BR is very pleased to be reading The Rise of Christian Europe.

Duff requests the promised donation cheque.

BR encloses his cheque for Adrian's retirement.

A transcription of document .056902; also a carbon copy.

In response to BR's fundraising request, Trevelyan suggests a talk to prevent the overlapping of pacifist societies.

A transcription of document .056904; also a carbon copy.

The receipt is for a subscription to the Union of Democratic Control. Foreign Affairs has had some articles on China.

Trevelyan asks for BR's U.D.C. subscription. He almost entirely agrees with On Education.

A note on the Trevelyan brothers and their wives.

A transcription of document .057084; also a carbon copy. BR has corrected both.

A transcription of document .057092; also a carbon copy. BR has corrected both.

Tudor-Hart encloses an advertisement from the Malting House School. BR has annotated the letter.

On John Conrad's illness and dire difficulties at Beacon Hill School; on Alice (Stücki) and Fritz and BR.

Tudor-Hart has her own school.

A transcription of document .057095; also a carbon copy. BR has annotated both.

Tudor-Hart would like to vacation with her child at Porthcurno, especially if Dora is not there. She asks if Beacon Hill School is in quarantine over measles.

Tudor-Hart asks BR if she is still welcome at Porthcurno in July. She discusses her daughter's thyroid condition.

Tudor-Hart is finding out to her cost that a school-teacher cannot have an illegitimate child.

She attended the Trafalgar Square meeting yesterday at which BR spoke and asks if BR remembers her.

A transcription of document .057103, record 3325; also a carbon copy.

Tufts asks BR to consider alternative lecture arrangements for 1914.

Tufts makes arrangements for BR's visit on May 27-28. He will stay with Dr. Dudley.

Tufts is glad BR will speak to the mathematicians with regard to the principle of relativity. BR will answer questions on English university life after the dinner.

A transcription of document .057109, record 3260; also a carbon copy.

BR takes his leave of the Liberal Party, for it has been secretly deceiving its supporters.

A transcription of document .057111, record 81124.

Turner asks BR to confirm that the summary in the enclosed paper on hypotheses represents BR's position.

Turnpenny will send BR a copy of Alice in Blunderland if it is published.

A transcription of document. 057123; also a carbon copy.

Underwood thanks BR for his donation of £10.

Birthday wishes for BR from the Union.

BR is asked to sign a letter of greeting to the Dutch Freethought Society. Bonner notes that BR has withdrawn from the International Arbitration League.

Bonner invites BR to be President of Honour at the next International Congress, on Free Thought and Population.

BR accepts the presidency and will gladly send a message if he receives a reminder. He asks about the Vatican Concordat infringing the UN Charter.

Bonner provides a resumé of the Vatican Concordat re Spain.

Bonner asks BR for his message for the Freethought Conference in Paris. Walter Arnstein told Bonner of his visit to BR re his grandfather Bonner.

McCall encloses The Freethinker reporting on the Paris Congress. The issue is not present.

McCall encloses Bonner's report on the Brussels Congress and applauds BR's anti-nuclear efforts.

"I had not seen what the Catholics had said about me, but it seems to be what they always say."

Bonner asks BR to be President d'Honneur at the Brussels Congress in September 1959.

BR agrees to be President d'Honneur. "If I were younger, I should wish to be present...."

McCall invites BR to an event to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Thomas Paine's death.

BR cannot attend the Paine meeting but wishes it all success.

Bonner hopes to use BR's name at the congress in 1962 or 1963 and encloses a message from Dr. Ceravolo.

Von Wright asks BR to loan his original letters from Wittgenstein to Rush Rhees for a week for checking.

Von Wright seeks BR's permission to quote from his report in the early 1930s on Wittgenstein's work.

An offprint.

She looks forward to seeing BR in Vienna and reminds him that her abode is very humble.

Another letter full of gratitude.

She describes her life in Vienna.

She thanks BR for the copy of Whitehead's Universal Algebra and assumes he likes all forms of Chinese art and type.

She thanks the Russells for their repeated generosity.

She is sending a Sung bowl to BR via David Chamberlain on June 15.

"Mr. Sung at last"—referring to the bowl.

Von Zeppelin thanks Edith for the bottle(s) of Remy Martin. She has kept all of their letters. The postcard shows a small house where she once lived.

A birthday letter.

