"I have expressed myself about Polaris in a short statement which I sent to the Glasgow Council of Nuclear Disarmament." BR sends the statement to Avis.

"Such letters, especially when they come from America, are very encouraging and make one feel that anti-nuclear work is worthwhile."

"We are glad of your support, and I think you are right not to be worried by those who hold such action irresponsible."

"When I first decided in direct action I did not for a moment suppose that it entailed my resignation as President of the CND." A "spectacular demonstration" is needed "to infiltrate information through the Press to the public".

"I am glad that you are willing to add your name and address to the list of those prepared to act."

"Many thanks for sending me your 'Paradoxical Sonnets'. I have read them all with a great deal of interest and, although they express a variety of moods, I have no difficulty in sympathizing with all of them."

Letter to the editor for publication. Re the issue of October 29: "I never had any quarrel with the Rev. Michael Scott. It was with the Rev. Canon Collins that I had a quarrel. I greatly admire the work of the Rev. Michael Scott."

BR readdressed the letter to Matsushita, then reverted to Kojima. BR praises Yomiuri Shimbun. "I am glad that there is in Japan such a strong movement in favour of peace."

"I am happy to accept your invitation to speak at the Queen's Hotel, Birmingham, on March 11."

"I should be glad to see you as you suggest on January 7. The time that would suit me best would be about 4 o'clock."

"I am very sorry that pressure of work makes it quite impossible for me to read your manuscript, and I am therefore reluctantly unable to help you to secure publication."

"You note that I have not been much in the news lately, but I think this is only true in Germany." "I am just as active as usual."

"I cannot yet tell what I should be doing in May, and therefore I cannot at present make any engagements to see you then."

"You are quite at liberty to quote what I wrote before about your American Kaleidoscope."

"I.F. Stone's Weekly is published by I.F. Stone himself ... I think the only way to get his Weekly is to write to him."

"Thank you for your letter expressing sympathy with the movement with which I am connected." BR refers him to Randle, Secretary of the Committee of 100, for more information.

"My book on the Conquest of Happiness deals with many of your suggested themes." Books that express a single personality are apt to be more interesting than symposia.

"I read your proposal with pleasure, but I do not think that it would produce any useful result."

"We do not quite know what allowances of pocket money we ought to give to Anne and Sarah and Lucy. We do not want them to have less than other girls nor yet to have appreciably more."

"Child > Madams".

"I am glad to know that although your College is supported by a Protestant Church it displays Why I am Not a Christian in the College Library, and I am naturally pleased with what you say about this book."

"As regards the degree and kind of civil disobedience to be advocated, this must vary with the country and circumstances. The criterion is the effect on public opinion."

"Kindly send one hundred pounds to my daughter...."

"I am obliged to you for the various efforts that you report towards promoting the sales of Bertrand Russell Speaks His Mind."

"I think it unlikely that I should be capable of forming a judgement as to the research that you write about, and I think you would do better to submit it to some person of competence in your field."

"Autographed photo > Brandon".

BR refers her to his book New Hopes for a Changing World. "I think it is important that all of us who are engaged in anti-nuclear work should keep before our minds the hopeful possibilities no less than those that are terrifying." 

"I am sorry that I am so fully engaged for some months to come that I do not see how a meeting between you and me can be arranged." BR asks for a short account of his plan.

"Secretary > Gane giving Committee of 100 address".

"I do not think that you have misrepresented my views on eugenics." "… the type of human being that is admired is even worse than the average of what nature produces."

"I enclose a short article which I hope you may find suitable for the Newsletter of the Post War World Council."

"I should be very much obliged if you could supply me with a copy of Nation's Business for October 1959 published by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and let me know the charge."

"I think one must conclude that the leaders of Big Business in America do not consider the present level of armaments production essential to American prosperity. I hope they are right." BR encloses 2 civil disobedience leaflets.

"I am still more sorry that I cannot give you the reference to the remark which I quote from Eddington. I think it possible that I was quoting his conversation."

Affection for one's country and race vs. impartiality in justice, and Jews leaving Israel to live elsewhere.

"RSVP > World Gov't—No (Tel. number changed)".

BR doubts much purpose would be served by discussing with Norman Angell on Dec. 17.

"11.0.8 > Fribourg & Treyer".

"No—Secretary > Central Press Features Ltd".

Thanks for Europe and the Social Order. On "Oxford philosophers". On being "thrown to the wolves" for 87 years.

Thanks for book on lattice theory. "I had not heard before about 'pre-emptive' war. I wonder how it differs from the 'preventive' species."

BR cannot see Hardwari Lal.

BR declines to address a congress the next summer, due to a "a multiplicity of engagements in England".

BR declines to write an article.

Pressure of work has so far made it impossible for BR to read Dr. Singh's book.

BR encloses (not present) a demand for Schedule A income tax on 43 Hasker St.

BR is on the point of leaving London for North Wales and cannot meet with Beak.

A letter to the editor in reply to Edward Teller's letter in the issue of October 11, on whether technical civilization would survive an all-out nuclear war.

