BRACERS Notes

Record no. Notes, topics or text
68001

BR is pleased to see the list of questions for the "Women's Hour" interview. He does not wish any supplementary questions about his own children, who are "entitled to their privacy".

68002

Keen is a producer—General Talks. He tells BR that the BBC is planning to broadcast on 19 March 1967 passages from BR's broadcasts followed by a discussion involving Mary Stocks, Stuart Hampshire, Norman St.John Stevas and Robert Kee. Keen asks if BR will agree to record the prologue to his Autobiography, when Miss Ryder-Smith and Miss Joan Yorke arrive to record an interview.

68003

Farley tells Keen that BR is pleased to record his reading of the Prologue to his Autobiography.

68004

Ryder-Smith, producer of "Woman's Hour", encloses a draft of the questions (not present) she and Joan Yorke would like to ask BR.

[For the questions, see record 87286.]

68005

Caffery, for Talks Booking Manager, writes for BR's approval of a rebroadcasting fee for the 1959 "Face to Face" interview.

68006

Farley conveys BR's agreement to Caffery's suggestion for a rebroadcasting fee for the 1959 "Face to Face" interview.

68007

An unnamed secretary to Ryder-Smith tells BR that the "Women's Hour" interview is being repeated on "Home for the Day" on 1967/04/22.

68008

Farley has arranged for David Powell to interview BR on 1967/05/01 and requests a fee of 75 guineas. Farley cannot ask BR to accept 50.

68009

Caffery, for Talks Booking Manager, accepts the request for a fee of 75 guineas for BR's interview with David Powell, providing that the recording will provide some 75 minutes of broadcasting time.

68010

Caffery, for Talks Booking Manager, writes further about fees for recordings distributed by the BBC Transcription Service for use by Overseas Broadcasting Organizations.

68011

Farley has shown Caffery's letter of 1967/05/08 to BR, who "agrees with all that you say".

68012

Caffery writes to reduce the fee for the interview on 1967/05/01 with David Powell from 75 to 37.5 guineas, since only 25 minutes of programme material were recorded.

68013

Farley objects to the reduced fee for the interview by David Powell, who had 85 minutes with BR and an hour with Farley. BR should not be responsible for Powell's failure to obtain more material than he did.

68014

Caffery offers to compromise at 50 guineas for the interview by Powell as "we greatly esteem Lord Russell's contributions...."

68015

BR agrees with Caffery's compromise on a fee for the Powell interview.

68016

Caffery is glad that BR and Farley have agreed to the fee compromise.

68017

De Felice, writing for Talks Booking Manager, offers BR 10 guineas in place of a complicated fee structure for the Japanese use of the 90th Birthday programme of extracts and BR's replies.

68018

Lindsey encloses a copy of his speech to the Mecca Temple, New York City, on 1930/12/20 in answer to Bishop Manning's attack on him and BR "in the cathedral" [the Cathedral of St. John the Divine]. He recounts the physical abuse he received. In a note at the top he tells BR and Dora that he sent them a newspaper clipping on Manning's attack. The typescript is 22 sheets long.

68019

The letter is unsigned but because of the reference to Bertie it must be from Dora Russell. She writes about Harriet.

68020

Sanger thanks BR and Dora for "these warm and genuine expressions of feeling". He is very glad that they had their "two dear children". He is evidently ill and is having teeth removed. He died soon after on 1930/02/08.

68021

The letter is unsigned but is surely from Dora Russell because of the style. There is a reference to "a great friend who was alone in London [and] had a dangerous operation just after Christmas."

68022

Brockway seeks "a sharp comment" from BR on the new regulations for private film societies by the London County Council. He encloses extracts from the proposed regulations; 1 sheet.

68023

Hanline, who works in publicity for Liveright, thanks BR for his letter of 1928/04/26 [not in BRACERS] and is ready to visit Beacon Hill School and BR next week.

