On North and East Africa.

Roberts saw BR in the audience at Ely Cathedral.

Manuscripts are titled "General Idea" on sheet 1. The last 4 sheets are in BR's hand. The second sheet concerns planes.

The Whiteheads are in Schwayy (?). This is when North caught scarlet fever, which allows for the letter to be dated.

On the axiom of reducibility vs. that of "raisibility".

North is very ill, and the Whiteheads have arrived home. BR is to send the list of propositions.

He is glad BR liked his work on q_m, and sets out plans for further work on it.

North's illness. Geometry. The book's good progress. "Damn the Suffragettes". [What incident?]

BR has provided the year. On quantity—the whole theory of applied mathematics is unproved.

On Boscovich.

Enclosed with his Nature article on Boscovich and particle theory is an invitation to Whyte's paper on Boscovich and mathematical atomism.

Whyte asks BR for any thinkers who believed in point atoms before Boscovich.

Whyte invites BR to speak at the celebration of the bicentenary of Boscovich's Theoria.

BR is too busy with anti-H-bomb work to attend Boscovich's bicentenary, but his earlier letter may be used.

Whitehead will make an appointment with R.T. Wright of Cambridge University Press for the 22nd. "Printing! printing!"

Whyte encloses his "Memorandum for Bertrand Russell on his 86th Birthday (18.5.58)".

Whyte dated his letter July 10, 1958, but BR's reply to it is July 13, 1960.

On a paper that Whyte is publishing on Boscovich.

BR asks if Whyte considers space and time to be granular.

Whitehead advises against a German translation of Principles of Mathematics until BR has revised the English in 2 or 3 years.

A transcription of document .057426, record 81621; also a carbon copy.

The month is provided by the reference to Whitehead's meeting with R.T. Wright. (See I. Grattan-Guinness's article, 1975.)

A partial transcription of document .057428, record 81624; also a carbon copy. BR corrected both.

The year *may* be 1909.

Whitehead encloses something from Cambridge University Press (not present) implying that a subsidy is required.

In French.

In French.

A transcription of document .057431, record 81627; also a carbon copy.

In French, titled "Sur la Géométrie de Lobatchewski".

In French.

In French.

Whitehead is opposed to publishing Principia in any shortened form. On ratio.

In French.

A partial transcription of document .057433, record 81634; also a carbon copy.

Wicksteed returns notes (of a speech?), having revised them. He suggests that someone else press Strauss for a reply (re adult suffrage?).

A loss of £500 on Principia must be allowed for.

A transcription of document .057607, record 81637; also a carbon copy. Also a small slip of paper on which BR has written "politics 1910".

Wieluch favours Cauchy over Weierstrass in infinitesimals.

It would be "madness" to subordinate their judgments on the contents of the book.

BR has inserted a reference to *212.7.*215.16.

BR has supplied the year.

Whitehead reports on his meeting with Larmor of the Royal Society.

A transcription of document .057438, record 81643; also a carbon copy. BR has corrected both.

Without giving his name, Wieluch states that his remarks on tautologies have been posted to BR.

Trinity College has decided to offer BR a 5-year lectureship in logic and the principles of mathematics.

Whitehead disagrees about the addition of *3.03—it is not a primitive proposition of their logical system. God would not need it.

[The letter refers to *3.03 mentioned on p. 14 of Principia: it "must stand", but alterations can still be made to the mentions on p. 101 in sheet 7, and 114—thus supporting the view that printing proceeded sheet by sheet until a revised sheet was correct and printed off, at which stage it was no longer subject to change.]

BR has supplied the year.

There is a difficulty with *9 in Principia.

BR has supplied the year. Problems with *331 ff. are set out.

The enclosed manuscript begins with "conjugate segments", *354.

Wiener describes his studies at Göttingen.

Dated from BR's letter of 25 June 1914 to which this is a reply. In Auto. 2, the letter is dated "[c. June or July, 1914]".

