BRACERS Notes

Record no. Notes, topics or text
80801

Strachey thanks BR for the loan of his manuscript—clearly "Theory of Knowledge". He refers to propositions and complexes, and to permutative beliefs (covered in part 2, chap. 5).

Strachey encloses 4 sheets of objections.

80802

Now Director of the Foreign Policy Institute at the University of Pennsylvania, the writer tells BR to expect a book by a Amaury de Riencort on The Coming of Caesarism to the United States.

80803

Dr. Streatfeild encloses his scheme for a "syndicate" with shares in a project to patent inventions for the cinema.

He will come to see the baby on Saturday.

80804
A transcription of document .056687; also a carbon copy. Both are corrected by BR, who also annotated the ribbon copy.
80805
On images, sense-data and perception.
80806
A transcription of document .056689; also a carbon copy.
80807
On the independent reality of physical objects.
80808

Strong discusses membership of his Fellowship Committee: BR, Moore, and Julian Huxley.

He writes possibly as if BR and Patricia have visited him in Switzerland.

80809

Strong encloses a clause for his will headed "Philosophical Fellowship Fund". He wants Daniel Cory to be the first recipient: "He was your pupil".

80810

BR is agreeable to Strong's requests. BR will try to look up Cory's articles in the Journal of Philosophy. Conrad seems likely to be a man of action rather than of thought.

80811

BR responds to Sinclair on numbers, "limit", causal independence, and spirit.

80812

On fiction. Sinclair published this as a letter from BR. It is not.

80813

Singer wonders if his earlier letter went astray.

80814

Skoryna, of McGill's Dept. of Experimental Surgery, will send BR a paper on causes of neoplasia in man.

80815
Skoryna requests the return of his paper.
80816

BR's secretary returns Skoryna's paper with apologies.

80817
A transcription of document .056360; also a carbon copy. BR has corrected both copies.
80818
A transcription of document .056362; also a carbon copy.
80819

Smith wants to pay BR to aid him in a debate at Ruskin Case College in New York.

80820

Smith would prefer to visit BR between June 25 and July 7.

80821

BR will be too occupied to meet J. Narayan.

80822
On mnemic causation, all mental events being beliefs.
80823
A transcription of document .056373.
80824

BR has supplied the year. Smith will be BR's confessor in the Order of Prigs. He encloses the rules.

80825
A transcription of document .056375.
80826

BR has supplied the year. On BR's purchase of tobacco and a stick.

80827
A transcription of document .056378. BR has corrected it.
80828

BR has supplied the year. BR has told Smith that he is indulging in "all the vices not prohibited by the rules".

80829
A transcription of document .056379. Corrected by BR.
80830

Smith has moved to an area of Paris that he calls Bohemia.

80831
A transcription of document .056381. Corrected by BR.
80832

Chit-chat about Haslemere.

80833
A transcription of document .056383. Annotated by BR.
80834

Smith warns against the "Gospel of Impurity" in The Cambridge Observer. He mentions Stevens and Sickert, is sending an article on Henry James, and treats BR as a minor part of the editorial group.

80835
A transcription of document .056385. Corrected by BR.
80836

On Paris. Smith invites BR to visit him in Bohemia there.

80837
A transcription of document .056387.
80838

"Don't turn Hegelian and lose yourself in perfumed dreams...."

80839
A transcription of document .056389.
80840

Smith thanks BR for his "generous cheque" for strikers in Barnsley.

80841
A transcription of document .056391.
80842

Dated by BR. Smith tells BR he forgot to endorse his cheque for the miners.

80843
A transcription of document .056393.
80844

BR has provided the year. Smith advises BR in relation to his love for Alys.

80845
A transcription of document .056395. Corrected by BR.
80846

Enclosure: "Amendments to Analysis of Perception suggested by Professor C.D. Broad", 2 sheets.

80847

Snow sends BR his A.A.A.S. speech in New York.

80848

Snow reports on the presence of anti-Semitism in Russia.

80849

BR comments on Dostoievsky's mathematical knowledge and lack of logical reasoning.

80850

BR asks for Snow's text on the probability of nuclear war.

