A condolence letter on the death of BR. Unlike his other letters in this recent acquisition, Curtis signs this letter "Jim" rather than "J.S."

The original letter is document .119146, record 108885.

This letter acknowledges the condolence letter sent by Curtis.

The carbon of this letter appears not to be present in the Russell Archives.

BR accepts Tönnies's invitation to become a corresponding member of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sociologie.

"It is true that I very nearly died in Peking, but the story that I was actually dead was an intelligent anticipation on the part of Japanese journalists. Did you hear that it was by the care of German doctors, in a German hospital, that my life was saved?"

"Yes, I saw that we met in the pages of the International Review" (during the war).

BR cannot accept his invitation to go to Hamburg. He will be in Bavaria for a week in August and has also accepted invitations to Switzerland and Italy. He cannot be abroad any longer than one month.

"I think often of Theodore Davies; he could have played a beneficent part in the present horrible condition of the world."

This is a partial transcription of a letter from Tönnies to BR.

He remembers meeting BR in Hamburg when he (Tönnies) was very young. He has tried to see BR during two visits to England. Even with the assistance from their mutual friend, Crompton Davies, he has not been successful.

The second paragraph has not been transcribed but contains an invitation for BR to join the Societas Hobbesiana.

This letter contains two revisions in BR's hand, indicating that it was drafted for him by a secretary.

The typed carbon of this letter is in RA1 640, record 63776.

BR agrees to the reprinting of "Reflections on My Eightieth Birthday". The publisher is in Scarborough, Ontario.

Two copies of the carbon of this letter are in RA1 410, record 51454.

BR comments on the biographical sketch that Lee has enclosed. He regrets that no mention has been made of his anti-nuclear work which he considers "to be perhaps the most important part of my life's work".

The signature is secretarial (though which secretary is unknown).

The typed carbon of this letter is in RA1 410, record 5954.

Also in this file is a poem by the 12th Duke of Bedford, "March, 1941", newsclips about him, pamphlets and a House of Lords speech by him, and two black and white photographs.

Attached is a photocopy of the typed copy of the letter.

Beacon Hill "School article mailed."

The letter is written from Wandsworth Prison on prison notepaper.

Apparently Hyams was a conscientious objector.

Also in this file are two peace leaflets, no. 1 and no. 2, issued by the Independent Labour Party.

The writers appear to be conscientious objectors.

Lee agrees to amend BR's biographical sketch in the second printing.

The original of this letter appears not to be present in the Russell Archives.

"President of Harvard University says university wants services of Bertrand Russell as lecturer. Latter thinks that he may be refused permission to leave. He might be warned that Germans will circulate any anti-British utterances he may make here."

Transcription of telegram by K. Blackwell.

"Following Rice's telegram were several comments from F.O. officials" including S.G. [Stanley Grant?], G.B [Butler] and others. Transcription of these comments are in the file.

BR thanks Miss Lincoln for her accurate secretarial work and correct punctuation. He is leaving for California.

The letter is accompanied by 2 manuscripts, "Marriage and Personality" and "On Being a Good Boy".

Murray notes that he always enjoys Bertrand Russell and Arnold Toynbee on the wireless.

Dickinson asks that the recipient sign the enclosed memorial to be sent to Prime Minister H.H. Asquith. The memorial and letter are in support of Scott Duckers.

Much later the entire Catherine Marshall papers were microfilmed and accessioned as Rec. Acq. 982. This letter and other materials in this file, however, are originals—deemed by the archivist in Carlisle as "spare copies". They are mimeographs and carbon copies.

BR will send a copy of Eisler's Morals without Mystery to his London literary agent.

No typed carbon of this letter is in RA1 or RA2, but there is one in the Anton Felton papers, Rec. Acq. 1343 (record 123175).

The file also contains a photocopy of Morals without Mystery.

On the "best 100 books", BR can see the case for Euclid and Newton.

BR has been elected to a Trinity Fellowship—"a special offer, owing to my being above the age-limit."

A photocopy is in the Hook papers, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and a copy in RA Rec. Acq. 1161B.

BR recommends Casimir Lewy ("whom I know well and think highly of") for a year-long position; secondly, Karl Britton.

Elizabeth Russell is sorry that Allen cannot visit BR in Brixton in May. She asks if he would be available for her next visit on 5 June 1918.

Elizabeth Russell tells Allen that BR now wants to see him as part of Frank Russell's group. Frank suggests that they meet on 17 July to go to Brixton Prison. BR wants to see him very much.

She tells him that "We smuggled your letter to him yesterday. He is well, but exasperated."

BR thanks Quine for his "What There Is" article. BR himself in the airplane accident at Trondheim almost ceased to be among "What There Is".

There is a typed copy at record 81510.

The dictation for this letter is described at record 14394. For BR, it was a pleasure to make Schweitzer's acquaintance.

There is also a typed copy, document .111846, record 4693. Re Tshombe's rule in Katanga in the Congo. BR disagrees with Schweitzer.

"Private". BR appeals to Schweitzer to attend a Committee of 100 demonstration.

Schweitzer has marked up this letter with underlining and some notations.

The typed carbon of this letter is document .055725, record 2895.

The carbon of this letter does not appear to be present in the Russell Archives.

BR asks Schweitzer to help him in fundraising for the Committee of 100. The signature is secretarial.

The carbon of this letter does not appear to be present in the Russell Archives.

Schweitzer has marked up the letter with underlining and notation. BR has added a handwritten postscript.

BR announces plans to create a peace foundation (the BRPF).

Schweitzer has marked this letter with underlining.

The carbon for this letter is document .111856, record 82350.

BR is grateful for Schweitzer's sponsorship of the BRPF.

The carbon for this letter does not appear to be present in the Russell Archives.

On Katanga in the Congo.

Dorothy was a sister of Helen Dudley. Her son Jason was a pupil at Beacon Hill School. BR writes that Jason is "artistic and imaginative". [In fact, he became a painter.]

BR, being overwhelmed with work, cannot find time to read and therefore write a foreword to Szabo's manuscript.

BR thanks Evans for a photograph that the Russells are glad to have.

It will be a pleasure to see Anne Eaton's daughter and friend when they arrive.

Anna Dudley was the mother of Helen Dudley.

BR tells a Soviet reader that his views on religion have remained unchanged since Why I Am Not a Christian.

BR deletes a sentence about being reluctant to co-operate with Bernal.

He is agreeable to doing an interview. Green's five questions are "searching".

BR is entirely willing to join the Guilde Ernest Renan. BR is in complete agreement with the point of view in the circular he was sent.

BR asks if the audio record of his Manchester speech is available for sale. The recording is "astonishingly clear and good".

Wittgenstein "abominated my introduction". Re the Ogden translation: "The only thing I remember is a remark of Wittgenstein's, saying that 'superstition consists in belief in causality' and that this is how the relevant German passage should be translated."

"No > youth festival".

Caroline was another of Helen Dudley's sisters.

Farley replies to Curtis's letter of 10 June 1969 to BR and thanks him for a gift of £10.

The typed carbon of this letter is document .123170, record 34107.

A note written on a postcard of the People's Suffrage Federation.

Dated by hand "? 30/11/15" but postmarked "30 DE 15".

In Russell's hand: "I Nevile's Ct."

The top half is torn off and is not present. (Perhaps the text was used in the Cambridge Magazine note on BR's award of the Butler Medal.)

Not a letter but a syllabus for a course of lectures by BR titled "Principles of Social Reconstruction".

Re North Staffs.

Re Graeme West.

Re Graeme West.