"I have found no criticism to make and I am quite willing to be a signatory."

"I am so overwhelmed with work that I should find it very difficult to write such an introduction as your book requires."

"I am the Editor of a magazine which I produce for the above Society, and I am very keen to include an article on the work of the Committee of 100 in the forthcoming issue of our magazine."

"I have received the letter from Lord Russell safely, and I shall be sending you a copy of our magazine in mid-March."

"Thank you very much for your letter asking me to contribute an article to the magazine of your Society. Unfortunately, I receive so many requests of this nature that it is physically impossible for me to fulfil them all. However, I enclose some copies of recent speeches and articles of mine, and you are at liberty to reprint any of these wholly or in part."

"Lord Russell wrote to you a letter which I posted on January 26th, and I should imagine was held up by the post office work-to-rule."

"I am in the course of preparing a manuscript for a new book in the field of public speaking which I hope will be published sometime in 1962. ... In this new book I should like to include the following items which have been attributed to you and for which I shall give you credit."

"I hope that you will excuse me for writing to you, but I wondered if you had any memoirs of Mr. T.S. Eliot as a young man?"

"We are taking the liberty of sending you a set of galley proofs of Elizabeth Mann Borgese's new book, Ascent of Woman, which we are publishing this spring."

"On October 21 we will publish Santayana: The Later Years by Daniel Cory marking the centenary of the noted author and philosopher's birth." Braziller encloses a copy of the book so BR may comment on it.

"Thank you very much for your letter and the enclosed manuscript. I regret that my anti-nuclear work prevents my reading many manuscripts sent me which I should otherwise wish to read. I hope I may get to it in time."

"Thank you for your letter of July 22 about Daniel Cory's book about Santayana that is to be published on October 21. In it you say that you are enclosing with the letter a copy of the book, but the letter came alone, without the book. I am sorry as I should like to have a copy of it."

Brunius met BR before "... when the French section of the BBC used to broadcast some 'Brains Trusts' and my brains had the honour to be consulted at the same time as yours."

Brunius' Paris friends asked Brunius to send BR the text of their enquiry about "... the possible mental, intellectual and philosophical repercussions of space-travel, which you will find enclosed." They wish BR to answer it for publication in the review La Brèche. See record 130788 for the enclosure.

BR thanks Brunius for the questionnaire from La Brèche (see record 130788) on space travel. "I should very much like to answer it fully, but I am afraid that I do not have the large amount of time necessary."

"I recently asked my children this question: 'If you could persuade the wisest men and women in the world to write a book for you, what would you have them write about?' 'About the earth, the sun and the stars; do they believe in God; and how can we stop people from fighting each other.' This was the gist of their reply."

"Please write your frank opinions on the general subject 'The Approach to Living' with special emphasis on themes like 'Is life worth living?' 'Should I conform?' 'Freedom of thought' 'How to take criticism and disappointment' 'The individual in society' 'Books that are really worth reading' 'Ideas on which to build'. All contributions will be compiled into book form for subsequent publication...."

BR has already expressed his views on the topics Briggs suggests in The Conquest of Happiness, Why I Am Not a Christian, and Common Sense and Nuclear Warfare. "I gather that you contemplate a symposium and I do not think that books written by many authors are likely to be as interesting as those which express a single personality."

"I enclose a proof of a review of your recent book which will appear in a forthcoming number of Britian To-day, and also an editorial based on some of the points in your book. I wonder whether you would be disposed to send me something in the way of comment, long or short, for publication in Britain To-day?"

"Mr. Scott-James has asked me to send you 50 copies of the corrected proofs of your article for which you asked."

Saul asks BR for copies of BBC recordings to add to the collection of the British Institute of Recorded Sound.

"I enjoyed your talk on Thursday night tremendously. Could you possibly let us have it for publication in the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science? We could publish it very quickly."

Bolton sends BR two sets of galley proofs along with a copy of BR's article entitled "The Cult of 'Common Usage'".

"This is just a note to let you know that I have received your article 'The Cult of 'Common Usage'' from Popper, and that we will be publishing it in the February issue of the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science."

"In the next issue of our Newsletter we plan to make a special drive against the hydrogen bomb tests which the Government is planning to carry out in the Pacific this spring. Would there be any chance of your writing an article for our centre spread on the subject of these tests?"

