A friend of BR's has died. [Theodore Llewelyn Davies.]

BR has told her "that one would never be unhappy if one could always forget the existence of human beings".

This is a transcription of document .047890. Also in the file: a carbon copy of this transcription. The transcription has been annotated by BR.

Burdett sends BR 29 letters, but none after 1892 and not on "family matters". They would be "enough for Alys to gain some insight into you and your life during the early years before she met you."

This is a transcription of document .047893. Also in the file: a carbon copy of this transcription.

Burdett thanks BR for returning the letters.

On women's suffrage.

BR has told her in regard to women suffragettes: "their tactics are precisely those which men have always adopted."

Evidently Burdett's mother has died.

Burdett is sorry to hear of a "very deep sorrow" which has come into BR's life, i.e. his separation from Alys.

This is a transcription of document .047902. Also in the file: a carbon copy of this transcription. BR has annotated the ribbon copy.

Burdett states that is was "a very real pleasure" to see BR again.

This is a transcription of document .047904. Also in the file: a carbon copy of this transcription.

Miss Young is ready to retire.

Sotheby's is selling the Brownings' possessions! Burdett hopes to be highest bidder for a bookshelf.

A note in the file states: "From a childhood friend Maud Burdett".

Burdett wants to visit BR in prison.

Burdett writes that childhood friends will always stay friends "in consequence of those happy days", although BR's recent views in print have "caused me such acute pain". She says that she was bowled over by those expressed in the paper on Feb. 11. (This article remains unidentified.)

This is a transcription of document .047910. Also in the file: a carbon copy of this transcription.

Burdett sends BR a "two-version edition" of a book. (Perhaps the Bible.)

Hunt tells BR that a commission is due to Walter Fuller. (This must be in reference to "Eastern and Western Ideals of Happiness".)

BR thanks the Burns for "the lovely blue vase which charms us."

BR asks if Young will help Maud Burdett with her wish to go to Newnham College. See document .055045 for the original, record 20895.

This is a transcription of document .047921. Also in the file: a carbon copy of this transcription. Both are corrected by BR.

This is a transcription of document .047923. It is corrected by BR.

Burton accepts BR's labelling of his position as isolationist.

Pai Kien knew BR in Peking [Beijing]. This literal translation of his original letter includes mentions of Japan's climate.

In German.

Pearson owes money and wants BR to buy some precious books from her.

They invite BR to become a member of this "International Writers Club". He noted "Yes".

Galsworthy asks BR to attend the P.E.N. dinner on May 1.

The P.E.N. secretary welcomes BR as a member. The enclosed rules are for the P.E.N. Club.

Smith quotes from BR's reply to the University of Pennsylvania Press. He asks for an explanation. "It will not be published until the editor of your posthumously printed correspondence asks for it."

The University Press asks BR for a "paragraph of criticism" of Henry Bradford Smith's Formal Logic, being sent separately. BR indicated "No" to the request.

On Russia.

Portus met BR and Alys in 1907. He sends his book on Marx.

A year ago this day BR and Dora boarded "the train at Peking at the outset of the Bertroddyssey". She supports the London School of Economics Student Union's request that BR be president.

Watts requests an article for the R.P.A. Annual.

This letter has been annotated by BR: "Nelson was a German philosophic pacifist, author of various books". Buxton sends a pamphlet by Dr. Gumbel, who has dedicated it to BR.

[Re Leonard Nelson.]

Radhakrishnan, future President of India, wants BR to lecture at Calcutta University on his proposed visit to India. BR has noted "Oct. 1924?"

Raymund and J.V. Denney seek BR's permission to reprint B&R C13.06 in their Good Reading, First Book.

Raymund regards BR's Freeman articles as surpassing all of his recent work except for some articles on China.

Having read Roads to Freedom, Rees concludes that BR has not a sufficient knowledge of anarchist communism.

Reid organizes lecture tours of North America, besides being secretary to Count Ilya Tolstoy. The Count and his wife have suggested that BR could make a successful tour.

On student exchanges.

Renwick sends further records of her arithmetic lessons. The letter was transcribed from Dora Russell's papers by Katharine Tait in a letter of Dec. 12, 1986 to K. Blackwell.

Bynner sends his book, Journey with Genius.

BR has written "Ans" in the top left-hand corner.

In French.

In French.

Dunton enclosed this letter with his to BR, 1923/04/03, document .250067, record 75012. Adams is Dunton's M.P.

Renwick draws Dora's attention to a new chapter on earliest number teaching derived from BR's Principles of Mathematics. The chapter appears to be the one attached to this letter and is titled "Children's Difficulties in Arithmetic".

Renwick sends a copy of her book, The Case Against Arithmetic.

A secretary answers on Dora's behalf.

Robb sends BR A Theory of Time and Space.

BR responds to her request for a lecture, "International Problems of China, or Modern China" for Varese, in a note at the top of her card.

Rolland makes further arrangements for BR's lecture at Varese (afterwards at Lugano, Switzerland).

Roy met BR at Lugano. He has corresponded with him before and wants him to come to India.

Roy thanks BR for providing "so much kind trouble for some details as to your life." Roy sends BR Gandhi's writings for his view on non-violence.

On capitalism and property, following a lecture by BR.

Aunt Agatha is very grateful for the present of a book on her 70th birthday. BR is looking 10 years younger, she says.

Aunt Agatha hopes for a visit.

"Elizabeth" will be happy to have Wittgenstein at the Chalet (in Switzerland).

Frank encloses a transcription of Agnes, Lady Grove's letter to him of 21 May 1923, and his reply, on religion.

In a few weeks BR will be repaid the £2000 on his mortgage for "the Irish estate". Frank wants to borrow the money with security being preferred shares in Plenty & Son Ltd.

Frank congratulates BR and Dora on their next child, if they are pleased about it.

R.W.B. Buckland writes to Frank on 16 June 1923 about BR's mortgage on the Irish estate.

A letter of thanks for "A.D.S."'s visit to Cornwall, written in a stilted, old-fashioned style.

Smith quotes from BR's reply to him of March 19, 1923. He draws BR's attention to passages critical of BR's work on pages 33 and 54.

Schlick thanks BR for the gift of three books. Kaufmann will lecture next on BR.

In German, from the University of Kiel. Scholz mentions books by BR in the university library.

In French.

Seidenberg thanks BR for reading his manuscripts. He was an absolutist C.O. during the war.

In French.

In French.

Sen requests an introduction from BR for his book of verse. The envelope is document .250241.

About a "private and unofficial" meeting on the Boxer Indemnity.

Sheffer writes on classes.

On BR's comments on laziness.

Zia requests an exclusive article on education.

On The Problem of China.

Silcox writes about Katharine Russell and an upcoming visit.

About his recent books.

Smellie, a lecturer at London School of Economics, cannot find Lord Leverhulme's reference and cites articles on occupational statistics from the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Leverhulme's Six Hour Day is referred to in Prospects of Industrial Civilization, p. 40n.

Smellie refers to Laski and to books by C.S. Myers and Hammond.

Smellie has located newspaper photographs of Indians being flogged. This must be in connection with Prospects of Industrial Civilization, p. 29n. Russell later removed the mention of flogging but retained the newspaper citation.

In French.

In French.