This letter is similar to document .048705. It has been personalized for Williams.

£1 was enclosed with this letter. It is not addressed to anyone or marked as signed by anyone, although the first person is used, and it reads like BR.

BR is sorry that there should have been a controversy and feels "that the sooner it can be forgotten, the better." This copy is not marked as being signed.

This letter is the same as document .048709, only it is addressed to "Michael". There is a second carbon of the letter in the file; see record 76205. It is assumed that BR sent an identical letter to each Michael in the controversy.

BR is about to have an operation and Curry wishes him a full and speedy recovery.

This is a covering letter for document .048735, which Crosser wrote in Mexico City.

Enclosed is the Hemingway memorial number of the Mark Twain Journal, summer 1962.

Clemens asks BR to sign the cover of Newsweek for him.

Clemens asks if BR is a member of the Labour Party.

BR thanks Clemens for a contribution.

Clemens wants to reprint BR's letter on China and the Test-Ban Treaty.

BR gives permission to reprint his letter on China and the Test-Ban Treaty.

Cobden-Sanderson is glad that BR campaigned in Wimbledon, i.e. for women's suffrage.

This is a transcription of document .048386; also a carbon copy. BR has corrected both.

On BR's article, "The Essence of Religion". Cobden-Sanderson plans to edit Lady Amberley's letters to him as Amantium Irae. BR has annotated the letter.

This is a transcription of document .048388; also a carbon copy. BR corrected both extensively.

BR's letter has greatly pleased Cobden-Sanderson, who must get on with typesetting his Julius Caesar.

This is a transcription of document .048390; also a carbon copy. BR has corrected both and annotated the ribbon copy.

Cobden-Sanderson is sending his Milton to BR and is returning to printing Amantium Irae.

This is a transcription of document .048392. BR has corrected it.

About Amantium Irae.

Advice on teaching in the U.S. is sought on behalf of Madame Vanderwolds, wife of the Belgian deputy and leader of the Socialist Party.

On three of BR's lectures on Principles of Social Reconstruction. He tries to discourage BR from saying that Germany had as much "right" to an empire as any other power.

This is a transcription of document .048396; also a carbon copy. BR has corrected both.

On another of BR's lectures for Principles of Social Reconstruction.

This undated letter—"W.VI" at the top is part of the Doves Press' address—encloses Sir John Dickinson's of Feb. 11, 1918 (document .048407, record 76236), and refers to reading Mysticism and Logic.

Dated by the reference to reading BR's review of Sinclair's A Defence of Idealism (B&R C17.51).

About propositions.

Cobden-Sanderson would like BR to send some work to a publisher friend.

"On the eve of your own trial", an extremely affectionate letter about BR's birth and Cobden-Sanderson being BR's godfather. He encloses a letter he wrote in 1872 which he requests be returned (not present).

A transcription of document .048403; also a carbon copy. BR has corrected both.

Cobden-Sanderson has heard BR's first lecture (on May 6) on "The Analysis of Mind". The addressee, "Elizabeth", is assumed to be Frank Russell's third wife.

Cobden-Sanderson would like to see BR but does not have his address. The addressee, "Elizabeth", is assumed to be Frank Russell's third wife.

A transcription of document .048407; also a carbon copy. BR has annotated both with an identification of Dickinson.

A transcription of document .048409; also a carbon.

BR attended the cremation of Cobden-Sanderson yesterday. Anne Cobden-Sanderson sends BR a miniature of his mother.

A transcription of document .048411; also a carbon.

She is sending BR a copy of T.J. Cobden-Sanderson's newly published journals. "Advanced people" in the U.S. want BR to come over and inspire them with new ideas.

A transcription of document .048413; also a carbon.

Anne Cobden-Sanderson transmits Alan Griffiths' request for BR to speak for Labour at Oxford.

See record 76206.

This telegram states: "Let me send you the very best wishes of success and prosperity. May the science for peace efforts triumph in the coming year. Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences J. Kozesnik secretary".

Nejedly, President of the Academy, writes, on behalf of the organization, of their admiration for BR's work for peace and their sympathy because of "the latest attacks on your personality".

A New Year's card. It is signed, perhaps, by J. Kozesnik.

On BR's views on literature, including Wells' Ann Veronica.

