BRACERS Notes

Record no. Notes, topics or text
55803

Ts. is titled "Instructions concerning Autobiography".

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55807

Re Ecclesiastes, Ionians, Pythagoras. BR would let the writer read the unpublished History if he is ever in Cambridge. On the "external circumstances" mentioned in Schilpp, and mathematical logic.

55808

BR has read his article on particles with pleasure.

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55810

BR enclosed this letter in his letter to Edith of 31 July 1951, document .104996, record 20252. BR corrected the transcription in many passages and provided an annotation: "*[He {Blunt} had a long affair with my cousin the mother-in-law of Churchill.]" (Ruth Derham notes that she was: Lady Henrietta Blanche Ogilvy, wife of Henry Montague Hozier and mother of Clementine Churchill. She was also a granddaughter of Lady Stanley of Alderley. (See Amberley Papers, 1: 22-3.

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Newer copies of his material from the Churchill Archives Centre are also available as part of Rec. Acq. 1816, Box 16.79, part A.
Cambridge University, Chuchill College, Churchill Archives Centre; Ralph Hawtrey Archvies, HTRY 10/81A.

55815

"Thanks for letter & MS returned."

Newer copies of his material from the Churchill Archives Centre are also available as part of Rec. Acq. 1816, Box 16.79, part A.
Cambridge University, Chuchill College, Churchill Archives Centre; Ralph Hawtrey Archvies, HTRY 10/81A.

55816

Newer copies of his material from the Churchill Archives Centre are also available as part of Rec. Acq. 1816, Box 16.79, part A.
Cambridge University, Chuchill College, Churchill Archives Centre; Ralph Hawtrey Archvies, HTRY 10/81A.

55817

BR discusses a mathematics problem and promises to get back to "types" when he has "finished the writing out of my half of the book".

Newer copies of his material from the Churchill Archives Centre are also available as part of Rec. Acq. 1816, Box 16.79, part A.
Cambridge University, Chuchill College, Churchill Archives Centre; Ralph Hawtrey Archvies, HTRY 10/81A.

55818

"Your letter did not strike me as insulting, except to the axiom of reducibility, which can't hit back."

Newer copies of his material from the Churchill Archives Centre are also available as part of Rec. Acq. 1816, Box 16.79, part A.
Cambridge University, Chuchill College, Churchill Archives Centre; Ralph Hawtrey Archvies, HTRY 10/81A.

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55822

Two photocopies.

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55830

Re BR's release from prison and an appeal for donations for a fund for him. A copy of the appeal is enclosed.

55831

Not a letter but a typed copy of a statement by BR of an appointment with General George Cockerill.

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55835

A transcription of the original letter, document .079957, record 46911. The typescript seems to have been made by Edith Russell, and her handwriting is at the top.

See record 46911 for a complete description of this letter.

Also in the file are 2 photocopied tss. of "Extracts from Letters Written by Bertrand Russell in Brixton Prison, May 1918", and a Russell Archives typescript of the original mimeograph.

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55838
Appended is a postscript by Alys Russell.
55839

Although written on the letterhead of Friday's Hill, Russell was not there.

55840

Another copy of this letter is in Rec. Acq. 903c, record 57120.

55841

Opening sentence: "The facts with respect to the case of Mr. Bertrand Russell, so far as the Home Office is concerned, are as follows." A draft letter, initialled by the Home Secretary, H. Samuel.

Another copy of this letter is in Rec. Acq. 903e.

55842

Mathews as Public Prosecutor recommends not prosecuting BR.

Another copy of this letter is in Rec. Acq. 903d.

55843

This appears to be an internal memo re official action against BR for his speech in Cardiff. This memo lacks page 2, which is found in Rec. Acq. 903d, record 122545. "S of S" is handwritten at the top.

55844

Troup asks Public Prosecutor Mathews to advise the Home Secretary whether BR should be prosecuted.

Another copy of this letter is in Rec. Acq. 903d.

55845

An autograph letter that is written on an official petition form. BR applies to see his solicitor (J.J. Withers) and to send out manuscripts.

There is another photocopy at record 57174.

55846

The initials "CH" [Carleton Haynes] are written at the top of the letter. The letter was sent to Cave of the Home Office by Frank Russell.

BR wants early release because he needs to develop his ideas for important philosophical research. "You may recall that the Chairman of Quarter Sessions, in assigning me to the first division, said that it would be a national misfortune if my philosophical work were interfered with."

This represents the first time a copy of this letter was acquired for the Russell Archives. Later, another copy was acquired and placed in Rec. Acq. 903i, record 57186. The current file includes a printout of the National Archives' publication and transcription of the letter at http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pathways/firstworldwar/britain/p_bertrand.htm.

55847

"In short, I am still a believer in the normal principle that free discussion is better than punishing a man for his opinions."

Another copy of this letter is in Rec. Acq. 903f.

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55850
55851

"I wish I had a course to give on English literature." He would avoid pedantry, which Americans indulge in.

55852

On self-sacrifice; but tell only Lucy. (BR has not yet written "The Free Man's Worship".)

Alys has had a nervous breakdown.

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55854

BR makes ethical reflections. Alys will soon go to Switzerland with Mrs. Webb. After finishing The Principles of Mathematics, BR took 10 days' holiday and is back at work, 7 hours a day.

55855
55856

Re the correspondence of Emerson and Carlyle.

55857

Aunt Agatha has given up Pembroke Lodge.

55858

"I used to be utterly possessed by them [feelings of impatience]. But I have learnt at last the old stoic secret: hope nothing, fear nothing, desire nothing, forget joy and sorrow; and now impatience hardly ever comes to me."

"Life is too short for sleep, when once the passion of great achievement has laid hold on one." BR hardly ever retires before one.

He advises reading Pollock before Spinoza.

55859

"I know too many women to make any general statements about the whole sex." BR wants Helen to write on her inner life.

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55881

The enclosed ms. critiques a ms. novel by Flexner.

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55888

Written from Casa Biondetti on the Grand Canal.

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55893

Re the separation of BR and Alys.

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55897

On letterhead of the Colonial Club, Cambridge.

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