BRACERS Notes

Record no. Notes, topics or text
128603

"1867-1874. 8 letters from S.S. Forbes (Rachel's American godmother)."

The range of document numbers is .079582 to .079588.

128604

"3 Dec. 1867 - 10 July 1868. 8 letters from J.M. Forbes."

The range of document numbers is .079589 to .079597.

128605

"7 Mar. 1868 - 20 Aug. 1874. 3 letters to Mrs. S. S. Forbes from Amberley. The first informs Forbes of the birth of her god-daughter Rachel; the last thanks her for her condolences on death of Kate and informs her of Rachel's death."

The range of document numbers is .079598 to .079600.

128606

"22 Apr. 1868 - 4 Sep. 1869. 4 letters to Mrs. Forbes from Kate."

The range of document numbers is .079601 to .079604.

128607

"16 Dec. 1867 - 13 Apr. 1868. 2 letters from Samuel Tyler, author and philosopher."

The range of document numbers is .079605 to .079606.

128608

"6 Dec. 1867. 1 letter from Mr. Forster (spirit medium); attached is an envelope containing the slips of paper used at a seance attended by the Amberleys."

128609

"Undated & 27 Nov. 1867 from G.G. Meade, distinguished Civil War soldier, to Ramsey (?) from Meade re meeting the Amberleys."

The range of document numbers is .079609 to .079610.

128610

"24 Feb. 1868 to Amberley from John Jay, statesman."

128611

"27 Mar. 1868 & 22 July 1874. 2 letters from Anna Parker Pruyn."

The range of document numbers is .079612 to .079613.

128612
128613

"16 Dec. (?) from Augusta Barnard."

128614

"17 Dec. (?) from Laura B. Fried."

128615

"22 Dec. (?) from Stanton (editor, The Revolution)."

128616

"Undated from John W. Philbrick, educationist."

128617
128618

"29 June 1870 from Pauline W. Davis, reformer and chairman of American Women's Suffrage Association."

128619

"20 Feb. 1871 to Kate from T.W. Higginson, author, commanded negro regiment in Civil War."

128620

"8 July 1873 to Kate from Josephine Lowell, philanthropist and author."

128621

"Dec. 1873. 2 letters from Sarah B. Shaw (mother of Josephine Lowell and wife of Francis Shaw)."

128622

"21 June 1874. Kate to Lady Stanley re Rachel's diphtheria."

128623

"24 June 1874. Rachel to Lady Stanley '... my throat hurts very much.'"

128624

"25 June 1874. Kate to Lady Stanley: 'I too am in bed with diphtheria'."

128625

"27 June 1874. Amberley to Lady Stanley and to Cobden-Sanderson expressing anxiety about Kate."

The range of document numbers is .079628 to .079629.

128626

"28 June 1874. Amberley to Lady Stanley: '... all is over'."

128627

"28 June 1874. Dr. Audland to Lady Stanley."

128628

"June 1874 - July 1874. 63 letters to Amberley from relatives and friends expressing condolences on death of Kate."

The range of document numbers is .079632 to .079693.

128629

"4 July 1874. Lady Russell to Lady Stanley enclosing copy of Amberley's letter of 3 July 1874 expressing grief at death of Kate and Rachel."

128630

"10 Jan. 1876. Copy of Amberley's letter to Lady Russell in Agatha's hand."

The range of document numbers is .079696 to .079697.

128631

"13 Jan. 1876. Copy of Maude Stanley's letter to her mother with an account of Amberley's death."

128632

"28 Apr. 1872. A copy from Kate's journal in Amberley's hand expressing her last wishes shortly before BR's birth. 5 1/2 pages."

128633

"Kate's Journals. 1856 - 21 Jan. 1866; 22 Jan. 1866 - 1 Dec. 1866; 1 Dec. 1866 - 5 Jan. 1868; 1 Jan. 1868 - 1 Jan. 1872."

The range of document numbers is .079700 to .079703.

128634

"Amberley's Journals. Feb. 1854 - Dec. 1859; Jan. 1860 - Aug. 1860; June 1862 - July 1863; Aug. 1863 - Feb. 1874."

The range of document numbers is .079704 to .079707.

Amberley's journal from 1854 to 1859 is in Box no. 4.19, from 1860 to 1874 see Box no. 4.20.

128635

"Sep. 1860 - Feb. 1864; 1868 - July 1869. A notebook containing daily prayers in Amberley's hand (enclosed are 2 packages containing a lock of his mother's hair and a lock of his own hair)."

The first notebook contains "Miscellaneous Thoughts." The second notebook contains notes on Foucault, Bacon, Hobbes, and Locke. The third notebook contains prayers.

The range of document numbers is .079708 to .079710.

128636

"Address Book. Names and addresses of friends."

128637

"An inventory of the Amberley's personal effects done by Miss Maude Stanley in 1876."

128638

"3 large bound volumes of newsclippings, etc., spanning the political careers of Kate and Amberley. A collection of newsclippings reporting speeches by Lord John Russell and Amberley and details of Amberley's election campaigns, and obituaries on their deaths and short biographies. Also several clippings devoted to Frank Russell's divorce case in 1891."

The three large bound volumes of newsclippings are not present in box 4.21.

The range of document numbers is .079713 to .079748.

128639

".... A manuscript of the Introduction by Sir H.M. Stanley to the book Three Years in Savage Africa by Lionel Decle."

128640

"'Introducing Douglas Spalding' (Frank's tutor) by J.B.S. Haldane (reprint from the British Journal of Animal Behaviour, Vol. II, No. 1, Jan. 1954)."

128641

"1937. A large collection of reviews of The Amberley Papers."