BR writes a short message for publication in British Soviet Friendship's first issue:

"I favour very strongly the promotion of British-Soviet friendship and the relaxation of obstacles to knowledge of each other's countries. I earnestly hope that the statesmen both of the East and of the West will learn to desist from the practice of thwarting the efforts of those who desire the continuation of the human race."

"We are writing to ask you if you would be able and interested to take part in an international student Seminar on Philosophy, which is being organised in Moscow this August, as part of the 6th World Festival of Youth and Students." The seminar, to take place at Moscow University on August 6th and 7th,  is on the subject: "Is it possible to foresee the path of development of human society?"

"I am very sorry that I cannot accept the invitation to go to Moscow for the Festival of Youth. The only thing that prevents me from going is old age."

"Would you kindly accept these two copies of Broadcast which contain the report of the interview which you so generously granted me before Christmas?"

"The volume Burdick and I are to edit is one concerned with empirical studies on voting behaviour—three studies on American elections and one on a British election. The volumes are Voting: A Study of Opinion Formation, The People's Choice and The People Decide, all on the American elections, and Straight Fight on the last British election. ... We would like very much to have you consider doing an article for the volume."

"I am preparing material for a book, The Crucible, which involves the correspondence, arguments and debates between men like H.G. Wells, G.B. Shaw, G.K. Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc. Each of these exchanges is prefaced by a pen picture of the man involved. It opens with the famous Gladstone-Darwin-Huxley affray."

"I particularly wanted to include in the book some reference to your own work which clearly had a deep influence. Most of what I want I can, of course, get from your own books and other sources, but in keeping with the character of other chapters of my book I should like to add a pen picture of yourself. Can I, conceivably, get fifteen or thirty minutes with you some time to talk about all this?"

"I am preparing a book of readings for D.C. Heath and Company for college freshman use and am writing to request permission to include your excellent article, 'The Springs of Human Action'. The Atlantic Monthly will be glad to concur with any arrangements that are agreeable with you."

"I do not know whether the article you write about is, or is not, included in some volume published by Simon and Schuster. If it is, you will need their permission. So far as I am concerned, I am willing to agree to anything agreed to by those who have the rights."

Bryn Mawr is celebrating its 75th Anniversary. Epes is the Editor of the Bryn Mawr Alumnae Bulletin and is planning an anniversary issue which she asks BR to contribute an article. "In listing the distinguished figures who have connections with Bryn Mawr, your name came immediately to mind, because of your brilliant contributions to 20th century philosophy. If I could select one name and one only to write on the preservation and expansion of learning in the Atomic Age, it would be yours without question."

"It is now 63 years since I first visited Bryn Mawr and I should have been glad to do such an article as you suggest. But unfortunately I am so overwhelmed with work already undertaken that I cannot possibly manage to find the necessary time."

"The Budapest Municipal Library is preparing the publication of an album of memorial writings on the 50th anniversary of Leo Tolstoy's death. This album would include both articles and recollections of living representatives of world literature. Therefore we would ask you to answer the following questions: What effect had Tolstoy's oeuvre or certain works upon your literary development? Is there any among his works that you especially appreciate and still read and reread?"

"We have heard from Herb. D. Clark that he had urged your noble effort for a statement on averting chaos. Having had the profit of reading your views on the matter, we join Herb in inviting you to send us a copy of any such declaration, which we feel that we can give the fullest support."

"The Bulletin of the World Council of Peace has received a copy of the pamphlet Win We Must, containing your opening speech to the Second Midlands Conference for Peace held in Birmingham on 11 March 1961, and we are most anxious to print large extracts of this important speech for our readers in our June issue. We are able to devote one page of our Bulletin to this, but this entails considerable cuts. We should, however, not wish to do this without your approval and permission."

"The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists would like to publish portions of your New York Times article, 'What Would Help Mankind Most' in our December issue 'Current Comment' column."

"I should be grateful if you would communicate to Mr. Marseille my objections to his quoting the letter."

"Lord Russell asks me to thank you for your letter of October 10 and for the enclosed copy of Bumerang. Because of the amount of work that he has already undertaken to do during the next months, he is unable to write anything fresh for your paper, but he sends the enclosed short leaflet that he wrote, and that both he and the Rev. Michael Scott signed and that the Committee of 100 has been distributing in this country, in case you may care to print it."

