Total Published Records: 135,556
BRACERS Notes
| Record no. | Notes, topics or text |
|---|---|
| 76603 | |
| 76604 | This is a transcription of document .050035. Also in the file: a carbon copy of the transcription. Both are corrected by BR. |
| 76605 | The year is supplied by the reference to BR's visit to the U.S. "next spring". |
| 76606 | Forster has heard that BR is in prison and sends his love. |
| 76607 | BR has supplied the year (in ballpoint, thus very late). |
| 76608 | This is a transcription of document .050037. Also in the file: a carbon copy of the transcription. |
| 76609 | The year is supplied by the arrangements being made for BR to meet a Rockefeller. |
| 76610 | Morgan Forster comments on BR's 90th birthday dinner. |
| 76611 | Dated from Flexner's hope that BR is finding Cambridge, Mass., congenial. She asks him about the Ulster crisis. |
| 76612 | Dated by BR. |
| 76613 | Dated by BR. |
| 76614 | A transcription of document .049974; also a carbon copy. BR has corrected both. |
| 76615 | |
| 76616 | |
| 76617 | A transcription of document .049977; also a carbon copy. BR has corrected both. |
| 76618 | Dated by BR. Flexner thanks BR for sending her Trelawny's letters (BR's library has a copy). |
| 76619 | A transcription of document .049979, record 76618; also a carbon copy. BR has corrected both and annotated the ribbon copy. The note concerns a ship that collided with an iceberg on the St. Lawrence River, Canada. |
| 76620 | |
| 76621 | |
| 76622 | Flexner mentions dates in April for BR's visit to them. She refers to their 15 years of friendship. |
| 76623 | |
| 76624 | On Woodrow Wilson. |
| 76625 | A transcription of document .049985; also a carbon copy. |
| 76626 | BR has written to her of "the break-down of female virtue". |
| 76627 | BR has dated the letter "about 1 May 1915". |
| 76628 | |
| 76629 | Flexner mentions BR's fine and "the Mexican tangle". |
| 76630 | BR has dated the letter "1906", but it must be 1916. |
| 76631 | A transcription of document .049991; also a carbon copy. They are undated. |
| 76632 | |
| 76633 | A good letter on their friendship and her disillusionment with mankind. |
| 76634 | BR has supplied the year. Flexner cannot see BR on this lecture tour, but she is a faithful creature in friendships. |
| 76635 | A transcription of document .049995; also a carbon copy. |
| 76636 | 1905 is a guess, based on the reference to Lucy being at Oxford with BR and Alys. |
| 76637 | On their relationship. BR's busy schedule. |
| 76638 | Flexner thanks BR for "The Theory of Implication" and describes some research of his own. |
| 76639 | Thomas, President of Bryn Mawr, consults BR on hiring a mathematician. |
| 76640 | A transcription of document .050000, record 76639; also a carbon copy. |
| 76641 | Probably 1914, when BR visited the Flexners in New York. Easter card addressed to "Cousin Bertie". Written in a childish hand, this is likely from William Welch Flexner, Helen's elder son, born 1904. |
| 76642 | This is a transcription of document .050041. Also in the file: a carbon copy of the transcription. The ribbon copy has been annotated by BR. The first, "on the comforts of adultery by a professor of pure mathematics", was deleted. Forsyth eloped with Mrs. Boys. |
| 76643 | Foyle thanks BR for making Friday's luncheon a success, probably for Satan in the Suburbs. |
| 76644 | BR is invited to a luncheon to celebrate the 100th Oxford and Cambridge boat race on April 8. |
| 76645 | BR is invited to a dinner to celebrate J.B. Priestley's 60th birthday on September 13. |
| 76646 | This is a transcription of document .049835. There is an introduction at the top of the letter indicating Ewen's relationship to BR, and an annotation. Also in file: a carbon copy of a different typing of the letter. |
| 76647 | Gatehouse reminds BR of the autographed book he promised for the Tibetan Fête auction. The newsclip concerns the auction. |
| 76648 | Gatehouse suggests Has Man a Future? or New Hopes for a Changing World for the Tibetan Fête auction. She writes humorously on what ails the ruling class. |
| 76649 | Gatehouse is sending both books to Mr. Tompsett of the Tibetan Fund. |
| 76650 | BR has mislaid their correspondence. |
| 76651 | Gatliff is at Balliol and reading Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy. |
| 76652 | A transcription of document .050212; also with a carbon copy. |
| 76653 | "i remember you as a charming kindly younger man". Christianity. The year is a guess. |
| 76654 | On North Wales. The year is a guess. |
| 76655 | Gellner asks BR for a preface to Words and Things and to visit him in Wales. |
| 76656 | Gellner invites BR to dinner. |
| 76657 | Gellner suggests that BR help bring notice of Words and Things to the non-academic press. |
