BRACERS Notes

Record no. Notes, topics or text
52402

BR wrote: "[As from] Harvard University" which indicates he was not yet there.

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52408

Murray encloses BR's letter of 18 March 1945 on The Problems of Philosophy.

52409

A transcription is attached. BR thinks that revising The Problems of Philosophy would "involve a pretty complete re-writing".

52410

BR asks Murray to consider signing an enclosed letter to the New York Times on food parcels and German starvation. For the enclosure's  transcription, see record 68555.

52411

On food parcels to the U.K. and German starvation. When published, the letter was signed also by the Bishop of Chichester and Victor Gollancz and dated 11 Oct. 1946. For another copy, see record 68555, where there is a transcription.

BR asked Gilbert Murray to sign the letter, but he declined.

52412

There is a typed copy by the Bodleian at record 79411.

52413

There is a Bodleian typed transcription at 78413.

52414

A Bodleian transcription of the original is at record 79416.

52415
52416

On the Trondheim incident. BR owed his preservation to tobacco, drink and WWI. "I wish we met sometimes, not only at Winston's gargantuan feasts." (Churchill.) BR "abandoned temperance when the King took the pledge in 1914".

There is a typed transcription by the Bodleian at record 79420.

52417

BR must look up Murray's article in the November Contemporary.

There is a Bodleian transcription of the original at record 79421.

52418

On the difficulty of their debating (re Asia, Russia, and civilization). This concerns their appearance on the BBC's "London Forum", prerecorded 5 May 1949 and broadcast 6 June, on the topic "Is Regional Association the Most Practical Step Toward World Government?".

"Much the most delicate branch of the subject is Asia, where democracy and economic justice conflict with the preservation of civilization. ... nothing we can do will prevent Asia from going communist."

"Where democracy and civilization conflict, I am for civilization."

A Bodleian transcription is at record 79423.

52419

Re the Order of Merit.

There is a Bodleian transcription at record 79424.

52420

BR is having some of his letters to Murray typed and then will return them. On BR's pacifism in WWI but not against Hitler. On Murray's "Myself When Young" (a recent broadcast).

A Bodleian transcription of the original is at record 79425.

BR has queried the year, typed as "45".

On the First vs. the Second World War. People would say BR is "rash and impetuous". Selecting material (for BR's Autobiography) is "terribly difficult".

52421

BR is now returning the letters Murray sent him, as he has had copies typed. A selection should go into BR's Autobiography.

There are typed copies at records 79426 and 79427.

52422
52423

BR will deal with population in a later broadcast and encloses (not present) a lecture on it.

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52443

Written from the Drummond Arms Hotel. Re the CCNY case.

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52446

The letter contains comments by BR on Princess Margaret.

52447

BR notes he is "still not quite respectable". He has no honorary degree from a U.K. university.

52448

On the death of Mary Murray.

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52459

From the Old Mill Club, West Harnam, Salisbury.

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52462

Postcard is of Tenerife.

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52476

Although postmarked Harting, Petersfield, the postcard is of Hayburn, Wyke.

52477

Posted from Scandinavia.

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52484
The letter has been annotated by BR. There is also a carbon.
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52501

Re answers to scholarship application questions for Katharine Tait.