"I am preparing an Antología semántica, a sort of readings in semantics consisting of a dozen papers. Of course, such an anthology would be unthinkable without your contribution. The trouble is, that I do not know exactly which of your outstanding contributions to the subject should be included, particularly because I should avoid previously translated work...."

Bunge asks BR to send a photograph of himself to hang in his seminar room.

"I think that Mysticism and Logic contains various items which might suit you—for example, 'Knowledge by Acquaintance and Knowledge by Description'. For my part, I am willing that you should include anything of mine in your book, but you will, of course, need the consent of the publishers. I enclose a signed photograph."

"A few years ago you were kind enough to honor me and your American readers with your own choice of one of your best pieces of writing for The World's Best, which contained one hundred of the greatest living writers in the world. I am now assembling another volume, to be composed of twenty-five of the most outstanding living thinkers, and am approaching you with the hope I may include you in a book entitled This Is My Philosophy."

Bushman and Prof. Henry Van Slooten of San Fernando Valley State College are preparing an anthology of current essays for beginning English classes in college. They wish to reprint "Can Scientific Man Survive?" which appeared in The Saturday Review, December 21, 1957.

"I am quite willing that the little essay 'Can Scientific Man Survive?' should be reprinted in your anthology on the terms suggested in your letter."

"Would you consider doing piece on the most important men in world. And why you think so."

"Ever since you gave us those words 'Love is wise—hatred is foolish' I have repeated them to myself and others time and time again. They have formed the background to my thinking in a small book to which I have given the title For All People...."

Butcher asks if BR would write a brief foreword to For All People.

"I do not feel able to write a foreword to your book about religion as you suggest. May I suggest that you read my book Why I Am Not a Christian."

"I am writing a program about David Lawrence for broadcasting on the BBC. The main interest of the programme is to lie in this question: was Lawrence persecuted, or did he go out of his way to annoy the authorities?"

"May I ask whether you would, in theory at least, be disposed to make a recording for the programme?"

On David Lawrence: "I do not think he was provocative, but I think his wife was. I was informed on good authority (though I cannot vouch for the story) that when Zeppelins came over she used to go onto Hampstead Heath and cheer. Lawrence himself, I think, tried to avoid annoying the authorities, but I do not know enough to say anything publicly."

"In the above publication the author wishes to reproduce an extract from your work, Authority and the Individual. I enclose the paragraph in question and shall be very grateful for your permission to reproduce this text."

"I read with the greatest interest your very illuminating Roads to Freedom—What you say of French Syndicalist movement is quite true and well deserved, for it's far from being what it should be—just as our Socialist Party, half of which do not know whether they must stick to the Socialistic idea or incline toward 'bourgeoisie'."

Letter is in French.

Le Cercle du Libre Examen is a group of students from the University of Brussels interested in philosophical problems and principles. Henry requests an article by BR for their review, Les Cahiers du Libre Examen.

Les Cahiers du Libre Examen is preparing a special issue on Spain, and they ask BR to contribute an article.

"I hope you will forgive me but I am overwhelmed with work concerning the threat of nuclear war, and I must regard this as the first priority."

Calder asks BR to write a brief introduction to Corliss Lamont's book Freedom is as Freedom Does.

"I am delighted that you are able to write an introduction for us to the English edition of Mr. Lamont's book."

"I am now here for a few days to ask you if you could possibly see Dr. Piero Ottone, who is the London correspondent of the Corriere della Sera, a paper which, as you will no doubt remember, has published some of your articles. Dr. Ottone's aim is to approach some of the leading personalities in the British intellectual world, in order to discover their views on the extent to which, and the way in which, the public in this country is being influenced by modern 'mass media' of communication in the field of culture."

"I am sorry that, as I am 7 1/2 hours by train from London, it seems hardly possible to see Dr. Ottone."

"We would therefore be very pleased if you would consent to being one of our first guest contributors, writing for or against a subject such as, perhaps, 'Democracy has no place in the modern world'."

"As it seems that you are not yet certain to be able to produce this magazine, I shall not yet write anything for you."

"We have today sent the last 50 copies of your Principles of Mathematics to the binders, and I should like to hear what your views are as to the future of the book."

Re. Principia Mathematica. "I have had a rough estimate prepared of the extent and cost of printing your book. It works out in rather an alarming manner. The MS sent would make 1648 pages, and the cost of 750 copies, without binding or advertising, would be £920. ... It has been suggested by one or two of the Syndics whom I have consulted that we might possibly apply to the Royal Society for a grant towards the expense."

