BRACERS Notes

Record no. Notes, topics or text
53803

Two photocopies. Ts. is a copy of a press statement by BR dated 1 Dec. 1969 containing the complete text "of a letter sent today by Bertrand Russell to U Thant" re American atrocities in Vietnam.

53804

A letter to the editor of The New York Times responding to an editorial of 8 April critical of BR's opposition to the U.S. role in Vietnam.

53805

A letter to the editor of The New York Times responding to an effort to discredit BR by his 1929 comments on the intellectual abilities of blacks.

53806

The letter contains the text of the letter to the editor of The New York Times, record 53805.

53807
53808

"An open letter to Mr. Norman Thomas" in response to an open letter by Thomas to BR appearing in the New Leader.

53809

Ts. appears to be a postscript to the letter, or originally its second page.

53810
53811

Photocopy of a typed copy of the "pertinent paragraph from Katharine B. Faulkner's letter of April 24, 1953 to Lord Bertrand Russell".

53812
53813
53814

Not a letter but a handwritten draft of Lamont's telegram response to BR's telegram of 28 July, record 53813. The draft is written at the foot of BR's telegram.

53815
53816
53817
53818

Enclosed card seeks contributions to the Bertrand Russell Peace Fund, and "is inserted quite unknown to Lord Russell by his secretary".

53819
53820
53821
53822
53823
53824
53825
53826
53827
53828
53829
53830
A typed draft with handwritten corrections.
53831
A typed draft with handwritten corrections.
53832
A typed draft with handwritten corrections.
53833
53834
53835
53836
53837
53838
53839
53840
53841
53842
53843
53844
53845
53846
53847
53848
53849
53850
53851
53852
53853
53854

Newsclip is from The Observer, 31 March 1963. It is a book review of Fred J. Cook's The Warfare State; BR asks Lamont to reply to the editor.

53855
53856
53857
53858
53859

Official correspondence of the BRPF, including donation forms and statement of aims of the Atlantic Peace Foundation.

53860
On BRPF letterhead.
53861
On BRPF letterhead.
53862
On BRPF letterhead.
53863

On BRPF letterhead.

53864

On BRPF letterhead.

53865
On BRPF letterhead.
53866
On BRPF letterhead.
53867

On BRPF letterhead.

53868
53869
53870
53871
53872
53873
53874
53875
53876
53877
53878
53879
Two photocopies.
53880

Not a letter but "a statement for Houghton Mifflin Company regarding Dear Bertrand Russell, published in 1969".

53881
53882
Two photocopies.
53883
Two photocopies.
53884
Three photocopies.
53885
Two photocopies.
53886
53887
53888
Two photocopies.
53889
Two photocopies.
53890
Two photocopies.
53891
Condolences on BR's death.
53892
53893
53894

Not a letter but a tearsheet from The New Yorker with a "Notes and Comment" column on BR. The column relates the anecdote of a woman who called BR "the world's oldest atheist" at his 90th birthday dinner, and asked him what he would say to God if, in the end that matters, he was wrong in his atheistic views; to which BR replied, "'Why, I should say, 'God, you gave us insufficient evidence!''"

53895

Three photocopies.

53896

Three photocopies.

53897

Two photocopies.

53898

Two photocopies.

53899

Two photocopies.

BR refers to photographs (not present) taken at Princeton. "The Censor's Office gave me back all the mss in a sealed packet, which, for the sake of the English censorship, I left sealed till I arrived. When I opened it I found they had omitted your typescript and several other things."

53900

Two photocopies.

On possible mathematical errors in Human Knowledge.

BR decided not to go to Argentina simply because he could not spare the time.

53901

Two photocopies.

BR thanks him for his Theory of Probability and remarks on his son's very great ability.

53902
Two photocopies.