She refers to the Bundesrepublik not ratifying something.

In 1958 she met BR for the first time after 20 years.

She hopes for a word from Edith.

Greetings.

She thanks the Russells for an immediate loan and asks BR ("a master of quotation") where certain lines come from. The clipping is of a recipe.

Birthday wishes. The enclosure, 2 sheets, is titled "Chinoiseries".

BR thanks her for the "very lovely and precious Chinese bowl".

The 11 photographs include some personal ones.

BR does not recall making such a "foolish" remark about a Marxist bomb.

Dated from BR's reply, document .056126, record 81167.

On something BR said about Marxist science.

BR's memory fails him, but if he did make the remark about Marxist science, "it was a foolish thing to say".

Wakefield is now able to quote BR's 1949 article about a Marxist atomic bomb not being able to explode.

BR is sorry he made the "silly" remark about a Marxist A-bomb.

Wakefield quotes from Hollis's review of The Mind of the Murderer re the meaninglessness of ethical judgments.

On whether the Chinese used or understood binary notation.

Waley hoped to see BR on his way through Austria (?), hence the supplied year.

Waley responds to BR's queries on Greek paradoxes apparently showing up in classical Chinese literature. He returns Stcherbatsky's book on Buddhism.

The year is supplied in Edith Russell's hand. Waley translates "The Consultation" of Ch'u Yuan. The enclosed Chinese version was handwritten for Master Lo'su and Miss Po-la-k's [Russell and Black]. Waley has "millions" of questions to ask BR about Chinese.

Lo'su is Chinese for "Russell".

Waley would dearly like to see BR again.

Waley will come at 4 on July 5.

These documents contain the text of Chinese poems translated by Arthur Waley in A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems (London: Constable, 1918): one is typed (on Rinder’s typewriter) and 7 are in Russell’s hand. Russell included some of them in his letter of 21 August to Constance Malleson (document .200337, record 19348). It is likely that Russell wrote out the poems while he was in prison, since the same ruled paper on which he wrote letters was used. On the verso of the typed page, folded several times, Russell wrote “Miss Rinder” but no other message. He had quoted two of these poems to Elizabeth Russell to give Frank (record 80396), and others to Colette, which she mentioned in her letter of 2 September. Others had been published in The Nation, 17 Aug. 1918, to which Colette referred on 25 August. Russell also wrote out “On Paying Call in August” (p. 57) for her (record 19348), both on 21 August. 

A transcription of document .056142; also a carbon copy.

A transcription of document .056144.

On BR's Leibniz lectures.

Ward considers that Latta's book takes the place of the student's Leibniz that he had in mind for BR.

Ward thanks BR for responding to his queries on The Principles of Mathematics and makes suggestions for another volume.

A transcription of document .056150; also a second ribbon copy. BR has corrected both.

On the timing of Ward's lectures at Trinity and BR's.

Ward asks where BR found him "complaining" that "physics ignores causation".

A transcription of document .056154; also a carbon copy. BR has corrected both.

Ward comments on the draft of BR's speech for his "Rex vs. BR" trial at the Mansion House and makes a proposal for conscientious objectors.

A transcription of document .056156; also a carbon copy. BR has corrected them both.

Ward would like to visit BR, who has many staunch friends at Trinity, besides the 3 or 4 implacable enemies.

A transcription of document .056157; also a carbon copy.

Ward is drawing up a statement on BR's behalf and wants to know about BR's interviews with Lloyd George and Asquith.

MacLeod, who was matron at Beacon Hill School, writes about her personal life in Liverpool. She refers to Dora trying to get sole possession of the children.

MacLeod will be visiting BR soon.

Two photographs of G.M. Trevelyan.

MacLeod congratulates BR on reaching an important stage (the decree nisi) in his divorce from Dora. MacLeod is trying to imagine Telegraph House "Peterised".

A transcription of document .056909 at record 3249; also a carbon copy.

Trevelyan likes "On History" and is getting it and "The Free Man's Worship" typed to have on hand for the Independent Review.

Peggy [Adams] wrote her, but Boris [Uvarov] has neglected her.

Trevelyan thinks he will open the controversy with his own essay on history.

BR is to polish "On History". Trevelyan requests BR's Maeterlinck article by the end of August. They are reading Alys's article on the Rope girls.

[If BR wrote an article on Maeterlinck, it is lost.]