Total Published Records: 135,556
BRACERS Notes
| Record no. | Notes, topics or text |
|---|---|
| 75103 | On Vaihinger. |
| 75104 | |
| 75105 | Brigstocke asks BR's permission to tell Vaihinger that he may send his book to BR. |
| 75106 | |
| 75107 | Brigstocke asks BR's support for a government loan for scientific investigation. |
| 75108 | BR has asked him to call. |
| 75109 | |
| 75110 | BR cannot meet with Augusto Salazar as BR cannot manage any more engagements in London. This response is on the verso of document .047717. |
| 75111 | Britton saw BR standing up to the "rowdies" at the One World meeting. |
| 75112 | The Russells are expecting a baby. Brockway's daughter was born on Christmas day. BR has annotated the letter's allusion to the battle of Sydney Street. |
| 75113 | On judgment. |
| 75114 | Broad enjoyed BR's pamphlet on War and Fear. |
| 75115 | This is a transcription of document .047732. Also in the file: a carbon copy of this transcription. BR corrected both copies. |
| 75116 | Broad requests a new testimonial from BR and encloses the old (not present). |
| 75117 | Broad mentions that BR is writing a new book. |
| 75118 | This is a transcription of document .047735. Also in the file: a carbon copy of this transcription. BR corrected both copies. |
| 75119 | BR is asked to run for the Lord Rectorship of St. Andrews University. |
| 75120 | This is a transcription of document .047737. Also in the file: a carbon copy of this transcription. BR corrected both copies. |
| 75121 | Broad raises a point from BR's review in Mind of The Mind and Its Place in Nature. |
| 75122 | Broad wishes BR a happy 95th birthday. |
| 75123 | This letter is addressed to "Dear Friend." It concerns the publication of the Prison System Enquiry Committee's report. BR is asked for a subscription. He will be sent the notice for the final meeting of the General Committee. |
| 75124 | Benenson suggests that BR write to King Hassan of Morocco on his birthday to encourage an act of clemency. |
| 75125 | Gisela informs Schoenman that Labaton is alive in some hidden military prison. Hilda would like Schoenman to contact Jaquelin to discuss what should be done for him in London. |
| 75126 | A member from the Committee for Solidarity with the Victims of Repression in Peru informs Schoenman that their march was a success with a turnout of 100 people. He mentions that he is going to start a collection of clothes to send to those in need. He encloses a copy of the Socialist Leader. |
| 75127 | Schoenman assures Edmunds that he will send all bulletins and data concerning the Tribunal. In return he will like Edmunds to send information concerning the Solidarity Committee with the Victims of Repression in Peru. Schoenman wants Edmunds to contact Pat Jordan on the matter because Schoenman feels that he will be of great assistance. He states that BR will become a sponsor. |
| 75128 | This is a cable sent by BR asking for the release of Hugo Blanco. If Belaunde prevents Blanco's execution, he will be doing his government a great service and will earn the gratitude of humane people. The same cable was sent to Dr. Alfredo Battilana. In file are two TL copies, documents .187073-.187074. |
| 75129 | BR would like the Pope to ask the President of Peru to grant amnesty to Hugo Blanco. BR feels that the Pope's intervention would change the mind of the President. BR adds: "It is unchristian to kill a man for giving his life to the poor." |
| 75130 | Blanco thanks BR for intervening on his behalf with President Belaunde. In file is TL(CAR), document .187080. Also in file is the Spanish version, ALS(X), documents .187081- .187085. |
| 75131 | Edmunds would like BR to become Honorary President of their Committee. |
| 75132 | A message for a meeting to be held March 20. |
| 75133 | "Mr. Maw's Counsel is making rather a fuss about the question of your earned income, and seems to think that you earn a great deal by Lectures. I am sorry to trouble you, but could you kindly distinguish on the two enclosed Statements between receipts from royalties, receipts from Articles, and receipts from Lectures." |
| 75134 | The press statement is a summary of BR's speech on the first year of the Labour Party. Also in file: 3 TD(CAR), documents .183159-.183161. |
| 75135 | BR is asked to represent war resisters at a congress on the "State and the Individual in Relation to War" in Germany. Brockway has organized lectures for BR in Holland in order to help finance the trip to Germany. |
| 75136 | BR has had an interview with Scurr. |
| 75137 | This letter is written at the top right hand corner of a letter from Marley to Brockway, 20 March 1931. |
| 75138 | Brockway has written a letter to BR in the top right-hand corner of this document. See document .047749. Marley hopes BR will become an active member of the House of Lords. |
| 75139 | On Seretse Khama. BR's name is on the letterhead as having shown support for the petition in favour of allowing Khama to return to his people. |
| 75140 | BR is asked to sign a letter to be sent to Michael Blundell. "Ans. and letter signed" is written at the top of the page. Dated from BR's reply on 1954/12/09 in RA1 750, record 13463. No trace of the letter BR signed can be found. |
| 75141 | Brockway asks BR to speak for him at Eton on May 25 or whatever is convenient after May 16. |
| 75142 | Brockway regrets that BR is unable to speak at Eton and asks BR to send him a message that could be read instead. |
| 75143 | Brockway conveys general appreciation of BR's work for C.O.s during WWI and "your magnificent work on the hydrogen bomb". |
| 75144 | Brockway requests a message from BR for an album to mark Ghana's independence on March 6. The enclosure is from Frank Harcourt-Munning and concerns mailing the message of greeting. |
| 75145 | Brockway asks BR to present the independence album to Dr. Nkrumah. |
