BRACERS Notes

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Also enclosed are an offprint book review of Boyko's Science and the Future of Mankind from the Journal of the Franklin Institute, Feb. 1962, and a meeting agenda.

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31309
31310

Mimeo concerns the group.

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Issue no. 1, March 1961, is enclosed, with an editorial, "We Salute this Man Russell!" by Jack Lundin.

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"Thank you for your recent letter and the enclosed cutting from the Sunday Express, though I must add that I am no longer surprised at the quality of its journalism."

31317
31318

Brooke has met with BR.

31319

Enclosed is note from Nina Worley on United Humanitarian and Anti-Vivisection League letterhead.

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31322

Letter is a note written at foot of poem titled "J'Accuse".

31323

"People still shudder at Herod. The present rulers of East and West plan to massacre several million times as many innocents as he did. I am communicating your poem to the Committee of 100 in case they are able to make use of it." On the verso of Worrall's letter.

31324

Poem is titled "J'Accuse"; it is not the same as previous one.

31325

Poem is titled "To Nuclear Bomb Scientists (and Supporters)".

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31327
31328

BR no longer has a copy of Olaf Stapledon's book The Star Maker.

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31333

Newsclip is from U.S. News and World Report, 25 Sept., 1961.

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31342
"he receives an average of twenty letters a day all asking questions and demanding replies."
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Ts. has quotations by Milton and MacAulay.

31346
31347

On the verso of Wright's letter.

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31349

BR's letter is addressed to Laurence E. Wrigley.

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31355
31356

A copy for BR.

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On BR's letter in New Statesman.

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31371

"I agree that the Elgin marbles should be returned, although I do not feel, as you do, that it is the 'greatest wrong'."

31372

Xynidis thanks BR for his view that the Elgin marbles should be returned.

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31384

"The remarkable physical feat which I suppose to be in question was mainly a journalistic invention. I was a passenger in a plane which sank in the fjord at Trondheim. Some of the passengers were killed. The rest had to jump out and swim about a hundred yards to a nearby boat. The newspapers exaggerated everything."

31385

"I went to school in Hindhead, Surrey, and often had tea with Lady Agatha Russell, but cannot remember whether you were related."

Yates is the daughter of Rowland Estcourt whom she claims BR knew.

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31392

This letter was also sent separately to Mrs. F. Seervai and Prof. K.L.S. Rao.

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31395

Enclosed (not present) is a copy of Views and Voice, one of the publications of the Mission.

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31397

"I find the history of the spread of humanism and of the work of your Society greatly encouraging and I am very sorry that I cannot accept your invitation to write a preface for the Lectures on Humanism to be published by your Society.... Nonetheless, I send you and your Society my heartiest congratulations on the work that you have done and are doing, and my warmest good wishes for your success."

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