BRACERS Notes

Record no. Notes, topics or text
23402
23403
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Writing from a mental hospital, he wants help finding "magic squares".

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Ennis got BR's "Democracy and the Teachers in the U.S."

Reprinted in Des Moines (Iowa) Register, 25 Nov. 1951.

23414

Clip is of Seth King's interview with BR, reprinted in St. Petersburg Times, 18 May 1961.

23415
23416

Re "How to Become a Mathematician".

On verso of Enright's letter.

23417

Enclosed with Enright's letter to BR.

23418
23419
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23422

Newsclip is comic strip re Communist teachers in Japan.

23423

"Tremendously impressed" by Nation article on Pentagon, 28 Oct. 1961.

23424

Poems are by Erb.

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Signature is very doubtful.

23433
23434

Draft reply in Edith Russell's hand on verso of Ernst's p. 2

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Ts. is titled "The Perverted Mission".

23438

Ts. concerns philosophy.

23439
Clips concern contraception.
23440
On contraception.
23441
23442

BR's reply is said to be attached but isn't.

23443

Ts. is titled "Zur Emanzipierung der Philosophie".

23444
23445
23446

Upon hearing BR on "Small World".

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23452

Re Official Secrets trial.

23453
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Re unilateral disarmament.
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23458

Clip is of Evans' letter to editor, New York Times, 24 Apr. 1961.

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23466
Letter written on exhibition catalogue.
23467

Ts. is titled "Last Call for Monotheism".

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23478

Also from Rondebosch.

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Actually a poem, "To Bertrand Russell", signed by the author.

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23492

Re Gide, Sartre, Camus.

"I cannot agree with the philosophy of any of these writers, but I am afraid that I would need an essay on each in any way adequately to discuss either this or their literature."

23493
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"I did not answer your question about literature because I had nothing interesting to say about it. I admire Camus and Gide, and I admire Sartre as a playwrite [sic] but not as a philosopher. Literature has at times been of very great importance. The great Russian novelists, for example, prepared the way for the overthrow of the Czarist regime. It is impossible to know at present whether any writer has any importance, since we do not know whether there will be any readers or other human beings ten years hence."

23495
23496

"We must overcome the sense of helplessness which possesses most people."

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23498

Sent (not attached) his review of Unarmed Victory.

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Also enclosed ts. titled "Toward a Single Universal Science."