Sarah and Lucy would like to give up the study of musical theory, and BR is willing.

BR returns this year's pocket diary without a pencil (again).

Message on Khrushchev's "admirable disarmament proposal". 

BR is glad to have been a signatory of the telegram that Ignotus enclosed.

BR cannot attend the meeting of December 12.

BR sends his photo instead of engaging in a correspondence suggested by Schroder.

"Photo with best wishes > Gilman".

BR cannot write an article for Voprosi Philosophii [Filosofii] as he is not doing any philosophical work at present and is sorry the editors feel they have been let down.

BR and Edith were glad to see Madams and discuss things with him yesterday.

BR cannot manage to fit Joseph in for an interview.

BR declines to furnish a blurb for Toynbee in Elysium because Toynbee and BR have been friends for a long time.

BR highly approves of what Lord has been doing.

BR declines to undertake more work in addition to what he has already undertaken.

To an invitation involving a trip to Dublin, BR regretfully declines. He would have accepted it had it been at all possible.

The Mr. Brock to whom the letter is addressed may be Hugh Brock of Peace News.

"Private". BR has nothing interesting to say about the general election [in the U.K.]. The Peace Movement will have to go on as before.

A "with compliments" review copy slip was inserted between the front endpapers and the half-title page in C.K. Ogden and I.A. Richards' The Meaning of Meaning (Russell's Library, no. 1576).

A "with the author's compliments" card was inserted between the front endpapers and the half-title page of McTaggart's A Commentary on Hegel's Logic (Russell's Library, no. 1572).

A form card to request information on new titles from the publishers was inserted between pp. 130-1 in Rudolf Carnap's The Logical Syntax of Language (Russell's Library, no. 1569). BR noted 3 page numbers.

A "with compliments" review card was inserted between the back endpapers of Norman Malcolm's Ludwig Wittgenstein—A Memoir (Russell's Library, no. 1560).

A packing slip was inserted between pp. 60-1 of Richard Schlegel's Completeness in Science (Russell's Library, no. 1557).

A response card was inserted between pp. 170-1 of Layman Allen's Wff'n Proof: The Game of Modern Logic (Russell's Library, no. 1556).

The author's business card in both English and Russian was inserted between the front endpapers of Alexander Topchiev's book Hитрование [Nitrovanie uglevodorodov i drugikh organicheskikh soedineniĭ] [Nitration of Hydrocarbons and Other Organic Compounds] (Russell's Library, no. 1546).

BR corrects the address and salutation for himself.

On the question of a philosophical language.

"Private". BR encloses (not present) an article on science and peace. The editors are at liberty to cut it anywhere.

"Posting article today. Bertrand Russell".

"Formal refusal > USSR. Not in London". 

This may be meant for the USSR Embassy, London.

BR has to think over what Halsbury puts forward about historical truth, as it is new to him.

BR encloses (present) a message for Norman Thomas's diamond birthday dinner.

BR is glad to know Jamieson's state has a centre for liberal opinion.

"£3. > New Scientist". 

BR turns down a "most flattering invitation", but he has grown too old to speak in distant countries.

BR turns down the chance to read Vivian's ms., as "my capacity for work is not what it was".

BR is sorry to learn of Twaddell's mother's death and of the death of Elliott Farr's son. 

BR has not yet had time to read Born's paper on prediction in classical mechanics. He mentions Strauss, the FDR minister of defence, and a Red Cross project.

BR does not know if his new book [Wisdom of the West] "is still free for Italy" (doubtless meaning free for translation).

BR sends Foges Tibaldi-Chiesa's letter about translating [Wisdom of the West] into Italian.

BR does not know which elementary book on symbolic logic to recommend.

"£116.2.9 > Tylor".

BR looks forward to the 2 copies of Bersellini's novel.

Dora's caravan work is interesting. Switzerland and Sweden, as she says, pose a problem.

"Send Dora's letter and Reply > Tylor".

He refers her to Human Society in Ethics and Politics for its chapter on sin (vs. socially undesirable conduct).

BR's prophecy that he would die in June 1962 was "only a joke".

BR enclose (not present) a "hopelessly insane" letter from John Conrad Russell. He wants it to be shown to John's doctor.

"Auto-photo > Rothenhofer-Hediger".

"8/7 > Heffer".

Cashyap made a useless journey to north Wales while BR was in London.

On whether families and homes are devastated by people turning to religion, BR instances Matthew XI: 34-36. It appears that Bertrand Russell is referring to Matthew X: 34ff.

BR offers a critique of The Flowers of Hiroshima. A propaganda novel is a dangerous form, and is ineffective unless it is well done.

"£22.5.6 > Hepburn & Ross".

BR cannot reconsider his rejection of the writer's kind invitation. Both engagements and reasons of health motivate BR.

"(Japs)". The letter may be reply to record 62155, from Japan Broadcasting Corporation | Watanabe, Noboru.

BR cannot speak in their New Year programme, though he would if he could but he has too many engagements.

BR didn't write such a book as the one being inquired about. "In 1941, which is the date concerned, I was living in America and war conditions made communications with England difficult and precarious. When I left America in 1944 I was unable to bring with me all the documents that I might conceivably need and I therefore have to rely upon my memory, which is a complete blank in this matter." [Re Archives.]

BR won't pay to send UNESCO another consignment of his books. 

"£35.0.3 > Tom Brown".

"Signed photo > new godchild".

BR would prefer writing an article to the interview form.

BR declines an invitation because he won't be in London on Dec. 9 or 10.

