Total Published Records: 135,200
BRACERS Notes
Record no. | Notes, topics or text |
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701 | Ch'en asks for BR's views on Putnam Weale, quoted in The Problem of China. |
702 | BR cannot remember anything about Putnam Weale but recalls Lamont's visit to China and his own dislike of the Consortium plans. |
703 | Chen encloses some clippings from local newspapers in Chinese (not present) and would like to send BR a reproduction of a famous Chinese painting. He pays homage and sends his thanks to the Russells for the work that they have done for world peace. |
704 | BR thanks Chen for the kind things he wrote in his letter and for offering him the copy of the Chinese painting. |
705 | On the Sino-Indian border dispute. |
706 | On BR's assumptions about the German navy in "The Future of Anglo-German Rivalry" (B&R C15.15). |
707 | Chittenden writes intimately to BR, who took her to Canterbury and recited Shakespeare. She may be a lover. |
708 | |
709 | |
710 | On misprints in What I Believe. |
711 | Chow is writing a dissertation on the May Fourth Movement in China, 1919. |
712 | Chow asks for BR's reactions to his book on the May Fourth Movement. |
713 | Chown has written a manuscript on love and truth. |
714 | BR invited to become a vice-president of the Civil Union for the Right Understanding of International Interests, whose president is Norman Angell. BR notes his acceptance. |
715 | |
716 | An 18-year-old, Clarke says he is on the verge of committing suicide. BR has dictated a comment: "This is typical of many letters I have received." |
717 | BR confesses that his own youth was like Clarke's, "except that I was much more sexually inhibited." He advises him that his loneliness will diminish soon after reaching university. |
718 | Clark is settling his bet with BR on who would be the winner (of the U.S. Presidential election). |
719 | The newsclip is from the Harvard student newspaper (The Crimson) and is on the civil rights movement. There is a note in the file. |
720 | Clatworthy would like to sculpt br. |
721 | Clark requests BR's criticisms of his and Sohn's supplement to Peace through Disarmament and Charter Revision. |
722 | Goldring refers to BR's "broken shoulder" and hopes BR will represent the English section at Clarté's congress at the end of April. |
723 | Chandler provides news of the anti-nuclear movement in Sweden. |
724 | Clunie encloses his review of Common Sense and Nuclear Warfare. |
725 | BR thanks Clunie for his review and compares the nuclear policy of the Labour Party unfavourably with that of the German Social Democratic Party. |
726 | Lord Coleraine thanks BR for the copy of Common Sense and Nuclear Warfare. |
727 | In German. |
728 | BR knows too little of the work of Sven Hedin to write about him. |
729 | Clemens would like to visit BR. |
730 | BR would like to see Clemens. |
731 | Clutton-Brock raises questions about words and meaning, sensations and images, and introspection from his reading of The Analysis of Mind. |
732 | Codreano sends a tribute to BR. The Analysis of Mind enabled her to theorize on physical education. |
733 | Coffman writes of his admiration for BR's work and asks if they could meet when he is in England in the summer of 1919. |
734 | The couple seeks BR's advice on sex and parenthood. |
735 | Cohen has seen Lotte Meitner-Graf's photograph of BR and wishes to use it to portray BR in silk. (This is the jacket photo on the first edition of BR's Autobiography.) |
736 | BR gives his permission for Cohen to submit her embroidery of him for the Handicrafts Exhibition. |
737 | Cohen's embroidery of an unidentified man is in the file. Cohen would like to know the colour of BR's eyes and of his striped shirt. |
738 | BR gives his permission for Cohen to make an embroidery based on his photograph by Lotte Meitner-Graf, although he has no copy to loan her. |
739 | This letter is written on the verso of an order form for The Legal Conscience: Selected Papers of Felix S. Cohen, who was Lucy's husband. Her father-in-law, Morris Raphael Cohen, gave her all of BR's works, including Principia Mathematica. Lucy Cohen says BR would not remember her. |
740 | On fanaticism. |
741 | On recollections of Trinity College, Cambridge, including Sedley Taylor, BR's tennis, Verrall, Sheepshanks, the hour of evacuation, Butler, and G.W. Steevens. |
742 | Collins wants BR to be represented in Monmouthshire Writers, vol. 2. Collins edited vol. 1 (which appeared in 1945). |
743 | Comfort hopes that BR will see Amulree who he says is "our top geriatrician". Comfort himself has not practised for 15 years. |
744 | Comfort is invited for tea on November 14, Amulree having declined. BR is writing to Exton-Smith (another physician). |
745 | BR sends the measurements of the Epstein bust. |
746 | BR is willing to lend his portrait bust to the festival. |
747 | BR states that letters like Chandler's "are a help and encouragement in a difficult campaign". |
748 | BR cannot spare the time to be sculpted, though he wishes he could. |
749 | Chandler encloses evidence of his "sincerity". |
750 | BR thanks Chandler for his "generous gift for my work" and looks forward to seeing him. |
751 | Chapman criticizes BR's arguments in War, The Offspring of War as a friend. |
752 | Chapman thinks BR is more right than wrong. |
753 | BR is asked again to sign a letter against British imperialist policy in China. |
754 | BR is thanked for his work in helping to end the Cuban Missile Crisis. |
755 | BR sends his standard thank-you letter on his role in the Cuban Missile Crisis. |
