BRACERS Notes

Record no. Notes, topics or text
75403

In French.

75404

The Liverpool Social Problem Circle wants BR to lecture to it on education on 4 October 1922.

75405

BR is to speak on Oct. 4. Dr. Stanley A. Mellor will be pleased.

75406

In French. The notes concern the translation of English passages for the French edition of The Foundations of Geometry.

75407
BR is asked for ideas on a new theory of social development taking relativity into account.
75408

Stephen sends her new book and discusses Freud.

75409

On a meeting re the Boxer Indemnity, which BR is to lead.

75410

On the Boxer Indemnity. Anna M. Graves has talked with BR about it.

75411

Swinnerton is BR's tenant in Russell Chambers.

75412

In French.

75413

In French.

75414

In French.

75415

In French.

75416

Calmady recalls BR's parents in the election of 1868. Amberley gave him a book. (BR edited the letter for The Amberley Papers, vol. 2, pp. 234-5.)

75417

Calmady does not need to be identified if BR quotes his letter. BR is in Malaga.

75418

Calmady describes in detail the Amberleys' visit to Woodtown in 1868. BR designated this and document .047959, record 75417, as "LET".

75419

Calmady has found photos of the Amberleys.

75420

Tawker, in India, asks how he can get Sanger's Family Limitation.

75421

Ting thanks BR for his letter of Feb. 20 and writes on population. He mentions Chao's work on tones.

75422

On an errant account for coal supplied to Sunny Bank, Cornwall.

The enclosed letter from Tol-Pedn to E. Mitchell & Sons, 24 Feb. 1923, attempts to clear up the muddle; document .250259b.

75423

Tönnies had read of BR's "death" in China. He and BR talked about German social democracy long ago. He invites BR to Kiel to give a lecture on sociology.

75424

BR's offer of £800 for the house, Sunny Bank, is accepted.

75425

On purchasing Sunny Bank (now Carn Voel).

75426

£80 for the furniture is acceptable.

75427

Tsen attended some of BR's lectures on the philosophy of mind in China and provides the title of one.

75428

Marquand wants BR to lecture to the Union at University College of South Wales, Cardiff.

75429

Marquand makes arrangements for BR to speak to the Political Union in October (?).

75430
Venables would like to meet BR because she has read his books.
75431

The writer provides a reference for Mr. E.R. Hulett, a prospective tenant.

75432

The writer would like to translate The Policy of the Entente into German. Hermann Lutz gave her BR's address.

75433

Litvinoff sends BR an article from the Jewish Chronicle. In file is the article, document .183507.

75434

The group of Soviet Jews does not want BR to let go of the debate. They feel that if he accepts Khrushchev's explanation then the fate of Jews in the Soviet will be aggravated. The date of the message is taken from documents that follow immediately, on Soviet Citizens' reactions to the correspondence between BR and Khrushchev, Izvestia, 24 March 1963, documents .183509-.183510.

75435

BR is asked for a topic for his speech at the Labour Club's meeting.

75436

BR has "never advocated a preventive war, as your members would know if they took any trouble to ascertain facts."

75437

The Labour Club accepts BR's resignation as its President and cites statements by BR.

75438

Waley requests the return of China and Europe if BR will not be reviewing it in the New Statesman. (The book may be Adolf Reichwein, China and Europe: Intellectual and Artistic Contacts in the Eighteenth Century, London: Kegan Paul, 1925.) Fry's portrait of BR is to appear in a Chinese work on contemporary European art.

75439

Watney would like BR's commendation of a technical textile school at Shanghai. Watney appears to be an M.P. but may be a lobbyist.

75440

On Walston's book, Harmonism and Conscious Evolution.

75441

On the proposed Textile Technical School at Shanghai. Two copies of a brochure are enclosed: Helping British Trade in China: the Boxer Indemnity and the British Scheme for a Textile Technical School at Shanghai.

75442

BR could consult Peddor [Teddar] on Herbert Spencer's letter to Amberley.

75443

Webb passed the Spencer letter to Teddar, who "will put it amongst his treasures" in the Athenaeum Library. She asks BR to explain Spencer's loss of faith in evolutionary progress. She gives her impressions of Germany following a visit.

75444

Wells will sign the remonstrance against the Soviet government, but he disapproves of BR sacrificing his "beautiful and subtle brain" for "geese". Emma Goldman and Levine are mentioned.

75445

She mentions Levine and asks BR to spare her and H.G. Wells a weekend.

75446
Wellock writes about the manuscript BR has agreed to consider introducing.
75447

In German.

75448

These estate agents looked after renting 31 Sydney St., Chelsea.

