BRACERS Notes

Record no. Notes, topics or text
75003

Dewey thanks BR for a £20 contribution to the relief work of women and girls in China. Dewey is the wife of John Dewey, then teaching in China.

The year may be 1920. Both the Deweys and BR had been in Peking since the beginning of November. In 1921, BR did not contract pneumonia until 18 March.

75004
75005
75006
75007

Dated from the 29 March 1923 letter of payment for "Leisure and Mechanism" in RA3 Rec. Acq. 229a.

75008
These estate agents seek furnished accommodations for their applicants.
75009

BR is requested to subscribe for shares in Streatfeilds Patents, a new company, started by his friend and physician, Raymond Streatfeild.

75010

Driesch followed BR at the University of Peking.

75011

Duddington encloses a translated letter for BR from Lossky (see document .250142).

75012

The writer has a grievance against the Labour Party's education department and the New Leader. The enclosures are a letter to David Adams, M.P., 9 March 1923, and a letter in Common Sense on engineering education; documents .250068 and .250068a, respectively.

75013

The accounts show booking dates, amounts, and credits.

75014
This is a transcription of document .047672. Also in the file: a carbon copy of this transcription. BR has annotated the ribbon copy.
75015

Brennand asks BR to send a brief syllabus for the course of 16 lectures he will be giving at Morley College.

75016

Dudley is in London after being in China with her family. [Her late 1920 letter, record 76547, indicates she will be travelling.)

75017

Dudley plans to visit BR at Carn Voel on June 4-7. (The visit cannot be confirmed.)

75018
This is a transcription of document .047674. Also in the file: a carbon copy of this transcription.
75019

Dunton assumed that BR was the prospective minister of education in the Labour Government.

75020
This letter may not be meant for BR. It concerns engineering mathematics.
75021

The writer is attempting to formulate the idea of God in BR's mathematical logic.

75022

Dziewicki writes at length on Wittgenstein's Tractatus, which BR has sent him.

75023

Dziewicki is working on mathematical logic. He states that BR sent him a copy of The Principles of Mathematics and that he might have to ask for it again. [Could this be BR's own revised copy?]

75024

Gray asks BR to be Labour's rectorial candidate.

75025

Gray writes that BR is expected to write an election address.

75026

Gray asks if BR will endorse a "straight fight between Lord Robert Cecil and yourself."

75027

Harrison invites BR to an organizational meeting of art workers.

75028

On the death of Brereton's wife and on her Russian husband, Orsia, and Doreen's "loyalty to the Russians".

[Brereton later moved to Victoria, B.C., joined the Humanists of Canada, married Mrs. Downie, and visited the Russell Archives.]

75029

Dr. Esser writes from Peking. He was BR's physician there.

75030

Galton invites BR to lecture in August at its summer school. (Probably this is BR's lecture, "How Socialism would Democratize the Universities", Sept. 12, 1923.)

75031

Galton invites BR to lecture under the heading of "Is Civilization Decaying?".

75032

Galton likes the syllabus of BR's upcoming lecture (at the summer school).

75033

Galton wants a syllabus for BR's lecture, "The Effect of Science on Social Institutions".

75034

The Russells helped Fan go to Russia.

75035

Feakins sets out the terms for a lecture tour under his auspices.

75036

BR refers to meeting Dorothy Brett in Los Angeles in 1939.

75037

Feakins has before him BR's letter to Norman Angell stating his interest in a lecture tour.

75038

BR has told Feakins of a new lecture subject, "Recent Discoveries in Physics".

75039

Enclosed is a statement of account for Dora Russell's tour.

75040

The enclosure is Religion and the Crisis by Ferris.

75041

BR explains why Dora did not have time to respond to Ferris's original letter. They receive about a dozen communications a day like his. There isn't time to respond to them all, and his views on religion are not novel.

75042
This is a transcription of document .047681. Also in the file: a carbon copy of this transcription. The ribbon copy is corrected by BR.
75043

A note in the file mentions the reference to Katherine Mansfield.

75044
75045

This letter is a transcription of the original letter, document .053272, record 116694. There is also another carbon, document .047686, record 75046. The transcription was originally titled: "Charles Robertson to Brett". Robertson's name was inked out and "BR" written in ink above.

75046

This letter is a transcription of the original letter, document .053272, record 116694. There is also another carbon, document .047685, record 75045. The carbon has a note in Edith Russell's hand on the top: "To be inserted in Appendix to Chap VIII The First War [p. 485c]".

