BRACERS Notes

Record no. Notes, topics or text
125903

BR makes a joke about "Disinterested Management".

125904

BR is too busy to write for the 40th anniversary of Choi's newspaper.

125905

BR hears first from Kate that Harriet is getting married.

125906

"Send Buzzard letter to Rotblat". BR is sorry Admiral Buzzard cannot attend Pugwash and invites him to talk in London.

125907

"Children's 3 Tax forms > Tylor".

125908

"No > Sheffield, etc."

125909

This is a note at the top of the page: "John Knight of Sunday Pictorial tel. about interview Ring Hasker St. Wed. eve. to fix date."

125910

"£1.10.0 > Daimler Hire".

125911

BR will ring up the Embassy because he wants very much to make Santamarina's acquaintance.

125912

"R. Carrington—No".

125913

"No > MIT".

125914

Heffer's is to send Whitehead's Universal Algebra to von Zeppelin and the bill to BR.

125915

"5/6 > Bell & Croydon".

125916

BR has nothing to say on the Street Offences Act 1959.

125917

"Will write on return from continent".

125918

On who was right in BR's two controversies with Poincaré. They were each right once.

125919

BR will send Joux his open correspondence with Eisenhower, Khrushchev and Dulles.

125920

Appointments for April 21-25:

21 April - Thursday: 4 Rotblat and Lindop
22 April - Friday: 11.30 National Portrait Gallery photo - 49 Queen's Gate, S.W.7
4 Helen Manning
23 April - Saturday: 11.30 Spencer Brown
24 April - Sunday
25 April - Monday: 4 Admiral Buzzard

Mrs. May
Canon Collins
Goswami
Cuban Ambassador
Sir Anthony Buzzard
Commander Godden

125921

Edith noted "Plas Penrhyn" at the top and circled it.

On permission for the Copleston debate, paperbacking Why I Am Not a Christian—and the debate with Teller.

125922

BR can only give the Conference his sincere good will.

125923

BR sends his warmest greetings for the Dutch National Manifestation.

125924

"> Rotblat". (Possibly the letter answered at record 125923 was sent to Rotblat, but the letter exists at record 63002.)

125925

"> Unwin".

125926

BR could not make the statement Gullett wanted because he was away in Copenhagen.

125927

The statement of aims included by Brooke has BR's "complete sympathy".

125928

Foulkes' corrections (to Wisdom of the West) have BR's "complete approval".

125929

"It looks as if the Labour Party, next October, will come over entirely to our policy in spite of vehement opposition from all the Big-wigs."

125930

BR will be delighted to sit for John.

125931

BR agrees to be on the Honorary International Committee and sends his best wishes to Casals.

125932

BR declines to recommend Chief Albert Lithuli for the Nobel Peace Prize for lack of other than superficial knowledge.

125933

"Govt. of India | Haddow | Turing > Rotblat".

125934

BR questions a bill that he finds "completely bewildering".

125935

BR could see Dr. Skoryna between now and May 25 except the 4th.

125936

BR has been boycotting South African goods for some time and supporting the Boycott Movement.

125937

"No > India League".

125938

"Auto.-photo > Czarnowski".

125939

BR asks Goswami to fix a date for a meeting.

125940

"No > Cranfield Soc."

125941

BR indicates what photos he prefers and which he does not wish to be exhibited.

125942

BR sends £5 as a contribution to Dr. Peake's work.

125943

BR cannot be present for the meeting on May 11.

125944

BR has not yet heard from Usborne's nephew.

125945

"No > Royal Soc of Lit".

125946

BR is too busy to write an article for Holiday and is sorry they turned down one on BR "speaking my mind".

125947

Apparently she is working on a project involving quotations from BR.

125948

On "denoting complexes". BR has reread "On Denoting".

125949

BR cannot give a definite answer on whether always to avow one's opinions.

125950

BR cannot meet with Cammer.

125951

BR has not heard of the Lord Russell that Petrie mentions.

125952

BR thanks Iversen profusely for the visit to Copenhagen and wonders if the cheque for 100,000 Kroner has been mislaid.

