter, of an article by Eliot to be published in The Criterion. The proof is now enclosed with Dora Russell's letter to BR of 1924/04/09*, document .103920, record 118570.

Included in this file is a copy of the published article, taken from the collection of McMaster University Library.

57867

Brief extracts are quoted in Eliot's Letters.

57868

Two photocopies.

57869

Titled “ADDRESSES OF BERTRAND RUSSELL IN AMERICA”.

57870

Attached are two photocopies of a typed copy of the letter.

All three letters are in German. One of the photocopies contains a partial English translation by Albert C. Lewis written above the German text.

57871

Attached are two photocopies of a typed copy of the letter.

All three letters are in German. One of the photocopies contains a partial English translation by Albert C. Lewis written above the German text.

57872

Addressed to Wittgenstein as a prisoner of war in Italy; written in English.

See record 57873 for a second postcard, sent a day later.

57873

Addressed to Wittgenstein as a prisoner of war in Italy; written in English.

See record 57872 for a second postcard, sent a day earlier.

57874

Attached is a photocopy of a typed copy of the letter. BR didn't understand what Wittgenstein dictated to Moore.

The letter and its typed copy are in English; handwritten German text appears at the end of the typed copy.

57875

Enclosed notes are queries BR has about Wittgenstein's book.

Attached is a photocopy of a typed copy of the letter and queries. The book is the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus.

Although written on Overstrand Mansions letterhead, Russell was at Newlands Farm at this time.

57876

Attached is a photocopy of a typed copy of the letter.

57877

Attached is a photocopy of a typed copy of the letter. BR has written to Wittgenstein's publisher.

57878

Attached is a photocopy of a typed copy of the letter.

57879

Enclosed is a list of Wittgenstein's belongings in storage with the Jolley firm.

A note in BR's hand at the foot of the letter reads: "[The above concerns Wittgenstein's Cambridge furniture, which I bought to finance his journey to the Hague.]"

The originals of the letter and list are in the Russell Archives, document .057834, record 58766.

57880

Attached is a photocopy of a typed copy of the letter.

57881

Re meeting in Holland.

57882
57883

BR encloses "Aims and Achievements of Beacon Hill School" (in typescript in file).

57884

Attached is a photocopy of a typed copy of the letter.

BR has broken his collar bone.

57885

Attached is a photocopy of a typed copy of the letter.

BR returned yesterday from Russia "where there are no posts". He has 2 months' letters to answer.

57886

The date is taken from the attached photocopy of a typed copy of the letter. The top of the handwritten letter is missing the location. The date is presumably not on the original letter since the date on the copy has a question mark following it.

57887

In Dora Black (i.e. Dora Russell)'s hand but signed by BR.

Attached is a photocopy of a typed copy of the letter.

57888

Photocopy of a typed transcription of the original.

BR gives Wittgenstein his address. The text is different from that of record 57889.

57889

A photocopy of a typed transcription of the original.

BR gives Wittgenstein his address. The text is different from that of record 57888.

57890

Attached is a photocopy of a typed copy of the letter.

57891

Attached is a photocopy of a typed copy of the letter.

57892

Attached is a photocopy of a typed copy of the letter.

Re Ostwald. "Would you like me to bring your journals and notebooks when we next meet?"

57893

Will look up Lessing's Religione Streitschriften.

Attached is a photocopy of a typed copy of the letter.

57894
57895
57896
57897
57898
57899
57900
57901
57902