75047
75048
75049
75050
75051

Brooks invites any reviews that BR would care to give The Freeman.

75052

On "The Sources of Power".

75053
75054

Fry is excited at the prospect of doing BR's portrait. [It's on the cover of Moorehead's biography of BR.]

75055

Fry remarks on the Russells' happiness. He will soon set to work on the "second edition" of the portrait.

75056

Fu writes on the Boxer Indemnity.

75057
75058

Greenwood's marriage to Edwin appears to have broken up.

75059

Brett solicits contributions to The Garsington Chronicle.

75060
This is a carbon copy of the transcription of document .047687.
75061

Schlick invites BR to lecture in Vienna. The Philosophische Gesellschaft an der Universität Wien is studying BR's philosophy and desperately needs copies of his books, although both the Mathematical Institute and the University Library possess Principia.

75062

A cheque for $500 is sent to BR for "How the Chinese are Happy". The editor is Norman Hapgood. On the verso BR has written a column of financial figures, totalling it at 691.15.

[The article could not be found in Hearst's International.]

75063

Heinemann asks for a chapter of BR's to reprint in volume 5 of Das Ziel, a radical cultural yearbook.

75064

This publisher grants BR permission to quote Sassoon's "Father", a poem.

75065

Evans would like BR to expand his "The Structure of the Atom" articles into book form.

75066

BR has annotated the letter with "No" to the book proposal.

75067

In German. They translated Principles of Social Reconstruction and The Problem of China.

75068

In German.

75069

Hogben inquires about academic posts in China.

75070

The letter is addressed to "Friends". Howard asks for articles of his to be placed. The enclosed typed articles are by "Frank Godwin", documents .250111a and .250111b.

75071

BR will speak on "International Problems of the Far East".

75072

Howe provides information on Haslitt's reading of Kant.

75073

Huebsch wants to publish the book version of Free Thought and Official Propaganda in the U.S.

75074
75075

Skinner asks if BR will stand for parliament in Chelsea. [He did.]

75076

This is a fundraising letter by the London and Southern Countries Divisional Council No. 6.

75077

Hunt sends BR the typed copy of "Eastern and Western Ideas of Happiness" and the original to Norman Hapgood, editor of Hearst's International.

75078

Norman Hapgood is arriving on March 26 and would like to see BR. [He knew BR in Berlin, 1895.]

75079

Bauer asks BR to write on labour legislation in China for L'Avenir du Travail, published in Basle in French, German and Spanish.

75080

Re BR speaking at their summer school at Varese in northern Italy.

75081

On Mrs. Harrison and Mrs. Harding, and the death of Robert Young. BR has called The Japan Weekly Chronicle "the best weekly in the world".

75082
Jenkin is interested in applying logic to sciences.
75083

Jolley, a Cambridge cabinet maker and upholsterer, lists 28 belongings of Wittgenstein's with a total of £80.

75084

Johnston updates BR on China and offers corrections to The Problem of China.

75085

Yamamoto is resigned to BR's ill health and that he will not be able to lecture in Japan.

75086

Congratulations on the birth of BR's child, John Conrad Russell.

75087

Five articles have been received from BR since his return home, including "Neo-Idealism in Germany" and "Relativity of Einstein". (The former title is unknown.)

75088
On the raising of funds.
75089

On listing BR as a "signed" contributor to The Nation.

75090

On mathematics. The review is of Klyce's Universe, document .250134a. BR had written to Klyce in February 1922, according to a letter of Klyce to John Dewey, 28 February 1922. BR was grateful for Klyce's offer of an unnamed book.

75091

Jameson asks whether the Russells have written a book that Knopf might publish.

75092

Knopf thanks BR for his letter of March 16.

75093

On the Boxer Indemnity Fund.

75094

Kulischer asks for information on behalf of A.V. Vasilieff and on the teaching of mathematics.

75095

On Yeats referring to BR as "bald".

75096

Bridge sends BR the letter that she wrote to the Times Literary Supplement about C.P. Sanger.

75097

Bridge plans to read BR's Portraits from Memory. Bridge's father was Stanley Makower, whom BR knew at Cambridge. He died at age 39. Sanger helped her on mathematics.

75098

On birth control. The remainder of the letter is missing, and thus the sender is unknown.

75099

This unsigned letter addresses itself to the author of Traité de la Probabilité. (Keynes published A Treatise on Probability.)

75100
75101
75102
This is a transcription of document .047701. Also in the file: a carbon copy of this transcription.