Allaun thanks BR for his message of support. "I have been astonished by the number of letters, telegrams and petitions of support received."

BR will accept their invitation for March 3, 1958.

BR thanks him for sending the English edition of Larousse on mythology. "It is a splendid volume. So far, I have only read Graves's introduction and enjoyed the illustrations, but I already know that it is a book which I am very glad to possess."

BR corrects a few points in Beer's account of BR's work. "I am glad that you propose to write another article about a more recent book of mine."

"I have given more thought to your excellent proposals and I have decided to act on them. I have taken the course of giving a statement to the press appealing to the neutral nations to send their navies and their shipping fleets into the waters near Christmas Island." 

"I am sorry that pressure of work makes it impossible to contribute a short essay that you suggest."

Re "The Danger to Civilization" printed in American Justice in War-Time. "On the whole I have come to the conclusion that it would be better for me not to have the chapter."

"Lord Russell would like to know if you have or could procure for him a copy of A.N. Whitehead's Universal Algebra and what the price would be." The copy would be for Amethe von Zeppelin.

"I write on behalf of Lord Russell to inquire whether he could purchase the second and third volumes of Principia Mathematica to be sent to the Countess Zeppelin in Austria and what their price would be."

Becher wants to make a paperback edition of Principia Mathematica, Volume I.

Re a proposed paperback edition of Volume I of Principia Mathematica.

"I am delighted at your enthusiasm for Fred Cook's The Warfare State and I enclose a copy of your introduction to the English edition, as well as a copy of that for the American edition."

Re William J. Pomeroy's book The Forest: A Personal Record of the Huk Guerrilla Struggle in the Philippines.

"I enclose herewith an article on the subject that you mention, but I have had to deal more with my own opinions than with those of others as I have had only limited opportunities of finding out what others think."

"You may possibly object to my bringing up the question of British and French action against Egypt. If you do feel that this is objectionable, I should wish you not to publish any part of what I enclose."

Unsigned by Patricia, but she writes: "The proofs of your book came when my husband was particularly busy". She encloses a statement on his book that she has drafted "as I am familiar with his opinions".

No use of this encomium has been found.

In French.

BR thanks Cotereau for the inscribed copy of L'Homme Soit! and says he was awarded the Nobel prize for literature, not peace.