BRACERS Notes

Record no. Notes, topics or text
26002
26003
26004
26005

See Rec. Acq. 340 for BR's reply (record 54813).

26006
26007
26008
26009
26010
26011
26012

Tear-sheet contains letter to editor re BR and "Better Red or Dead", Montreal Gazette, 5 April 1961.

26013
26014
26015
26016
26017
26018
26019

Book referred to in Times Educational Supplement interview, 27 Feb. 1959, was The Global Atlas by Frank Debenham (B131).

26020
26021

Leaflets also enclosed; in Czech.

26022
26023
26024
26025
26026
26027
26028

On verso of MacKenzie's letter.

26029
26030
26031
26032
26033
26034

Letter actually dated 1961.

26035
26036
26037
26038

Re education: "The only advice of a concrete, simple nature that I have to give is to avoid nationalism as the supreme evil of our time."

26039
26040

Text of letter written on wedding invitation of her son named after BR.

26041

Letter is actually poem, "Tribute to Earl Russell".

26042
26043

Ts. is re MacSwiney Memorial Chapel fund.

26044

Not a letter but ts. of draft of proposed concluding chap. of The Structure of Human Language.

26045
26046
26047
26048
26049
26050

Letter actually dated November.

26051
26052
26053
26054
26055
26056

Has read part of Magee's The General Semantics of Wall Street: "What I have read seems to me admirably clear and persuasive and well-calculated to weaken some of the fixed prejudices which it discusses."

26057
26058

Re world government and nuclear weapons.

26059

This copy letter was enclosed with that of 26 Dec. 1960 (see record 26061).

26060
26061
26062
26063
26064
26065
26066
26067

Full name is Society of Friends, Maidstone Meeting.

Originally filed in M's.

26068
26069
26070
26071
26072
26073

Advice on learning to write. Recommends Defoe's Journal of the Plague. "I think the first necessity in writing is to have something definite that you very much wish to say, and, the second, is to practice clarity and simplicity."

26074
26075

Tries to clarify whether he is an agnostic or an atheist.

26076

Has letter for BR from Harry Elmer Barnes.

26077
26078

Tss.: "Arithmetic", "The Colour Bar", and "Comastarte".

26079
26080
26081

Not a letter but a short story, "Peaceful Persuasion".

26082
26083
26084
26085

Leaflet is titled "Halt Nuclear Tests and Disarm: a Statement by Australian Citizens".

26086

Re: the futility of protest meetings as a method of change.

26087
26088
26089
26090

Re: India; BR's letter mistakenly addressed to Golox Mandal. All but the last sentence was published in Mandal's letter to the editor of the Statesman, Calcutta, India, 19 Feb. 1970, titled "Russell on India".

26091
26092
26093
26094
26095
26096
26097

Re support for Switzerland to be nuclear free.

26098
26099

Re solipsism.

26100
26101

On verso of Mangold's letter.

"You will find all that I have to say about solipsism in part III, chapter III, of my Human Knowledge."