Mackenzie addresses BR as "Uncle Shakespeare", describes her political work for the C.O.I.B., and invites BR over.

BR is ill. "Your energy and capacity for work would have annoyed any trade union to the point of murdering you, if you happened to be the member of one."

The year of this undated letter is surely the first half of 1918 or 1917. BR was still going to committees, thus it was written before he went to prison.

The enclosed poem has a drawing of a lady, nicely painted and executed. The letter has a drawing of Mackenzie dancing.

West asserts that if BR becomes Anthony's guardian, Wells would still never fall out with BR.

A transcription of document .056305, record 81404; also a carbon copy. BR has added West's name to both.

West is glad BR is back in England and broadcasting—she refers to the "Power" broadcast.

He asks if BR will be replying to Dawes Hicks' critique in the Hibbert Journal.

Wheatley quotes BR's latest reply: "There can be no a priori reason against 'the supposition that mind, previously non-existing,' can arise through a mere redistribution of matter and energy."

The first sheet has been missing from this file since at least the time the Russell papers arrived at McMaster.

BR hopes Whettam's compositions will get the recognition they deserve.

Whettam claims success in his struggle with the BBC.

BR is glad of "a little justice" from the BBC.

Blanco White refers to BR's possible influenza and to George Rivers Blanco White, her husband, being demobilized. She assumed BR had influenza because he had not answered his telephone for a fortnight.

White refers to professors who "save God", presumably to assist BR with The Scientific Outlook.

She hopes BR's book is "coming to heel", giving 3 reasons, one of them very personal.

She tells BR that he is the most charming human being she knows.

Now she has to prepare a logic lecture.

White is interested in giving a series of lectures under the same auspices as BR's.

White suggests lunch, or he or she could come to Gordon Square (making the year possibly 1917).

White asks the editor to insert an anonymous note (not present) of appreciation for BR's review of White's translation of Spinoza's Ethics.

Whitehead praises BR's article on Poincaré. Evelyn is not well.

Peano has "prematurely identified his symbols with those of ordinary mathematics".

Dated by BR. "Whitehead's criticism of my first draft of *1-*5 of Principia Mathematica" is BR's annotation.

A transcription of document .057368 at record 81430; also a carbon copy. BR has annotated the ribbon copy.

Dated Friday, Sept. 28. Since the letter uses Frege's abstraction notation, it must be from 1906 rather than 1900, the two proximate choices offered by the perpetual calendar. (Dated by G. Moore.)

On symbolism. BR has supplied the year. (The reference to "floods subsiding" is shown by A. Urquhart to coincide with the weather as described in "The Heavy Rains and Floods", The Times, 17 June 1903.)

"Heartiest congratulations Aristotles Secundus". Annotated by BR twice: re the contradiction (whose solution was wrong).

Whitehead encloses a manuscript (not present), perhaps for "On Mathematical Concepts of the Material World".

Re primitive propositions. Frege is mentioned. The enclosed manuscript has 7 sheets.

"'Who would be afeared at a prop' as Billy Bottom might say."

Whitehead's note appears at the head of a series of mss.

BR, Whitehead asserts, has made "a big advance".

[A researcher, Russell Wahl, comments: "If p. 4 is really the introduction of ϕ!x, this letter has to be 1904."]

There is a "crisis" in their work. Couturat's article has led to Whitehead reading Veblen on geometry.

On geometry seen as "the study of the properties of a single many-termed relation".

On geometry. The enclosure has 8 sheets.

"I have chosen the punctuation signs (. ; : ?) as the symbols because they are easy to make, and presumably in stock in the presses".

BR has supplied the year. "I disbelieve in your lack of technical skill...." The contradiction now has only one "neck".

Good progress. Reference to Chisholm's proposal of an encyclopaedia article.

On the "oddities" that are not yet contradictions.

Whitehead has BR's manuscript "On Substitution" (22 Dec. 1905).

A "denoting expression" is "a mere typographical expression".

Whitehead complains that BR's work "is so excessively formal. It founds the whole of mathematics on a typographical device."

On BR's manuscript on propositions. Whitehead is deeply shocked at the Bishops' attitude to Bible-reading.

On substitution theory.

Whitehead compares several of BR's texts on the variable. Evelyn has had "a bad heart attack, no pain".

On the shriek ("!"), among other matters.

On Wimbledon and the Whiteheads' new house.

A transcription of document .057400, record 81463; also a carbon copy. BR has annotated the ribbon copy on Alys and the egg incident at Wimbledon.

He is working on "finite powers of relations".

Whitehead thanks BR for manuscripts. Whitehead has Keynes' dissertation.

If his point of view is admitted, symbolic logic becomes idle word play.

A page 2 is in the file, but it appears to belong elsewhere.

"I always think that some of your best pieces of work are your statements of views which you do not hold." Re BR's article on pragmatism. "I like your list of props **90-97 immensely."

He is meditating on "the final manuscripts which you have sent me". Bledsoe and Buckingham.

The letter has no year, but 1911 is the first January that the Whiteheads spent at the return address, 17 Carlyle Square. Whitehead refers to "the condensed notes in the talk as printed are totally unintelligible". It is presumably a talk by Whitehead. [Is the topic the type of variable?]

On Vietnam.

On Spain, and coming to stay with BR.

On BR's controversy with P.J. Honey and The Times.

Purcell has attended a conference on peace in the Far East. BR's name was mentioned with respect.

Purcell has just stayed with the Russells. BR's hearing has improved. Purcell encloses summaries of Chinese documents (not present).

On whether the U.S. will use "grand force" in Vietnam.

On The Sweeniad with reference to T.S. Eliot.
 

BR asks for his letter of 1957/08/13 when he thought Myra Buttle was a young lady, for a blurb. BR refers to comments by himself in the Daily Express.

BR encloses a blurb for The Sweeniad.

A transcription of BR's original letter praising Toynbee in Elysium. See document .054565, record 81483 for the carbon copy.

BR praises Myra Buttle's work on Toynbee.

BR praises The Bitches' Brew, although Lord Adrian's enjoyment may not be unmixed.

BR is reluctant to express approval of Needham's work.

BR asks Purcell to become an advisor to the Foundation.

BR hopes Purcell will come to Wales to discuss the Foundation.

BR suggests May 20-22 for Purcell's visit to Plas Penrhyn.

A formal letter of thanks for Purcell's banker's order on behalf of the BRPF.

BR likes Myra Buttle's Dirge. In a postscript, BR will get Purcell to translate inscriptions on 2 paintings from Chou En-lai.

BR is in complete agreement with the Guardian's report of Purcell's lecture on South-East Asia.

BR would like Purcell's opinion on the current crisis in Vietnam.

On a meeting. BR asks if Purcell has followed his dispute with P.J. Honey in The Times.

BR longs to know what was said at the high level conference that Purcell attended. The Russells are enveloped in domestic complications.

BR was very glad of Purcell's recent visit. The political situation is likely to become worse.

Notice of a memorial meeting for Purcell (26 Jan. 1896-2 Jan. 1965).

A covering note for a typescript of Myra Buttle's The Bitches' Brew, Or the Plot Against Bertrand Russell; 103 sheets.

A copy of "Aere Perennius".