BR writes: "I am entirely in sympathy with the purpose of your letter, but I cannot introduce a Bill in the Lords since my time and energies are completely occupied by the anti-nuclear campaign." This was copied onto the same page as Elms' original letter.

Elledge is a Sunday School teacher who has written to BR in order to address some issues that his group has discussed concerning BR's essay "Why I Am Not a Christian". Among the eleven points made, Elledge states in number 9: "It is also difficult to accept your remark, 'all fear is bad'". "You seem almost desperately to flee from fear, but the fear of being found afraid obviously remains." Also included are responses from the pupils addressed to BR: "Every one in the Sunday School class will be praying for you that you might think about some of the things that are in the letters." The class is of college age.

Ellis writes: "If you can induce the thinkers to think rightly is it too much to hope that we may all be restored to our right minds by Christmas!" Ellis needs to summon a J.A.C.

This is a transcription of document .049779, record 1037. There are notes made in BR's hand such as the indication that "FOR" is an acronym for "Fellowship of Reconciliation". Also in file: a carbon copy. BR has identified Ellis as "[Cripps's step-mother later]". He means Sir Stafford Cripps.

Emmet informs BR that Kapoor was not appointed; instead,they appointed an exiled Polish logician Dr. Lejewski. Emmet sent Kapoor's papers onto Karl Popper who might be able to do something for him.

Ellis writes to BR on pacifism at the time of his prosecution: "Your appeal is early in April isn't it?" The enclosure is about suffering, since BR is now "one of the elect". Ellis requests an article on pacifism and social strife.

Ellis writes to BR on pacifism, the logistics of the Friends' Service Committee and some settlement that would prevent BR's committee from withdrawing a stipulation. This concerns the J.A.C. and the No Conscription Fellowship. Grubb, Goss and Marshall are mentioned.

BR may not have received Dennes' last letter, he says.

The newsclip is a political cartoon about the Little Rock Public Schools, which were closed over the controversy about race.

Divers thanks BR for another full reply. He would support BR for the Royal Society.

BR writes of his admiration for Dolci especially regarding his work for reform.

Elmhirst enjoyed BR's letters in the Atlantic Monthly and in the Cambridge Magazine. He writes from Bombay as private secretary to the general secretary of the YMCA in India. He identifies with BR's statement: "Whilst others are sacrificing their lives for their ideals, I cannot seek a cowardly and ignoble comfort in silence", especially since he has been questioning the compatibility of being a Christian and a soldier.

See Elmhirst's highly critical reminiscence in old age of BR.

Ellis congratulates Alys and BR on his Fellowship.

In his next letter Doncaster states that he sent this open letter to all resident M.A.s at Cambridge.

This is a transcription of document .049533. Also in the file: a carbon copy of the transcription. The ribbon copy has been annotated by BR.

Dorward writes about the war. He has written up his conclusions about the war and sends them to BR and asks if BR agrees with him (not present). Wittgenstein is mentioned.

Dorward is disgusted with the Liberal papers, but was anxious to try for a commission in the Army. (He seems not to know BR's utter opposition to the war.)

Dorward asks BR for a testimonial for "the Cardiff Chair" and reports that a pamphlet by BR was solemnly burned the other day.

This is a transcription of document .049541. Also in the file: a carbon copy of this transcription.

Drinnon sends BR a copy of his biography of Emma Goldman. He mentions that BR's arrest is having a deep influence over pacifists and left-of-centre intellectuals.

A second transcription of document .049397, record 58426. The first paragraph is omitted.

A second transcription of document .049399, record 58428. BR has corrected it.

A second transcription of document .049401, record 58430. Corrected by BR.

A second transcription of document .049403, record 58432.

On Lossky's health. On BR's book on Bolshevism.

BR has promised £5 for Lossky.

Relief for Lossky. Duddington thinks BR's baby will cause him to revise many conclusions in Analysis of Mind.

On atomic warfare and Russia's ignorance.

The memorandum she suggests is going to be drawn up by Lonsdale.

The editor of The Hindu would like an article from BR.

Dudley encloses a manuscript (not present) that she has written.

Dudley is leaving England. "A feeling of great loss".

A note with document .049574, record 76546, states that the date is 1918, not 1915. (R.W. Clark's opinion, 1974.) The date 1915 was added in pencil by another hand. The letter is signed H. The name has been expanded in pencil to "Helen Dudley" in another hand. In August 1918 she visited BR in prison (Monk 2: 538; SLBR 2: 173; Clark, pp. 351-2).

This is a transcription of document .049573, record 76545. Also in the file: a carbon copy of the transcription. A note in the file in K. Blackwell's hand states that the letter should be dated 1918, not 1915. See record 76545.

Dudley has received BR's Russian articles. BR is in China. Dated by BR.

Dudley heard that BR has had a son. She mentions a discussion at a dinner about the people she met in England (including BR) before the war. Dudley has multiple sclerosis but in the "most favourable form". BR has provided the year.

Dudley has met with BR in Chicago and wishes him bon voyage. She attended his philosophical lecture. BR has supplied the year.

Foldes sends BR a recording of a Mozart concerto and asks for an inscribed picture of BR.

Flexner (as Helen W. Thomas) congratulates BR on his engagement.

Miss Donnelly and she would like BR to visit them in Paris.

She thanks BR for his letter on "the last day of the century" and refers to his 200,000 words (see record 55848). Re Mildred Minturn, later Scott.

Record 76557 is a corrected transcription and carbon of this letter.

A transcription of document .049923, record 76566; also a carbon copy. Both are corrected by BR.

Flexner thanks BR for "the enclosed reminiscences of your childhood". Frank Russell "faces his peers today", i.e. 18 July 1901, which enable precise dating of this undated letter. BR himself first added "July" in ink, and then in pencil "1901" with the whole date in square brackets.

There is a corrected transcription and carbon copy and a dictated annotation by BR at record 76559.

A transcription of document .049925 at record 76558; also a carbon. BR has corrected both copies and dictated a long annotation on the ribbon copy.

Flexner believes BR is far too literary for a mathematician.

A transcription of this document is at record 76561. It is annotated by BR for a passage that became part of "The Free Man's Worship".

A transcription of document .049927, record 76560; also a carbon copy. Omissions are indicated on the ribbon copy. Annotated by BR for a passage that became part of "The Free Man's Worship". (Not noted in Papers 12.)

Flexner refers to the classic and romantic tendencies in BR's nature, as analyzed by BR himself. She is reading Le Temple Enseveli.

A transcription of document .049929, record 76562; also a carbon copy. Both are corrected by BR.

Flexner continues to read Maeterlinck.

Flexner is reading James's Varieties of Religious Experience.

BR has provided the year.

BR has provided the year.

BR provided the year and the place (Berlin).

BR has provided the year.

BR has provided the year.

Fordham is interested in joining the National Council for Civil Liberties.

Flexner has written on letterhead of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, of which her husband, Simon Flexner, was director.

The verso of the photograph of a woman in a long dress bending over to pick flowers is captioned "Lake side 1910".

On the war. Forster did not indicate an opening salutation. He quotes BR "over 10 years ago": "I wish I could praise gracefully—it is difficult."