"The BBC Archives contain a great many scripts of BR's broadcasts; probably some manuscripts, too, and much correspondence. ... it would be of great benefit if the Russell Archives could obtain xeroxes of all such material."

"I will write to Harcourt and get an expression of his views. If he is willing to modify the contract, we, for our part will be willing also to agree to what you suggest."

"I am enclosing a new version of my earlier introduction [to Cook, The Warfare State] and I should be grateful if it could be published. Perhaps you could confirm this for me."

At the foot of the letter is a message from Ralph Schoenman: "I hope this is more what you want, Tom. Best wishes, Ralph."

"Mr. Maschler is at present in America and I am therefore sending you on his behalf an uncorrected proof of Fred J. Cook's The Warfare State. I have inserted into it a proof of your foreword to the book, which will, of course, be properly bound into the finished copies. We are planning to publish on March 25th."

"There is the question of our proposed collected edition of the Bertrand Russell papers ... that I would like to talk over with you...."

"The present relatively pacific mood in international affairs suggests that the moment might be propitious for the suggestion of practicable methods for ending the Cold War, especially for finding solutions of the really difficult questions such as Germany and Berlin."