BRACERS Notes

Record no. Notes, topics or text
55603

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

55604

BR congratulates Hawtrey on his engagement to Titi d'Aranyi. A typed transcription is included.

55605

BR cannot make the dinner [of the Apostles?] on 15 June. He would like impressions of Genoa, if Hawtrey was there. A typed transcription is included.

55606

A typed transcription is included.

BR comments on the exclusion of social sciences from the Royal Society. BR invites Hawtrey to propose himself for lunch: "There is a restaurant in the building, so that an unexpected visitor causes no inconvenience."

55607

A typed transcription is included.

55608

Trevelyan describes the subscription under way to cover BR's appeal expenses. Large sums are mentioned.

Typed transcriptions are included.

55609

BR regretfully declines to attend Bryant's colloquium in the U.S.

55610

BR describes Hawtrey, Titi's fiancé: "a very old friend", "always kind". A typed transcription is included.

55611

A thank-you note for dinner. A typed transcription is included.

55612

"Sunday". An invitation to dinner. BR describes his upcoming appointments. A typed transcription is included.

55613

BR sends regrets that he did not see Titi or her sister at Bedford Square. A typed transcription is included.

55614

BR sets out arrival times for his visit at New Forest. A typed transcription is included.

55615

BR invites Titi and Jelli d'Aranyi to tea at Russell Chambers. A typed transcription is included.

55616

BR will come to lunch the following day. He mentions seeing off a pupil named Geach [the father of Peter Geach]. A typed transcription is included.

55617

BR has lent his flat to "an American vorticist poet [T.S. Eliot] who has quarrelled with his people owing to an imprudent marriage". A typed transcription is included.

55618

BR responds to an invitation: "I will come even if it is beyond the World's End."

A typed transcription is included.

55619

A thank-you note for a party that Russell much enjoyed. BR will be back in London for the beginning of his lectures (on "Principles of Social Reconstruction") on January 18.

A typed transcription is included.

55620

BR is living in London. "Prison and other troubles have isolated me from friends, but now I am engaging again." A typed transcription is included.

55621

BR asks her or Ralph to phone him to set up a time to meet. A typed transcription is included.

55622

BR extends his sympathy for her crippling arthritis.

"Yes the inkstand I gave you as a wedding present belonged to my grandfather Lord John and always stood on a table at Pembroke Lodge."

A typed transcription is included.

55623
55624
55625

He remembers being on the Labour Party's Advisory Committee in the 1920s and Wei-hai-wei. Full title of committee: Labour Party's Advisory Committee on International Questions.

(BRA now has minutes of this Committee and the memorandum on Wei-hai-wei.)

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55627
55628
55629
55630
55631

Written "for Bertrand Russell", Acting Chairman of the No-Conscription Fellowship.

55632

Two photocopies.

55633
55634
55635

Agnes Grove was known formally as Lady Grove.

55636
55637

The typed transcription was made by John G. Slater.

55638
55639

Frank asks Allen to go to Brixton Prison on 3 July to visit BR.

He also tells him that his wife, Elizabeth Russell, will be giving BR his messages "this afternoon" during her visit.

55640

Frank asks if Allen can visit BR with him on Friday, meeting outside Brixton Prison at 2.30.

55641

The letter chiefly concerns arrangements for getting messages into BR's weekly letters and visiting him in Brixton Prison. She asks Allen to keep 10 July free, which will be her first visit in that month.

"I saw Bertie last week, he's well, but straining at his leash."

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55649
55650

Also in file: a duplicate TL(CAR) at document .174114.

55651
55652

Enclosed ms. poses two questions that BR had after reading Quine's book.

55653
55654
Also in file: a photocopy at document .174117.
55655
55656
55657
55658
55659
55660
55661
55662
55663

Although written on letterhead for Ffestiniog, Russell could not be there as the house had been sold in 1950. The letter is pmk. Richmond.

55664

BR approves Allan publishing "A Scientist's Plea for Democracy".

55665
55666

BR critiques a book manuscript (and opposes Herbert Read's view of it).

There is some autobiography.

Dated by reference to "my still unpublished Human Knowledge" and to BR's letter that enclosed the critique.

55667

BR will come to Pearn's office after his meeting with Doran (presumably re articles for Hearst).

55668

Enclosed ts. is "a copy of the question as agreed upon by us at Edith Ellis' flat together with a copy of the question as Mr. Ammon says he received it".

55669

Re the "question" agreed upon by Watts, Edith Ellis, and BR.

55670
55671
55672
55673
55674
55675
55676
55677
55678
55679

Re sending copies of The Philosophy of Bergson to BR.

55680

Re BR's article on Bergson.

55681

Re BR's article on Bergson.

55682

Re BR, "quite the finest intelligence in England at the present time, and further his books have an immense sale."

55683

Re BR's Lowell Lectures.

55684
Re payments to BR.
55685

Not a letter but a statement of accounts. BR is shown as owed $100.00 U.S.

55686
Re a prospective BR book.
55687
55688
Re BR publications.
55689
Re the price of BR's book.
55690

Re compiling a book of BR's essays.

55691

Re BR's "On the Nature of Acquaintance" series.

55692
55693
55694

Re a BR article in The Monist.

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