BRACERS Notes

Record no. Notes, topics or text
28001
28002
28003
28004
28005
28006
Letter dated incorrectly; date taken from postmark on envelope.
28007

54 ls. and 3 cards.

Also enclosed is a catalogue of Epstein's works including a photo of his bust of Lucy Donnelly (at document .310668);

Photos of Hazelton (documents .310671 and .310722);

Many newsclips throughout the correspondence; photos of new place;

Tear-sheet from Bryn Mawr Alumnae Bulletin, summer 1976, p. 29 containing photo of Cambridge Moral Science Club in 1915 with BR (document .310721);

Tear-sheet from Bryn Mawr Alumnae Bulletin, summer 1977, p. 21 containing news of their class (document .310726).

28008
28009

Re Katharine Tait.

28010
28011

On verso of Hazelton's letter to Edith Russell.

28012
28013
28014

Invitation is to concert by John Williams.

28015
28016
28017

On verso of Ratner's letter.

28018
28019
28020
28021
28022

3 birthday cards.

28023
28024

Marion Kearns published a bibliography of Alys Russell in Russell, no. 10 (Summer 1973): 17-19.

28025

Order form.

28026
28027
28028
28029
28030
28031
28032

Re helping Constance Malleson financially; her reaction to book by Katharine Tait.

28033
Re helping Constance Malleson financially.
28034
28035

Re BR's incomplete reading of her book in ts. form on William Frend.

BR hoped it would be published.

28036

1 l. and 2 cards; photos are of the Koombas family.

28037
28038
28039

11 ls. and 3 cards; cards are illustrations of her wall hangings and textile murals.

28040

Husband of BR's London housekeeper.

28041

Husband of BR's London housekeeper.

Lends him £50.

28042
28043
28044

"I have given your poem to Peace News, and it has been my hope that they would be able to publish it."

28045
28046
28047

Letter is to editor of The Observer, 8 April 1963, re Unarmed Victory.

28048
28049

Tss. are titled "On a Brief Resume of Kant by Lord Russell" and "On an Account Given by Lord Russell of One of Kant's Illustrations of the Working of the Categorical Imperative".

28050

"I think, in your paper about Kant's categorical imperative, you are right in saying that I misinterpreted Kant, which I am sorry to have done. I do not, however, find myself any more in agreement with your interpretation than with mine. Your other paper on 'Practical Reason' does not convince me. But Kantian exegesis is a dark labyrinth and I no longer feel that I can wander in it. I am sorry that my ethical perplexities remain what they were."

28051
28052
28053
28054
28055
28056

Ts. is "List of Scientific Papers" by Reichbach.

28057

"I am sorry that I do not see any way in which I can help you as it is many years since I was at Cambridge and I no longer have any influence there. I should think you would do better to try to get a position in America."

28058

Copy sent to BR from Reichenbach.
 

28059
28060
28061
28062
28063
28064
28065
28066
28067
28068
28069

Tss. are titled "A Study of Money" and "A Summary of—Our Golden Age Still Lies Ahead".

28070
28071
28072

Re: slave trade and the Church.

28073
28074

Answers questions on Russia, Britain, USA, and nuclear war.

28075
28076
28077
28078
28079
28080
28081

"I have no views on aesthetic[s] and I am incapable of appreciating abstract art. I thought I had explained thi[s] before, but I gather that you find it incredible."

On verso of Reid's letter.

28082

Quotes from BR's letter of 23 Nov. 1955 (not extant here) on art and aesthetics:

"In spite of this I find it extremely interesting that your work should be influenced by consideration of the sort of abstract relations with which my work deals, which makes me all the more deeply regret my aesthetic blind spot ... and I should hope that your conversation will help me to understand things that at present I find puzzling."

28083
28084

Letter is a circular from Alphonse C. Vinescou enclosing a questionnaire and ts. titled "Suggestions for an International Conference of Scientific Cultural and Technical Representatives Etc."

Newsclip is from The Times of India, 4 May 1958 re Vinescou.

28085

34 ls. and 2 cards. Also enclosed is Harvard University Gazette, 7 Oct. 1977 (document .310831).

Re her reaction to Bertrand Russell's America (document .310814) and the death of Leonard Elmhirst (document .310815).

28086
28087
28088
28089

Re Peggy Kiskadden's reservation; signed by his secretary.

28090
28091

Re her editing of the correspondence of William Rothenstein and Max Beerbohm.

28092

Re Max Beerbohm possibly having done a drawing of BR.

28093

Pamphlet by Lamont is titled "Trip to Communist China".

Also enclosed is a promotional flyer for book by Helen B. Lamb, Studies on India and Vietnam.

Lamb was Lamont's wife.

28094

On verso of Lamont's letter.

Re the Bertrand Russell centenary celebrations at McMaster.

28095

Re the Bertrand Russell centenary celebrations at McMaster and the formation of the Bertrand Russell Society in USA.

28096

Re the death of Helen Lamb. Marked "Not sent".

28097

Re the death of Helen Lamb.

Marked "Sent".

28098

Ts. is quote from the New York Times, Aug. 18; newsclips also from New York Times, Aug. 18 and May 9; year not given.

Re: chemical warfare.

28099
28100

Mrs. Sonning asks BR to change his mind and speak to the students at Copenhagen University during his visit.