BRACERS Notes

Record no. Notes, topics or text
74503
74504
74505
74506
This is a transcription of document .047159. There is also a carbon copy in the file. Both have BR's corrections.
74507
This is a transcription of document .047167. There is also a carbon copy in the file.
74508

Bell refers to "that mollusc Churchill".

74509

Bell says that BR's lecture was a success in a letter dated only "Tuesday". John Slater's memorandum dates the letter.

74510

This transcription of document .047165 has been corrected by BR.

There is also a carbon copy in the file, also corrected by BR.

74511

Bell's C.O. tribunal is approaching.

74512

On the option of Pelhamism.

74513

Bell does not know if BR's request for help on "an introduction to mathematical philosophy intended for those who have no more knowledge of the subject than can be acquired at a primary school or even at Eton", is a compliment or a practical joke. [This concerns BR's dust-jacket blurb.]

74514
This is a transcription of document .047171. There is also a carbon copy in the file.
74515

Bell praises BR's book Sceptical Essays. Bell has read all of BR's books and feels a "gratified vanity" if he can understand one from beginning to end.

74516
This is a transcription of document .047173. There is also a carbon copy in the file.
74517

Benjamin asks for BR's help with respect to his relationship with the New York branch of the RPA. Benjamin met BR when he lectured at the Rand School, when Mr. Soskin was in charge of the arrangements.

74518
Benjamin asks if BR received his last letter about militant atheism.
74519

Benjamin sends BR a copy of his article "Race Prejudice and Non-Causal Thinking". The article was written under the name Historicus and appears with "Are All Men Created Equal?" by Ernest Busenback.

74520

BR had sent a leaflet entitled Act or Perish to Benjamin, who read it with interest. Benjamin asks BR if he has heard of "The Humanity Guild" and sends him a copy of a booklet they printed entitled The Shelter Hoax and Foreign Policy.

74521

Benjamin has enclosed an article on BR (not present) and an article that was published in The Progressive World in 1950.

74522

BR asks Benjamin for cuttings that "would be useful to our work".

74523

Benjamin was in the hospital having his prostate removed. One clipping is "Lord Russell's Irrelevancies", New York Herald Tribune, 13 Sept. 1961, and the other a copy of B&R C62.53.

74524

Benjamin wants to send BR a copy of David Bradley's No Place to Hide and has enclosed an article from the New York Times dated October 5, 1962 on the subject of midget bombs.

74525

BR thanks Benjamin for sending him press cuttings "from time to time".

74526

A newspaper strike has kept Benjamin from sending newspaper clippings to BR from the regular papers. He encloses articles from the Christian Science Monitor on nuclear and Cuba topics.

74527

BR asks for more newspaper clippings, including clippings of BR's own articles.

74528

The newspaper strike is still on so Benjamin has sent more clippings from the Christian Science Monitor.

74529

Benjamin sends BR a copy of the letters published in the New York Times in response to BR's article from "two weeks ago", including one from Leonard Josephson (not in file) on race in Marriage and Morals.

74530

BR has recently written several articles for American publications and is anxious to see responses to them.

74531

BR thanks Benjamin for sending him newspaper clippings, including a "very interesting" one from Look.

74532
Benjamin is entering the hospital for three weeks for a prostatectomy.
74533

BR asks for newspaper clippings concerning the report of the Warren Commission on President Kennedy's assassination.

74534

BR sends Benjamin materials concerning the work of Mark Lane on the Kennedy assassination.

74535

On the Oswald case. Joesten's book on the Kennedy assassination is mentioned.

74536

Benjamin sends BR a copy of the Warren Commission Report from the New York Times.

74537

Benjamin sends BR a copy of The New Republic which discusses the Warren Report.

74538

BR received the New York Times version of the Warren Report from Benjamin and a copy of the full report on his own.

74539

Benjamin sends BR an issue of Life Magazine with an article about the Warren Report in it.

74540

Benjamin sends BR material on the Warren Report from "today's" New York Times.

74541

Benjamin asks if BR received the materials on the Warren Report that he sent and sends more clippings with this letter.

74542

Benjamin sends BR more newspaper clippings concerning the Warren Report and other topics.

74543
This is a transcription of document .047209. Also in the file: a carbon copy.
74544
74545

Bennett has forwarded BR's letter to Professor Yang Tsung-han.

