BRACERS Notes

Record no. Notes, topics or text
46302
46303
46304
46305
46306
46307
46308
46309
46310
46311
46312
46313

Document is The Pugwash Movement: Its History and Aim, printed and assembled.

46314

Document is a draft of BR's "Statement for Future Use by S.O.S." There are revisions in Schoenman's hand on this document. A carbon copy of the unedited draft is also in file, as well as two carbon copies of the edited versions of this statement.
For the correspondence that probably led to this draft, and the reply conveying a decision not to send anything, see RA2 315, document .151848, record 95504.

46315

Document is a "Manifesto: in the Name of Science and the Future of Mankind".

46316

Document is titled "London Statement", prepared by Rabinowitch, and is designated "First Draft".

Statement is from the Pugwash Conference in London.

46317

Blank letterhead with the US and European addresses and the following names on it: BR, Edward Bullard, C.F. Powell, J. Rotblat, E. Rabinowitch, V. Weisskopf, Bentley Glass, E.K. Fedorov, D.V. Skobeltzyn and A.V. Topchiev.

Also in file: 3 more copies.

46318

Document is a report on Kate Russell detailing her progress in school subjects, height and weight.

46319

Document is a report on John Russell detailing his progress in school subjects, height and weight.

46320

Letter to BR regarding John and Kate's term report done by the Beacon Hill staff.

Document has been edited by Dora.

46321

Document is a handwritten report on Kate Russell, discussing her health, her posture and tracking her height and weight.

46322

Re Anne's application to Corsham.

46323

Kate Russell's end of summer term report.

46324

Document is the music teacher's report on John and Kate Russell.

46325

Health report for Kate and John Russell, summer term, 1933.

46326

Letter is a report for Kate Russell for the term, with the exception of her physical report, which will be sent when the term ends.

46327

Instead of the NCF, the NCCL will sponsor BR's talk in Leicester as a public meeting. [Not in Papers 14 chronology.]

46328

Letter is a report for John Russell for the term, with the exception of his physical report which will be sent when the term ends.

46329

Health report for Kate Russell.

46330

Health report for Kate Russell.

46331

Health report for John Russell.

46332

Blake apologizes for not having seen BR and for not having written before. Blake lists what he has accomplished in the last ten days as being "1) found the nicest studio in New York, 2) re- corrected my father's manuscript, 3) worked madly on Serge's city-planning project, 4) had a job, 5) met again the aged ballet-dancer and decided not to, 6) seen Margot once or twice and decided (probably) yes...." Blake has written "still have" above "had a job".

Blake has drawn a depiction of the exterior of the studio in New York, as well as his bed inside the studio, noting that due to the skylight he can remain "in instant communication with God".

46333

Enclosure slip: "Copy of a personal letter to certain friends...."

46334

The letter is clipped with document .103046 and an envelope, from which the date is assigned.

Peter thanks Patricia for her letter, writing, "I am terribly sorry that things are still as chaotic as all that, and wish that I could help. I shall try to see Diddy in a day or two and ask him."

As Peter has difficulty reading Patricia's handwriting, "... and can't make out the word that explains it all", he asks her to write in printed capitals, roman alphabet, on a postcard to explain the worry about Pam's lungs.

Blach encloses an article which may amaze Patricia (not present).

"This man can be heard over the radio on Sunday nights 7.45 WOR and is often very good." He is also very happy about John.

46335

Blach refers to a forthcoming visit and William's sudden call to go to England:

"William <Clark?> phoned a short while ago. He was in an tremendous rush, informing me that he had precisely half an hour in New York, that he wanted me to let you know that he had suddenly been called to England, that he had been unable to let you know, because it all happened so quickly, that he can be reached at the Ministry of Information in London, that he will be back in this country in September."

46336

Blake writes that his weekend was lovely, though he is in a rush to get the next issue out, so he will write fully the following week.

"It seems very likely that I shall be able to come for at least a day before going off to the wars."

He thanks Patricia for forwarding Pam's <Pamela Campbell> letter. "It was terrible, because, strangely enough, she seems to feel quite a bit the way I do...."

46337

Blake thanks Patricia for her two letters. "It is funny, but I can almost read your handwriting now, and what you wrote was definitely just what the doctor had ordered. Otis and I would love to come, and if you can make it, how about the weekend of the 10th? One room...."

He congratulates Patricia regarding Barnes, and tells her not to feel sorry for him regarding the Army. "I am really quite happy about it, since all the uncertainty is over, and one can at last do something definite for the war. Incidentally, it will establish my moral right to go back to England afterwards rather more strongly, I think, particularly if I can get into the fighting in Europe."

He also writes regarding Conrad, calling the incident "unspeakably brutal" and telling Patricia she was "... right not to send him to school here. Was he badly hurt? Please give him my love."

Blach refers to the Detroit riots.

46338

Curry complains that BR has written to him "as if he were a butcher who had sent you a bad piece of meat".

Re too many courses for Kate, her part in a play, and John and Kate's monkey (which has now gone to Dora).

Curry thinks the main problem is "the fact that you [BR and Dora] dislike each other so much, and that everybody knows it".

46339

Blach writes from a Ft. Myers military base. Blach acknowledges that he has not written to BR in a long time, but that his letters to Peter were also intended for BR.

He writes as he has discovered a number of things essential to warfare which BR might be able to help with. "In the modern fighter and bomber planes the fixed firing has been worked out, nearly to perfection, with numerous considerations." "The trouble is that while these facts are all known to the mathematicians, they are terribly difficult for the average gunner to grasp, and it seems to me that you would be very good indeed in evolving a very simple method of instruction to teach these gunners this very complicated method in very comprehensible language, and with minimum mathematics."

