BRACERS Notes

Record no. Notes, topics or text
125603

"No".

125604

BR cannot see Smith.

125605

BR declines to review Sciama but has told the publishers he thinks well of The Unity of the Universe.

125606

BR declines to review Wollheim's Bradley.

125607

BR agrees with avoiding "any suspicion of a pro-Communist bias".

125608

BR praises I.F. Stone and his Weekly for the award of the Emergency Civil Liberties Committee.

125609

"Newman Chevy Chase Maryland

Sorry cannot review Gellner. Russell".

125610

Send fee to Plas Penrhyn.

125611

BR declines to make an engagement "so far ahead". His time for the next months is fully booked.

125612

BR is not convinced that there is pre-cognition.

"I think the mystic experience has its utility in the sphere of values, but becomes misleading if thought to give insight into the nature of the world."

125613

BR provides answers to 3 questions on international relations, including the "hope that China will abandon its present imperialistic policies".

125614

The Russells will come to view On the Beach on 14 November.

125615

"I am glad you agree that it is as well we should meet." BR invites him to tea in London.

125616

"Sarah's eyes--£3.3.0".

125617

"Red Hackle > Plas P. & #43". It is assumed that this is a communication with the Red Hackle supplier/distillery.

125618

Re arranging a date to meet.

125619

BR has nothing favourable to say on Bergson's centenary.

125620

BR will autograph Sceptical Essays. "... this was Einstein's favourite among my books."

125621

BR read his thesis on astronomy with much interest.

125622

BR declines to write on Khrushchev's disarmament proposals, the reports being "too incomplete to make a reasoned judgment possible."

125623

On the international scene and Khrushchev's proposals.

125624

29 Millbank "has been pulled down to make way for skyscrapers".

125625

BR cannot afford the time to take part in his interesting experiment, despite "the pleasure of a new technique".

125626

BR strongly approves Neville Anderson's policy statement on disarmament in the Bulletin of the North West Region.

125627

BR declines to speak as "My time and thought are completely occupied with the campaign against nuclear weapons".

125628

BR agrees to be a sponsor of a meeting.

125629

BR thanks Dr. Boyd for the information provided [on drugs?].

125630

BR disagrees with Plato. "I think that any collection of wise men, if given power, would quickly cease to be wise."

125631

BR suggests that Father McCarthy telephone before journeying to North Wales.

125632

BR thanks Larson for The Religion of the Occident (Russell's Library, no. 1468) and for what he says about the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs.

125633

"Not sent, as telephone mended". BR had intended to send this telegram.

125634

BR thanks Unwin for getting a Russian translation done (by Mrs. Vazier).

125635

Re choosing a translator of Nicod: Michael Woods, Paul Wiener ("Has he anything to do with Norbert Wiener who runs Cybernetics?"), and Felix Pirani.

125636

BR wants to know more about Philip Noel-Baker for his contribution on him.

125637

BR declines because "on the whole I think that I should be allowing myself to be beguiled by the pursuit of pleasure!" and won't write an introduction to Samuel Butler's "wholly delightful" Erewhon. BR deplores Butler's "influence on Stalin via Shaw."

125638

BR accepts Collins' explanation that no change in policy is afoot. BR asks if he is to speak on Feb. 15.

125639

BR is willing that the recording of his Manchester speech be sold by SANE.

125640

BR forwards Cousins' letter (record 85862) and his own reply (record 125639).

125641

BR is glad of the chance to have read the paper by Kaplan's son.

125642

BR thanks Chuvikov for 2 Russian translations of BR's works and asks if Common Sense and Nuclear Warfare will be done.

125643

BR donates £50 to CND.

125644

BR donates £50 to Direct Action.

125645

BR predicts "there will not long be a dis-united world".

125646

BR is reading Northrup's "admirable" book but has no time to do a review.

125647

BR is willing to be a sponsor of the committee.

125648

BR would like to see Holland in London.

125649

"Zump > Children". ["Zump" may be "The Great God Zoomp" story by BR, Collected Stories, p. 329.]

125650

BR sends "a few criticisms" of the January 1960 issue of Philosophy on himself.