125953

BR asks if Mrs. Whitehead is still alive. He claims he saw her last in 1944 [surely it was 1950 or 1951].

125954

BR asks if the rights to What Is Freedom? have reverted to him.

125955

"£34.2.6 > Murray Davies".

125956

"£200.0.0 > ER".

125957

"Feld | Noel Baker > Rotblat".

125958

BR has grave doubts whether he should remain in the Labour Party but will see what October brings. He invites Fletcher for a thorough discussion.

125959

BR's time is completely taken up in fighting nuclear suicide.

125960

BR respects Lord Samuel as a statesman and human being, but he has done no work of importance in philosophy.

125961

It's the nuclear danger that keeps BR so busy.

125962

BR values early Buddhist and early Taoist philosophy, but nothing since in the East; but he has no wish to say so in public.

125963

BR is not a pacifist, "but in the present state of the world, I do not see how any war can do anything except harm."

125964

BR holds that the greatest evil is the National Sovereign State, and the remedy is through education.

125965

BR thanks Unwin for the "very satisfactory" accounts.

125966

BR asks if £1600 is due to BR now. (Doubtless for the TV series, or the films, of Bertrand Russell Speaks His Mind.)

125967

"You are to be congratulated on the admirable work that you have done for our common cause."

125968

"German | Riensceker (?) | Amer. | Widlei > Rotblat".

125969

BR is too busy to contribute to "Mesopotamia".

125970

Possibly Dr. Oppenheim of Princeton has a photo of BR and Einstein together.

125971

BR congratulates Collins on the success of the Aldermaston March and Trafalgar Square meeting, but is still worried by the emphasis on unilateralism.

125972

A thank-you for letters.

125973

"Most cosmologists believe that it <the universe> is finite."

125974

The "History of Creation" <in "The Free Man's Worship"> is BR's own invention.

125975

"£1.2.8 > Western Union".

125976

"Mexican Echanove—No again".

125977

BR found Man's Presumptuous Brain "exceedingly interesting".

125978

BR asks Simeons (see record 125977) about his swallowing—"a psychosomatic trouble", he thinks.

125979

"ER > Iverson about Danish Dr." See record 125980.

125980

Edith asks for the name of the M.D. on the Sonning Prize Committee who seemed knowledgeable about BR's throat affliction.

125981

Will Tylor find out whether Dora Russell wants the grandchildren to spend a lot of time with her.

125982

BR sends Kolonitsky another article.

125983

BR agrees to become a Patron of Peake's work.

125984

BR acknowledges receipt of 100,000 Kroner plus expenses.

125985

BR sends £250 (5% of the Sonning Prize) to the Refugee Fund. He thanks her for the Bohrs' friendly welcome in Copenhagen.

125986

BR wants to invest his tax-free £5000 Sonning Prize in bonds yielding "a comfortable rate of interest".

125987

"No > Eide".

125988

BR will be interested to see Shalom's paper on Wittgenstein's Tractatus.

125989

"Röling > Rotblat".

125990

BR encloses a statement on "what most interests BR".

125991

"I enclose £100 to be used in your Campaign in whatever manner is thought best."

125992

"I enclose £200 for the purposes of our Campaign."

125993

BR is in complete agreement with the poem "New Glory".

125994

"£2 a-piece to L & S & A & permission to A to go to Stratford". (The initials stand for the granddaughters.)

125995

"Eleven guineas > Boyd".

125996

BR does not agree that the Vatican inspired Hitler.

125997

"Friedli's letter > Unwin".

125998

"£4.10.0 > Harrods".

125999

BR sends Rotblat £100 for a secretary. On Eaton and the Lenin Peace Prize.

126000

Oxford University Press "naturally prefers lucrative error to expensive truth". On economic theory, and funding scientific research.

126001

"Kindly send a copy of my book In Praise of Idleness to Mr. J.A. Yavden-Trebull, 2016 Cedar St., Berkeley, Cal., U.S.A."

126002

BR declines to write on Whitehead's philosophy. Some of the "worst" of the Oxford philosophers are at Cambridge.