The first of the 3 thin "Silvine Exercise Books" has a numbered, classified list of BR's published articles in the 1950s and 1960s to 1966. The classification is by international topic. The second booklet begins by continuing with the numbering found under the section on Britain, but ends with 1964 writings. The third booklet, which lacks a title, has subheadings under the major topics of Volumes for India and Political Prisoners and Problems of Minorities. There are also headings that lack sub-topics.

There is also a typed list beginning with the first pages of Book I. It has the note at the top: "LIST made from ms notebooks of BR's recent pol. articles, found at King's Rd. apt., '67". This is a reference to the BRPF flat in Argylle Mansions. While K. Blackwell worked for Continuum 1 Ltd., he was told of the notebooks and was given them with many typescripts and tear-sheets to add to the Russell Archives, then being catalogued by his employer, Continuum.

"I shall be in London on February 18 for the purpose of committing, in common with many others, a ritual act of civil disobedience. I do not know what the outcome may be, but if I am still at large I shall be glad to see you on one of the subsequent days."

"I do not know whether you are able or willing to work in the cause of preventing nuclear war or whether you are already doing so, but perhaps you would like to get in touch with the Committee of 100...."

"(Same as above)". See record 126758.

"(Same as above)". See record 126758.

"(Same as above)". See record 126758.

"(Same as above)". See record 126758.

"All above, plus Anthony Weaver—Send names and addresses to M. Randle". See records 126758, 126759, 126760, 126761, 126762.

BR refers him to his two books: New Hopes for a Changing World and Common Sense and Nuclear Warfare.

"I shall be happy to see you when you are in England if a date possible for both of us can be found."

"I do not think that anything in my philosophy can prove that there is not a God or a future life. What I think can be proved is that all the arguments hitherto advanced in support of these two dogmas are invalid."

"I should much like to see Why I Am Not a Christian in a cheap paper-bound form ... I am grateful, also, for your offer to translate the book into German."

BR forwards a letter to Unwin from Held (a Canadian) regarding a cheap edition of Why I Am Not a Christian. See record 126767.

"I cannot tell whether your methods or mine are more likely to prove effective and I think that we had both better continue to work as seems best to our personal convictions."

BR thanks them for sending him a book.

"When I said that a logically perfect language will be completely analytic I did not mean what you have taken me to mean...." BR refers him to Human Knowledge. Nor should a logically perfect language make explicit the structure of a complex.

BR refers her to Michael Randle of the Committee of 100.

BR apologizes for not yet having time to examine the registered letter that he wrote about in his letter.

BR is willing to see Ayer's Russian friend.

"I shall be glad to see you here if a time can be found convenient to us both."

"Secretary < Guardian cutting about £250 gift overseas".

"No > Colorado College".

"As regards your suggested amendments concerning the democratization of the Executive, I am entirely with you...."

"Barclays Bank Statement > Madams—for the files."

"I am very sorry that, owing to old age and problems of health, I cannot undertake such an expedition as would be involved." BR is also very sorry to see that Schrödinger is dead.

"I wish to express my complete agreement with the admirable letter in your issue of January 9 headed 'Massive Aid to China'."

"I enclose herewith my new book to be called Fact and Fiction." The dream about God may be offensive.

"I am now re-reading Jean on Induction with a view to writing a preface. I am struck afresh by the exquisite clarity of his style in which every sentence gives one aesthetic pleasure."

"Respons. of Scientists > R. Gunter, California".

"I saw Prof. Katkov yesterday and, with his concurrence, composed a letter to Khrushchev which I sent via the Soviet Embassy. I enclose a copy and hope that you and Madame Harrari will approve." BR is glad he will join the Feb. 18 demonstration.

"By telephone".

"Lacrosse Boots—5 wide Jetting, C?"

"Don't tell Alfred > F A H".

"Ear machine for Left Ear—Man's size plastic ear piece".

"... I was reported to have protested against the T.U.C. loan to Belgian strikers. It was not I, but Lord Russell of Liverpool, who protested...."

"I have just learnt that the European edition of the New York Herald Tribune of January 9 reports me as protesting against the T.U.C. loan to Belgian strikers. This was an error."

"I have written to the Herald Tribune and to the Secretary of the T.U.C. to correct the mistake. I am grateful to you for informing me of it."

"I shall look forward to your article about our interview."

BR thanks him for the draft of Venture and is unable to help him as BR's time is taken up by desperate human survival matters.

"I am much gratified by the news that you convey concerning the Mark Twain Journal."

"No > Bloxham & London Express".

"I am returning the ballet shoes which you kindly sent me in response to my letter as they turn out to be too wide and too short."

"I have never been a complete theoretical pacifist.... You will find my theoretical position set forth in Human Society in Ethics and Politics."

"I am very anxious to possess a copy of your issue of October 1959, but, owing to currency regulations, I cannot send money to America." BR asks if he could have a copy without payment.

BR is thankful for the loan of the October 1959 issue of Nation's Business and will return it shortly, and asks again about Think.

A granddaughter "has raised various points about which we should like to have your opinion. She is very anxious to drop Latin, and would like to drop either geography or games."

"No > Pocklington".