Will Couturat ask his publisher about Essay on the Foundations of Geometry?

On Couturat's review and BR's own change of mind.

Title of reply. Whitehead.

Sends reply. A.N. Whitehead article.

Sends reply to Halévy for translation.

On letterhead of Il Frullino, San Domenico di Fiesole, Florence.

Should have difficulty in replying to Lechalas in Annales de Philosophie Chrétien.

Il Frullino was the address of Mrs. Costelloe, Alys's sister.

Sends proofs to Halévy. Note on Lechalas.

Postmarked Settignano (?), Firenze (Florence).

On translation.

Translation.

Poincaré is at Couturat's.

On Poincaré.

Enclosure (record 125292 is an announcement for a "Congrès International de Philosophie" to be held in Paris in 1900. Couturat invites Russell to assist in the Congress, and to speak.

On Englishmen interested in logic of science. BR's reply to Poincaré to be 35 pp. and to include new theories.

Sends reply. Re the mathematical part. "Penchant pour la logique" — Moore's review. Ideas for Congress paper.

Couturat will translate BR's reply to Poincaré.

Mathematical part is out. A.N. Whitehead to attend Congress. BR has new ideas on all the subjects mentioned. Dreyfus affaire.

Addressed at top: Tiepolo, Canal Grande, Venice.

Couturat's article on Peano.

Returns ms. and translation, marking altered passages in red crayon.

Corrections and revisions to translation. Re Boer War.

Wants offprints. Read first proofs of French translation of his Essay on the Foundations of Geometry.

Sends proof of Poincaré's reply, but recommends an end to it.

Postmarked Fernhurst. Send offprint to A.N. Whitehead.

Boer War. Is he against the war?

Review of A.N. Whitehead.

Addressed from West Lodge, Downing College, Cambridge. BR was first of all against the Boer War, but now favours it, since the existence of the Empire depends on a successful outcome.

Finishing Leibniz. More on war and empire.

Also finishing Leibnitz (sic). BR is saving all their letters.

BR will translate Congress paper. Explains his philosophy of politics.

Enclosed newsclip is titled "The Struggle in South Africa. An American View. What Bishop Hartzell Thinks". There is a little on A.N. Whitehead.

Sends Congress article. The new logic exists only in two articles by Moore, and one isn't yet published. Has read Couturat's article on A.N. Whitehead. More on Whitehead. Leibniz. Saved all Couturat's letters.

Praises BR's own translation. Has had a letter from A.N. Whitehead. Printing of An Essay on the Foundations of Geometry  is suspended.

Will make a 10-page resumé. To mention Leibnitz.

His Leibnitz. A.N. Whitehead.

Typed copies 4 or 5 times. Ms. copies. The typography of the French and English editions of An Essay on the Foundations of Geometry.

His book is for students first of all. Type out first part of Congress article. BR remarks on the beauty of the paper and type of French edition of An Essay on the Foundations of Geometry. A.N. Whitehead.

BR received Couturat's "souvenir" of Hanover. Why not publish "le tout du tout 'des mss. de Leibniz'", since there always seems to be something important remaining? He seeks permission to publish his original of Congress paper, which he is reading to the Aristotelian Society in January 1901. Success of Congress. BR is considering doing an article for Mind on Peano et al., like Couturat's article for Revue.

Leibniz mss. article on Congress for L'Enseignement Mathématique.

Has BR's Leibniz. On the preface.

International language. A.N. Whitehead at the end.

Esperanto. Dedekind. Error in Cantor.

Postmarked Cambridge. Wants to correct Congress article's notation. BR’s idea of series of relative position is the same as the extension of Schroeder’s idea of order.

Success of Peano's method. A contradiction concerning classes.

His book (briefly). Wrote article for Encyclopaedia Britannica a year ago, but not yet published. Lechalas. French politics and Christianity.

Proofs of Congress paper. Wants more proofs when corrected, because there are many corrections. BR is on a committee re philosophical courses for a new university in London; wants calendars. Peano. A.N. Whitehead to write 2 papers for American Journal of Mathematics, using BR's algebra of relations. BR has written an article for Rivista de Matematica on relations.

University.

Sends proofs of his "Memoire" and that of Schroeder. The latter's article precedes BR's (B&R B1) in Volume III of Bibliothèque du Congrès International de Philosophie.

Receives 5 copies of Essay on the Foundations of Geometry. Send copies to Poincaré and Lechalas. (Writes from Mill House, his address for next 6 weeks.)

Postmarked Trumpington. Thanks for distributing Essai so well.

Content with 50 copies of Congress paper. If it should appear in English, it will be in different form.

On the University of London—detests exams; scope of committee.

Course next winter at Trinity. 3rd volume of Congress proceedings is "magnifique".

Wants BR to translate into English letter and declaration of Langue Internationale. Cites BR and A.N. Whitehead in preface to Leibnitz. Has BR read Husserl's Logische Untersuchungen.

A.N. Whitehead's promised article.

Will do translation. Will send Couturat list of subjects he'll discuss in winter course.

Sends translation of letter and declaration. Wants proofs.

Sends his American article, which contains 1 or 2 errors because he wasn't sent proofs.

Likes American article.

Received Leibnitz—"Tres Beau Livre". Sends relations article—multitude of typographical errors: 1 material error.

A.N. Whitehead has published in American Journal of Mathematics.

Going to do joint work with A.N. Whitehead—title (in French).

At least 2 years before completion.

Will do Inédits de Leibniz. Hard to read Peanoesque stuff.

In Revue des Questions Scientifiques (Oct. 1901), Lechalas criticizes him; it needs a reply. BR's joint book with A.N. Whitehead. 22 "Pp" (primitive propositions).

More on Trinity College course. Finished review of Couturat's book, Leibnitz. BR is publishing nothing on geometry because he is developing all ideas together.

Printing of Principles begun. Frege. Meinong. Happy over end of South African War. Concentration camps.

Mrs. Whitehead very ill. On happiest 2 days of his life.

(Next letter says "youth".) Petition.

Not yet received proofs of his review of Leibnitz. Now living on Cheyne Walk, close to Carlyle's house. Contradiction. A.N. Whitehead.

About 240 copies of French edition of An Essay on the Foundations of Geometry have been sold.

Very satisfied with "rather considerable" 240 copies sold of Essai. Lechalas letter. A.N. Whitehead's mathematical competence. Principles of Mathematics vol. I treats of many problems BR couldn't resolve.

Praise for Inédits. Contradiction. Jourdain.