Total Published Records: 135,141
BRACERS Notes
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801 | Cross has read BR's paper in the New Quarterly Review and asks for more information on mathematics. Removed from Bagehot's Physics and Politics (Russell's Library, no. 2732). |
802 | BR outlines possible concerns in having an interracial marriage and biracial children, but feels that it is something that people should do because it will help end racial prejudice. |
803 | BR is asked to sign an enclosed letter (not present) in support of a memorial for Joseph Conrad at the Royal National Life-Boat Institution. |
804 | Crosser will be in England for two days before he goes to Russia and would like to meet with BR. |
805 | Crosser encloses a draft for £3 sterling as a contribution to the BR Peace Fund. He also encloses "30 international coupons, which can be exchanged for British stamps." |
806 | BR is unable to see Crosser when he is in London because he lives too far away. |
807 | On Sir Stafford Cripps' offer to India. In this much revised letter, BR says he is enclosing a letter to The Times (which is not present). |
808 | Crowley acknowledges receiving a copy of BR's reply to Norman Mudd (see document .053359 at record 2253) and writes colourfully with a logical example about the worthlessness of journalism. |
809 | In French. Crucy wants very much to see BR. |
810 | On support for BR's Nobel candidacy. |
811 | BR is pleased that his statement to the World Congress of Mathematicians is the basis for a final resolution. |
812 | Schoenman is pleased that Cotlar will help with BR's Nobel candidacy. |
813 | Csato encloses a photo (not present) of the portrait of BR he has painted from photographs BR posed for. |
814 | BR is thanked for his donation to the Cuba Hurricane Relief Fund. |
815 | On international government. BR cannot subordinate his judgment to anybody else and must decline the opportunity of paid work with Culbertson. |
816 | BR visited Parkhouse Camp a year ago, where Cunningham was a C.O. He wishes BR success in his appeal. |
817 | Curry asks for help in creating a scholarship fund for Dartington Hall School and for suggestions on what form the appeal for help should take. |
818 | On a book that Curwen is planning to write on the education of infants and young children, tentatively titled In Our Hands. |
819 | BR feels that changing social values and institutions is more pressing in achieving peace than the education of infants and children, although he does consider it to be an important issue. |
820 | Cust sends her congratulations on BR being elected a Fellow of Trinity College. |
821 | |
822 | Davies has heard BR's broadcast "last night". It must be "Hopes: Realized and Disappointed" (B&R C55.20). See their ensuing correspondence to complete the evidence for dating this undated letter. |
823 | On the subject of international authority and "the pronouncement of the ten conservatives". |
824 | On BR's election to "the Society". Davies is sorry BR has been unwell, and he must not let Webb "kill" him. |
825 | |
826 | BR would give the required assurance about Bagley Wood's drains and water supply but "I am not prepared to entertain an offer which opens an indefinite prospect of dispute and litigation after the sale is completed." |
827 | Davies is engaged to Moya O'Connor. "You may of course think I am too old for this sort of thing". |
828 | On BR's speech at the Mansion House, London, over the Everett Leaflet. |
829 | Peter is Crompton and Theodore Llewelyn Davies' nephew, his father being Arthur. Davies praises BR's remarks on Crompton and Theodore in The Listener (B&R C53.18), and reminisces about Crompton. |
830 | The Davies send their love and admiration to BR in prison. |
831 | Dunham thanks BR for his letter on Dunham's behalf. Dunham is still waiting for a decision from Temple University on the charges against him. (Dunham was a victim of McCarthyism.) |
832 | Davies forwarded this letter to BR and added a note at the top. |
833 | Dunham and his wife express their concern at hearing that BR has been hospitalized and has had an operation. They send their best wishes for a speedy recovery. Dunham has not written for some months because of the death of his father. His "own affairs have reached a calm interval". |
834 | Dunham appreciated the message that BR and his "eminent colleagues" have lately given the world in the Russell-Einstein Manifesto. |
835 | On why working women demand the franchise. |
836 | |
837 | On World War I; on logic and theory of knowledge. |
838 | BR has sent Demos' article to Mind with a strong recommendation. Demos has been awarded a Sheldon Travelling Fellowship, but BR writes that it is a bad time to travel and that "few philosophers are in a philosophic mood." |
839 | |
840 | |
841 | |
842 | |
843 | A copy of the writer's Indian Politeia is being sent to BR. |
844 | |
845 | Datta asks to meet with BR. |
846 | Datta criticizes Mayhew's reply to BR on neutralism in the June Encounter. |
847 | Datta thanks Schoenman for his trouble. |
848 | BR agrees to meet with Datta, since his desire to meet BR is so strong. |
