BRACERS Notes

Record no. Notes, topics or text
77603

Schoenman asks £3 for BR's peace work in response to a request for BR's signature.

77604

BR leaves a note about Philip Jourdain for his files: "These letters are from Philip Jourdain, who had creeping paralysis. In the last years of his life he invented a proof that every aggregate can be well-ordered. It was obviously fallacious, but no one liked to tell him so. He became embittered and venemous [sic], having until then been very friendly."

77605

Jourdain thanks BR for his "beautiful" Principles of Mathematics and sends some notes (for possible revision).

77606

On Burali-Forti's contradiction.

77607
On proving the assumption of a multiplicative class.
77608

On existential import. Jourdain asks BR to stay with him in July.

77609

Re Frege's notes on Jourdain's account of his work: "I send you all I can find". Jourdain asks for the symbolic translation of the deceased wife's sister's bill, and a proof of God by "an infinite complex of false propositions".

77610
A transcription of document .051620.
77611

Jourdain discusses a passage in Aristotle and refers to BR's lecture mentioning the Pythagoreans. Jourdain wants back the parts of "Nature of Acquaintance".

77612

The year is a guess. A short covering letter appears at the top of poem, "The War and Christianity".

77613
A transcription of document .051624; also a carbon copy.
77614

On publishing plans for BR with his revived interest in philosophy. Dorothy Wrinch has obtained a grant.

77615
A transcription of document .051627; also a carbon copy.
77616

Jourdain suggests E.K. Honey as publisher of the book version of BR's logic lectures. He asks about the roles of Cantor and Peano in BR's starting work in mathematical logic.

77617
A transcription of document .051628; also a carbon copy. BR corrected both.
77618
Jourdain would like to see BR for a minute.
77619

Jourdain likes BR's lectures. "May they go to the Monist exactly as they are?"

77620

Jourdain asks for corrected copies of lectures 3 and 4 of "The Philosophy of Logical Atomism".

77621
Jourdain hopes that in prison BR will ponder the relationship of propositions and symbols.
77622

Paul Carus is dead. The multiplicative axiom is not insoluble.

77623

BR has repeated himself on descriptions in the Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy. Jourdain asked Allen and Unwin if they will proceed against The Monist "for copyright". Payment from Mrs. Carus: she is upset by Paul Carus' death and shouldn't be bothered for some time. Jourdain is hopeful BR will write to him about the multiplicative axiom, on which he feels as strongly as Browning on (delta epsilon) (cited by BR in IMP).

77624

Jourdain asks if his letter of May 24 reached BR. It was on the multiplicative axiom.

77625

Jourdain complains of BR's inattention to his proof of the multiplicative axiom.

77626

On Jourdain's proof.

77627

The Huxleys recommend Dr. C.A. Volf to take care of BR's throat.

77628

On Browne's article on the Brotherhood Church incident; BR's lecturing and publishing plans.

77629

The Huxleys have been to Adis Ababa.

77630

Jourdain thanks Wrinch for a syllabus, evidently of BR's fall lectures on mathematical philosophy.

77631
Corrected by BR. See document .051468 for the original, and .051469 for the ribbon copy of the transcription.
77632
Kallen thanks BR for commenting on a paper on pragmatism.
77633

Kallen introduces BR to the letter's bearer, H.M. Sheffer.

77634
A transcription of document .051688; also a carbon copy. Both are corrected by BR.
77635

On the war; Sheffer; Jews in Russia; Santayana.

77636

On BR's review of Kallen's Culture and Democracy in the United States.

77637

Kallen is in England and would like to see BR. Rachel and he have married.

77638

An offprint of Kallen's "Some Reflections on Humanism", Jewish Frontier, Nov. 1961; inscribed to BR.

77639

Corliss Lamont brought Kallen a query and a message from BR. Kallen encloses the offprint found at document .051693.

77640
A transcription of document .051696, corrected by BR.
77641

Kar is sorry to have suggested that BR call for the proofs re Epstein.

77642
Kar is very happy that BR is pleased with the photographs.
77643

Kar's invoice includes £5 for 100 postcards.

77644

On BR's order for postcards.

77645

Kar asks BR's permission to put his photograph of BR sitting for Epstein on a Christmas card.

77646

Karolyi hopes to meet BR "on very important and personal matter".

77647

Karolyi thanks BR for "the brilliant letter you wrote for the defence of Rakosi".

77648

Karolyi asks to visit BR in Cambridge.