"Thank you for the cheque for £49.7.0 and for the accompanying statement. I note that on December 31 you had only three copies of Principia Mathematica on hand. I should be glad to know whether you intend to reprint the book."

Acknowledging Becher's previous letter.

"As we have not heard from you in reply to our letter of the 9th June addressed to Plas Penrhyn, we take leave to enclose copy of that letter herewith." [See record 4673.]

"Times demands your release for us to quote excerpts your Manchester Guardian letters in advance on Wexley book."

She would like to translate BR's Logic and Knowledge and Why I Am Not a Christian into German.

"I should be very glad to have the two books you mention translated into German...."

Campbell sent BR his satire plays on sexual standards. He is a graduate student of philosophy at University of California at Los Angeles, interested in ethics.

"Thank you for your letter and for the enclosed stories. I read them with pleasure and am returning them herewith. I am sorry I cannot undertake to do a preface. I receive so many such requests that I have to make a rule of refusal, except in very rare cases."

"I have been commissioned by Peter Owen Ltd. to edit an anthology of essays and articles on the themes of nuclear disarmament, CND and the peace movement. The book is to be published next autumn in a popular format and the royalties, subject to the agreement of the contributors, will go to the peace movement." Boulton asks if BR would be willing to contribute.

"I shall try to write something about the Peace Foundation."

"We are planning to introduce a new series of features in our House Journal under the title of 'People of our Day'." Gregory wishes to launch this new series with a short write-up on BR and asks if BR would be willing to meet so that he "... may acquire a little 'colour' for the article...."

Carey is working on his master's thesis entitled "British Pacifism in World War I". He asks BR if he could send him a list of the periodicals which BR considered his favourite at the time and the ones he contributed to most.

"Very few periodicals were open to me during World War I in England. I wrote some articles for the Atlantic Monthly while America was still neutral. In England, I could publish only in pacifist organs—e.g., Ploughshare, a Quaker paper, and The Tribune, which dealt especially with Conscientious Objectors."

"I am engaged in research on the thought of Bishop Charles Gore, and should be terribly grateful to you if you would be kind enough to give me some information about the public debate between Bishop Gore and yourself which took place in the Great Hall, University College, London, in 1928. ... I should be most happy to know a few particulars, and, if you do not mind disclosing them, I should like to have your personal impressions of your meeting with Gore."

"I am sorry to say that I have no recollection of the impression made upon me by Bishop Gore on the occasion to which you allude. The only thing that I remember about the occasion is that it occurred when my son, then aged six, was suffering intolerable pain from mastoid for which he was about to be operated, and that one of Bishop Gore's supporters in the debate maintained that all pain is a punishment for sin."

"I wonder if you ever received my letter of March 7th concerning a series of books on the philosophy of science?" Carrington asks if BR would be willing to edit the book.

Case asks BR to comment on the Peace Corps for his master's thesis entitled "The Launching of the Peace Corps".

BR passed Weisinger's letter on to Allen and Unwin. "We have contracted with Simon & Schuster Inc. ... for the publication in the States of Russell's My Philosophical Development, and would suggest that you should get into touch with them about the serial use of a portion of that work in the U.S.A."

"You ask whether it is possible for Lord Russell to contribute a paper stating his position on the disarmament question in the Centennial Review. Unfortunately he has had regretfully to decline a number of invitations of this kind, owing to the immense amount of work he has still to get through, despite the fact that he is 86. However, we have just published a short book by Lord Russell on this very subject, entitled Common Sense and Nuclear Warfare, and I suggest that you select a suitable passage from this for your Review."

"This is to confirm that we have been granted overseas serial rights in English and translation in your introduction and six talks on: Living in an Atomic Age."

Thanking BR for his permission to publish "The Story of Colonisation" in their pamphlet.

"Lord Russell is quite willing that you should publish the text of his introductory talk on 'The Story of Colonization' as published in London Calling dated 6.9.56".

"Thank you very much for your letter to Lord Russell requesting an interview for Mr. Perera. Lord Russell is overwhelmed with such requests and I must ask the Ceylon Daily Mirror for a fee of £150 for an interview such as you suggest."

"I am wondering if you would be interested in contributing to our services of newspaper features, which are syndicated to newspapers throughout the world, a short weekly article of opinion, under some such title as, 'What I Think'."