BRACERS Notes

Record no. Notes, topics or text
32702
32703
32704
32705
32706
32707
32708
32709
32710
32711
32712
32713
32714
32715
32716
2 copies.
32717
32718
32719

Addressed incorrectly to Lillian Borge.

32720
32721
32722

"The memory of the delightful hours I spent with you in Rome a few years ago is still vivid in my mind." (She was the daughter of Thomas Mann.)

32723

BR is glad to see her again.

32724
32725
2 copies.
32726
32727
32728
32729

"My experience in the Labour Party is a reflection of the fact that authority, of whatever kind, does not take well to intellectual independence or criticism of their more stupid dogmas. I think this applies to every government in existence."

"I do not believe that the reading of criminal stories, whatever the criminal stories may be, kills morality in the young. I think that what kills morality in the young is the helplessness in the face of cynical power exercised by men of authority."

32730
32731
32732

Boschi has signed a ts. and carbon copy of a translation of his letter.

32733

"We have attempted through the Pugwash Conference to bring about an increased sense of responsibility in scientific workers in the face of the grave danger that threatens us."

32734

Enclosed is a ts. article for Sanity titled "Why I Am a Nuclear Disarmer".

32735
32736

"I remember your father [A.M. Bose] well and recall the high opinion held of him by Hardy and his colleagues."

32737

"I do receive Daedalus and appreciate your offer to send it to me. The quotations are further example of the capacity for cruelty evident in man. The acquiescence in the horrors in store for us is owing to a failure of imagination on the part of most and a love for power on the part of the few who possess it."

32738

"You knew Tagore well in 1912-13 and met him again later in 1926, when I came with him to your Cornwall home. In his letters to his friends re: A Flight of Swans he says what a debt he owes to you and Romain Rolland for helping him on his way to overcome narrow nationalism and embrace internationalism."

32739

On the same page as the letter from George Rylands (see record 32740).

32740

On the same page as the letter from Sybil Thorndike (see record 32739.)

32741
32742
32743

Also enclosed is a ts. of some of his Tagore translations. The P.S. to his letter is handwritten.

32744
32745
32746
32747
Two copies.
32748

Postcard is a picture of Bose's home.

32749
32750
32751
32752
32753
32754
32755
32756
32757
32758
32759
32760
32761
32762

Poem is titled "Pastoral Panoply".

32763
32764

Ts. is a prologue to BR's Autobiography which he wants BR to sign. Boulton says he is related to Hannah Whitall Smith.

32765
Two copies.
32766
32767
32768
32769
32770

Periodical is Liberal, Dec. 1963.

32771
Two copies.
32772
32773

Ts. is titled "War Costs".

32774
32775
32776
32777
32778
32779
32780
32781
32782

Addressed to Monsieur le Percepteur in Lille, France.

32783

Letter to the editor, The Daily Courier, Kelowna, B.C. On the verso is stamped "Alec C. Beasley, R.R.1, Winfield, B.C."

32784
32785
32786
32787

Bowker was deeply moved by a letter BR sent to Dr. Victor Wallace. (Probably record 30763.)

32788
32789
32790
32791
32792

BR is not able to give her dissertation on history of logic "the attention it deserves".

32793
32794
Certificate of posting.
32795
32796
32797
Two copies.
32798
32799
32800

Ts. is titled "Some Chapter Headings".

32801

Written at foot is "short rude reply".