Originally filed in M's; moved to H's. Also enclosed is a ts. re disarmament.

Originally filed in M's; moved to H's.

Originally filed in M's; moved to H's.

Originally filed in M's; moved to H's.

Originally filed in M's; moved to H's.

Re: comparing G.R. Magill and Adolf Eichmann.

"Thank you for your letter which I have read with great interest and much sympathy. I think you have allowed yourself to be impressed more than is necessary by C.S. Lewis. The whole idea of throwing your life away blindly as an imagined service to Christ is a form of glorifying masochism and of self-abasement before power. It is the same pattern as that of the Russians who made confessions of guilt when prosecuted by Stalin. It is an essentially oriental attitude which Christianity took over when it attributed to God the moral defects of cruel despots. You would be doing a completely wrong act if you abandoned your children in order to practise some spectacular self-sacrifice in a distant country. You should try to bear in mind that there is no reason to believe in Christian doctrines and that much of the Christian ethic is unworthy of self-respecting people. You will find this sort of thing said at greater length in my recent book Why I Am Not a Christian. I have every wish to bring you comfort and reassurance, and I should be glad to know whether you make progress in this direction."

BR's letter is addressed to R.R. le B. Mount.

Translation is attached.

Kit Mouat is pen name of J. Neckey(?).

Mistakenly dated 1961.

Also enclosed is a business card. Pamphlet and leaflet are titled The School ... Instrument for Peace.

Originally filed in I's; moved to M's.

Originally filed in I's; moved to M's.

Photo is of painting titled "The Last Living Being".

Mimeo is titled "New Ways to Justice and Reason".

In response to Edith Russell's comments on BBC Radio 4 on the death of Lucy Russell.

Re an obituary of BR written by James D. Swamidasan.

Photos are of Bissell's home; also a photo of a painting of "your lovely Connecticut River 'hide-a-way' 'Kenocha' by Mr. Chapman, M.A., long ago friend of the Finches!" One photograph has a framed photo of a "college days' photo" of Edith.

This correspondent is not Dora Russell, née Black, Bertrand's 2nd wife.

Re W.S. Blunt and Catherine Walters.

Re W.S. Blunt and Catherine Walters.

Re W.S. Blunt and Catherine Walters.

Typed extract of letter forwarded to BR by Williams-Ellis with note re John Maddocks.

Re: Flade in Science and Religion; Edith Russell's note on top provides two sources of information.

Offprint is titled "An American Philosopher Looks at the Crisis", The Calcutta Review, Dec. 1960.

"In closest contact with Chou En-lai and Nehru during the crisis."

Re B.K. Murar.
 

Ms. is titled "Fragments from the Book of Lud-Vig which is the 9th Book of the Barbers".

"Thank you for your delightful satire and [of] the common language philosophers."