| 76658 | Gellner hopes that Ayer's review of Words and Things in The Spectator will be critical. |
| 76659 | The date on the card appears to be Nov. 26, but the postmark is Nov. 25. |
| 76660 | Gellner intends to name BR as a referee in his application for the White's Professorship of Moral Philosophy at Oxford. |
| 76661 | Gellner intends to name BR as a referee in his application for a chair of Sociology at London School of Economics. |
| 76662 | On taking action against Ved Mehta's "The Fly and the Fly-Bottle" in the New Yorker. |
| 76663 | On Ved Mehta. On not being "with you in CND". |
| 76664 | Gellner sends BR page proofs of Thought and Change, hoping for a comment. |
| 76665 | BR has just written to The Times and privately to The Observer about Words and Things. |
| 76666 | Russell suggests they meet in London after Jan. 20. |
| 76667 | BR encloses his introduction to Words and Things (not present). |
| 76668 | BR agrees to be a referee for Gellner. |
| 76669 | "In a long life I have come to expect approval only when it no longer matters and hatred when I am saying something of value and importance." |
| 76670 | BR is pleased that Thought and Change is dedicated to him. He notes that Gellner believes in progress. |
| 76671 | BR is "very glad" to possess Crisis in the Humanities, especially Gellner's chapter. |
| 76672 | Foyle has found 3 Latin grammar books with the verses that BR asked for. She is sending them under a separate cover. |
| 76673 | BR is invited to a luncheon in honour of Lord Samuel to celebrate the publication of his book In Search of Reality. |
| 76674 | BR is invited to a luncheon being given for the Soviet ambassador on January 31. BR declined. |
| 76675 | BR is invited to a luncheon in honour of Sir Thomas Beecham on November 9. |
| 76676 | BR cannot attend the luncheon in honour of Sir Thomas Beecham on November 9 because he will be in Wales at that time. |
| 76677 | BR is invited to a luncheon celebrating the publication of J.B. Priestley's book Literature and Western Man on February 17. |
| 76678 | BR cannot come to the luncheon celebrating the publication of J.B. Priestley's book Literature and Western Man on February 17 because of a previous engagement. |
| 76679 | BR is invited to a tribute luncheon for Sir Stanley Unwin on April 22. He has written his memoirs entitled The Truth about a Publisher. |
| 76680 | BR is sorry that he cannot make the luncheon for Sir Stanley Unwin on April 22. He recalls how helpful Unwin was from the beginning of their relationship in 1916 when BR was "very unpopular and not known except as a writer on abstruse subjects." |
| 76681 | Foyle will pass on BR's kind words to Sir Stanley Unwin. |
| 76682 | BR will be attending a luncheon in his honour which coincides with the Penguin publication of Has Man a Future?. |
| 76683 | This is a reminder for BR's luncheon which will be held on November 23 with a reception beforehand. |
| 76684 | Schoenman is welcome and Foyle states that "everyone present would welcome a speech from you on this occasion." |
| 76685 | BR asks if in addition to his wife, he may invite Ralph Schoenman to the luncheon. He wants to know if he is expected to make a speech or just say a few words. Schoenman "has been much in the news lately." |
| 76686 | Foyle thanks BR for his speech at the luncheon. |
| 76687 | BR is invited to a luncheon to celebrate the publication of On Moral Courage by Sir Compton Mackenzie in February. |
| 76688 | BR cannot come to the luncheon for Sir Compton Mackenzie because he already has plans for February 15. |
| 76689 | BR is asked to provide a letter of reference for Gellner. |
| 76690 | This is a typed copy on letterhead; the text exists also in RA1 750 dictation. |
| 76691 | BR is invited to a luncheon to celebrate the publication of Lord Boothby's memoirs My Yesterday, Your Tomorrow on November 9. |
| 76692 | BR is unable to attend the luncheon to celebrate the publication of Lord Boothby's memoirs because he has prior engagements in Wales. |
| 76693 | |
| 76694 | BR provides a letter of reference for E.A. Gellner. |
| 76695 | Foyle asks for a tribute for the bookstore's 60th anniversary. They plan to put out a "special little book" of tributes to celebrate the event. |
| 76696 | This is BR's birthday tribute for Foyle's bookshop. Pamphlet is filed elsewhere in RA. |
| 76697 | Foyle thanks BR for his tribute to the bookshop. |
| 76698 | This is an administrative letter about BR's commitment to lecture on October 22. |
| 76699 | This is a typed copy of Astor's reply to BR. He says Iris Murdoch is to review Words and Things. |
| 76700 | BR favours more ventilation of "the Ryle matter". |
| 76701 | Astor defends not returning to "stale news". |
| 76702 | "Private". BR agrees it is too late to revive the Gellner-Ryle controversy. |
