BRACERS Notes

Record no. Notes, topics or text
81301

McLendon encloses several letters to Newsweek about BR's conclusions on immortality. She refers to a missing clipping from the issue of Feb. 18 with an unusual photograph of BR.

81302

On the Wimbledon bye-election and BR's review of Garibaldi and the Thousand.

81303
A transcription of document .056922. BR has corrected it.
81304

Trevelyan gives BR permission to reprint "The Free Man's Worship" in Philosophical Essays and recommends that he tell J.J. Withers.

BR has annotated the letter, once with "independent review".

81305

Dated by BR.

Trevelyan maintains that with BR's criterion, no "race" could be called "gay and kindly".

81306

A transcription of document .056925, record 81305; also a carbon copy. BR has annotated the ribbon copy re the "gay kindliness" of Servians [Serbians] (re World War II).

81307

Trevelyan replies to BR's "more or less conciliatory letter" about Servians [Serbians] and discusses the danger of Germany's might.

81308
A transcription of document .056927; also a carbon copy. BR has annotated the letter.
81309

Trevelyan asks BR to repay more of his loan from Trevelyan, if he has the capital.

81310

Trevelyan will approach Filippo de Filippi about Wittgenstein.

81311
A transcription of document .056930; also a carbon copy. BR has corrected both.
81312

Trevelyan has sent BR's letter to him and his own to de Filippi to Whitehead for his approval.

81313
A transcription of document .056932; also a carbon copy. BR has corrected both.
81314

BR provides a note about the next letter (document .056935, record 81315), an attempt to get Wittgenstein released from a P.O.W. camp at Monte Cassino.

81315

Trevelyan quotes de Filippi's reply to him regarding Wittgenstein as a prisoner of war.

81316
A transcription of document .056935; also a carbon copy. BR has corrected the ribbon copy.
81317

A note saying: "About L. Wittgenstein".

81318

Trevelyan encloses document .056939, record 3659, and document .056940, record 81319, regarding Wittgenstein's imprisonment and asks BR to concert with Whitehead in the future.

81319

In Italian. Re Wittgenstein as an Italian prisoner of war.

81320
A transcription of document .056938; also a carbon copy.
81321

A transcription of document .056939, record 3659; also a carbon copy.

81322

Congratulations on BR's Order of Merit, which will raise the standard.

81323

Trevelyan tells BR that last night being BR's birthday, the Master of Trinity College proposed his health.

81324

Trevelyan was moved by BR's broadcast last night. (His recollections of Trevelyan.)

81325
A carbon copy of document .056945.
81326
A transcription of document .056947; also a carbon copy. BR has annotated it.
81327

Janet Trevelyan invites BR to France. She mentions Ivy Pretious.

81328
A transcription of document .056949; also a carbon copy.
81329

Janet thanks BR for explaining a term in Kant.

81330
A transcription of document .056951; also a carbon copy.
81331

About paying only the interest of the loan to BR, now at £250. [See record 81309.] She asks BR not to spend the difference on stirring up strikes in South Wales or rebellions in Ireland.

81332

A privately printed address on George Macaulay Trevelyan by another Master of Trinity.

81333
A carbon copy of document .056955. It is corrected by BR.
81334
A transcription of document .056159; also a carbon copy.
81335

Ward asks important questions about BR's anti-war activities, e.g., his interviews with Lloyd George and Asquith.

81336
A transcription of document .056161; also a carbon copy. BR has corrected the ribbon copy.
81337

Ward begs BR to review in the next 2 or 3 weeks her enclosed pamphlet (not present) on free trade, published by Brimley Johnson and critical of A.J. Balfour.

81338

Ward refers to BR's willingness to get a review of her pamphlet into the Westminster Gazette. She hankers after the Spectator as well. [It is not certain that BR would be the reviewer.]

81339
A transcription of document .056165; also a carbon copy. BR has corrected both copies and annotated the ribbon copy.
81340

She is sorry that BR will not write a preface to a book that recommends a religious approach to cruelty. She assumes she may quote his sentence saying that the book is valuable.

81341

Warren posted first "what is really a p.s. to this letter"— pp. 3-5.

81342
Dated by BR.
81343

The year is provided in Edith Russell's hand.

