Mary Wood describes her very serious illness at length; Alan had it, too.

Mary provides some details of Alan's life for BR's obituary of him. He had Parkinson's disease and committed suicide.

Mary tells BR that he "could not have written anything kinder or more suitable about Alan". There is little of any use in his notes for the book on BR's philosophy. Mary doubts that time will heal all wounds and the present is almost unendurable for her.

Mary tells BR of a trust fund for the Wood children, Jon and David, organized by R.W.G. MacKay.

BR asks if Wood has any changes for his obituary of Alan.

On their exchange of presents. The Woods are now reading BR's autobiography.

Mary returns some manuscripts that Alan had borrowed from BR.

The coroner found that Mary Wood committed suicide, in "distress amounting to aberration".

Re Alan Wood's files.

Canon and Mrs. Evanne Garnsey (Alan's sister) with whom Jon and David Wood will be living have limited means.

Whitfield returns 2 publications by BR and forwards a portion of a book manuscript by Wood.

"Joyce" may be one of Alan Wood's stenographers.

BR considers the beginning of Alan Wood's book on BR's philosophy "admirable".

Mary Wood would like BR's deed to be in favour of David Alan Russell Wood.

MacKay thanks BR for the signed form of covenant.

MacKay describes the financial situation of the Wood boys. Canon Garnsey is headmaster of Canberra Grammar School.

MacKay passes on news of Jon and David Wood. He encloses a transcription of a letter from Bishop Garnsey to "Kim".

MacKay quotes a letter from Alan Wood's mother about the Wood boys.

BR begins to feel in touch again, thanks to several letters concerning the Wood boys.

BR is prepared to covenant a minimum of £50 a year free of income tax for 10 years.

Adams asks Schoenman to help persuade BR to accept the Tom Paine Award for 1962 from the Emergency Civil Liberties Committee.

The chartered accountants for Alan and Mary Wood ask BR for a certificate of deduction of tax.

The chartered accountants for Alan and Mary Wood ask BR for an amended certificate of deduction of tax.

The chartered accountants for Alan and Mary Wood ask BR for a certificate of deduction of tax.

The chartered accountants for Alan and Mary Wood ask BR for a certificate of deduction of tax.

The chartered accountants for Alan and Mary Wood ask BR for a certificate of deduction of tax.

The chartered accountants for Alan and Mary Wood ask BR for a certificate of deduction of tax.

Adams notes that he has sent the enclosed letter praising BR on Cuba to several newspapers.

On the Wood boys.

Webb says: "When may we hope to welcome you to the House of Lords!" and tells BR how he would be accommodated if he visits.

On the Wood boys.

On the Wood boys.

On the Wood boys.

BR sends a cheque to be divided equally between the Wood boys.

BR is glad to have photographs of the Wood boys. Many young people are like Jonathan in being concerned about "the appalling state of the world".

BR and Edith often talk, with great affection, of Alan and Mary Wood. He encloses a cheque for the boys.

Webb informs BR about a Fabian tract on the subject of eugenics, The Birth Rate and Birth Control.

BR has transcribed the handwritten postscript.

Jon thanks the Russells for a present.

News of the boys' lives in Australia.

On Jon's music exams. He is looking forward to Melbourne Grammar School and then engineering at university.

A Christmas letter.

A Christmas letter with a photograph of the extended Wood family.

In Edith's hand: "David Russell Wood 1954" on the cardboard frame.

Woods is expecting "descriptions of the two courses to be printed in the pamphlet of the philosophy department". He notes opportunities for visiting lectures.

Woods suggests that BR dwell longer on theoretical ethics for that course. President Lowell's attitude.

Woods thanks BR for "the syllabuses of your lectures".

On visiting lectures lined up for BR's appointment in spring 1917 at Harvard.

BR has been denied permission to come to the U.S., despite Harvard's request.

See Cecil Spring Rice to A. Lawrence Lowell, Harvard, 1916/06/08, record 54538, a copy of which may have been enclosed with Woods' letter.

"President thinks nothing gained by publishing" BR's correspondence with Harvard.

