BRACERS Notes

Record no. Notes, topics or text
77003

BR has apparently found Halévy's book on British foreign policy to be accurate and impartial. On English politics.

77004

This is a transcription of document .050602. Also in the file: a carbon copy of the transcription.

77005

On colonial relations.

77006

This is a transcription of document .050604. Also in the file: a carbon copy of the transcription. BR has corrected both copies.

77007

The Halévys are coming to England. Europe is approaching a crisis.

77008

This is a transcription of document .050606. Also in the file: a carbon copy of the transcription.

77009

Halévy wants BR to contribute to Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale.

77010

BR will write a reply to Boutroux for the Revue. Halévy wants a more general paper.

77011

This is a transcription of document .050609. Also in the file: a carbon copy of the transcription. BR has corrected both copies.

77012

On the separation law in France and the Education Bill in U.K.

77013

This is a transcription of document .050611. Also in the file: a carbon copy of the transcription. BR has corrected both copies.

77014

French politics; House of Lords; Tribune a good paper?

77015

This is a transcription of document .050613. Also in the file: a carbon copy of the transcription. BR has corrected both.

77016

On French and English politics; BR's paper on truth.

77017

This is a transcription of document .050615, record 77016. Also in the file: a carbon copy of the transcription. BR has corrected both.

77018

Is BR standing for parliament or taking up a Cambridge fellowship?

77019

This is a transcription of document .050617. Also in the file: a carbon copy of the transcription.

77020

In England, Halévy has received proofs of Poincaré's "New Answer". He will see BR in Oxford next month.

77021

Halévy requests a review copy of Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy for the Revue.

77022

Halévy believes in the necessity of dictatorship in war-time.

77023

This is a transcription of document .050621. Also in the file: a carbon copy of the transcription.

77024

Halévy requests an article on "your philosophical system—or attitude" for the Revue.

77025

This is a transcription of document .050623. Also in the file: a carbon copy of the transcription.

77026

Halévy accepts BR's recommendation of Jean Nicod to write on the metaphysical and ethical aspects of BR's philosophy.

77027

There is a second photocopy of the first page in the file. BR enumerates 8 reasons why Chamberlain should fail in opposing free trade.

77028

BR is not keen on the Liberal leadership. The 1846 arguments. The report of the Mosely Industrial Commission to America. French treatment of Catholics.

77029

On free trade; 1846; money; revolution in Russia. "I sympathize fully with all internationalism; and my enthusiasm for free trade is derived from this, not from economics." Disarmament and the British Navy and the French Army. Education.

77030

Halévy's new book; "Joe [Chamberlain] is an amazing person"; Germany.

77031

"Excitement leads people to follies"; horses, too. Chinese labour in Transvaal.

77032

On Balfour's protectionism.

77033

Protectionism, especially re agriculture. BR will not enter politics, but wants to see Halévy's book on U.K. foreign politics.

77034

On Maurice Sheldon Amos and Egypt; Couturat and "analytic"; ethical propositions.

77035

On Halévy's L'Angleterre et Son Empire; Egypt, Transvaal and British imperialism.

77036

British politics—and the need to avoid colonial influence, e.g. that of Canada and Australia.

77037

British politics, colonial conferences, Whiggism, anti-Semitism, Catholicism and Protestantism.

77038

Meeting in Oxford in July; writing of books "for the author's own delight"; war in Europe.

77039

BR is going abroad with Crompton Llewelyn Davies until Aug. 24.

77040

BR will reply to "young Boutroux"; the English "home".

77041

BR is very fond of Land's End. His relatives.

77042

Lechalas has been defending Catholic orthodoxy against Couturat.

77043

BR will be interested to see Poincaré's reply. Liberal politics; the Education Bill and the Lords.

77044

BR recommends Tribune. The Lords and various Bills; Campbell-Bannerman. BR's anti-Joachim "Truth" paper.

77045

Halévy includes extracts from several letters by Alys Russell to her.

77046

Halévy encloses a letter (not present) of which she spoke to BR.

77047

Guy-Loë thanks BR for the letters from Elie Halévy.

77048

Guy-Loë returns a letter from C.H. Herbert to BR, sent by mistake.

77049

Halsbury will telephone BR.

77050

Halsbury thanks BR for the meeting and refers to Bradley trying to do too much with too little.

77051

BR likes Halsbury's "Epistemology and Communication Theory" very much and agrees about Bradley.

77052

Aristotle's 4 elements: he needed 92 but did not know it.

77053

Halsbury will send BR a "satyrical" piece of science fiction of his.

