BRACERS Notes

Record no. Notes, topics or text
81701

BR has supplied the year.

Whitehead bids good luck to BR on the eve of his trial for the Everett leaflet. He will show BR his new paper.

81702

The copy is in Edith Russell's hand.

BR's only Swiss contact is with Radio Lausanne. He cannot spare 8 days in late June.

81703
A transcription of document .057473.
81704

Evelyn reported that BR made an excellent speech at his Mansion House trial.

81705

She thanks BR for his letter from Glenridding and asks if he wishes to "renounce on" the bust project.

81706

He would like to read his British Association address to BR.

81707

She invites BR to inaugurate a Centre of Atomic Research for Peace in Switzerland.

81708

In German. Enclosed are 5 photographs of a bust of BR that was apparently done not from life but from photographs.

An article on the hydrogen bomb is mentioned.

81709

BR is rather unenthusiastic about the bust of himself but agrees to the profile as a basis for a relief.

81710

The Willis enclose a new photograph of the bust of BR.

81711

Re the bust of BR.

81712

Re the medallion in bronze of BR.

81713

On Willi's latest sculpture, of a Hungarian freedom fighter.

81714

They would like a copy of BR's "Open Letter to Eisenhower and Khrushchev".

81715

A birthday telegram.

81716

In German. Willi wants to send BR his work on the decay of art.

81717

BR would like to have the bronze relief of himself but could not get to reading the work about art's decay.

81718

In German.

81719

BR could not afford the customs duty on the bronze relief and manuscript that Willi sent.

81720

In German.

81721

BR has not had time to read the typescripts Willi has sent him.

81722

A birthday telegram. The bronze relief will be sent by the Tate Gallery.

81723

In German.

81724

BR thanks the Willis for a nice book that they sent him.

81725

In German. In Edith's hand at the top, presumably reporting BR: "Too busy to work over this".

A draft reply in Farley's hand is on the letter.

81726

BR regrets that "urgent work for peace prevents me from continuing mathematical studies".

81727

Whitehead sympathizes with BR over his treatment by the authorities and asks if he has seen his pamphlet on BR to the Fellows of Trinity.

81728
A transcription of document .057477; also a carbon copy.
81729
Whitehead plans to come by bus to look BR up, and he can even stay in bed.
81730
81731

Whitehead does not want to share his philosophical notes with BR, despite the latter's wish to get to work.

81732
A transcription of document .057482; also a carbon copy. BR has corrected both.
81733
Williams is concerned about the prospect of world war.
81734

Whitehead asks what BR is doing about the neutrals not doing their duty in respect of German atrocities.

The clipping is titled "The German Slave Raids" and highlights Maeterlinck's protests (from The Times).

Eric.

81735

Good luck to BR, sentenced to prison. There is a very slight hope that Eric Whitehead was taken prisoner when he crashed.

81736
A transcription of document .057485; also a carbon copy. BR has annotated the ribbon copy and corrected both.
81737

Sir Osmond welcomes BR home, doubtless from prison.

81738

Whitehead commends BR to the letter's bearer, G.P. Conger. "We have just been discussing you and Wittgenstein."

81739

Congratulations on BR's re-election to a Trinity fellowship and lectureship.

81740
Wilson says that no doubt BR is right in believing that the difference between their outlooks is too great for discussion.
81741

Whitehead will send BR G.H.W. Thompson's dissertation on synthetic geometry. (This letter was document .057488 for some years, but it now bears the number under which it was microfilmed.)

81742
81743

Re *23.71 ("superseded").

81744

Miscellaneous Principia notes.

81745

Re *23.5 of Principia. Re subscript notation.

81746

"[Note to come when the habit of prefixing hypothesis is first adopted.]" Re symbols.

81747

Re *20.2. Prefixing hypotheses. Frege and Peano are mentioned, and BR is addressed.

81748

The title is "Relations".

81749
81750
81751
Notes on *2.31, etc.
81752
81753
81754

The original is at RA1 230.030650 with the manuscript, "On Functions".

81755

BR encloses a "bundle of ms on types" (not present).

81756

A draft "advertisement" to the Royal Society for a grant to publish Principia Mathematica, concluding with an abridged table of contents.

81757

Lists of names and addresses of presentation copies of Principia Mathematica.

Also in file: a typed transcription, with carbon copy, 1 sheet each.

81758

A note on Whitehead's criticism of BR prior to his Fellowship results in 1895.

81759

An offprint from Philosophy.

81760

Evelyn Whitehead reports on Forsyth's illness, also North's.