Woods is not keen to publish his phrase, "circumventing the government", which occurs in a letter to BR (document .057955, record 81949).

Woods counts on BR's return to Harvard after the war and proposes that he edit the Peirce papers, which he describes—perhaps by first offering a seminar on Peirce.

A transcription of document .057959; also a carbon.

Wootton is glad to have Common Sense and Nuclear Warfare.

Worthington will not be able to visit BR. "We sail on Saturday...."

Wrinch thanks BR for his 1914 reply on Newton's laws of motion.

She is anxious to study symbolic logic next year.

Wrinch describes the translating and (future) typing that Jourdain is giving her, thanks to BR.

"I am overjoyed at the prospect of reading symbolic logic after all!"

On her scholarship offers. She is hard at work on Principia.

Miss Jex-Blake has told Wrinch that she is to come to BR's lectures next term.

Wrinch will send BR her copy of The Principles of Mathematics.

Carr wants the lecture dates settled (Oct. 25-Dec. 13?). She asks for BR's syllabus.

Wrinch will index Mysticism and Logic and verify the quotations. She sends Whitehead's tract on projective geometry (not present). Carr would like a separate title for each lecture. She would like help on convergents in Principia.

Wrinch lists books on psychology that BR may want in Brixton Prison.

Wrinch reports philosophical gossip from a weekend of philosophers, the annual meeting of the Mind Association and the Joint session.

On propositions, molecular and atomic. She thanks BR for "Thoughts on Language".

Wrinch is correcting the typescript of Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy and mentions other manuscripts. She has written a paper on vol. 3 of Principia. Santayana is at Telegraph House.

On many topics, including psychoanalysis.

Unwin has sent Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy to the printer. The typescript had many errors; Wrinch has not corrected the other 2 copies.

Wrinch encloses 4 papers for BR to comment on (not present).

Wrinch is very excited to hear that Wittgenstein's book has arrived.

Wrinch encloses a letter from Jourdain (not present). "I did enjoy myself at Newlands most frightfully!" "You really are the most delightful person in the world to stay with!"

Wrinch volunteers to make an index of symbols for Principia. She describes the needed index as one that "would give the page or ref. to the first occurrence of the symbols." (In fact, volume I of the second edition ends with an 8-page "List of Definitions".)

Wrinch has seen BR "the other day" and is going with her husband to Telegraph House for a day or two and asks if BR will be there. (A search of his diaries does not find her name or T.H. mentioned in 1924.)

Wrinch has separated from her husband, John, and has a scholarship to go to Göttingen.

BR will be glad to go through the Principia section on convergents with her.

BR sends more cuttings for the scrapbook, and asks her to add "amusing" cuttings as she comes across them while he is "in" [meaning in prison].

Possibly the letter didn't get to Wrinch. No clippings dated later than February 2, 1918 are in the scrapbook. The letter was found among the press clippings (presumably loose ones from 1918).

BR critiques the educational proposals in Wrinch's The Retreat from Parenthood by "Jean Ayling" and offers his views on lactation.

"Put away" was noted by BR at the top. The writer is afraid that his ideas will perish.

BR has inserted a word in this draft (?). BR claims that he began working for peace in 1902 and observed politics at the British Embassy in Paris in 1894.

Young says he has never before attacked the Committee of 100 in print.

BR writes a few sentences on Sir Francis Younghusband.

Younghusband describes his lecturing arrangements. He tells anecdotes about BR. He is seeing (William Jennings) Bryan and hopes to see President Wilson.

Younghusband writes from the Empress Hotel, Victoria, B.C., Canada, and will be going to Ottawa. He wants to meet up with BR in Boston.

On his reception in the U.S.

BR should not have a feeling of isolation in the war. His friends value his views, and he knows more about Germany and has studied the "first principles of action".

On BR's "Open Letter to Eisenhower and Khrushchev".

Oppenheimer, Yourgrau says, is one of BR's greatest admirers. Yourgrau mentions Couturat and Poincaré.

BR recalls Couturat and his own controversies with Poincaré (whom he knew "slightly").

BR writes about when he can see Yourgrau in London.