BRACERS Notes

Record no. Notes, topics or text
29702
29703

Newsclip is New York Times, 20 May 1962.

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29710
29711
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29714
29715
29716
29717

BR's letter is addressed to H.P. Stephens.

29718
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29720

Message for University College of North Wales meeting is in letter.

29721
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29724
29725
Re prestige pressure cookers.
29726

Re wages for domestic staff at Plas Penrhyn.

29727

Re wages for domestic staff at Plas Penrhyn.

29728
29729

"Lord Russell and I expect to leave here [Richmond] on Wednesday, July 4, and to get to Plas Penrhyn on Thursday, July 5, in time to greet the first van-load." "We are all looking forward ... to settling at Plas Penrhyn for keeps."

29730

"We do not understand why the work on the two attic rooms and the room above the scullery, especially the enlarging of the skylights, and the work on the greenhouse and the roof of the verandah is not further along."

[At Plas Penrhyn.]

29731

Applies for the job of house parlour maid at Plas Penrhyn even though male.

29732

On verso of Owen's letter.

"We need at present a house parlour maid."

29733

Re arrangements to start work at Plas Penrhyn.

29734

Re wiring the pump motor at Plas Penrhyn.

29735

Re payment of domestic staff at Plas Penrhyn.

29736

Re payment of domestic staff at Plas Penrhyn.

29737

On verso of Madams' letter.

"We are going up to London next Monday, Sept. 1 for two or three days at 29 Millbank...."

29738

Re taxes.

29739

Re taxes and payment of domestic staff at Plas Penrhyn.

29740

Re taxes and payment of domestic staff at Plas Penrhyn.

Three employees named Griffiths: Lilian, Bridget and Ruby: "None of these Griffiths are related to each other!" "Lewis Jones (who has taken the place of R.D. Osborne whom we had to sack as our gardener)."

29741

Re taxes and payment of domestic staff at Plas Penrhyn.

29742

Poem is titled "Our Responsibility".

29743
29744
29745

Advises Stern against coming to live in England: "not so liberal" and "full of vexatious red tape".

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Typescript is titled "A Proposed Investigation".

29756
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Stevens asks questions about the sit-down in BR's home.

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29760
29761

Sends BR his book The Meditations of William Shakespeare (Russell's Library, no. 1829).

29762

BR has not yet had time to read his book (Russell's Library, no. 1829).

29763

Poem is titled "Elegy—1962".

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Leaflet is from the peace group I.W.N.S.

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Booklet is titled Peace by Fitness: a Proposal for Developing a Positive Peace Program.

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Photo is of signed photos of Dwight Eisenhower, Albert Schweitzer, Harry Truman, and Willy Brandt.

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29793

On verso of St. John's letter.

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Letter returned by post office.

Ts. carbon also extant.

BR thinks he has never denied being a humanist but prefers the word rationalist.

"You also ask what is the source of my passion. I do not think that passions have any source. If you saw a child drowning, you would try to save it and would not wait for some -ism to persuade you that it was worth saving. I see the human race drowning and have an equally direct impulse to save it. There is no need to justify this impulse, any more than to justify eating when one is hungry. The -isms by which people attempt to justify their impulses are, in fact, products of the impulses that they pretend to justify."

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Enclosed is a letter to editor of The People.