| 75146 | Brockway asks BR to sign some letters on South Africa and human rights that will be sent to The Times and the Manchester Guardian. |
| 75147 | Brockway suggests that BR should ask the organizers of a peace conference in Stockholm not to raise the issue of the Arab-Israeli conflict at the conference. |
| 75148 | Brockway asks BR to manage an election meeting at Slough on October 2 and one at Eton on October 6. |
| 75149 | BR is unable to speak at the meetings at Eton and Slough. This response is on the verso of document .047759. |
| 75150 | On BR's birthday "with deep feeling". |
| 75151 | BR states: "It is an especial pleasure to have good wishes from so old a friend." This response is on the verso of document .047761. |
| 75152 | The Russells are invited to a luncheon in honour of H.H. Maharaja Shri Jaya Chamaraja Wadiyar. |
| 75153 | The CND Parliamentary Group is having a luncheon in BR's honour on May 25th and Brockway hopes that BR can attend. |
| 75154 | BR will be able to attend the luncheon in his honour on May 25th. Brockway hopes he will make a short speech in reply to those by Barbara Wootton, Michael Foot and Joyce Butler. |
| 75155 | In response to BR's letter of June 3 to an unknown recipient. |
| 75156 | BR and Brockway have different views on how opposition to the Vietnam war should be handled. Brockway wants to meet BR. He does not understand why his letters have not reached BR. |
| 75157 | Brockway encloses the British Council for Peace in Vietnam's "Statement of Policy and Action" and "Campaign of Action". Brockway refers to BR not liking his idea of a juridical commission. |
| 75158 | On the Vietnam war. |
| 75159 | BR states that the bombing of dams in North Vietnam is a horrible act against the civilian population. A delegation to Prime Minister Wilson is being formed in hopes Britain will inform President Johnson of its detestation of such a terrible act. |
| 75160 | BR and Brockway's relationship has been affected by their differing views on combatting the Vietnam war. |
| 75161 | BR's message to Brockway's National Convention of the BCPV [British Council for Peace in Vietnam] was given to the press and reproduced in their bulletin. |
| 75162 | "Tiny" Jackson sends a contribution to the birth control movement. |
| 75163 | BR asks Brockway if he has read the book, Our Lawless Police, which reveals police tyranny in the U.S. Also on Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. |
| 75164 | B. Jolley & Sons proposes to send goods collected from Trinity College, as instructed by Hollond. |
| 75165 | In German. Only the day and month are recorded on the letter. Christoph Limbeck-Lilienau has supplied the year for BRACERS. |
| 75166 | BR is able to attend the luncheon being given in his honour by the CND Parliamentary Group. |
| 75167 | Henderson thanks BR for promising an article for the Labour Magazine. Also in letterhead: Trades Union Congress General Council. |
| 75168 | On lecture arrangements. |
| 75169 | On strategy re the legalities of birth control publications. |
| 75170 | This translation of the original Russian at document .250143, was made by N. Duddington. |
| 75171 | Littlewood offers to lend BR £200 for the purchase of a house at Penzance, Cornwall, viz. Carn Voel. |
| 75172 | In Russian. |
| 75173 | On BR's Free Thought and Official Propaganda. |
| 75174 | Scott asks BR for an article on the Boxer Indemnity. |
| 75175 | The year is conjectured. |
| 75176 | This request for a review was found in a copy BR once owned of B. Petronievics, Die Typischen Geometrien (Russell's Ex-Library, no. 3690). |
| 75177 | Mosher encloses galley proofs of A Free Man's Worship (not present). |
| 75178 | Mosher presents the arrangements for publishing A Free Man's Worship. |
| 75179 | On BR's "Logical Atomism". |
| 75180 | Muirhead requests autobiographical notes. [Unlike several of the contributors, BR did not provide any in Contemporary British Philosophy.] |
| 75181 | L. Spearman Oxx confirms the arrangement for monthly articles from BR. |
| 75182 | On her book on teaching arithmetic. |
| 75183 | Nearing asks BR about restrictions on science in "A Free Man's Worship". |
| 75184 | Leonard Woolf would like an article based on a book about the atom. |
| 75185 | On contracting for a block of BR's time to speak exclusively to student clubs, to be arranged with Feakins. BR has financial calculations on the verso. |
| 75186 | Greenstreet will wait for BR's review of Keynes. BR is happy, and his friends owe Dora "a great debt". |
| 75187 | Brailsford reports that a literary agent has failed to sell BR's articles on the atom in the U.S. |
| 75188 | Fuller's New York partner was unable to sell BR's "Structure of the Atom" articles. Fuller's letter was enclosed with Brailsford's letter of 27 April 1923 to Russell, document .250173 at record 75187. |
| 75189 | Dated by the reference to B&R C23.16. |
| 75190 | Praise for BR's articles on the atom; Dial articles. |
| 75191 | BR has forwarded Brockway's letter to Dora. |
| 75192 | Brockway asks Dora to hang a Beacon Hill School article on May Sturt's The Education of Children under Seven. |
| 75193 | Johnson invites BR to give lecture courses at the New School on philosophy of science. |
| 75194 | Dated by BR's reply in RA3 709, record 56445. |
| 75195 | Dated by Nicholson's references to staying at Sunny Bank. Dorothy Wrinch is mentioned. |
| 75196 | Nicod would like to see BR at Varese, Italy. |
| 75197 | On the Far East. |
| 75198 | On the people he has met in the U.K. with BR's help. |
| 75199 | BR lists the people who have recently joined "our council of advisers". BR is assumed to be the sender of the letter. |
| 75200 | On ending the war in Vietnam. BR asks Brockway to sign a draft statement (not present). |
| 75201 | On ending the war in Vietnam. |
| 75202 | On a visit to the Russells. |
