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."

The ticket and announcement are for the luncheon. The latter contains the names of the guests of honour and the hundreds of previous speakers.

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.