BRACERS Notes

Record no. Notes, topics or text
28301

"I shall always remember in connection with Bertie two occasions on which he showed, not the public and impressive figure but the kind and considerate companion to his wife's friends."

28302

Re The Abolition of War.

28303

Re The Abolition of War.

28304
Invitation; there are also two mimeos describing memorial services from 1977.
28305
Notice is for payment of university dues.
28306

Pamphlet is an appeal for funds.

28307

Encloses article (not present).

28308
28309

Saigusa requests an article on the role of women in opposing nuclear war.

28310
28311
28312

Re the Atlantic Peace Foundation.

28313

Happy New Year card.

28314
28315
28316

Re her sister Julie Medlock.

28317

One letter is undated.

Also enclosed are ts. essays and a photocopy of a published periodical article.

Sutcliffe was the English representative of the Bertrand Russell Society.

28318
28319
28320

There is also a catalogue of her paintings and drawings from a show in New York, 1977-78.

28321
28322
28323

Re Arnold Toynbee and his death.

28324
28325
28326

Re Julian Trevelyan, being unable to locate photographs of BR in Taormina, and Ralph Schoenman.

28327
28328

37 ls. and 1 card.

Née Joan Henry, a great granddaughter of Lord John Russell.

The letters contain reminiscences of BR as well as Arthur Koestler's (with whom she had a brief affaire) opinion of BR.

In her letter of 11 Aug. 1970, Gogi (her nickname) states that her mother is BR's oldest living relative. She also discusses her husband, J. Lee Thompson, a Hollywood director. Another surname was Braby.

28329

Re mail for Edith Russell.

28330

Mimeo is a notice for a meeting and an agenda.

28331
28332
28333
28334

2 ls. and 1 card.

28335
28336

Re cleaning and repairing her lace collection.

28337

Re cleaning and repairing her lace collection.

28338

Re cleaning and repairing her lace collection.

28339

Also a mimeo.

28340

Newsclips concern his "Sinfonia Intrepida".

Also enclosed a press release on the same work.

28341
28342

Letter is dated "23 June".

28343
28344
28345

Receipt is for his professional services for a new garage at Plas Penrhyn.

28346

Letter is dated "5 June" and was written before the Russells moved to Plas Penrhyn.

28347
28348
28349
Returned envelope only.
28350
28351

"Being a woman, I am grateful for the ennobling attitude to women adopted and maintained by you." The reference is to the "Then and Now" series on BBC, just ended.

28352

"I am sure that the majority of 'mothers' are solidly behind you."

Re H-bomb protest.

28353

Leaflet is titled "Alternatives to the Arms Race" by W.H. Ferry.

28354
28355

On verso of Riepe's letter.

"I made the acquaintance of Mr. Barrows Dunham when I was lecturing at the Barnes Foundation in 1941. I have kept in touch with him since, and have read a good deal of his work, for which I have a great respect. I am quite sure that the victimization which he suffered was totally undeserved, and that if appointed as a professor of philosophy at the University of North Dakota he will give complete satisfaction and be a credit to the faculty."

28356
28357
28358
28359
28360

On verso of Rim's letter are some logical notations in BR's hand.

28361
28362
28363
28364

BR sends a signed photograph for Buffalo's collection.

28365
28366
28367
28368
28369
28370
28371
28372
28373
28374
28375
28376

BR's original letter also exists here; Ritter returned it to him.

28377

"I should prefer not to have a photograph of this portrait by Feliks Topolski used. I do not care for the work of Topolski. When he asked to see me with a view to doing my portrait, I refused. I suppose this is the portrait he did in any case."

The portrait would have been for an article in the Texas Quarterly by Herbert Read.

28378
Ritter's letter is on recto and verso of BR's letter.
28379
28380

Ts. is titled "Aging in Relation to Nutrition and Stress".
 

28381
28382
28383
28384
28385
28386

"Lawrence was a man who was consumed with a desire to punish those who did not share his intense feelings, borne of personal conflict and a wish to do violence he could not quite bring himself to risk acting out. For this reason he hated rationality and emphasized violent feeling—'thinking with the blood'. He was a remarkable man but not a likable one. He believed in the dominance of strong emotion about which he was not very clear and he felt industrial life and social convention stifled natural urges. He also felt that this was true of intellectual rigour. His difficulty in coming to terms with the extremity of his feelings made him despise ordinary men and women because they did not seem to experience the same. Such impulses may create striking imaginative work but not a man who can see the world as possibly having merit apart from his own private experience."

Re: D.H. Lawrence.

28387
28388
28389
28390

Photo is of Feliks Topolski's caricature portrait of BR held by the University of Texas.

28391

This is the first record in the family correspondence section, Edith Russell papers.

28392
28393
28394

4 ls. and 1 card.

28395
Re Sarah Russell.
28396

Birth announcement of their daughter, Rowan Underwood.

28397
28398
28399

Also from Rowan Underwood.

28400
Re the death of BR.