BRACERS Notes

Record no. Notes, topics or text
77103

Dated by BR. Hardy reports on seeing Whitehead.

77104

This is a transcription of document .050742, record 77103. Also in the file: a carbon copy of the transcription. BR has dated both.

77105

Dated by BR. On BR accepting the wish of his friends to buy his possessions at the auction following upon BR's refusal to pay his fine.

77106
This is a transcription of document .050744. Also in the file: a carbon copy of the transcription. Dated by BR on the ribbon copy.
77107

On standing for the U.D.C. Council. Cornford's manifesto. Hardy liked BR's letter quoted in the Labour Leader.

77108
This is a transcription of document .050746. Also in the file: a carbon copy of the transcription.
77109

Hardy asks BR for a report on a paper for the Cambridge Mathematical Society Proceedings.

77110

Hardy assesses the number of votes in favour of reinstating BR to Trinity.

77111
This is a transcription of document .050749. Also in the file: a carbon copy of the transcription. Both are corrected by BR.
77112

Dated by the reference to Jourdain's death. Hardy "will call at Jolley's and ask" something. This may be in connection with Wittgenstein's belongings stored by Jolley.

77113

Title: "Bertrand Russell and Trinity College: an Academic Controversy of the Last War".

77114

Hardy reports on the presentation of the memorial to Trinity.

77115
This is a transcription of document .050753. Also in the file: a carbon copy of the transcription. BR annotated the ribbon copy and corrected both.
77116

On BR's reinstatement to Trinity College, Cambridge.

77117
This is a transcription of document .050755. Also in the file: a carbon copy of the transcription. BR has corrected both.
77118
On BR's left-behind possessions.
77119

This is a transcription of document .050757, record 77118. Also in the file: a carbon copy of the transcription. BR has annotated Farnell.

77120

Hardy asks BR to referee a paper by "S." He likes Oxford.

77121

Heckstall-Smith invites BR to join in a New Scientist controversy.

77122

On de Moivre's theorem.

77123

Heckstall-Smith encloses an offprint titled "M.K.S. Growing Pains".

77124

Heckstall-Smith presents a point in physics for BR to ponder, concerning M.K.S. units.

77125

Heckstall-Smith writes again on M.K.S. units.

77126

A list of lecture Four subjects offered by BR "selected as meeting the most general demands". Dated by BR.

77127
On poetry and electricity.
77128
A transcription of document .049861 with a carbon copy. BR has corrected both.
77129

Urquhart thanks BR for his defence of Schweitzer.

77130

Teachers and certainty. BR found Dirak [Paul Dirac] in theoretical physics beyond him.

77131
BR asks who wrote the poem about the microbe.
77132

BR does not think it will be possible to publish Heckstall-Smith's book on radiation hazards.

77133

BR is pleased to remain as Vice-President.

77134

On brinkmanship and NATO.

77135

BR will keep Heelas in mind for various projects.

77136

BR wants Universal Algebra to be sent to Vienna.

77137
Heinemann looks forward to BR's paper.
77138
77139

Heinemann thanks BR for the paper on Philosophical Analysis.

77140

Ferris criticizes the discussion between BR and the Highbury branch of the N.-C.F.

77141

Heinemann describes the numbered divisions for BR's article, "Philosophical Analysis".

77142

BR lists branches of the Committee of 100.

77143

A transcription of document .049887. BR has annotated the ribbon copy on Fineman's marriage to Gunther.

77144

Fineman urges BR to revisit Russia, emphasizing the arts and education of the young.

77145

BR writes at length on the struggle to prevent nuclear war.

77146

Fischer seeks help in rewriting his ms. book on Lenin and the New Russian Leviathan.

77147

On television and the opposition to nuclear war: "... in the main the people who are in control of the media of communication are people opposed to our point of view...."

77148

In German. This is a transcription of document .051054, record 1393. Also in the file: a carbon copy of the transcription. BR has corrected and annotated the letter (with "[bestial hun!]").

77149

Fischer pleads for help in obtaining a grant and encloses testimonials from A.W. Armstrong, Aloys Dempf and Jan Masaryk.

77150

Fischer asks BR to support his application to the Ford Foundation.