77649

Countess Karolyi is glad BR has agreed to do the review.

77650

Countess Karolyi is grateful for BR's "beautiful" review.

77651

Karolyi asks BR to be a patron of the Michael Karolyi Foundation and praises his "open letter to Eisenhower and Khrushchev".

77652
Karolyi thanks BR for agreeing to become patron.
77653

Karolyi would like to visit BR.

77654

Karolyi encloses a report on the Karolyi Memorial Foundation.

77655

Karolyi's brief message is inside the envelope enclosing a talk on the Foundation dated 19 March 1964.

77656

Karolyi thanks BR for his correction on Descartes.

77657

BR thanks Karolyi for the account of the Foundation.

77658

BR tells Karolyi that "Descartes went into the Dutch Army, not in search of noise, but in search of quiet."

77659

Kastner appreciated BR's letter of Sept. 11 and article and hopes to hear BR at Purdue University on Nov. 1.

77660

Kastner sends BR a clipping about Catholics vetting Indiana textbooks for "Communist-minded" passages.

77661

Kastner has corresponded with Crane Brinton, too.

77662

Kastner thanks BR for his letter of Jan. 1 and encloses quotations.

77663

Kastner sends BR copies of his bulky correspondence with Crane Brinton and some clippings on BR, and explains his economic insecurity.

77664

Kastner includes typed copies of letters to himself from Louis Fischer, dated 14 Jan. 1952. Kastner's letters to Fischer are dated 16 and 18 Jan. 1952.

77665
Kastner's enclosure concerns entertainment in the dictionary.
77666

Kastner encloses another letter from Louis Fischer, dated 11 Feb. 1952; Kastner's own to Fischer are dated 8 and 13 Feb. 1952.

77667

Kastner thanks BR for his letter of Feb. 11.

77668
Kastner would like to own a signed copy of one of BR's books.
77669
77670

On Fischer's forthcoming book on Stalin, as noted in the Saturday Review of Literature.

77671

Kastner aims to write a doctoral thesis on BR on education. He has found March's thesis and quotes passages from it that are personally critical of BR, as well as positive ones.

77672

Kastner, at Harvard the past summer, tried unsuccessfully to gather memories of BR.

77673

The letter is marked "Keep".

77674

Kastner asks for a gift suggestion for BR.

77675

Kastner responds to BR's secretary. The gift suggestion was a cheque to the Civil Liberties Union.

77676
Kastner has failed to enlist a supervisor for his thesis on BR on education.
77677

The enclosure is typed extracts from Weaver and Posey, Our American Democracy.

77678
Kastner asks why college professors ignore BR's thought.
77679
On BR's honours.
77680

Kastner is puzzled by a difference between Dewey and BR.

77681
An enclosure is missing.
77682
On educational indoctrination.
77683

Kastner quotes BR on Bergson.

77684

Kastner quotes from Fink, People under Pressure (1956), on BR.

77685

Kastner reports on entries on BR in encyclopedias.

This letter was microfilmed in RA1 720.

77686

Philip is now too ill to see BR. "You are the only person he wanted to see and talk with months ago."

77687
Kastner writes about his early life.
77688
Kastner's thesis topic on BR was rejected.
77689

On Wood's biography of BR.

77690

Kastner criticizes Dulles's reply to BR's open letter to Eisenhower and Khrushchev.

77691

Kastner quotes Richard Rovere instancing BR re the Durham rule in law.

77692

On his psychiatrist's attitude to his fondness for BR.

77693

The New Yorker is quoted on Frank Lloyd Wright, Picasso and BR.

77694

Kastner's note to BR is written on a copy of his letter of Feb. 29, 1960, to Edward Teller.

77695

Jupp and his fellow students will be glad to visit BR at Plas Penrhyn on May 5 at 4:30 pm.

77696

The four students are grateful for having met BR. "The conversation touched on a number of points of great interest and we found your rational views a yardstick to remember, and use."

77697

Kastner's enclosures are addressed to John E. Cermak, Henry P. van Dusen, and the daily paper, Kalamazoo.

77698

BR apparently met Kastner in Indiana.

77699

Huxley asks BR to talk with Sybille Bedford, who is writing Aldous' biography.

77700

On Louis Fischer, the Cripps mission and Gandhi; and on being persuasive rather than saying the things that give pleasure to oneself in controversies.

77701

On China; and a psychiatrist that BR met.

77702

BR thanks Kastner for his letter and enclosures.