68024
Hanline thanks BR for his letter of 1928/05/16 and will visit him on 1928/05/28.
68025

Sir Robert regrets that his speech did not convince BR. Cohen has dictated what he meant to say about China and the U.K. Minister in Pekin [Beijing].

68026

Signed only "H.G." in respect to a request from Maxim Gorky, Wells advises BR not to send Gorky a special article but Russian rights to such articles as his New Leader ones on atoms. Dated from BR's letter of 1923/11/08 to Ottoline Morrell [record 18835].

68027

Allen asks Dora Russell for a "non-propaganda doctor or research institution or clinic" which will commend itself to the Board of Directors of the Daily Herald. Allen has just defeated a motion on the board to ban all birth control advertisements.

Allen wants BR thanked for his letter but wishes to visit not one "Wednesday afternoon" with Beacon Hill's "principals at home" but rather in some "intimate capacity". Today they nearly motored Sanger over.

68028

Dora Russell appears to be writing to a sister on her early impressions of Carn Voel, still named Sunny Bank. BR's first letter from this address ("COR") is 3 days later.

68029

Lockie, secretary of the W.L.S.R.'s Third International Congress, asks that Dora Russell provide Miss Barraud with a receipt. Dora had been asked through Mrs. Harrington to do this earlier. BR has annotated the letter: "Wrote saying you abroad, Harrison [sic] on holiday."

68030

BR's note to Dora is on the letter at record 68029. It consists of the following: "Wrote saying you abroad, Harrison [sic] on holiday. BR"

68031

Pethick-Lawrence, M.P., declines to join the World League for Sexual Reform owing to "so many other commitments".

68032

Ould agrees to be listed as a supporter of the World League for Sexual Reform and is glad BR is remaining in P.E.N.

68033

Keynes agrees to be listed as a supporter of the World League for Sexual Reform. He provides news of Wittgenstein: "Wittgenstein suddenly appeared out of an aeroplane some days ago. He is coming to stay with me at Cambridge for a week. He seems enormously better in nerves and spirits since he became an architect, and actually talks about writing a book on psychology."

68034

Fox Pitt encloses a guinea "towards sex reform". She adds that the point she is keen on is the sterilization of the unfit [i.e., eugenics].

Fox Pitt is evidently a grand-niece of BR's through his Aunt Alice Stanley, who married General Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers.

68035

Dickinson agrees to be listed as a supporter of the W.L.S.R.'s Third International Congress.

He regrets that he and BR never meet; "I am pretty near the end now. You I am glad to know are full of energy and activity and long may you continue to be. My love, yours". [Dickinson died 1932/08/03.]

68036

Huxley agrees to be listed as a supporter of the W.L.S.R.'s Third International Congress.

68037

Karin Stephen and Adrian Stephen agree to be listed as supporters of the W.L.S.R.'s Third International Congress. She regrets that BR and she don't "see each other sometimes".

68038

Schiller declines to be a supporter of the World League for Sexual Reform's Third International Congress. For one thing, he doesn't want to compromise the Eugenics Society.

68039

The letter lacks the final page bearing the name of the sender. This page is not extant at IISH, Amsterdam.

The letter concerns a footnote on punishment by whipping in India that BR included in The Prospects of Industrial Civilization (London: Allen and Unwin, 1923), p. 29. The note was replaced as a result of this letter.

68040

The sender, "A.S.L.", is an M.P., likely West Ham or Kensington.

The enclosed ts. concerns relief and infant mortality and was the basis of the M.P.'s recent speech in the House of Commons.

[A question by Lawrence on the death rate in West Ham may be found in Hansard, 25 July 1927. She was M.P. for East Ham North for 1923-24 and 1926-31 and member of the London County Council, 1912-28.]

68041

The sender is anonymous. The document is a typed copy with this note by BR: "[I cut out this man's address and signature in order to show his letter. He was an Indian student.]" No original has been located in BRA. Also in file: TL(TC) and TL(CAR,TC), both 3 sheets.

Re Europe's failure in light of BR's "The Danger to Civilization".

68042
On the danger of nuclear war.
68043

On the attitude of Indians during the Sino-Indian crisis.

