Alys has been laid up with an accident to her leg. BR may go to Friday's Hill in August at Berenson's request. He will be on a ten-day bicycling trip before that because he needs solitude.

Mary's death. "You must have had a very bad time during the war; I often thought of you, and I got news of you when I could."

Kate is at the Ministry of Information.

Not a letter but a memorandum of agreement between BR, A.N. Whitehead, and the syndics of the University Press Cambridge for publication of Principia Mathematica.

Two copies.

Two copies.

Two copies.

Two copies.

BR asks whether the Press contemplates reprinting Volume I of Principia Mathematica and how many copies remain of each volume.

BR does not know the condition of the ms. of Volume IV of Principia Mathematica; he understands from Whitehead that it is well advanced.

BR is consulting Whitehead on reprinting Principia Mathematica.

BR lays out his and Whitehead's plans for the proposed reprint of Principia Mathematica. The plans include an additional chapter that "could be made to fill exactly one sheet, if desired".

This additional matter could be put at the beginning of Vol. I in roman paging as "preface to second edition, and then the pageing [sic] of later parts would remain undisturbed, which is an advantage for reference".

The new edition of Principia Mathematica need not correspond page for page with the old. BR refers to the errata to Vol. I at the beginning of every volume. They could be inserted in the proofs, if the compositors can't take account of the errata in setting the volume.

BR gives the go-ahead to proceed with the composition of Volume II when Volume I (minus the introduction) is completed. "In addition to the introduction, we wish to add a few notes on single chapters.... They would come more naturally at the end of the volume."

While BR is in America (Jan.-April), "It will be necessary to get Dr. Whitehead to attend to the proofs. He also has certain ideas about the prefatory matter, but he and I can arrange about that without troubling you."

BR doubts if there need be any corrections to Volume II.

Most of the work done in recent years on the subject has been by Polish mathematicians, "whose language is unknown to me".

Volume II can be set up without waiting for corrections.

There are errata in Volumes II and III—"matters which will not upset the pageing".

"There are xxxiv pages in roman numerals at the beginning, which had better not be set up until after the rest; then we shall be free to make a new introduction to Vol. II if it seems desirable."

On Beacon Hill School letterhead.

Two photocopies.

Two photocopies.

BR encloses a letter from William D. Stohlman on the availability of Principia.

Two photocopies. Not a letter but an internal memo to Bentley House with instructions about writing BR re Principia Mathematica.

Two photocopies.

Two photocopies.

Two photocopies.

Two photocopies.

BR requests a copy of Philosophy and Politics be sent to Der Monat, whose editor asked for it when BR was in Berlin. [It appeared in Der Monat in Sept. 1949.]

Two photocopies.

BR passes the proof sheets for the corrections suggested by two Americans for vol. 2, pp. 338 (2/3 down page), 547 (*205.254), 599 (*210.232 and *210.233), 665 (*215.01) and 740 (*234.521) in Principia. [Some of this information is taken from C.U.P's letters of 15 June and 16 September 1949.]

Two photocopies of typed copies of this letter follow.

BR asks for repayment of the authors' subsidy of the first edition of Principia.

BR is pleased with the arrangement for royalties on Principia, starting with the new reprint. He is sorry his memory played him false on what Whitehead and he had contributed.

BR forwards an inquiry about the availability of Principia from D.A. MacDonald in the U.S.

Two photocopies.

Two photocopies.

Two photocopies.

Two photocopies.

Two photocopies.

Two photocopies.

Two photocopies.

Two photocopies.

Two photocopies.

Two photocopies. Typed signature, illegible due to poor copies.

Re S. Hook.

Ts. is a preface by BR for a collection of BR writings selected by Egner for publication.

On BRPF letterhead. Two photocopies. Re collecting BR's archives.

Principia *14 contains the gist of BR's disagreement with existentialism, though he doesn't want to publicize this disagreement with Sartre and its other proponents. BR had to reinsert the * that he had written in his handwritten draft (see records 83484 and 83485), dated 6 days earlier.

Two photocopies. On plans to expand Basic Writings, and the memorandum on Schoenman.

Not a letter but a memorandum of a visit by Lamont to BR at Penrhyndeudraeth on 21 August 1961.

Ts. by BR is titled "Introduction (to Freedom Is as Freedom Does by Corliss Lamont)".

Addressed to "Friends" on BR's receipt in absentia of the Tom Paine Award.

Enclosed is "Message for the Bill of Rights dinner on December 15th". Re Linus Pauling.

Addressed to "Dear Sirs"; an open letter to Western Heads of State about nuclear disarmament?

Ts. by BR and J.D. Bernal is "a statement I recently issued to the press" on Vietnam.

Ts. by BR is "a brief note" about Lamont's new book on the trial of E.G. Flynn.

Addressed to "Dear Friends", the letter is a strong endorsement of the Liberation magazine and bears a secretarial signature.