"You kindly offer to take back part of our supply of Red Hackle if we find ourselves overstocked. But that is a state of affairs which we cannot believe to be possible."

"Autographed photo > Leo T Sids".

"Russian cheque form > Madams".

BR joined the Eugenics Society when young. "I am very conscious of the benefits which eugenics might confer, but still more conscious of the evils that they are likely to confer." BR refers Smith to his own views on this subject in Part III of The Scientific Outlook.

Message: "I wish you well and I hope your demonstration will have all success."

In the Collected Stories of Bertrand Russell, the dream appeared under the title "Prince Napoleon Louis". 

"I am very much encouraged by the vote of the NUR <National Union of Railwaymen>. There seems good hope of our getting the Trade Union Movement solidly on our side." BR may reprint "the article you have" after Sunday, July 24.

"You have some MSS of mine which Erni was contemplating illustrating." This may concern "The Queen of Sheba"; see record 126362.

"When we saw you in London, we gave some typescripts among which I believe were three children's stories, of which we find we have no other copy."

BR asks for permission to publish the address on "Old and Young Cultures".

"Three letters in your issue of July 11 call for a reply." Published as "Great Britain as a Neutral".

A letter of reference for Lilian Griffiths, a housekeeper for BR since 1955, who will be leaving his employment at the end of August. She became employed at Clough Williams-Ellis' family home, Plas Brondanw.

"I am sorry I cannot help you about Sir Jacob Epstein." "There is not very much of his work that I know."

"Formal refusal > Pitt Rivers Museum".

BR is willing to be a sponsor of two events.

Re the Michelson-Morley controversy. "I am sorry that as I am not a physicist I cannot give any opinion of your work."

"Formal No > Moroccan Ambassador".

"I should like my grandchildren to leave Moreton Hall on Monday, July 25, for Paddington."

"BBC > Madams".

"It is very kind of you not to charge for the two books to Miss Hazelton."

"I entirely approve of the letter which you enclosed and I return it herewith duly signed."

"I very much wish that I could accept your invitation to propose a motion at the Union, but unfortunately I am grown to old for public speaking except on very rare and exceptionally important occasions...."

"I am pleased by your information on the subject of Dr. Sidney Hook and delighted by his objections to my attitude towards Dewey." BR did not know Hook had such influence.

"The definition of 'agnostic' which you quote from Webster is news to me. I had always taken the word to mean 'a person who does not know' whether there is a god and holds that no one else knows." This view is supported by the Oxford Dictionary."

"I am sorry to say that I have no copy of the article about which you write and, before agreeing to its being reprinted, I should like to know what it says."

BR supports Alcock's plan of a permanent international group of scientists for the study of peace. Alcock had said York University in Toronto might fund it. "All methods of preventing war have to be pursued simultaneously."

BR thanks him for the invitation to become an Honorary Member, but he must decline.

"I find what you say about Boscovich very interesting. Do you consider that space and time are granular?" A book by Bryan Johnson is mentioned.

"You are, of course, entirely in the right as regards the economic obstacles to disarmament in the West, but as you suspect I did not wish to offer such gratuitous arguments in favour of the Russian system." BR will get The Ugly American.

BR is happy to arrange a meeting with him before or after August 8-23 as he will be away.

"I do not know what you mean by 'transcendence' or by 'infinity'."

BR thanks him for sending him a morocco-bound copy of Bertrand Russell Speaks His Mind.

BR is unable to attend the general meeting as he now only speaks on matters related to nuclear warfare. "The British and Foreign School Society has been familiar to me since childhood, as my grandfather built a school for the Society at Petersham where we lived."

"£5 > Horobin (boy's holiday)".

"It is a novel idea to give a peace prize to a nation and not to an individual." BR's country's government is not peaceful, but a large part of the population is.

BR claims he has not got (complete) MSS or typescripts of any book of his. "I have generally made it a practice to throw away MSS or typescripts as soon as a book was published. I now realize that this was a regrettable practice."

[Nevertheless he kept some complete book MSS.]

"I am not a believer in pantheism as I am a complete pluralist."

"Autographs > Rev. A. Stanislaw".

"Allen and Unwin are getting impatient about corrections in my History of Western Philosophy...."

"Kindly send a copy of my Common Sense and Nuclear Warfare to ... Williams." (record 126239)

BR thanks him for the invitation to the Geriatric dinner at Portmeirion, but is unable to attend as he expects to be in London at that time.

"Letter signed and sent to Univ. of Ill.—Mowrer".

"£5 > Labour Peace Fellowship".

"I should doubt whether, in Canada, the time is ripe for a political campaign against current superstition."

"Mrs. Ward Central Office of Inf. (NATO publications)".

BR thanks him for the enclosed typescript of "Camp David on Spy Planet".

"I enclose a statement which I hope you may think suitable for Sanity or Suicide. I like your last year's issue very much." BR encloses his statement for Sanity or Suicide on a separate page.

"Amabel & Clough > drinks". <Re the Williams-Ellises.>

"Griff > Cottage".>

"Smythe—War Resister's—letter signed and sent".

"I am entirely willing to sponsor a German march on the lines of the Aldermaston marches. These marches have had a very notable effect upon British public opinion...."

BR is sorry that he cannot take time away from work on nuclear disarmament to read his MS.