68044

TD(MIM), 1 sheet.

68045

In response to Khrushchev's cable during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

68046

Chomsky requests BR's signature on a petition. A note in Edith Russell's hand reads: "Signed and returned 17/9/69".

68047

The table of contents is for Bowes' as yet unpublished book, The Police and Civil Liberties.

68048

BR tells Bowes he should be free to say BR thought Allen and Unwin and John Calder might find Bowes' book manuscript of interest.

68049

Wood reports that "pressure of work makes it impossible for him [BR] to read your manuscript."

68050

Cassirer sends BR a draft of her translation of "My Philosophical Development" for Der Monat.

68051

BR comments on aspects of the translation referred to in record 68050 a propos the theory of descriptions.

68052

The journal issue contains a condensed version of BR's "The Cold War and World Poverty".

68053

A "with compliments" slip noting the return of an unidentified item. The year 1967 is inferred because in that year BR provided News Limited with a statement (see RA2 220.148727).

68054

A revision for Unarmed Victory re Linus and Ava Pauling.

68055

The blurb is favoured by Edith Russell. It was used by Allen and Unwin. The verso contains a slightly different version of the letter, but a carbon copy of Schoenman's signature is present on the one catalogued.

68056

A journalist requests BR's views on the main problems of the day, including the education of the young. Dated in Edith Russell's hand.

68057

On recently interviewing BR and then staying with Rupert Crawshay-Williams.

68058

BR comments on Bredsdorff's "Nonsense in the Nursery" and provides variants of several nursery rhymes.

68059

A "with compliments" slip with a note signed "Kevin". The December 1961 issue reprinted contains B&R C60.01.

68060

BR corrects an error in Unarmed Victory about the response from U.S. scientists during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

68061

The enclosures are a transcript of an interview with BR by John Ellison and abstracts of 6 talks by BR in the "Then and Now" series. The transcript is to be revised and used as a basis for "In Town Tonight" on 22 May 1954 on the Home and Television Services. The topic is Nightmares of Eminent Persons.

The transcript is a TD, 3 sheets, revised in BR's hand, and is to be the script for "In Town Tonight", 1954/05/22. The "Then and Now" abstracts are draft billings for Radio Times.

68062

The item is part of a payment stub. It must have accompanied payment of $100.00 for BR's participation in the "Invitation to Learning" discussion of Descartes' A Discourse on Method on 26 April 1942.

68063

Also in file: a TL(CAR,X), document .155888.

68064

The sender is anonymous.

68065

The sender is anonymous.

68066

Signed only "Antonia, etc." and addressed to "Lo-su-tze". At this time, c.1926, she was married to Eric Earnshaw Smith.

Farley's attached note states that BR "knew her quite well. She lived in King's Road Chelsea" and that BR "can't remember surname".

Her return address is Glebe House. She lived here with her first husband, Reginald Green-Wilkinson. Yet her daughters say it was at her 2nd husband's suggestion that she made BR's acquaintance. Susan Chitty's edition of White's diaries states that she attended lectures by BR. The letter uses philosophical terms that she may have picked up at BR's lectures for the British Institute of Philosophy. He gave a series in Jan.-March 1926. This letter concerns her reading of The Problem of China (1922). Thus it is probably 1926 rather than later.

White's other daughter, Lyndall B. Hopkinson, states that her mother wrote inviting the Russells over in January 1926 (Nothing to Forgive, p. 55.) Hopkinson cites and quotes not only letters from BR, but also letters to him from her mother. See also Jane Dunn's biography, Antonia White, for other quotations from BR's letters, with dates.

68067

The surname is conjectured. The writer is an acquaintance of Frank Russell, who has told him of BR's Trinity success.

[The letters preceding "all" in the surname are the conjectured ones.]

68068

The writer must be "Eve", discussed in BR's letters to Constance Malleson, documents .200471-2, record 19483 and record 19484, where BR says he didn't answer Eve. Colette in Aug. 1918 tells BR a little about her and replaced her name with "a recent acquaintance". Document .200471 is dated 26 May 1919.

