Trevelyan writes about 3 of BR's articles. Apparently he has written some of the Maeterlinck article, but has no more inspiration.

A transcription of document .056914; also a carbon copy.

BR has provided the year with a query. Trevelyan has become engaged to Janet Ward, whom he loves with "blood, spirit, and brain altogether".

A transcription of document .056916; also a carbon copy.

Dated by BR.

Trevelyan, referring to Tolstoy's letter in The Times on war and pacifism, asks BR if he agrees.

A transcription of document .056918, record 81205.

Trevelyan thanks BR for a long letter on war and Tolstoyan pacifism. Trevelyan is opposed to conscription being introduced in England. On living in "the city of destruction". Will BR join a new society?

A transcription of document .056920.

Re a memorial to Lord Cecil.

Moomaw will give BR's message to Dr. Ahn.

Not a letter but a 4-leaf booklet being a "preliminary announcement" of the Malting House Garden School, Cambridge. Dated by the perpetual calendar from the reference to the school opening on Monday, Oct. 6.

BR acknowledges the loan of a magazine.

This letter is almost identical to document .057163.

Streibert thanks BR for his article.

BR states that his grandfather's papers were left to Lady Agatha Russell, who left them to the Duke of Bedford, who burnt them.

Urmson encloses his "portrait" of BR (not present).

Urmson must now turn to reading Carnap, "a grotesque caricature of yourself".

The year is provided by BR's reply. Urquhart is giving BR a letter from Schweitzer and asks to talk with BR.

She thanks BR for a message on Schweitzer's Nobel Prize and asks to talk with BR.

Urquhart encloses photographs by Enrico Pratt (not present).

Dated by the reference to Wednesday, April 23.

Urquhart asks that the peace forces coordinate their campaigns.

Urquhart asks BR to support Chief Albert Lithuli for the Nobel Prize. The enclosure is an Observer profile of him.

Urquhart understands why BR declines to support Lithuli's nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Urquhart sends BR photographs by Enrico Pratt, probably of BR together with Schweitzer on Oct. 20, 1955.

Urquhart solicits an article from BR for a collection, A Matter of Life.

She asks BR for biographical notes. Royalties will go to a non-violence cause.

Urquhart's enclosed clipping is "The Russell Thing" by Murray Kempton, referring to unilateral disarmament.

The book has had to have its publication postponed, but she thanks BR for getting his essay in on time.

BR is pleased to have the article by Murray Kempton.

BR encloses his article (not present) on civil disobedience.

BR explains his remark to McKnight that Schweitzer is not a philosopher—he is not a technical or academic philosopher.

A second TL(CAR) is in the file.

Freda asks if she can be a paying guest at Porthcurno and provides BR with news of Dora and her new baby. Freda will be going to Moscow with her husband.

On the birth of Freda's son and her admiration of John Conrad Russell. Freda, writing from Moscow, asks for BR's new book.

Utley, visiting England, has picked up BR's book from the Russian Embassy.

Her husband, Arcadi Berdichevsky, has been sent to a Russian concentration camp for 3 years. She is very glad Peter is pregnant. "Stalin was determined to get rid of all the Communists."

Utley praises a letter by BR that she has sent by air mail with one of her own and his review, presumably of Japan's Feet of Clay. She encloses a copy of BR's letter (not present), which may have been addressed to the Soviet government. The enclosed account in Utley's hand has two phrases in BR's hand.

Utley encloses a transcription of a letter from Shaw and discusses his attitude.

Utley sends BR Irene Corbally Kuhn's The Enemy Within, re Communist China.

The year is inferred from Utley's mention of her latest book.

She asks to visit BR.

She would still like to visit BR.

Utley, whose photograph is on the verso of the card, has a new edition of Lost Illusion.

Utley will send BR pages from her memoirs about Shaw, BR and her imprisoned husband.

Utley states that she does not have "the final text of the appeal to the Soviet government which we jointly composed and which you induced the Webbs, et al., to sign or support." She still does not know her husband's fate and encloses a draft letter for BR to send to Cyrus Eaton as the basis of a letter to Khrushchev.

Utley also encloses her new introduction to Lost Illusion.

Utley is happy that BR will write to Cyrus Eaton.

BR has no objection to her publishing the Shaw correspondence and remains her friend.

BR agrees to write to Cyrus Eaton re writing to Khrushchev about Utley's husband. BR does not have the papers she asks about.

On teaching at Beacon Hill School and running the camp.

Dated by the reference to BR's payment for a book of algebra. Uvarov describes the Beacon Hill School camp at length.

Vachha thanks BR for suggesting "The Statements of Physics" as a research project.

Vailati thanks BR for The Principles of Mathematics and its rejection of Kantianism.

A transcription of document .057229; also a carbon copy. BR has corrected both.

A transcription of document .057235, record 3403; also a carbon copy. BR has corrected both.

In German. On mathematical philosophy.

In German.

BR thanks Vazir for translating the Russian material that he sent her.

BR sends Vazir more Russian to translate.

BR now thinks that any comment on his views would have appeared in a later number of Ogonyek, but it is not worth pursuing further.

BR asks Vazir to translate a Russian magazine's address.

BR thanks Vazir for translating a Russian address.

BR asks for an interview to be translated from Izvestia.

On the paradoxes; on Zermelo's axiom.

Vestey forwards a letter intended for BR and declares herself an admirer of BR.

Vestey is very sorry she missed the Russells' visit.

The house is for sale, and she could give it to them as a reward to BR for his writing.

See BR's note (document .057295a). Volkhovsky hopes BR will allow her to speak to him and Dora. She mentions her children. [About 1922 she married Montague Fordham.]

A transcription of document .057296, record 81293; also a carbon copy. BR has corrected both.

McLendon encloses a cheque (not present, for BR destroyed it) for return postage for his "personal" essay on BR. Also enclosed is a self-addressed envelope.

McLendon writes again about BR writing to Oppenheimer.

The "letter" is written on a page torn from Ladies Home Journal, March 1957, which prints an anecdote concerning Bernard Shaw from Portraits from Memory, as Dorothy McLendon points out. Hiram McLendon asks if BR has a clipping service. Newsweek has been running reactions to BR's statement on immortality.

BR adds 2 points to his earlier letter on McLendon's essay on him: the Jan. 1, 1914 stenographer was neither blonde nor beautiful. BR's audiences do not always diminish, e.g. Columbia, 1950, and "Principles of Social Reconstruction", 1916.