77151
Fischer's situation looks brighter for the first time since 1933.
77152

Fischer asks BR to give an A-bomb talk in Munich. The enclosure, by Fischer, is for an international philosophical academy.

77153

In German.

77154
A transcription of document .049899; also a carbon copy.
77155
A transcription of document .049905.
77156

In German. This is a transcription of document .051056, record 77153. Also in the file: a carbon copy of the transcription.

77157

Fitzgerald has to cancel tea. See BR to Brian Fitzgerald, document .049903, record 1122.

77158
BR has supplied the year. Fitzgerald congratulates BR on a recent examination success.
77159

Thanks for a signed photograph.

77160

Jastrow writes further on arrangements for BR to lecture at Chicago, Ann Arbor and Madison.

77161

Jeger states it has been a "great encouragement" to have had BR as a member of the Cyprus Conciliation Committee.

77162

BR criticizes Jeger and the U.K. Labour government.

77163
Another typescript of document .051489.
77164

Jeger defends her quotation from Tawney.

77165

BR adheres to his criticism of Jeger and the Labour government.

77166

BR has signed the petition (not present).

77167

Jenner asks BR to write a letter to the editor on the Marwood case.

77168

Joachim criticizes BR's paper of "last night" from an idealist standpoint and mentions Bradley and Bosanquet. BR's typed transcription and carbon copy, both corrected by him, are at record 77170.

77169

Heckstall-Smith thanks BR for replies to his questions.

77170

A transcription of document .051505 at record 77168; also a carbon copy. BR corrected both.

77171

BR has provided the year with some doubt. On their philosophical differences, with references to Kant.

77172

A transcription of document .051507; also a carbon copy.

77173

Joachim encloses notes (not present) on the question of degrees for women. He and BR stand philosophically "on opposite sides of a gulf."

77174

A transcription of document .051509, record 77173; also a carbon copy.

77175

BR's note on a separate piece of paper identifies the book under discussion. On truth.

77176

Thanks for Common Sense and Nuclear Warfare. Heckstall-Smith asks for comments on his Atomic Radiation Dangers and What They Mean to You.

77177

A transcription of document .051511; also a carbon copy.

77178

On analysis.

77179

A transcription of document .051513; also a carbon copy.

77180

On internal relations.

77181

A transcription of document .051515; also a carbon copy.

77182

Edith Russell has incorrectly supplied the year "1908".

77183

Joachim returns BR's paper, presumably that on truth.

77184

Joachim thanks BR for the review of The Nature of Truth in The Independent.

77185

On the correspondence theory of truth.

77186
77187

BR sketches for Hardy the method of substitution.

77188

The enclosed ms. by BR is untitled, 5 sheets; it is on actual series of all important types up to omega to the omega squared.

77189
BR writes about series in this undated letter. The topic seems related to that of document .050764.
77190

On anti-war organizations, and Dickinson, Simpson, Broad, Hobson, Keynes and Brailsford.

77191
This is a transcription of document .050766. Also in the file: a carbon copy of the transcription. BR has corrected the ribbon copy.
77192

On Trinity College Council: "There is no hope of any freedom of thought in the British Empire if it is to be banished from Trinity."

77193

BR encloses his referee's report, 1 sheet, on a paper, "A New Theory of Measurement", by Norbert Wiener.

BR asks how the London Mathematical Society will manage the logical symbols, since only Cambridge University Press has them.

77194

This is a transcription of document .050769. Also in the file: a carbon copy of the transcription. Both are corrected by BR.

77195

BR will send a formal referee's report on Sheffer's work soon. It is "very important indeed". BR mentions the report he cabled 2 years ago. Also on Oxford.

77196
This is a transcription of document .050771. Also in the file: a carbon copy of the transcription.
77197

BR is coming to Oxford Nov. 18.

77198

At Oxford BR will speak to the I.L.P. and the Indian Majliss.

77199

Alexander Vasiliev, of Petrograd, wants news of recent work in mathematics.

77200
This is a transcription of document .050775. Also in the file: a carbon copy of the transcription.
77201

BR asks Hardy to support the new "School of Philosophy" in London (the British Institute of Philosophy), and to send him a short list of eminent men of science.

77202

Harford questions BR's alleged support of "polygamy" in Principles of Social Reconstruction.