"I certainly do not wish to withdraw anything that I have written in What I Believe, and am glad that you are in agreement with that essay."

Re Sino-Indian border dispute.

Clip concerns Clapham Federated Old People's Club.

Ts. is titled "To All Women of All Nations".

"Thank you very much indeed for your enclosed appeal which I have read with great interest. I am submitting it to the Committee of 100 and it is my hope that they will be using it."

Ts. is titled "Making Peace Possible".
 

Re defining "Philosophy".

Insincerity as unreal scepticism.

BR's letter is mistakenly dated 1961.

Printed leaflet containing a poem dedicated to Jonas Salk.

Cotta has inscribed it to BR on the front.

Clips are of Couty's article, "The Bubble's Orbit", The World, Coos Bay, Oregon.

On 2nd page of Coyle's letter.

Also known under her pen name of June Kynaston.

"Thank you for your most encouraging letter of February 25. It is good to feel that opinion is influenced by such actions as the demonstration on February 18 for, at times, it is difficult to avoid discouragement when one observes the follies of governments. I am constantly being told that civil disobedience is a mistake, and alienates more people than it attracts. Letters such as yours offer a convincing refutation of this view. Would you mind if, on some appropriate occasion, I were to quote your letter without your name and address?"

Also known under her pen name of June Kynaston.

Also known under her pen name of June Kynaston.

On verso of Crosby's letter.

"I think the religious revival is due to fear caused by the international situation...."

Poem titled "The Last Seal".

Poem titled "Eternity".

Poem titled "The Last Seal".

On verso of Crosswell's letter.

"I have never been an absolute pacifist or an absolute anything else. I think that an act is to be judged right or wrong by its consequences: the right act being that which of all acts that are possible gives the greatest balance of good over bad consequences. General rules, such as 'do not steal' or 'do not kill', are right in the majority of cases, but are liable to exceptions.

You ask whether I have ever been in contact with prolonged suffering of innocent people caused by war. I have not. I might retort: have you ever been at Auschwitz and watched large numbers of innocent Jews herded into the gas chamber? If you have not, then, to quote your own phrase, 'your reasoning is of necessity cold'.''

"I have never advocated the nuclear bombing of any country. I urged that every pressure be put upon Stalin at the time of the Baruch Plan and the possibility of the International Control of Atomic Energy. I have explained in detail my position of that time in the Appendix to my book Common Sense and Nuclear Warfare."