77054

Halsbury encloses essays, "Mind and Brain" and "Appendix on Semantics".

77055

BR is too occupied with anti-H-bomb matters at present.

77056

On Wittgenstein and whether BR would prefer an artificial language.

77057

BR does prefer some departures from colloquial language for philosophers and was not influenced by Wittgenstein in this respect. Timelessness of events is not conveyed in syntax.

77058

On criteria for a philosophical language. He encloses some typed notes.

77059

BR finds the ideas about historical truth new and will have to think them over.

77060
This is a transcription of document .050670. Also in the file: a carbon copy of the transcription. BR has corrected both.
77061

Hamilton remarks on BR's difficulty in coming to America.

77062

Hamilton sends BR Dear Yesterday (not present). She writes on Economist letterhead.

77063

Hamilton congratulates BR on his summons (over the Everett leaflet).

77064
This is a transcription of document .050675. Also in the file: a carbon copy of the transcription. BR has corrected both.
77065

BR has supplied the year. Hamilton has been reading Rex v. Bertrand Russell.

77066

Dated from her change of address and the subject matter, which seems to be the 1 Sept. 1916 ban on BR's movements, and from the house-warming party on Oct. 18.

77067

Hamilton is anxious to hear—probably of BR's Russian experiences.

77068

She praises BR's book, The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism, which she has evidently read in prepublication form.

77069

Hamilton thanks BR "for the review".

77070

Hammond is sorry that Angell's reply to Wells had to preempt BR's letter.

77071
This is a transcription of document .050684. Also in the file: a carbon copy of the transcription. BR has corrected both.
77072

Hammond justifies the Nation's political stance, in response to BR's questions.

77073
This is a transcription of document .050686. Also in the file: a carbon copy of the transcription. BR has corrected them.
77074
On BR's treatment by the authorities.
77075

Hammond likes Freedom and Organization very much and invites BR to lunch.

77076
This is a transcription of document .050690. Also in the file: a carbon copy of the transcription. BR has corrected both.
77077

Hand asks how Edith Russell is.

77078

Hand has just read Nightmares and now along comes Human Society.

77079

Hankinson recalls more about Arthur Russell.

77080

The letter, which appeared in the Hampstead and Highgate Express, is signed by 8 others. It is titled "Admit China into UNO".

77081

Hankinson has read the book about Rosalind Howard, Countess of Carlisle.

77082

Hanson asks for suggestions for the club, of which the letterhead shows BR to be president.

77083
This is a transcription of document .050716. Also in the file: a carbon copy of the transcription. Both have been annotated by BR, the ribbon copy much more than the carbon.
77084

On omitting the word "crapulous". Dated by the perpetual calendar.

77085
Harding asks for a preface.
77086
This is a transcription of document .050719. Also in the file: a carbon copy of the transcription.
77087

Her book is with the publisher. Mrs. Harrison is being "boomed" in the U.S. The enclosed letter is document .050721a; see record 78027.

77088
This is a transcription of document .050721. Also in the file: a carbon copy of the transcription. BR has annotated the ribbon copy. Also in file: a transcription of document .050721a; also a carbon copy.
77089

On news of her book and Major Russell on spies. She has heard in "meeting" that BR suffers from "astronomical intimidation".

77090
This is a transcription of document .050723. Also in the file: a carbon copy of the transcription. BR has corrected both copies.
77091

Harding complains of American Puritanism.

77092

Harding wants to hear BR lecture but considers the fee of $200 high. More on U.S. postal "obscenity".

77093

Dated 1905 instead of BR's 1908 because of Grattan-Guinness, Dear RussellDear Jourdain, p. 53. On the contradictions.

77094

Dated by reference to BR's letter of 2 July 1905. On the contradictions.

77095
On the neutrality manifesto.
77096
This is a transcription of document .050734. Also in the file: a carbon copy of the transcription. BR has corrected both and annotated the ribbon copy.
77097

On the Union of Democratic Control's peace conditions.

77098
This is a transcription of document .050736. Also in the file: a carbon copy of the transcription. BR has corrected both.
77099

BR has designated this "[1st letter]". Hardy has received Rex v. Bertrand Russell. He does not believe Trinity wishes to turn BR out.

77100
This is a transcription of document .050738. Also in the file: a carbon copy of the transcription.
77101

Dated by BR. Hardy now knows that BR has been turned out of Trinity. He will see Whitehead. Re McTaggart.

77102
This is a transcription of document .050740. Also in the file: a carbon copy of the transcription. BR has corrected both and annotated the ribbon copy.