A typed copy of document .057614, record 81652, prepared by K. Blackwell at Continuum 1 Ltd. and sent to BR to consider for vol. 2 of his Autobiography.

A correction to the second proofs of sheets 13 and 14 is discussed. Whitehead asks BR "to return my marked proof in time for me to compare them with the revises—it will save me a lot of bother."

Re Principia Mathematica.

Wiener encloses an article (not present) on polyadic relations.

Wiener asks BR to recommend him for the Chair of Mathematics at King's College, London.

In a note at the top BR states: "Written to Registrar".

Whitehead refers to BR's "habit of not dating!! your p.c.s."

He is proofreading at p. 312. A certain habit of the press will be disastrous.

Re the loss of the dots above lambdas on pp. 241-3 (due to breakage in printing); they will put them in by hand.

On a dissertation (by G.H.W. Thompson).

*55.02 is a great difficulty.

On another (Norton's) dissertation.

"The beginning of geometry is going beautifully...." Whitehead tried to telephone BR at Hampstead Square.

BR has provided the year.

Complex numbers are too big a subject to complete before the election.

On *3.03 again (see document .057442)—not a true logical premiss.

Re p. 278. BR has annotated the letter where Whitehead asks for a reference.

Whitehead encloses BR's copy of sheet 18 (not present); "lengthen the arrow over SMOR".

There is a difficulty that should stop the printing. Re Nc IND.

Re Principia.

*126.101.22.32 and following props are wrong. Re Nc IND.

Printing (of Vol. II of Principia) should be stopped.

"We shall wreck all our work from an impatience over the last few months of thought."

Whitehead objects to the convention of *126. The work needs the examination of 2 people.

"The press have been at their old games" of using the wrong addresses.

BR regrets the error of crediting Weierstrass with work done by Cauchy. He remains unrepentant about Hegel's definition of the absolute idea.

BR has supplied the year.

"Enclosed are rough first notes of explanations and symbolisms which seem to me desirable somewhere." 35 sheets of notes.

Whitehead wants a full discussion from BR of "the legitimacy of ambiguity of type under the assert-sign".

Dated by BR.

"The Law of Excluded Middle cries aloud for vengeance."

Whitehead believes they are out of their "horrible difficulties".

The year is conjectured.

A manuscript titled "Fluctuating ϕ(Nc' α)". Three of the sheets are in Whitehead's hand.

Wiener replies to an evidently political letter from BR.

On Russian power politics.

Wiener sends BR a news item (not present).

He suggests BR write a history of science and scientific method, and asks if Labour will withstand the power-crisis. [This was during a most severe British winter.]

BR has provided the year.

Whitehead thanks BR for the typed copy of The Problems of Philosophy.

Whitehead points out an error in *174.12. "If the sheet is printed off, keep this as an erratum."

Re Principia.

Enclosed are 14 sheets of notes on The Problems of Philosophy.

Dated 1911 because Whitehead mentions seeing C.D. Broad's dissertation.

He has kept the proofs unconscionably.

Apparently written at the time of the Russells' imprisonment.

BR has supplied the year. Whitehead makes suggestions for the preface to Volume 3 of Principia.

BR has supplied the year. Whitehead would like to go to Paris to give a paper on space, which he encloses. It includes the definition of a point. He has written a lot for Vol. 4 of Principia.

She has something to be given to Khrushchev during the Russells' rumoured forthcoming trip to Moscow.

The Russells are not going to Moscow.

On her plan for peace, BR favours any plan that could be agreed upon.

Whitehead is miserable that he differs from BR on so great a question as the war. Belgium is "a test case".

In German.

Willi encloses several photographs of busts in his series, "Die Tragödie des Genies".

Ernest Willi is now able to sculpt BR—7 sessions of 2 hours apiece are needed.

The Willis will come for the sculpting in June.

She is sending a book of Willi's work separately. She asks about world government contacts in Switzerland, where the Willis live.