He also writes about the Sperry computing sight, which is aimed at the plane, not above, giving guns a necessary lead. "This sight is still terribly complicated and you may very well be the man to evolve a much simpler one. I suggest that you write to Einstein, who is now doing mathematical work for the Navy, and ask him whether he does not think you could do a great deal of that for the RAF, par example."

There is no indication that BR answered the letter.

46340

Blake's name is spelt thus on the letterhead of the Museum of Modern Art where he is Curator of the Department of Architecture and Design.

Blake informs BR that he has heard about BR and Patricia [their separation] through Freya von Moltke and Freda Utley.

He and Patricia have written quite a lot; "My impression was that her psychological state had become a serious threat to Conrad, and I sent a barrage of letters to try and wear her out, and to try and protect Conrad by indirection."

He recalls the decision between himself and BR for Blake to retain Patricia's confidence, so he could occasionally intervene for Conrad, which he has maintained, largely because Patricia thinks Blake hates BR.

"My dear Diddy, I think I have an idea of what it must mean to you to have lost the fight for Conrad. But perhaps, if I can maintain my position with Peter, there are things that I can do indirectly to influence Conrad's life which you might consider necessary. I beg you to destroy this letter to make certain that Peter will not see it."

46341

Cooper-Willis thanks Edith for her letters to Susan concerning Anne's progress. The letter mainly concerns the prospect of Lucy studying at Dartington in September.

46342

Document is a report on the spring term's work with a growth report for Kate Russell (document .103128).

46343

Document is a summer term report with growth report for Kate Russell (document .103131).

46344

See document .103171, record 46845, for the enclosure.

46345
Enclosed with document .103170, record 46345.
46346

Enclosed is a growth report for Kate Russell (document .103174).

46347

Curry is relieved to have BR's letter. A serious misunderstanding would have caused Curry "deep personal unhappiness" because of the effect of BR's writings on him as an undergraduate.

46348

Document is an autumn term report with a growth report for Kate Russell (document .103174).

46349

Not a letter; tear-sheet from Daily Sketch, 14 April 1916, "A Conscientious Objector's First Day in the Army". The C.O. in the photograph is Eric Chappelow.

46350

Curry reports on Kate's progress in the spring term. Enclosed is a growth report for Kate Russell (document .103184).

46351
46352

Printed copy of the letter.

46353

Curry reports on Kate's progress during the summer term. Enclosed is a growth report for Kate Russell (document .103196).

46354

Curry reports on Kate's autumn term progress. Enclosed is a growth report for Kate Russell (document .103201).

46355

Curry reports on Kate's progress during the spring term. Enclosed is a growth report for Kate Russell (document .103220), along with dates for the school year 1937-1938 and a blank health report to be filled in by a parent.

46356
46357
46358

"Draft of memorial to the Prime Minister".

46359
46360

Not a letter; a printed tear-sheet headed "No. 146, 22 November 1917, 4533"; re possible death penalty at court martial of New Zealand soldier. See documents .073267g and .073267h, record 69181 and record 0046553.

46361

Curry believes Dora holds that Dartington is "insufficiently radical" on "questions of sex, and freedom in general".

46362
Mimeographed copy; eight copies.
46363
46364
46365

Curry praises BR's "Education and Civilization".

46366
46367
46368

Enclosed is a notice to parents regarding the revision of fees.

46369

Two letters from a man in the non-combatant corps at Felixstowe Barracks, and one from a different man at Shoreham Barracks, combined into a circular letter.

46370

Same text as document .073295, different typing.

46371
Re forms for next term.
46372

BR told him that his house "was one of the few things that made you feel old-fashioned". Curry asks BR to speak at a Sunday evening gathering.

46373

BR will stay with Curry.

46374

Curry suggests 11 Nov. for BR's Sunday evening paper.

46375

BR's "Review in the New Era" gave Curry much pleasure (it was of Curry's The School and a Changing Civilization).

46376
Re fees.
46377
46378
46379

Curry encloses letters from Edwards (document .103113, record 46385) and Wales (document .103116, record 46386).

46380

The covering note simply lists enclosures, of which only enclosure one, titled "Proposals for Dealing with the Problem of the Conscientious Objector", is included in this file. It is dated 31 May 1916. There are duplicates in RA1 535 (documents .073306 and .073307).

46381

Not a letter; rather a printed flyer titled Why I Am in Jail; on the verso is a handwritten postscript initialled by Hislam.

46382

Included in the letter is a "Message to the National Peace Conference, 24 and 25 February, 1962, from Bertrand Russell".

46383
46384
Information on beginning of term.
46385

Document is a report on the first term's work and a growth report for Kate Russell (document .103112).

Also enclosed is a blank health report for BR to fill in (document .103114).

46386

Document is a report on the first term's work and a growth report for John Russell (document .103115).

46387

Enclosed is a letter to Curry from Dr. Obermer re John Russell.

46388

Addressed to "Miss Spence".

46389
46390
46391
46392
46393

Curry reports on John's progress during the spring term.

Enclosed is a growth report for John Russell (document .103126).

46394

Curry reports on John's progress during the summer term.

Enclosed is a growth report for John Russell (document .103133).

46395
46396

Brown's letter reproduces G.H. Stuart Beavis' letter to his mother. Brown's letter is enclosed with Marshall's (document .073320, record 69298). There is a second TL(MIM).

46397

Wales reports on John's progress during the autumn term.

46398
46399

Enclosure is a printed monthly report form, not filled in.

46400
46401

Not a letter, but a Hansard extract, "Military Service Act, 1916 (Session 2)". There are also 12 mimeo and carbon pages of amendments to the new Military Service Bill approved by the JAC (Joint Advisory Committee of the NCF, Friends' Service Committee and the Fellowship of Reconciliation).