81761

On the Wimbledon by-election.

81762

A transcription of document .057510, record 81761; also a carbon copy. BR has annotated and corrected both.

81763

On whether Germany is an aggressor in the war, and, if so, what England's response must be. "In this Hohenzollern mood, Germany is a greater menace to Europe than Russia, and we cannot sit still and see France smashed—I wish you were here."

81764

Withers sends BR £100 on a new arrangement, to replace income from courses, which would then be free.

81765
A transcription of document .057512; also a carbon copy. BR has corrected and annotated both, the ribbon copy much more so.
81766
A transcription of document .057685; also a carbon copy. BR has corrected both.
81767

Dated as to the month by BR; further dated by reference to his letter #1070 to Ottoline Morrell (record 18224).

Evelyn describes North's attempts to get a commission in the military; if not, he will enlist, despite hating fighting. She asks if BR really feels England should not have defended Belgium's neutrality: "Yes, I know the agony that the mere thought of man fighting against man gives; but where I differ is that I think the bully must be stopped."

81768

On purchasing 31 Sydney Street, Chelsea, for £1800, from Mrs. Thornton.

81769
A transcription of document .057514; also a carbon copy. BR has corrected both and annotated the ribbon copy.
81770

A heartfelt letter about mothers and soldiers and not allowing brutal force to conquer.

These are unexplained references to page 4 and page 11.

81771

Dated by BR.

Again tea with Vernon Lee.

81772

On an article by BR and a wish that his Manchester lecture (?) was successful.

81773

Vernon Lee again, plus Daily News notes.

81774
A transcription of document .057516; also a carbon copy. BR has corrected both.
81775

Dated from the postmark. She describes events that might be offered as a plot to "Mr. Lawrence".

81776

BR's letter, which he termed "disagreeable", was not at all disagreeable.

81777

"Thank you for the Indian article which I have given with the letter to the Asiatic Review who will consider it." [There is no trace of such an article by BR in 1915 to the 1st half of 1916 in the Asiatic Review.]

She refers to a rumpus with Vernon Lee.

81778

On her research regarding the Russian loan of 1906.

Frederick Richter would like to consider the Indian article. (Richter edited Asiatic Review.)

81779

Evelyn, in her dispute with BR, has not forgotten the German mothers, but the case is not equal. She has had to miss BR's two latest lectures.

81780

BR has expanded her initialled signature.

On Russia. Also Vernon Lee.

81781

A transcription of document .057698, record 81780; also a carbon copy. BR has annotated the ribbon copy and corrected both.

BR says she did research for The Policy of the Entente.

81782
A transcription of document .057518; also a carbon copy. BR has corrected both.
81783

The date is now fixed for her "elopement".

She is researching on Morocco.

81784

BR has provided the year with a query.

On the retributive views of the war where she is staying.

BR's manuscript has come.

81785

She is sending BR's non-resistance article to be typed by Miss Robson, her typist.

81786

BR has dated the letter.

She is horrified by the sinking of the Lusitania.

81787

About furniture; the first 39 minutes of BR's speech; "K.K."'s passing; the Lord Mayor's sentence. [K.K. is Earl Kitchener.] Redated from Evelyn's May 8, as the events concerning BR fit his Mansion House trial of June 5, and Kitchener died the same day.

81788
A transcription of document .057704; also a carbon copy.
81789
A transcription of document .057520; also a carbon copy. BR has corrected both.
81790

Dated by BR.

On Windmills (by Gilbert Cannan).

She has learned that Miss Terry was not on the "Lusitania".

81791

The Whiteheads have just seen BR's "Adsum Qui Feci" letter to The Times. Friends should avoid contentious points.

81792
A transcription of document .057704; also a carbon copy.
81793
A transcription of document .057523; also a carbon copy. BR has corrected both.
81794
She has just realized that she does not care fully for BR, or even as much as he cares for her, and has never wished to drop everything to see him.
81795

She is very glad BR wants to see her. She provides details of meetings she has gone to, and of people who were glad to get Justice in War-Time.

81796

She asks BR to let them know what happens at his trial. She gives North's military news.

81797

BR has provided the year.

She would very much like to see BR (at his invitation) in this respite before he enters Brixton Prison.

81798

Evelyn, in attendance at BR's trial, tells him that he made "a magnificent appeal for freedom this morning". She thinks he won over the old Lord Mayor.

81799
A transcription of document .057525; also a carbon copy. BR has corrected both.
81800

BR's annotation: "[A propos of the death sentence on 34 conscientious objectors]".