Mimeos concern Lasagna and his book.

BR "reads Italian with difficulty".

"Many thanks for sending me your book Banking on Death which I have read with pleasure. I observe from the cover that you are two ladies, but I cannot believe that both of you have read Principia Mathematica. Hitherto I have only known of six people who have read it, three Poles, who were liquidated by Hitler, and three Texans, who were absorbed by osmosis into the general population. I wonder whether you found the book a help in writing fiction."

In BR's library, #1930.

Also from Sharon Maloney.

Ts. is titled "Editor's Message".

Not a letter but newsclips from The Age of Reason Magazine.

Lattey, M.D., writes from Vernon, B.C., Canada.

Re: the rationale for the Committee of 100.

Ts. is titled "Why is Beta?".

Offprint "Was Newton Right after All?" by Laucks, reprinted from Philosophy of Science, vol. 26, no. 3, July 1959.

On verso of Lawes' letter.

"The difference between Shinwell and me is due to the fact that he has not studied fall-out. The odds are that a large scale nuclear war would exterminate all life except possibly that of mosses and fungi. Fall-out does not require a passport to cross frontiers."

On the verso of Lawson-Smith's letter.

Signed "The woman, Lea" from an aboriginal woman in Alaska.

BR's letter is mistakenly dated 4 January 1961.

Ts. is titled "Statement to the Office of Naval Intelligence".

The poem is titled "The Warm-Blooded, 3,000,000 B.C.—1958 A.D."

"Thank you for your letter of April 3 and for the sentiments you express about Patrick Henry, with which I am in entire agreement. I have got so bored with having him quoted at me that I have translated his dictum into modern terms as follows: give me liberty and give them death."

Not a letter but a poem titled "Land's End, San Francisco: for Bertrand Russell on His Imprisonment — 1961".

The enclosed poem is titled "On Reading Whitehead's Science and the Modern World".

Re: R. Lees.
 

Re BR: "He likes to have about eight hours sleep a night. He sometimes lies awake, and when he does can sometimes put himself to sleep by reciting poetry to himself."

Ts. is titled "This Christmas Day Is Not My Day to Eat".

On verso of Legg's letter.

Poem is titled "Earthman's Blunder".

Pamphlet, written by Leitch, is titled This Wondrous Age.

Thanks BR for message for Continental Congress for Friendship with Cuba.

Agrees to read ms. of Lens' book The Folly of Anti-Communism.

"I am afraid I have never written critically about Husserl nor have I specifically dealt with him in my writings."

Also enclosed photo, poems, newsclip (not extant here), of a Detroit Free Press interview titled "Lord Russell Explains a Protest: a famous Thinker Tells Why He Went to Jail at 89", 1962/01/21, by Milton Marmor.

A weekly newspaper, Labor was owned by the railroad workers of the United States and Canada.