Total Published Records: 135,546
BRACERS Notes
Record no. | Notes, topics or text |
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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. |
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]. |
68035 | Dickinson agrees to be listed as a supporter of the W.L.S.R.'s Third International Congress. |
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. |
68040 | The sender, "A.S.L.", is an M.P., likely West Ham or Kensington. [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. |
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. |
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. |
68067 | The surname is conjectured. The writer is an acquaintance of Frank Russell, who has told him of BR's Trinity success. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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:" |