125651

On civil defence against nuclear war. Level 7 by Roshwald is much better than On the Beach. Thus BR could not be the final broadcaster in the series.

125652

BR asks Chappell to write later in March about a meeting.

125653

BR is too busy working against nuclear weapons to study his new "sience".

125654

"I know nothing about medicine".

125655

BR refers Hoch to the North West Region's recording of his Manchester speech.

125656

BR has not, apparently, heard of the book Unwin mentions. It may be the record of TV performances for Freeman or Wyatt (i.e., Bertrand Russell Speaks His Mind).

125657

BR asks Tylor's view on increasing the insurance on Hasker St.

125658

BR hopes Collins will phone him to fix a meeting time.

125659

BR approves Woods. Document .00000009 was not used in the original numbering.

125660

BR encloses his piece on Noel-Baker.

125661

"Mr Jones > Bangor".

125662

BR answers 3 questions on the revival of Nazism. He mentions the racialism of South Africa.

125663

BR declines to introduce a translation of Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary, and goes on to praise it. 

125664

BR sends her Soviet Russia for a translation of his answers.

125665

On Werner von Braun's Christianity and "the Londoners whom he killed in 1944".

125666

BR has undertaken too much to contribute to the Transactions of Archer's College.

125667

"... one who does not believe in God can only recognize the individual purposes of separate men and animals".

125668

BR declines to open a new building.

125669

BR is "most willing" to come to Copenhagen to accept the Sonning Prize.

125670

BR will arrive in London on Feb. 3, evening.

125671

BR asks Tylor to call him on Wednesday evening after 7:30.

125672

BR would prefer sittings in Wales at the end of April.

125673

"Mahalanobis > Rotblat".

125674

"£1.7.3 BBC > Barclays Bk."

125675

BR declines to open an exhibition, and praises a wig stand (perhaps he got it from Lek). 

125676

BR suggests Hoch bring a tape recorder "and I will try to give you what you want."

125677

Re "the cruel traffic in horses": BR is completely occupied with preventing the destruction of all life.*

125678

On the learning of mathematics.

125679

BR hopes to study his "Theory of Logic". 

125680

BR found nothing to correct in McCarthy's typescript of their interview.

125681

BR agrees to the title for his article.

125682

BR relates "my most remarkable encounter": coming out naked from a dip before Prime Minister Asquith.

125683

BR approves the change of title to The Faith of a Humanist but wants a note.

125684

"Letter signed > Boycott Movement". See record 63842.

125685

BR will be away when Glass would like to see him in Wales.

125686

BR declines to contribute an article to the Review.

125687

"£17.19.0 > D. Pugh & Son".

125688

"No time to read it > Agassiz".

125689

BR has only autographed the photo he likes.

125690

"I do not feel that unilateral disarmament by Britain would be likely to promote disarmament by other Powers."

125691

BR gives approval to SANE to reproduce the recording of his Manchester speech.

125692

BR agrees to be a sponsor of Africa South.

125693

BR recommends LSE over Cambridge for philosophy.

125694

BR would even support a Conservative group summoning a disarmament conference. There is much more possibility than before for East-West cooperation on disarmament.

125695

"No > C.S.A."

125696

BR encloses (not present, but see RA2 220.148146) a statement on Mario Rossi's The Third World. For the carbon of this letter, see record 5942. The corporate recipient has been inferred, as has the first name of Miss Gray. See her letter at record 5941.

The letter was sold on eBay on 20 Jan. 2015 for US$171.40, and relisted in February 2015 at US$895.00. It was relisted in March 2020 at US$695.00.

125697

BR asserts he has "no influence whatever" with the British Academy and can't help the writer in regard to membership there. Because of his overwhelming work against nuclear warfare, he would rather not receive translations of the writer's poems.

125698

"Abt. Egner from Clark > Unwin".

125699

"Tax refund form > Madams {Dear Madams, Can you deal with this, or must I do something? Yrs Sinc".

125700

BR received 3 visits from Tagore, but no such conversation as Chatterji alleges took place.

125701

BR asks whether tails or dinner jacket are required for his visit to Copenhagen. He hopes not.

125702

BR and Edith will be delighted to see the Bredsdorffs in Wales towards the end of March.