128642

"6 Dec. 1941. Holograph note by BR describing the part played by Lady (Patricia) Russell in editing The Amberley Papers." Embargoed Box 8.22 (PR).

The range of document numbers is .079838 to .079883.

128643

"Undated. A list of names of family and friends in Kate's handwriting."

128644

"1 Sep. 1849. 6 folios headed 'Diary of a Prime Minister' (Lord John Russell) with a lithograph of Balmoral Castle attached. The diary runs from 29 Aug. to 31 Aug."

128645

"Undated. A handwritten list of postal establishments in Rome."

128646

"23 Dec. 1851. A handwritten copy of Epilogue spoken by Amberley aged 9 at Woburn Abbey."

128647

"Undated. A hand drawn map showing a camping spot."

128648

"Undated. 2 picture cards showing Jerusalem and a mountain pass in Cradock, South Africa, respectively, both inscribed to Earl Russell; the 2nd reads 'This represents the difficulties which the noble Earl has with the Jewsih E[mancipation] Bill'."

128649

"Undated. A translation from Tacitus's Germanicus 18 in an unidentified hand."

128650

"Circa 1860's. A collection of 20 unidentified letters to the Amberleys and to the Stanleys."

The range of document numbers is .079757 to .079782.

128651

"1860-1875. A bundle of 11 letters all relating to Amberley's financial affairs and one note detailing his income 1867-1870."

The range of document numbers is .079783 to .079797.

128652

"20 July 1872. Dinner menu headed 'Strawberry Hill'."

128653

"24 & 25 Feb. 1862. Theatre playbill 'W. Empty House Theatricals, Never Acted....'"

128654

"29 May 1863 theatre programme."

128655
128656

"Sergeant Major Hockey of 1st Battalion will call at 2 o'clock tomorrow."

128657
128658
128659
128660
128661
128662

"Undated. A note from Johnny Stanley."

128663

"20 Dec. 1865 to Mrs. Grote (wife of the historian) from Helen Taylor (J.S. Mill's stepdaughter)."

128664
128665

"28 Dec. 1863. to (?) from Nancy Eccles."

128666
128667
128668

"Undated. A note about Mr. Trevelyan."

128669

"Nov. 1861. A note about Alice Lister."

128670

"Undated. A note about travelling in Egypt."

128671

"4 Oct. 1872 to Henry Crompton from his mother."

128672

"Undated to 'dearest Mama' (Lord John Russell's first wife) from Victoria."

128673

"Wife and I have read some of your books and wondered if you could help us get our 600 square foot rear land back...."

128674

"We shall meet not in the past but in an everlasting future. Now, please set to work on Volume II."

128675

"Crank".

Letter is addressed to "Fernand Russal. The great Philosopher, London."

128676

"Sad crank—does not ask for anything."

128677

"Crank".

Re BR: "Your philosophy is directed and influenced by your country's interests only."

128678

"Only God can make a tree but you can help him,—by planting many trees in the good earth on each side of Russellville's wide streets and school lawns etc." Written on a document with a printed sketch of BR, from Wilson College, where her daughter Barbara attends.

128679

"Crank".

"I beg an immediate answer because your answer may turn out to solve the core problem of a non-Kantian combination of Analytic Philosophy and Psycho-Bio-Physical Problem the nature of which might quite possibly put an end to the goddamn H-bomb."

128680

"The ultimate truth must account for everything—why matter exists, why energy exists, why life exists."

128681

Handwritten notes re a 'play' titled "The Universe" opening July 22, 1969. The sender casts BR as the Director.

128682

Re disarmament, the Warsaw Treaty and an inquiry about where to find a place to stay in Wales for a few months.

128683

Letter is signed "Freedom citizen" who wishes to organize a "... World Anti-Fascist Movement which I will call WNFITM (World Naturist Freedom In Time Movement)."

128684

"I just came from Dachau, Germany, where I saw a small gasthof called WIENERWALD."

128685

"I would not expect your answer, if I didn't count on your understanding."

128686

"Homosexually yours, One who thinks your mind perverted."

128687

"I pray that you, too, will see His light."

128688

"Crank."

128689

"Crank".

"Reading a chapter of yours on the character of Christ you said Jesus was not wise."

128690

"Utter Crank".

"In reading one of your books you mentioned people saying, 'The Lord will provide'. You then said, 'He hasn't done so before so why should He now'."

128691

"Crank."

"Nuclear war comes in this gamut just as your hunger comes. So also is Russell's efforts to prevent nuclear war...."

128692

"Crank."

128693

"Crank."

128694
128695

"Crank."

128696

"The belief in the classless society having rational and non destructive conflicting aspirations is possible. But the belief is non plausible—only the practice is plausible."

Letter is signed: "Homosexually yours, A stinker—I mean thinker."

128697

A telegram sent to BR c/o Allen and Unwin: "Brian Bell coerced and physically interfered with by refusing to answer civil liberties questions he took a severe thrashing".

128698

"Crank."

"True Britains don't lie down and make fools of themselves."

128699

"Crank File".

Sender is a 27 year old woman from Toledo, Ohio. Dated by what is surely a reference to BR's article in the March 1964 issue of The Minority of One.

128700

"Crank".

"After watching the BBC T.V. Birthday tribute to you I would like to wish you further good health...."

128701

"Crank".

"Under date of November 13, 1963, I was informed by letter from the Earl Russell of the existence and purposes of your foundation...."

128702

"Crank".

"The following thoughts I am sure you would want brought to your attention ... I refer to the blue-red process of mass psychology and the subsequent ignorance of my parents which then accounted for my years stay in four different mental institutes. In my one previous letter to you it was hoped you would consider reading a treatise on this entire subject."