BRACERS Notes

Record no. Notes, topics or text
53203
53204
53205

Schroeder, Peano, Frege, symbolic logic part of vol. 2 almost finished. (I.e. what became Principia.)

53206
53207

Previously, Russell was at 14, Cheyne Walk; now it is 13. Imperialism. Protectionism. Intuition. Guided by aesthetic maxims.

53208
53209

Praises "almost unintelligible" energy of Couturat resulting in work on Langue Internationale with M. Leau. Arbitration treaty.

Will send ms. of beginning of vol. 2 (i.e. Principia). A.N. Whitehead. Won't write an article on Kant.

53210
53211

Difficulties with "class".

53212

On the ms.

53213

Reply. Will be occupied politically for some months.

53214
53215

Ms. Kant.

53216

Sending ms. back to A.N. Whitehead.

53217
53218

Idealism.

53219
53220

Principle of abstraction. 7+5=12.

53221
53222

On Couturat's logic article. Frege.

53223
53224

Now BR is back at 14, Cheyne Walk.

His free trade campaign. Hasn't seen MacColl in Athenaeum, nor Frege's 2 new works.

53225
53226

Distinctions between "= ... Df". "≡" [equivalence], " = ".

Extensionality and more on existence, existential props.

53227
53228

Burali-Forti, Frege on geometry, Frege on functions. Nature of actual space is an empirical question.

53229
53230

BR on the nature of space. Burali-Forti, vol. 2.

53231
53232
53233
53234
53235
53236
53237

See record 57119 for an appended letter.

53238

The letter is dated 1904/07/11 at the foot of p. 7. See BR ms., record 135567,  titled "Rémarques sur la Logique Mathématique de M. Couturat." It has 5 leaves.

53239
53240
53241
53242
53243
53244

The date is written "30 7bre 1904". Letterhead of Hotel de l'Epée. Le Theuff. Quimper.

53245
53246
53247
53248
53249
53250
53251
53252
53253

Annotated by BR: "Answered".

53254
53255
53256
53257
53258
53259
53260
53261
53262
53263
53264
53265
53266
53267

This letter has a "Note de A.N.W."

53268

Not a letter; rather, two mss., the first titled "Notes on Poincaré, RMM, Nov. '05"; the second titled "Notes on Poincaré's 2nd Article." P. 2 of the 2nd ms. is a "Sketch of Theory of Finite and Infinite". Both are in BR's hand.

53269

Note at top by someone: "Voir dans lettres de Russell. Copie d'une lettre envoyée par Louis le 17 Decembre."

53270

Ms., in BR's hand, titled "Whitehead's Notation for Multiple Relations", is presented as letter 188.

53271
53272

The top copy is at RA1 710.048629.

53273
53274
53275
53276
53277
53278

From the Hotel de la Poste.

53279
53280
53281
53282

Postmarked Oxford.

53283
53284

From Providence House, Clovelly, Bideford.

53285
53286
53287
53288
53289
53290
53291
53292

Letterhead: Délégation pour l'Adoption d'une Langue Auxiliare Internationale.

53293
53294
53295
53296
53297
53298

From the Porthminster Hotel, St. Ives, Cornwall.

53299
53300

Not a letter but a memorandum of a visit by BR on 20 April 1909.

53301

Not a letter but a copy from microfilm of a review of The Principles of Mathematics appearing in The Times Literary Supplement of 18 September 1903.

The review is by G.H. Hardy. The microfilm is of Jourdain's correspondence notebooks.

53302

On irrationals. 

BR has plans to publish his lectures in a joint book with Whitehead, who could lend Jourdain his notes of BR's lectures.