75449

Courtenay Pollock's complaints about 31 Sydney St. are listed. They include the "thousands of books and pamphlets" and papers that are in his way. (See BR to Seldes, 14 Feb. 1923, record 118758, for his complaints about this tenant.)

75450

Re the telephone account at 31 Sydney St.

75451

Re Hulett's tenancy at 31 Sydney St.

75452

Whitehead passes on a request from Vienna.

75453

Whitehead enclosed this letter with his of 1923/02/15 to BR. The sender's name is conjectural. He wants BR to lecture in Vienna where "everyone takes an interest in philosophy".

75454

On revising Principia.

75455

At R. Moe's request they are sending BR two Nobel publications.

75456

Miss Williams praises BR's articles on "The Atom".

75457
About an appeal. BR has written an address on the telegram.
75458
On BR's marriage settlement trust.
75459

The marriage settlement trust amounts to £3,728.

75460
75461

On BR being asked to lend Frank Russell £2,000.

75462

On Plenty & Co.

75463
On BR lending money to Frank Russell.
75464

Fees are set out, and BR's investments are listed. BR has annotated the sale of one. The enclosure lists the "Husband's Fund" and is dated 15 March 1922; document .250296a.

75465
The topic is BR's law life policy.
75466

Frank wants to borrow £2,000 from BR until December 1923 to meet various liabilities listed in the letter. This letter is a typed copy containing the same text as document .250299 (record 75467), but it was typed on two pages rather than one. Frank writes from Gordon Square.

75467

Frank wants to borrow £2,000 from BR until December 1923 to meet various liabilities listed in the letter. This letter is a typed copy containing the same text as document .250298 (record 75466), but it was typed on one page rather than two. Frank writes from Gordon Square. 

75468

In German.

Wittgenstein tells BR to use his journals and notebooks for kindling.

75469

On The Meaning of Meaning. He asks if BR's son is "already a keen student of logic?".

75470

Wittgenstein asks BR to send him three copies of the Tractatus.

75471

Wrinch mentions "a probable set of lectures in 1921-1922". Trinity arrangements, she reports, are all in order.

75472
Wu has a juristic interest in BR's philosophy.
75473
75474

BR has accepted the invitation to the annual dinner on Feb. 26. [Majlis.]

75475

BR will be speaking on "education" at the annual dinner, the topic chosen from a syllabus. BR is also to propose a toast to India.

75476

Yii translated Principles of Social Reconstruction into Chinese. He writes on the Boxer Indemnity.

75477

Butler recalls awarding a prize to Viscount Amberley, in congratulating BR on his Tripos results.

75478

This is a carbon copy of a transcription of document .047976. BR has corrected it.

75479

Butler congratulates BR on his Fellowship.

75480

Butler conveys a minute of Council regarding lecture courses for BR. Enclosed is document .047979A, described at record 34084.

There is a corrected transcription and carbon copy at record 75481.

75481

This is a transcription of document .047979, record 75480. Also in the file: a carbon copy of this transcription. They are corrected by BR.

75482

This is a transcription of document .047979A, record 34084. Also in the file: a carbon copy of this transcription.

75483

Yii encloses the notes "read before you the other day". They concern education in China and BR's talk to Chinese students on the Boxer Indemnity.

75484

Yourin alters his dinner invitation for BR and Dora to Jan. 19.

75485

On the timing of BR's lecture to a Russian audience "on Sunday next".

75486

On BR's prospective new post at Trinity.

75487

This is a carbon copy of a transcription of document .047981.

75488
This is a transcription of document .047984. Also in the file: a carbon copy of this transcription.
75489

On BR's living situation for the upcoming year: "... the rooms belong to the superior class to which unmarried fellows have first claim."

75490

This is a transcription of document .047988. Also in the file: a carbon copy of the transcription. Both are corrected by BR.

75491

This is a transcription of document .047990. Also in the file: a carbon copy of the transcription. Both are corrected by BR.

75492

Following BR's suggestion in his letter of May 26, the Council will extend BR's lectureship for five years and grant him a two-term leave of absence.

75493

The Council will consider the question of BR's conviction on July 11.

75494

This is a transcription of document .047993. Also in the file: a carbon copy of the transcription.

75495

BR has been removed from his lectureship at Trinity College because of his conviction under D.O.R.A.

75496

This is a transcription of document .047995.

75497
This is a transcription of document .047997. Also in the file: a carbon copy of this transcription.
75498

The Council has granted BR a leave of absence.

75499

The Council has accepted BR's resignation.

75500
This is a transcription of document .048000. Also in the file: a carbon copy of this transcription.
75501

BR is offered the Tarner lectureship for the upcoming academic year.

75502
This is a transcription of document .048002. Also in the file: a carbon copy of this transcription.