80851

BR responds to Snow on Soviet anti-Semitism, mentioning Bernal.

80852

BR thanks Snow for his "very interesting" letter on "Russia and the Jews".

80853
A transcription of document .056411; also a carbon copy.
80854

BR sends Simons a copy of the 90th birthday programme.

80855

The U.K. Treasury agrees to granting Daniel Cory a Life Fellowship of £500 a year.

80856

Tylor encloses letters concerning Daniel Cory.

80857

Washburn quotes a July 1942 telegram from BR on the award of his Fellowship. See record 95057.

80858

On Daniel Cory's Fellowship.

80859

On Daniel Cory's Fellowship.

80860

On Daniel Cory's Fellowship.

80861

Cory would like a payment from the Philosophical Fellowship Fund.

80862

Tylor encloses a letter to C.D. Broad about Cory.

80863

No year is given, but BR is at Little Datchet Farm.

Re requisitioning of fund securities by the British Treasury. BR has annotated the telegram with an address.

80864

On Derek Wragge Morley's study of ants.

80865

On Wragge Morley's book on ants.

80866

On Cory. A copy of BR's reply was sent to Moore.

80867

On a grant for translating Jean Nicod's work.

80868

Broad sends BR a copy of his reply to Klausner, a philosopher who was writing an article on C.A. Strong.

80869

A clause on the Fund from Strong's will.

80870

Extracts from Strong's will about the Fund.

80871

A trust deed "to be scheduled to Mr. C.A. Strong's will".

80872

A financial report: "Capital and Income Accounts".

80873

A financial report: "Capital and Income Accounts".

80874

A financial report: "Capital and Income Accounts".

80875

Harper repeats his invitation for BR to debate Bishop Gore.

80876

Graham Wallas has declined. Harper invites BR again. The chairman of the debate is to be a leading professor.

80877

Harper thanks BR for agreeing to debate Bishop Gore on Christianity on Feb. 12, 1929.

80878
A transcription of document .056729; also a carbon copy.
80879

On BR's address at Selby Wood "last evening".

80880
A carbon copy of a transcription of document .056733. Corrected by BR.
80881

An undatable note about meeting BR the next day.

80882

Sturges invites BR to visit him in Eastbourne. BR noted on the letter: "Apr. 16?".

80883
A transcription of document .056736; also a carbon copy. Both are corrected by BR.
80884

Sullivan hopes BR will hurry up and read his book "because you are after all a very old man!"

80885

A little note on "Mrs. Swanwick ne [sic] Sickert, a prominent suffragist".

80886
On suffrage tactics in parliament.
80887

Swanwick likes BR's letter very much, and it has gone to the National Union to be printed.

80888

Swanwick refers to BR's "secession" from women's suffrage to adult and will print BR's "special" on the People's Suffrage Federation.

On the verso are BR's notes likely on G.E. Moore's "The Subject Matter of Psychology", delivered 6 December 1909 to the Aristotelian Society.

80889

Swanwick thanks BR for B&R C09.04 and expresses her bitterness.

80890
A transcription of document .056750; also a carbon copy.
80891

Swanwick could publish a letter from BR on some doubtful statistics.

80892

Swanwick has read Justice in War-Time, which BR gave her, but she has least faith in non-resistance. She urges BR to distribute his reply to Murray before it is published to ensure the survival of some copies.

80893
A transcription of document .056753; also a carbon copy.
80894

Swanwick has decided not to leave the women's movement to oppose conscription. "You are cold to women's disabilities. You recognize them, but they do not deeply move you."

80895
A transcription of document .056755; also a carbon copy. BR has corrected both.
80896

On Catherine Marshall and whether she should seek prison as a rest cure.

80897
A transcription of document .056757; also a carbon copy. Both are corrected by BR.
80898

On Stella Morel's health and departure from the journal. BR has annotated the letter.

80899
A transcription of document .056759; also a carbon copy. Both are corrected by BR.
80900
A transcription of document .056763; also a carbon copy. Annotated by BR on the ribbon copy. See record 2987 for the reason why the date has been changed from 1919.