In 1919 BR says she is mad. In 1918 Colette says she doesn't know whether Eve's surname is her married name.

Miss Walsh Hall's address appears at the front of BR's 1918-19 appointments diary. The address is the same as that on this letter, which is signed merely "E.W.H."

68069

In an attached note C. Farley does not know her surname but identifies her as a Danish lady, a teacher at BR's school ("Telegraph House"). Høgström is her name on the title-page of the Danish translation of On Education, the co-translator being Nels Forchhammer.

Forchhammer is writing BR a long letter but has interrupted it to acknowledge his in which he mentions that Dora has had "her" baby. She alludes to his thinking of going to Germany, where she is now (in Berlin).

She is sending BR Arbeiterdichtung. Chap. VII on Gerrit Engelke will give him an idea of what is going on there. Attached to the letter is a Picassoesque drawing.

68070

Re the U.K. or the Allies causing rickets in German children. See On Education, p. 247. The letter was returned after being mailed.

68071

A Portmeirion resident gets a book signed by BR.

68072

A member of the R.A.F. wants to study philosophy.

68073

Barnes commiserates with BR re his persecution.

68074

The photograph is possibly of Berenson.

68075

Born has read Unarmed Victory and Wisdom of the West. He gathers BR has changed his mind on several questions since his History of Western Philosophy.

68076

The text is: "Forgive me, Lord, for I know not what I did."

68077

Full name: British Institute of Philosophical Studies on remuneration for Sydney E. Hooper commensurate with his position as Director of Studies.

Macassay's signature is partly torn away.

68078

Dated by BR. About a woman, possibly Georgie, who was or became Greenwood's wife.

68079

Dated by the reference to BR going to Holland.

On Miles Malleson.

68080

Flexner would like to visit Edith and writes about the Vietnam war.

68081

Frantz is anxious to hear from Edith.

68082
Personal news.
68083

Writing from Victoria, Canada, Boulton points out BR's error in giving J.S. Mill's birth year.

68084
68085

Dunten provides a list of typographical errors in the Simon and Schuster edition of the History.

68086

Re Bacon knowing Gilbert's medical work.

68087

On the divine origin of the Mikado.

68088

Merrill presents his own theory of truth.

The verso of the second sheet has 3 lines of shorthand, evidently to Tylor. (Separately entered at record 99792.)

68089

Pipes disagrees with some of BR's statements on Locke.

68090

Pratt defends Schopenhauer against BR. Pratt praises the index (of the U.K. edition), except for the Erastus entry (which refers to the non-existent "Lüber" entry).

68091

Robertson suggests corrections. In his 2 sheets of notes he concentrates on suggestions for the ancient period.

68092

Rothbarth corrects BR on Schopenhauer and Nietzsche.

68093
68094
68095

Jones praises Unarmed Victory and thanks BR for the gift of it.

68096

Rev. Jones, writing from the Vicarage, Penrhyndeudraeth, thanks BR for the gift of Unarmed Victory.

68097

Landow sends BR Hoover's Masters of Deceit to read during his imprisonment.

68098

Owen thanks BR for Unarmed Victory.

68099

An extract from a poem, removed from BR's copy of Oliver Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefield (Russell's Library, no. 1326). The handwriting is Alys Russell's. The poem, unidentified, begins: "I have waited, waited, waited, I have waited long enough,".

68100

The letter is annotated by BR with references to Frege and Kerry. It was found in BR's copy of Thomas Carlyle's Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, vol. 7 (Russell's Library, no. 707). Note that vol. 6 (no. 706) has marginal lines and at the rear notes by BR, including an apparent outline for a work on Carlyle: "Carlyle: The Mystic, the artist, the historian, the moralist, the Man: each a chapter:"

[The letter, which is listed in The Second Archives of BR, BR Estate Addenda, p. 352, could not be located in April 2005; still missing in July 2015, and September 2016. It is misfiled or even lost.]