BRACERS Notes

Record no. Notes, topics or text
82001

BR knows almost nothing of thermophysics but a discussion of verifiability and constants will interest him very much. He encloses copies of his letters to Firth and Nagel (documents .058042a, record 81887, and .058042b, record 81818).

82002

Yourgrau will have dinner with Ernest Nagel, an old admirer of BR.

82003

Yourgrau mentions his gift of a pillbox to BR and discusses the personnel of U.S. philosophy departments. One of his sons is named after BR.

82004
A tribute for BR's 90th birthday.
82005

A thank-you letter for Yourgrau's tribute on BR's 90th.

82006

Yule reports that Barnaby Martin is grateful for BR's letter to The Guardian on Everyman III. Nic and Yule have met Corine Crawford about her proposed film.

82007

Yule is on his way to Cuba, waiting in Prague.

82008

Zangwill is critical of Trinity for not renewing BR's lectureship.

82009
A transcription of document .058057; also a carbon copy. BR has corrected both.
82010
Zeisler sends BR his book.
82011

Zeisler thanks BR for his letter of March 10 about Foundations of Logic and Mathematics, Part II. He would like to send BR Part III on the theory of classes.

82012
A transcription of document .058063; also a carbon copy. BR has corrected both.
82013

Zermelo's letter is in German.

Blumberg, in a note at the end, states he will probably give his Congress lecture in English. (He did.)

82014
82015

G.E. Moore seems to have been a character in Zuntz's dialogues.

He gives his views on higher education.

82016

Zuntz and his wife want to be members of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.

82017

She sympathizes with BR for the strain he must be under from his son John's mastoid operation.

82018

From children named Michael, Elizabeth and Alex.

82019

On the verso, in pencil, there is the notation 25/- (probably a price) and Lady Go?? (possibly Gower).

Russell's Shakespeare Dinner club remains unidentified. The dinner was to be on May 6, when BR would not be in town.

82020

From a student at Moreton Hall, attended by BR's granddaughters.

82021

The year is provided by the references to Vietnam and President Kennedy.

82022
82023
82024
Birthday wishes.
82025

Adams suggests that BR's interview by David Susskind be widely circulated to colleges.

82026

Adams reports that William Worthy is heartened by BR's message for Attorney-General Kennedy on his behalf, and asks for details of BR's conscientious objection in World War 1.

82027

On William Worthy's case. Worthy is a reporter for the Baltimore Afro-American.

82028
82029
82030
82031
82032

"Saturday night." Dated by BR.

OM is talking to old friends from 2:30-11pm. Fisher is staying with them. Bobby Ross, Mr. and Mrs. de—, Miss A. Sedgwick, and Gregg ("a horrid little man") are there.

"I don't expect you will have much time in Cambridge to think more of the Prisons but I hope Ipsden will be inspiring."

82033
82034

BR is told that the previous letter (record 3672) from the Agnostics Society should not have been written.

BR's reply is in Schoenman's hand on the letter, ending with an instruction to include a "slip" (see an image of the BR Peace Fund fundraising slip at record 130791).

82035
82036

Re family papers: "Shortly before her death, Aunt Agatha informed me that I was to receive from her the papers she had collected of my grandparents." Bedford offered to trace any such papers.

[Re Archives.]

82037
82038
82039

Aitchison was BR's secretary in 1931 when he dictated The Scientific Outlook and his Autobiography and quotes his previous letter (1966/07/24, record 54279). She asks for his help in finding work.

82040
82041
82042
82043
82044
82045
82046
82047
82048
82049

On sense-data and Joachim.

82050
On sense-data.
82051

On two further early remarks by BR on Jews.

82052

Almond has tried unsuccessfully to find BR's speech to the Warsaw Ghetto Anniversary meeting.

82053

Perman thanks BR for his reply but still does not agree that Lenin was cruel. He agrees with BR's statement on Khrushchev, which he encloses (not present).

82054
82055
82056

Wilson conveys the A.H.A.'s greetings to BR, an honorary member.

82057

Chambers encloses clippings re BR on his 92nd birthday.

82058

BR acknowledges Chambers' request for BRPF literature in bulk.

82059
82060
82061

A fundraising letter.

82062

The A.H.A. is voting on its proposed move to San Francisco.

82063
82064
82065

A fundraising letter.

82066
82067

Chambers has heard a rumour of BR's "imminent conversion" to Christianity.

82068

BR denies that he has become religious.

Also in file: a 2nd TL(CAR).

82069

King-Hele enclosed a list of possible misprints in BR's Autobiography.

82070

Chambers explains how she publicized BR's letter denying that he has become religious.

82071

A memo on the upcoming A.H.A. election.

82072

Chambers reports that 2 of BR's letters to her have been stolen and requests photocopies of the BRPF file copies. She asks for the name of BR's personal secretary.

82073
Pharis thanks BR for his permission to use the manuscripts of his grandfather lord john russell. She promises to adhere to copyright obligations.
82074

An invitation to an open house of the A.H.A.

82075

The A.H.A. has banned meetings in Chicago for 5 years.

82076
82077

On the A.H.A.'s conferences.

82078

In support of McCoy's re-election for the A.H.A.

82079

Foreman sends a greeting for BR's 90th birthday, having just received Schoenman's request.

82080

Pharis thanks BR for his reply and informs him that she did get Problems of Philosophy as well as other essays that she enjoyed.

82081
82082

An election committee report.

82083

A fundraising letter.

82084

Candidates' election statements (including one for Paul Kurtz).

82085
82086
82087

BR thanks Pharis for her letter and her remembrance of his birthday.

82088

Farley has written on this address card: £1, literature.

82089

On one copy of this card for R. Parry & Son, Byrdil, Harlech, Mary Ansell's name is written.

82090
82091
82092

Armstrong suggests that the Committee support BR's "Man's Peril" proposal in the Saturday Review, April 2.

82093
82094
A carbon copy of document .111031.
82095
82096
82097
82098

Armstrong encloses his draft article and asks BR to annotate it.

Enclosure is "Bertrand Russell Comes to America, 1896". Also enclosed is a clipping showing Armstrong speaking at an anti-Vietnam war rally.

82099

A typed carbon of this letter is at record 57925.

82100