849 | BR cancels his meeting with Datta because he is ill and been ordered to rest at least until June. Datta is asked to write again in June to set up a time to meet later. |
850 | Dudley thanks BR for his letter and flowers. |
851 | Dunham was a member of BR's class at the Barnes Foundation. |
852 | BR thanks Dunham for his letter showing admiration for his article in the New York Times (B&R C60.25). |
853 | The enclosed document is mimeographed and dated Aug. 3, 1953. Winter asks for BR's help on Dunham's behalf. Winter knows BR, he having chaired a meeting for her. Her son is Peter Steffens. For BR's response, see RA1 750 8 Aug. 1953. |
854 | On Dutt being sent down from Oxford and BR's problems with Cambridge, the U.D.C. and the I.L.P. |
855 | On the relations of terms. |
856 | BR has looked at crucial portions of Darookhanavala's book and has found it "interesting, and presenting a point of view that does not usually come from India." He is "horrified" by the destruction of copies of Darookhanavala's book by the Indian government and asks if he plans to have it published in England. |
857 | On where Moore's (and BR's) philosophy breaks down. |
858 | Dakyns wishes BR congratulations. |
859 | Dalal disagrees with BR's characterization of Zoroaster in Satan in the Suburbs. |
860 | The year is conjectured from the remainder of the date and Dalby's sympathy and hope for BR's work for peace. The Dalbys bought Amberley House, Kidlington, Oxford, from BR (in 1938). |
861 | Damle met BR when he was in London in 1955. He plans to be in England again in September 1958 and hopes that he can see BR again. He encloses a printed radio interview that he did on his return to India. The subject was his meeting with BR and it is titled "An Interview with Bertrand Russell" (B&R E56.01). |
862 | Dana states that BR's letter to President Wilson, which was published in the newspapers, "has made a profound impression everywhere." |
863 | Dangerfield congratulates BR on his engagement to Miss Finch. Dated only "Sunday 23rd", the letter must have been written in November 1952. |
864 | Davids' Burmese friend, S.Z. Aung, likes BR's Our Knowledge. |
865 | The members of the Institute congratulate BR on being awarded the Sonning Prize. |
866 | BR does not know what Davies should do about his problems at school. Conscientious objection has lost its point, and BR does not know the strength of Davies' opinions. |
867 | Davies thanks BR for taking the time to reply to his letter and says that he will have to think carefully before he makes a decision about the Cadet programme at school. |
868 | On the possible threat of nuclear war. |
869 | BR thanks Daniloff for her letter and for translating the interview for him. He encloses some literature (not present) that he hopes will interest her. |
870 | Davis asks what BR's 20 favourite words are. |
871 | BR thanks Davis for his encouraging letter and sends his 20 favourite words: wind, heath, golden, begrime, pilgrim, quagmire, diapason, alabaster, chrysoprase, astrolabe, apocalyptic, ineluctable, terraqueous, inspissated, incarnadine, sublunary, chorasmean, alembic, fulminate, and ecstasy. |
872 | BR's note in ink at the top: "Davitt was a very prominent Irish nationalist". |
873 | BR's recommendation of Brajendra Nath of Calcutta University is requested. |
874 | Coppin asks for information about BR's "The Functions of a Teacher". |
875 | Typed on the verso of document .049134. BR thinks they are referring to a chapter in Unpopular Essays. |
876 | Dawson & Sons have received a request for a work titled Will to Doubt, and Ellis asks if it is by BR and where they could get a copy of it. |
877 | Daniloff states: "In so far as the Soviet Press muffles the facts to suit its policies, the Western Press titillates the facts to sell to its readers." She discusses how the Soviets treat Westerners, especially Americans, with kindness and how they admire American culture and products. |
878 | BR thinks that the book they are looking for is Freedom and Organization 1814-1914. |
879 | Dearden asks BR for information about Homer Lane, who is mentioned in Marriage and Morals. |
880 | BR directs Dearden to A.S. Neill, the headmaster of Summerhill School, for more information about Homer Lane. As a psychoanalyst Lane apparently received "indecent" letters from women. |
881 | Dedek asks for a list of books on the philosophy of science to help round out his son's education. |
882 | BR has been ill, but he sends the titles of a few books for Dedek's son: Popper, Ayer and Human Knowledge. |
883 | Dedek expresses his deep gratitude to BR for taking the time to answer his letter. |
884 | This postcard is in the same file as document .048605. BR noted on it: "Answered". Found at p. 405 of Ernst Schröder, Algebra und Logik der Relative, vol. 3 (Russell's Library, no. 1580). |
885 | In French. |
886 | In French. |
887 | In French. |
888 | In French. |
889 | In French. |
890 | In French. |
891 | In French. |
892 | In French. |
893 | In French. |
894 | In French. |
895 | In French. |
896 | In French. |
897 | In French. |
898 | In French. |
899 | In French. |
900 | In French. |