"Spanish publisher = Aguilar, S.A. de Ediciones, Madrid, Joya 210. > Foges".

"I especially like your phrase about people being 'bitingly jocular'. It  slightly reminds me of Sir Thomas More on the scaffold." [For More's remarks, see http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/more/moretrialreport.html.]

BR saw Holland in London. He encloses "the new letter [not present] which I have signed."

BR thinks it probably that Whitehouse is correct about some errors, but BR lacks the time to look into the matter.

BR looks forward to reading Night of the Mist. Still under discussion is BR's Nightmares.

BR has not had time to read Paul Ignotus's book and hardly ever writes reviews. Surprising, however, is the view that Hungary regards the BBC as a branch of M.I.5."

BR orders new spectacles (glasses). Until he gets them, he is "liable to grave inconvenience."

BR won't be able to see Rickards on his brief visit to the UK.

BR is willing that "The Expanding Mental Universe:" (B&R B132) be published in French.

BR believes that, since he is not a professor of anything, he is not eligible to nominate Cyrus Eaton for the Nobel Peace Prize.

BR did not agree that Pugwash should express an opinion on Khrushchev's disarmament proposal and does not wish to see the Pugwash movement split on it.

For reasons of health BR cannot accept Grieg's flattering invitation.

"Refusal".

BR praises Novasha's Topics of the Day. He only feels doubt about Kashmir.

The letter was to be sent c/o the publisher.

"Suggest third November eleven-thirty for photographer. Russell"

BR prefers that Hutton alleviate the effect of the typhoon on Japan by sending all of the money he collects, rather than spending a considerable part of it on his travel there.

BR send another photo of himself rather than Chappelow's.

"It is encouraging to have such liberal and enlightened views from Ethiopia."

BR encloses £5 as a donation to the Club.

BR suggests the writer appeal to the Rationalist Press Association for an unknown purpose.

BR tells Duff that he has refused the Moroccan Embassy invitation, though now that he knows its purpose he favours it.

BR believes determinism applies to human beings as well as elsewhere. "... [T]he conception of moral responsibility is one which requires a good deal of re-interpretation if it is to have any validity." He refers the writer to the discussion of free will in the last chapter of Our Knowledge of the External World.

"Topchiev > Rotblat".

In Principia's second edition BR adopted "an entirely extensional view and therefore considered that two class-concepts which have the same extension are identical. But I am no longer satisfied with this view and am not clear as to what to put in its place." 

Stuart Chase's The Tyranny of Words is a good book, but not that of Korzybsky [Korzybski].

"Fribourg and Treyer. Cigs".

BR declines an invitation to speak on Jan. 5.

BR tells this Maharajah that he cannot attend the World Religious Conference in India; engagements in England make it impossible.

"Legal and Ethical Experience—Northrop". [F.C.S. Northrop published The Complexity of Legal and Ethical Experience: Studies in the Method of Normative Subjects in 1959. For Russell's copy, see record 125037. He marked two pages in it: 31 and 298, the latter with a "No".]

Addressed to "Mr." Royon, but records 117327 and 117327 have Bette Royon sending BR the material he acknowledges here. 

BR acknowledges receiving documents concerning Vienna and the recent Pugwash conference.

BR returns the picture she enclosed, signed.

BR expresses his opinion on Khrushchev's disarmament proposals and hopes it will be accepted in place of the article suggested.

"Signed photo > Dirk Crafford".

BR is not surprised Nature won't print "The Social Responsibilities of Scientists" and agrees with Science and suggests New Scientist.

BR comments on Blackett's paper, "Thoughts on British Defence Policy". BR agrees with his criticisms of British defence policy but not necessarily Blackett's own policy. Still, reduction of armaments is important for reducing tension and great waste of money. In a big war, nuclear weapons are sure to be manufactured, even if prohibited. He likes the description of the abomination of nuclear war on p. 17. "I was also pleased with the point you make that we have to go on thinking Russians incredibly wicked in order to feel justified in our plans for exterminating them by the million." 

"I feel myself very much of an amateur in technical discussions of armaments...."

They look forward to the Blacketts coming to their cottage at Christmas time.

The author's business card in both English and Russian was inserted between the front endpapers of Alexander Topchiev's book Ftoristyĭ bor i ego soedinenii͡a kak katalizatory v organicheskoĭ khimii [Boron fluoride and its compounds as catalysts in organic chemistry] (Russell's Library, no. 1545). There are 2 other authors.

A "with compliments" card from the publisher was inserted between the half title and the title page of Norbert Wiener's I Am a Mathematician (Russell's Library, no. 1541).

A blank index card was inserted between pp. 320-1 of Edith Finch's Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, 1840-1922 (Russell's Library, no. 1521). There is a dedication on the front end papers which reads "AR from E.F. 1938".

Edith Finch's business card was inserted between the front endpapers of Finch's Carey Thomas of Bryn Mawr (Russell's Library, no. 1522). The card reads "with love to Bertie from Edith Finch".

A "with compliments" slip was inserted between the title page and the half-title page of Victor Purcell's The Boxer Uprising, a Background Study (Russell's Library, no. 1524).

A "with compliments" card was inserted between pp. 14-15 of J. Christopher Herold's Love in Five Temperaments (Russell's Library, no. 1530).

An "advanced copy" card was inserted between the front endpapers of Clifton Fadiman's Fantasia Mathematica (Russell's Library, no. 1535).

The book reprints G.H. Hardy's rendition of "Bertrand Russell's Dream", from A Mathematician's Apology, p. 283.