756 | Congreve is a niece of Lief Jones, Lord Rhayader. She has so enjoyed BR's BBC "portraits" that she awakes in the middle of the night "laughing aloud". |
757 | On China and his hope of BR advising him on his writing. |
758 | On BR's claim that the argument against the bomb is irrefutable. |
759 | BR responds that in his History he allowed for exceptions to non-irrefutability. There is a long postscript. |
760 | Connor is Susan Lindsay Russell's grandmother and mother of Elizabeth Conner Lindsay, who died Aug. 7, 1954. |
761 | The enclosed document "Aims at Introducing a Survey of the Role of Classical and Humanistic Culture in the Cultural Life of Today". |
762 | Werner encloses a sample of his essay writing (not present) and asks be why he cannot get published even when his work is complimented. He had submitted the essay to Ryle's Mind. |
763 | Werner Conway, her husband, has died at age 48. |
764 | Conybeare recalls their reading party "over 50 years ago" with Ray Barran, Edward Marsh, and Robert C. Trevelyan. |
765 | On BR's piece in the Times titled "Is Communism a Menace?" and on the reviews of Cook's book. |
766 | BR wishes to encourage Cook to look further into the grave questions raised by the article in Aviation Week, and "the significance of the range of Russian missiles in Cuba." He asks to be kept informed of Cook's findings. |
767 | BR is refunded the money for unused air tickets for a trip from London to Paris. |
768 | On BR's reaction to a lecture by Kolman from Prague and the function of philosophy. |
769 | BR gives his permission for Japanese publishers to use the debate on the existence of God. He understands that there will be no royalties. |
770 | Corbett sends BR a copy of his book, Europe and the Social Order. |
771 | On being "thrown to the wolves". |
772 | She thanks BR for the gift of his book. |
773 | Cornell listened to "The Existence of God" debate on the BBC. |
774 | Corrick, Kingston branch secretary, asks BR to visit the committee. BR has noted: "7.18 or 19". |
775 | Corey cites biblical passages à propos BR's "Is a Permanent Peace Possible?". |
776 | This letter is written on behalf of Sylvia Pankhurst and concerns a couple who have been wrongly accused of being Communists. Corio asks for BR's help in getting the woman freed from prison so she can join her husband, who has been deported to Italy. Corio used to work for Peano setting up mathematical forms. |
777 | Cosstick asks if BR has written anything on Pascal that expands on his "dismissal" of him in A History of Western Philosophy. |
778 | On BR's opinion of Pascal, in whom BR took a great interest in adolescence in a very fine edition. |
779 | Costello asks about his teaching assignment in preparation for BR's arrival at Harvard. |
780 | Coster asks to photograph BR, since it has been many years since he photographed BR in his Essex St. studio. |
781 | The enclosed is a declaration based on BR's statement to the World Congress of Mathematicians. |
782 | On a teacher named Josef Hajda who is "carrying out a modest, energetic and highly individual campaign for peace." |
783 | BR lacks the address of Josef Hajda of Prague. |
784 | On "last night's" talk by or with BR, perhaps regarding "Mysticism and Logic" or "The Essence of Religion". |
785 | Counsell is going to draw BR as "puck leading the divinity professors" (for the Cambridge Magazine). (He did.) |
786 | Lady Courtney invites BR for a visit. |
787 | Cousens is teaching in the slums of Hoxton and is experimenting with her teaching methods. She is glad BR is "not being worshipped as a deity on a little island in a lotus lake". |
788 | The list of questions is part of Cousens' suggestions for breaking the political deadlock concerning the H-bomb. He heard BR's broadcast "the other night" on this subject and feels that BR's suggestions are the most useful. |
789 | Cowell congratulates BR on receiving UNESCO's Kalinga Prize and reminds BR of their discussion at the UNESCO Fourth General Conference in Paris in 1949. He asks BR about Leibniz. |
790 | BR is not sure there is time to do a "master mind" lecture on Leibniz before the extinction of the human race or, at any rate, of himself. |
791 | Cowles asks if BR's essay, "A Free Man's Worship", has been published alone or if it is in one of his books. He notes "how immensely I have enjoyed the work of yours that has appeared in American magazines the past two or three years." |
792 | About a possible meeting, though she is sure BR will be very busy on the 1st. |
793 | On BR's article "A Philosophy for You in These Times" in Reader's Digest. The letter is critical and has suffered scrunching up. |
794 | Patricia Russell finds Cragg's letter "impertinent and stupid". The editors omitted passages critical of the U.S. |
795 | Crawley writes on behalf of Sister Rosa Womersley who would like permission to attend BR's lectures on mathematical logic "this term". |
796 | Cripps is aware of the rumours that are being circulated and is doing what he can to contradict them. BR is at liberty to quote Cripps. |
797 | Crisp complains that BR's Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy lacks elementary illustrations. |
798 | Croome will be broadcasting on religion. She refers to BR's "caustic remarks about Catholic statisticians the other day". |
799 | K. Blackwell's note in the file states: "Found in Plas Penrhyn copy of Walter Bagehot's Physics and Politics (Russell's Library, no. 2732)". The only connection with BR is the reference to reaching Haslemere. |
800 | Cryer asks for advice regarding his pacifism. |