This is a transcription of document .048813. Also in the file: a carbon copy of the transcription. BR has corrected both.

Dakyns is apparently writing from the Front—"Fieldpost Office" is the postmark.

Dakyns asks if BR is free for a walk one Sunday.

Dakyns believes BR is not finding it so bad in prison. The letter has been scrunched up.

Dakyns also writes that "I shall come from the ends of the earth" if there is a chance of seeing BR, "if only for a minute or two".

In prison letters BR indicated how much he liked getting Dakyns' message. See BR's letter of 15 July 1918. Apparently Dakyns' "very kind message" was sent via Frank Russell (document .079991, record 46926).

Congratulations on BR's Fellowship. Dakyns asks to see the dissertation.

Dakyns asks to see BR's Jowett Society paper ("The Nature of Truth", Papers 4).

On BR's paper, "The Nature of Truth".

Dakyns has copied BR's paper—"A very wholesome intellectual exercise."

A thankful letter from Arthur Dakyns' father.

Dakyns asks BR's advice on whom to vote for. He respects BR's moral judgment.

BR has written him fully about the election question.

This is an early transcription of document .048829. Also in the file: a carbon copy of the transcription.

This is second transcription and carbon of document .048829. BR has corrected both.

Dated by BR. D'Aranyi seems to use BR's phrase about "affection" in his letter to her of Jan. 25 or July 29, 1915. See Joseph Macleod, The Sisters D'Aranyi (1969).

In annotating the letter, BR has spelled her name "Yelli", but in a 1920s letter to her he knew the correct spelling, which was "Jelly" but pronounced "Yelli".

About meeting in August.

The year is provided by document .048838, record 76262, in its reference to August.

Ralph Hawtrey has finished reading BR's book, i.e. Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy.

Datta does not plan to leave the country without seeing BR.

Datta telephoned BR but could not speak well.

Datta proposes a date for visiting BR.

The enclosed letter is to Encounter. See record 846.

BR is feeling better, but has at least two months of work to catch up on. He will try to obey Datta's "kind behests" for his health.

The enclosed manuscript is titled "Self-Introduction" and is by Datta.

BR thanks Datta for his gift of elephants, which he has put on his mantelpiece.

Datta heard BR quoted in the news on the BBC Light programme, "A vast movement must take place...."

Datta implores BR to take good care of himself (in prison).

BR encourages Datta's writing and asks him to ring him up in December.

On BR's books; and on Mrs. Pandit and Nehru.

Datta is following the trial of the Committee of 100.

BR sends Datta information on the Committee of 100 and some of his speeches. He refers to the trial at the Old Bailey.

BR asks that Datta write him about a fortnight before the time of his proposed visit, as BR is not sure of his plans as far ahead as June.

Datta mentions BR's Christmas Island appeal to neutral nations.

Datta has found a publisher for two of his books, one on nuclear war and the other on electrical engineering.

The enclosed is an outline for Datta's book titled The Marchers: Can They Save the Mankind?.

BR consents to an interview and might recommend Datta's book for publication. He does not think renunciation of Datta's surname would be useful.

On Datta's book on nuclear war. He has stopped writing one on the U.K.

A note at the top, in Edith Russell's hand, is initialled "R" and concerns seeing Datta if BR can.

On setting a time for them to meet.

Datta's chapter, "A Humanist I Know", concerns BR.

One of his books is now called The Road to a Happy Life.

BR has resigned from the presidency of the Committee of 100.

The book with the chapter on BR is now called Mankind: to Live or to Die?. [There was no such title published.]

On setting a time to meet in Wales.

On their upcoming meeting on Jan. 23. (They seem to have met again the afternoon of Jan. 24.)

Datta thanks BR for their meeting. "Today, perhaps, I can write a book on Bertrand Russell. Probably I shall!"

Datta can't stop thinking of BR.

Datta would like to see BR once more before returning to India. He would like to write a book on the BR "who never stops thinking for the betterment of everybody".

This is a transcription of document .048884. Also in the file: a carbon copy of this transcription.

Davies has just returned from the Versailles Conference of the World Association of Parliamentarians for World Government. See G. McAllister to Edith Russell, 19 Sept. 1958.

Davies replies to BR's letter of 17 Sept. 1955 described at record 14220. He picks up BR's reference to campaigning against Joseph Chamberlain on free trade.