BRACERS Notes

Record no. Notes, topics or text
125803

BR needs to avoid diversion of his work into new channels.

125804

BR declines to contribute to a volume on Tagore.

125805

BR will come to him to be photographed for the National Portrait Gallery.

125806

BR cannot take part in a debate on May 10.

125807

BR cannot undertake anything further.

125808

BR has no time for an interview or even to answer written questions.

125809

BR can recall writing only one article on education in recent years.

125810

BR sends his good wishes for Tones' unspecified scheme.

125811

On the upcoming disarmament conference.

125812

BR recommends S. King-Hall's Defence in the Nuclear Age for publication as a Penguin.

125813

BR has no other juvenilia that he wishes to see in print.

125814

BR requests the return of letters requesting offprints.

125815

"Autograph > Neilsen Hall (for Doniphan)". (Doniphan was Susan Russell's maiden name.)

125816

"Yes".

125817
125818

"Yes". Re Pauling.

125819

"No".

125820

"No".

125821

"No".

125822

"3 men at Lafayette College Station—Ring up when you come. Can't tell now".

125823

"See Common Sense and N.D. [sic] and speeches".

125824

"Wish it well but can't be there".

125825

BR is reluctant to approve Needham's work because he said the U.S. in Korea was using bacteriological warfare—which made BR suspect his judgment.

125826

"All right with BR but rights rest with the publishers".

125827

"Nothing doing. Perhaps could get books from a library".

125828

"Photo > CBS".

125829

BR won't make the suggested changes to his article on civil defence. If Robinson won't publish an addendum of his own, he is to return BR's typescript.

125830

"Quite willing he should omit the words 'not all'." Re Bertrand Russell Speaks His Mind.

125831

"Highly honoured by invite but too busy to follow their policy and cannot be sure that he would always agree with it therefore rather not".

125832

"No, on grounds of health".

125833

"No".

125834

On a projected (disarmament?) conference, and Teller.

125835

BR requests return tickets to Copenhagen on April 18-20.

125836

A testimonial for Ernest Gellner.

125837

BR is already a referee for another candidate for the same position at Oxford.

125838

BR postpones a meeting until May 4.

125839

Plans for the Tait family visit, June 27 to July 25.

125840

BR declines to write a foreword for a volume on Woodger.

125841

"Wed—May 4—4 o'clock Chappells arrive".

125842

Re travel arrangements to Copenhagen.

125843

Re a visit on April 7 from 3 logicians: "you will all have to treat me as an ignoramus".

125844

BR thanks Green for the kind things he says and agrees about the strength of indoctrinated prejudice.

125845

"£26 > Chelsea rates".

125846

BR declines to contribute to Dean's volume on Gandhi, as BR never met him.

125847

On withholding income tax: "They could sell up one's goods and make one's work impossible."

125848

BR guesses at 1912 for when Karen Stephen's The Misuse of Mind was written. He has heard about Anne and Dick Singh. (BR reviewed it in B&R C22.19.)

125849

"Order from Unwin Western Philos and Freedom and Organ to be sent to Jeljaszewicz. Send from Plas P, signed, Human Knowledge".

125850

"No, as he doesn't know anything about bio-chemistry and can't judge merits of her discovery—P. Bushell".

125851

BR did not suppose that Mrs. Kay (in the CCNY case) was paying her own legal expenses.

125852

BR refers him to Meitner-Graf for the latest photo of himself.

125853

"Refusal > N.Y. Dostievsky Dinner".

125854

Thank you for a very nice and very encouraging letter.

125855

"Autographed photo > Freddy Mehta—Karachi".

125856

"By telephone Jones—12.50 at Bangor—Dec. 12".

125857

Debate with Copleston is only in English edition of Why I Am Not a Christian.

125858

"Manchester CND Record".

125859

BR asks if Georg Tietz needs a copy of My Philosophical Development. "The difficulty about money is that he is one of thousands."

125860

On Eurasian children. "I do not much believe in inherent differences between the East and the West."

125861

BR praises J.B. Priestley's Literature and Western Man, especially for the part on the Romantic Movement.

125862

For free will (a "very difficult" question), BR refers Ramstead to the "Sin" chapter of Human Society and Chap. 8 of Our Knowledge.

125863

BR declines to write a foreword to Hyam's Sex, Sin and Society.

125864

"The penultimate chapters of The Scientific Outlook were intended to show the inadequacy of such an outlook if it stands alone."

125865

BR has not "grown less hostile to Christianity", despite his remark about Christian love.

125866

"£1 to Staff Superintendent, House of Lords".

125867

"£23.5.0 > D. Pugh & Son".

125868

"No > Merioneth Rural Community (Art Exhibit)".

125869

BR will not have time to see him in London to and from Copenhagen.

125870

BR finds it "tiresome" to be so occupied by business.

125871

BR encourages Tanaka to issue the series of text-books he mentions.

125872

BR hopes to find a reference in a book in his London house, Coulton's Mediaeval Garner. The reference is not in Lee's History of Sacerdotal Celibacy.

125873

"£2.3.11 for the Amberley Papers > Barclays Bank".

125874

"5.6.9 > R". ("R" is possibly Redmond's husband.

125875

"3.10.9 > Jean".

125876

BR is grieved that he cannot undertake more meetings in Copenhagen.

125877

BR provides a foreword to New Moves in the H-Bomb Struggle (enclosed).

125878

BR is agreeable to recording a message and would like an indication of what "such a message should say".

125879

BR believes he only undertook to see off the CND deputation to Paris at the airport.

125880

BR sends £5 towards film-making expenses.

125881

"No > John Ruskin Grammar School".

125882

BR provides a travel schedule to Copenhagen.

125883

Banking business. BR wishes to know as soon as he is overdrawn "as I have funds available at my London Bank".

125884

On the dialectic method in Marx-Engels, and the axiom of internal relations in Leibniz. "A Broad-Church Marxist could easily eliminate it [the dialectic]."

125885

"No > Secretary-General of XIX Congress of Sociology in Mexico".

125886

"Autograph (again) to Karanjia, Bombay".

125887

BR advises Lockhart to ring him up in London before going to Wales to see him.

125888

"Thank you for your letter of March 31. I am glad to know of your interest in logic. As regards your contradiction derived from the principle that a law cannot be applied to itself, I think that the doctrine of types will deal with it as well as with Gödel's problems. The point is that the law is not one law, but as many as there are types, and, when one seems to be applying a law to itself, one is applying the law of the N+1th grade to the law of the Nth grade.

I wish you well for success in your logical investigations."

125889

"No—Venezuelan Embassy".

125890

Boynton's lecture involving BR's Nightmares must have been "great fun".

125891

"From the Earl R > Author's Who's Who".

125892

"As for D.H. Lawrence, you will find what I have to say about him in my Portraits from Memory." Lawrence did not keep BR's letters, and BR did not make copies.

125893

BR does not know where his "Ten Commandments" was published.

125894

"Haddow | A. Buchan | Mott > Rotblat". (These would be Pugwash letters that BR is forwarding.)

125895

Re permission to use "Reflections on Being Eighty".

125896

"Zemenides letter 'not acknowl.' > Unwin".

125897

BR declines to do a preface for lack of working time.

125898

"Dora's income tax > her lawyers".

125899

BR thanks Bickersteth for "the amusing photograph of myself when young". (It is of BR climbing a studio prop.)

125900

"You say all the things that I most like having said about myself."

125901

"£49.5.7 > John Brown". (This may be John Brown of Oxford U. Press, but why would BR send him money?)

125902

"Autograph, photo > Marjorie Harrison".