The enclosed monogram is a combination of the Chinese characters for happiness and longevity.

74546
74547
74548
74549

Dr. Ho Yung-chi sends BR 2 offprints and the bulletin of the Malayan branch of the P.E.N. Club through Bennett.

74550

Bentwich asks to borrow BR's essay on education for a course on education that she will teach at Newnham College. Bentwich mentions Clifford Allen. She wants to use BR's essay for the section, "Suggestions for Reform".

74551

On helping Clifford Allen, and James Ward taking BR's side against Trinity College.

74552

This is a transcription of document .047227, corrected by BR.

Also in the file: a carbon copy.

74553
This is a carbon copy of a transcription of document .047228 and is corrected by BR.
74554

Berenson encloses a letter for BR from an unknown person.

This is a transcription; the original is not present. Also in the file: a carbon copy of the same transcription.

74555

Berenson tells BR that Mary Berenson (Pearsall Smith Costelloe) died on the 23rd.

74556

Berenson invites BR to I Tatti.

74557

Thanks for Nightmares. Re visit.

74558
74559

Berenson knew BR was recently in Rome.

74560

BR has annotated her name. Mary signed with the initials "M.W.C."

74561

Costelloe signs herself "Mariechen". BR's note identifies her.

74562
74563

The text is "Congratulations Costelloe" and was sent from Fernhurst. The sender must be BR's brother-in-law.

74564

BR was "one of the most precious" things in Mary Berenson's life.

74565

This postcard is from Florence and shows I Tatti.

74566

This is a carbon copy of the transcription of document .047240.

74567

On BR's "stand yesterday"—a reference to the trial that resulted in a week's imprisonment for BR.

74568
On different methods appealing to different people.
74569

The note states: "[G.G. Berry a clerk in the Bodleian, and the only person in Oxford who understood mathematical logic]".

74570

Another note on G.G. Berry. This one states the paradox (incorrectly). See document .047255, record 74569.

74571

Another note on G.G. Berry, again stating the paradox (incorrectly). See also documents .047255 and .047256, record 74569 and record 74570.

74572
74573
74574
74575
74576

BR has suggested the year 1908 for this letter, but the subject matter seems continuous with 1905.

74577
74578

On the liar paradox, instancing Berry's ex-maid, Elsie Coombes.

74579

This is a transcription of document .047265, record 74578. Also in file: a carbon copy of the transcription. BR has corrected both.

74580
74581

Berry writes again, hoping to save BR time on a pressing problem of logic.

74582

BR is unable to make the dinner at Passfield Hall because of a previous engagement.

74583

BR is made an Honorary Fellow of the London School of Economics.

74584

On BR's being made an Honorary Fellow of the London School of Economics. Another carbon copy of the same letter is on the verso, lacking only the address.

74585

Bevington greatly appreciates BR's Nightmares.

74586
This is a transcription of document .047279.
74587

Bharati plans to send BR an offprint of a monograph that is to be published by The Journal of the History of Ideas. The subject is the present climate of cultural opinion. Also on Hitler and Indian opinion.

74588

Bharati writes about the history of the University of Nalanda and the creation of a new school on the same site.

74589

Bharati expresses his frustration over contemporary problems in India.

The plan for a college of contemporary logic at Nalanda fell through and Bharati has left the school.

74590
Bharati asks BR to read some essays that he intends to have published and to write a preface to them.
74591

On the Indian reviews of BR's short stories.

74592

Bharati has moved to Bangkok and plans to stay for 2 years.

74593

This is a change of address card to Victoria, B.C., Canada.

74594

Richard Bickersteth is John Bickersteth's son.

74595
On herself and educating children.
74596

Bidder, replying to BR, denies that the "O.B. Hunt" can be held responsible for breaking down BR's fence.

74597

In French. Re Biquard's biography of Joliot-Curie. The enclosure is from the typescript of the biography.

74598

In French.

74599

In French. The transcription is provided by Pierre Biquard.

74600

BR gives permission for Biquard to publish letters between himself and Joliot-Curie.

74601

In French. The publisher of the English translation requires BR's permission to publish his letter of 17 June 1955.

74602

BR gives Biquard permission to publish two letters from his correspondence with Joliot-Curie.