BRACERS Notes

Record no. Notes, topics or text
54403

Copy of a telegram, handwritten and signed by BR.

From internal references, the telegram must have been sent in the week prior to 22 April 1924.

54404

Re Jean Nicod.

54405
54406

This is eight typed extracts from letters which mention BR. His condition after his return from China is described: he "can't walk except with a stick, having sore places on his poor leg where he was injected with something to keep his heart going".

Elizabeth concludes that Dora "is the very wife for him" as long as they both stay away from politics. She is "healthy, placid, sweet-tempered...." She describes BR as "the most entertaining and amusing talker I have ever met. He is so happy now, and sparkles more than ever."

54407
A photocopy of a typed copy of the letter is attached.
54408
54409

Not a letter but a flyer announcing a meeting of the British section of the World League for Sexual Reform. Dora Russell is listed as a member of the governing body of this organization.

54410
54411
54412
54413
54414
54415
54416
54417
54418

Another photocopy is in RA3 850.

54419
54420

Also in RA3 850.

54421

BR declines Catlin and Brittain's silver wedding party as he will be in Australia "or, alternatively, in the Indian Ocean".

54422

A handwritten postscript is initialled "G.C."

54423

BR cannot attend a meeting on behalf of the Anglo-German Institute, though he strongly agrees with the project.

54424
54425
54426
54427
Attached is a photocopy of another copy of the letter.
54428

Attached is an address in Catlin's hand.

54429
54430
54431
54432
54433
54434
54435

Attached is a photocopy of another copy of the letter.

Enclosed invitation is to a World Conference of Scientists sponsored by the World Association of Parliamentarians for World Government.

BR is listed among the inviters.

54436
54437

A handwritten copy or draft of a cable congratulating BR on his receipt of the Nobel Prize.

54438
A handwritten copy, with "Copy" scribbled at the top.
54439
54440
54441
54442

Not a letter but a testimonial for BR to an unspecified recipient.

54443
54444
54445
54446
54447
54448
54449
54450
54451
54452
54453
54454

Manifesto is titled "An Appeal on the Danger to the World of Goldwater's Policies".

54455
54456
54457

Enclosed form is for the International Committee for the Release of Iraqi Political Prisoners.

54458

Catlin declines to sign BR's appeal against Goldwater.

54459
54460

Not a letter but a photocopy of a mimeograph titled "The Statement of Bertrand Russell" re political prisoners in Venezuela. Statement appeared originally in a letter of 2 March 1964 to A. Quintero, Committee for the Release of Political Prisoners in Venezuela, RA2 330.188261, record 94503.

54461
54462
54463
54464

On Darwinism, theory and practice, education, and stern upbringings.

54465
54466
54467

Three photocopies.

54468
Two photocopies.
54469
Two photocopies.
54470
Two photocopies.
54471

Re Vivien Eliot.

54472
54473
54474
54475
54476
54477

Receipt is for one month's rent for The Studio, Fitzroy Street.

54478
54479
Receipt for rent money.
54480
54481
54482
54483

Written from the Cottage Hotel.

54484

Written from the Cottage Hotel.

54485
54486
54487
54488
54489
54490
There is also a typed copy of this letter.
54491
54492
54493
54494
54495

Re BR's Doomsday-oak table.

54496
54497
54498

BR asks Brittain to join the Committee of 100.

54499

The accompanying note takes exception to an item in Peace News.

54500

Brittain declines to join the Committee of 100.

54501
54502