81344
The year is not provided.
81345

On suffering, with reference to war.

The letter is dated by the query whether Hollond is alive. Russell responded in the affirmative in his letter of 18 Oct. 1915 (in Rec. Acq. 1628, record 120184).

81346
There is reference to the war.
81347
Warren refers to BR's upcoming lectures.
81348

Webster wants encouragement from BR to emigrate to the U.K.

81349
She opposes socialism.
81350

A brief note on Josiah Wedgwood.

81351

Warren has heard from Elizabeth Perkins of BR's work for the Union of Democratic Control.

81352
The year is a guess, as war is mentioned.
81353

The reference to Belgian neutrality suggests the year, which is lacking from the date.

81354
81355
A transcription of document .056240; also a carbon copy.
81356

Wedgwood sympathizes with BR over the War Office order prohibiting him from certain areas of the U.K.

81357

Warren has ordered The New York Times to be sent to BR for 3 months.

81358
A transcription of document .056242; also a carbon copy. BR has corrected both copies.
81359
81360

Wedgwood believes it would be useless for him to intervene in the prosecution of Gertrude Beasley. [This letter is re-dated from the apparent 1939 because of the Beasley reference.]

81361

Wedgwood wants to see BR once more "now we are both on the shelf after such similar lives and thoughts for 50 years".

81362

She has re-read "The Free Man's Worship".

81363

The letter is full of information about family and old friends.

81364
She refers to BR possibly beginning his lectures soon.
81365
Warren is sending BR a book of her verse.
81366
Wedgwood returns 2 papers by BR and asks for anything on relations.
81367

In a note BR identifies Ethel Wedgwood as the wife of Josiah. She wants to discuss philosophy with BR.

81368
A transcription of document .056249; also a carbon copy. BR has corrected both.
81369

Wedgwood asks for the publishers of Meinong's and Frege's books.

81370

She congratulates BR on his letter to The Nation.

81371

Wedgwood compliments BR on his letter in The Herald ("Will They Be Shot?") and asks to borrow Justice in War-Time.

81372

She sides with BR on being a "corrupter of youth" at Trinity.

81373

"Congratulations and good wishes" on the birth of John Conrad.

81374

On their meeting at Duneaves, Harrow.

81375
A transcription of document .056266; also a second ribbon copy.
81376

On a blank portion of the letter BR has pencilled 8 lines of mathematical logic.

81377

Welby asks questions about "On Denoting", which BR has sent her.

81378
A transcription of document .056269; also a second transcription. BR has corrected both.
81379
A transcription of document .056271; also a carbon copy.
81380

Re "On Denoting", which has "a special value" for Welby.

81381

BR has written "H.G. Wells" on a scrap.

81382

Wells might after all write something for Levine. He asks BR to tell him what to do.

81383

Wells will motor down to see Beacon Hill School in June or later.

81384

Wells likes Sceptical Essays and has it in mind to write to a rich American re the school.

81385

Wells has been told that BR is "offended with me". He invites BR to dinner. He has a new encyclopaedia project.

81386

Wells is delighted to get BR's friendly letter and suggests a meeting. He is becoming more anarchistic and ultra left as he gets older.

81387
A transcription of document .056281; also a carbon copy. BR has corrected both.
81388

BR provides a note on Arthur Graeme West.

81389
A transcription of document .056287. BR has annotated it.
81390

BR writes: "Graeme West was killed not long after writing this letter".

81391

West praises Principles of Social Reconstruction and asserts that the spirit of some soldiers will not be damaged by the war.

81392
A transcription of document .056290; also another carbon copy.
81393
A second transcription of document .056290.
81394

A note in Edith Russell's hand before letters from Dorothy Mackenzie: "Graeme West's fiancée".

81395

A transcription of document .056294, record 3449; also a carbon copy.

81396

Mackenzie mentions Cyril Joad as West's friend in connection with his papers.

81397

A transcription of document .056296, record 81396; also a carbon copy.
 

81398

Mackenzie confides to BR that she is going to resign her teaching position.

BR has annotated the letter.

81399

Mackenzie comments on the Brotherhood Church incident.

81400

She has made a new friend at the Fabian summer school.