BRACERS Notes

Record no. Notes, topics or text
55503
55504

Enclosed contracts are for the appearance of BR and Mortimer J. Adler in a debate on education at the Sinai Temple on 20 January 1941.

55505

Not a letter but a prospectus on BR by the Leigh Bureau, promoting his lectures under the auspices of the Bureau.

55506

Not a letter but a booklet titled Sinai Temple Forum Twenty-Seventh Season. Program 1940-1941". Included is a commentary on BR's debate with Mortimer J. Adler on education, scheduled for 20 January 1941.

55507
55508
55509
55510
55511
55512
55513
55514
55515
55516
55517

A typed transcription of the letter is included in the file. The original letter was found in [C.M.G. Masterman], From the Abyss (London, 1902), in the Slater book collection, which went to the Fisher Library, U. of Toronto. See Slater, "A Perfect Gift", Russell o.s. no. 13 (Spring 1974): 13–15.

55518
55519
55520
55521
55522
55523
55524
55525

Re Wittgenstein.

55526
55527
55528

Concerning a letter to the Master of the College supporting BR's reinstatement as lecturer.

55529

Draft of a letter to the Master, Trinity College, in support of BR's reinstatement as lecturer.

55530
55531

Re the BBC television programme in honour of BR's 92nd birthday.

55532

A carbon copy with footnoted annotations in Hollond's hand. Enclosed ts. is titled "Note on the Biographical Sketch Produced on Television in Honour of the 92nd Birthday of Bertrand Earl Russell".

55533

Enclosed draft is of an address.

55534
55535
55536

BR will come and choose one of G.H. Hardy's books. He is only in Cambridge on Thursdays, lecturing at 11. (Hardy died on 1 Dec. 1947.)

55537
55538

This is a handwritten transcription of the original letter, document .053272, record 116694.

There are two other transcriptions, both typed: document .047685, record 75045

Document .047686, record 75046
 

55539
55540
55541

Not a letter but a testimonial for Stanley Keeling in his application for a lectureship in philosophy.

55542
55543

The file also contains a carbon of this letter on the verso of Carmichael's letter.

55544
55545
55546

There is a typed transcription of this letter in Rec. Acq. 232b.

55547
55548
A typed transcription is attached.
55549
A typed transcription is attached.
55550

Re BR and "his strange madness".

55551

There is a postscript in BR's hand. A typed note at the foot: "(BR wrote the postscript on the carbon inadvertently, so I am sending it rather than the top copy. Hope you don't mind. Ralph Schoenman, Secretary.)"

55552
55553
55554
55555
55556
55557
55558
55559

Not a letter but a note by Seldes about the BR-Santayana letters.

55560

The body of the letter contains a message by BR to World Women's Conference in Moscow.

55561

An excerpted transcription, which states BR's address to be Chicago.

However, the letter was written while he was still in London.

See record 56400 for the full letter and address code.

55562

An excerpted transcription.

55563

An excerpted transcription.

55564

An excerpted transcription. Address: "In train to New Orleans."

55565

An excerpted transcription.

55566
55567

Also in file: 2 TL(CAR) at documents .174098 and .174100.

55568

Also in file: a duplicate TL(CAR) at document .174102.

55569
55570
55571
55572
55573
55574
55575
55576

Also in file: a photocopy at document .174110.

55577
55578

On the letterhead of the Dallas Open Forum.

BR praises Acland's All Else Is Folly.

55579
55580

BR encloses an appeal against the danger of nuclear war in the Middle East, and asks Oppenheimer to sign it, hoping to make it public "upon the securing of a substantial number of signatures from eminent people...."

55581
Two photocopies.
55582

Not a letter but a signed testimonial to the work of Kaplan and Copilowish titled "Must There Be Propositions?"

55583

Not a letter but a ms. note in BR's hand, on descriptions. BR uses "Irving Copilowish" in the ms.

55584
55585

Not a letter but a draft press statement, assumed to be by BR, on the demonstration at Marham Nuclear Rocket Base. Attached is a mimeo press statement about the same demonstration issued by the East Anglian Committee of 100.

55586
55587
55588
55589
55590
55591

Re the Axiom of Infinity.

55592
55593
55594

Typescript is titled "Hypothesis Leading to a New Theory of Gravity".

55595
55596

Typescript is titled "A Proposed Investigation".

55597

BR explains the difference between a private Member's Bill and a private Member's amendment to a Government Bill.

The letter is viewable at https://lse-atom.arkivum.net/uklse-dl1al010010010403-uklse-dl1-al01-001…. It is stamped as belonging to the Fawcett Library.

55598

There is also a typed transcription of this letter. An image is at https://lse-atom.arkivum.net/uklse-dl1al010020070145.

55599
55600

In Doreen Joad's hand, signed by BR.

55601
55602

Page(s) missing. Photocopy and typed transcription included.