BR has a different opinion on Davies' MS from that of the reader for Cambridge University Press. "I liked your 'Mr. Smith', especially in his early naïveté, but I thought that, like Descartes, he allowed himself, later on, to have some unfounded beliefs."

"I am sorry to say that I am too ignorant of both medicine and surgery to be able to express any opinion whatever about this paper."

"I am sorry that it is quite impossible for me to read or criticize your essay on 'The Theory of Forced Movement'."

"I agree with what you say about the importance of human love and I think what you say is very well expressed both as regards style and as regards precision." However, Smith should work, think and read for sometime longer before aiming at publication.

"I shall be happy to do such an article as you suggest, but I think I ought to tell you that an article <on Neutralism> which I wrote for the New York TImes Magazine will, in all likelihood be published during this month and may also be published in England."

"I enclose an article which was asked for by the New York Times Magazine and is, I understand, to be published there on July 24.... I shall be glad if you think it suitable for The Observer."

"I have followed your advice by sending my article about neutralism to The Observer, as the New York Times consents to publication, on any day on or after July 24." BR suggests Collins should assure Astor that he has the "blessing of the CND". 

BR refers him to an international organization, which he leaves unnamed (Pugwash?), to which Porter should direct his questions.

BR agrees with only one of his three propositions regarding "transcendence". The other two propositions are linguistic and not meaningful otherwise.

"Wrong address > Postal department, H of L".

"Voltaire's influence on me > American Medical Center at Denver".

"I am very sorry that I could not be in London during your visit to the Royal Society."

"8 Aug > Brondanw".

"1 Aug—Pack". "Brondanw" was the home of the Williams-Ellises.

"Yukawa | Zukerman > Rotblat".

BR will be in London on August 9 and they can fix a date to meet when Swartz arrives in London.

"I am quite willing that the little essay "Can Scientific Man Survive?" should be reprinted in your anthology on the terms suggested in your letter." (Bushman was coeditor of the anthology Read and Write.)

"I have made such an infinite number of faux pas in the course of my life that I am quite unable to select one." Getting born was the first.

"I am sorry that I am too much occupied with work already undertaken to be able to contribute to your suggested symposium."

"Erik Gramlis—No".

"I have received the enclosed bills and, if they are in order, I should be grateful if you could pay them and put them on my grandchildren."

"Shalom on Wittgenstein > Shalom".

"The £100 which you still owe me has not yet been paid to me although your letter of May 23 acknowledges that it is owing." (BR's next step is his lawyers.)

"Kindly place to my account the Sterling proceeds of the enclosed cheque for $300."

"I have now learnt that the article which I sent to the New York Times Magazine will not be printed in The Observer and I have not offered it to any other newspaper." BR encloses a shortened version of the article in which he is free to offer wherever he would like, except in the United States, and preferably to the Sunday Times. CND is printing it as a leaflet.

BR offers to pay for the secretary's salary up to £500 for at least the first year.

BR encloses a cheque for £100 for the ex gratia payments to Mrs. Grace.

"Lockspeiser > Rotblat".

"I am afraid I have nothing of interest to say about Hannah Whitall Smith...." Mrs. Catherine Marshall had inquired.

"Tea Tuesday fifteenth satisfactory. Russell".

BR thanks her for extracts from the letters of Rachel, Lady Russell.

On "agnostic" and "atheist" and proving non-existence.

On religion and comfort with lies. "I think sympathy without lies is better."

Their differences may not be as fundamental as they seem.

BR accepts honorary membership in the Aristotelian Society.

BR cancels the standing order for his annual subscription to the Aristotelian Society.

BR complains of the review of Gellner. If Gellner is a protégé of BR's, so would Descartes and Leibniz be.

"BBC £2.1.3 > Barclays".

BR provides the address of his bank, Child & Co.

BR declines to write an article on the principles of mathematics and does not know what recent authors should be recommended.

What friends of peace should do.

"I agree with you that Miss Seton's approach seems a little far fetched and I do not feel that there is anything that I can do about it."

"From the further work you have sent me, I have not gathered any refutation of my previous doubts about your economic system.... I am very sorry that it is proving so difficult to get them published, but I think that the publishers you have approached are probably right in thinking that they would lose money if they published your book."

BR thanks her for sending him a copy of "Can We Afford to Keep Open Minds" and agrees that it should be reproduced. "I find nothing in it contrary to my present opinions and I am therefore quite willing that it should be reproduced."

"I am whole-heartedly with you and am willing to do what I can to help in the campaign that you are inaugurating." BR wishes to set up a date to meet and asks him if the Pentagon report, which estimates "the deaths of 160,000,000 Americans", was correct, and asks for 2 publications mentioned by Schoenman.

BR thanks him for the statement "The Supreme Unity or World Disaster". BR is in agreement with what he says and wishes that the statement will have influence.

BR thanks her for the children's stories. "I have been thinking over the question of stories for adults, and I do not think that, as yet, there are enough of them to make a little volume; and I think, also, that as they are intended as propaganda I ought, when there are enough of them, to secure as large a circulation as possible."

"I think you might do well to get in touch with <blank> Schoenman … <address> who is busy concocting plans which might interest your teenage friends."

"It seems to me that your paragraphs 9-13 make very good sense and I cannot understand why you have encountered objection to them. I am sorry The Guardian would not publish your communication."

BR agrees with her aims but is too occupied with other matters to give his help. "There is just one point with which I am not in agreement and that is your statement as to the selfishness of young people." The young are not worse than the old.