Re BR's "What I Believe" talk on BBC, signed "Thinker."

Re BR's "What I Believe" talk on BBC, signed M.A., D.Phil.

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Re BR's "What I Believe" talk on BBC (aka "The Faith of a Rationalist").

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Re BR's "What I Believe" talk on BBC. Poem is titled "After 'Winston Churchill' at Aberdeen".

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Signed "A Christian".

An anonymous note from Toronto, virulently anti-British.

Not a letter but a newsclip from the Toronto Globe and Mail, with a photo of Princess Margaret departing Canada and a pencil note on it expressing strong anti-British sentiments.

A hate letter from a religious fanatic.

Letter, signed "C.", comments on enclosed newsclip from the Daily Mail, 18 Feb. 1961, of an article on BR titled "The Defiant One".

BR joins Gollancz on a deputation about Germany in the morning, then tea with Claud and Athenais (Russell), and dinner with the Huntingdons. Reprint of History. "Here it is difficult not to get obsessed by the state of the world. I take the Manchester Guardian as well as the Times, because the Times omits news about Russia." Jack Lindsay's The Subtle Knot (one of BR's "silly books") calls Rupert Crawshay-Williams a eunuch by implication.

The circular letter is also from the Marchioness of Winchester.

Although BR seems to have written the letter year "47" (it's a very odd shaped "7"), he must have meant to write "46". The Russells had sold Grosvenor Lodge in Cambridge on 15 Oct. 1945 and moved out in August 1946. Meanwhile they looked for a place in North Wales. By 17 Feb. 1946 they had found Penralltgoch in Lan Ffestiniog, and well before it was ready Patricia went to stay in the Pengwern Arms. Moreover, in late January 1946 she tried to commit suicide; by the true date of this letter, 17 Feb. 1946, she was recovering, having been in a nursing home.

BR asks both to provide "cheerful society" to Patricia, who is going to Ffestiniog to stay at the Pengwern Arms.

"You need not eat your heart out, as you are right about the misprints." A certain misprint does not occur in the U.K. edition [probably History).

BR sends a batch of letters about a broadcast (probably those concerning "The Faith of a Rationalist"/"What I Believe").

BR asks him to forward a document to Koestler for discussion. See Crawshay-Williams to Koestler, 1946/01/21 (record 57921). The document was on the atomic bomb.

Patricia is still chasing speakers for the meeting that she has organized and says that Polemic has asked BR for "an article on Russia".

BR asks Rupert to bring a picture to Paddington. (The year is conjectured but may be ascertainable from the time of BR's trip to the Trevelyans at Leith Hill, for which he made arrangements to arrive on 18 or 19 May 1949.) The exact date is conjectured.

Aside from pronouncing "God" as "Gard", "... the poor Jesuit was not such a bad fellow. All he said came from St. Thomas, and conditioning had made him unable to doubt the seraphic doctor."

"My time in Norway was very agreeable: I loved both the people and the country. Now I am off to Berlin, which will be less agreeable but more interesting."

Attached is a newsclip of a review by Crawshay-Williams of Human Knowledge, from The Observer, 31 Oct. 1948. In the letter BR thanks Crawshay-Williams warmly for the review.

BR sends Crawshay-Williams a cheque for whisky and quotes Omar Khayyam.

BR has deleted the original letterhead, that of Telegraph House.

In the event of BR's death, Crawshay-Williams is to finish his Autobiography. Re Archives: "When I die my mss should be sold quickly, before I am forgotten. I have many."

The Crawshay-Williams' friendship has "made all the difference to me this summer, when I might otherwise have sunk into a black despair".

Dated by its implicit reference to the ms. of BR's review of Crawshay-Williams's The Comforts of Unreason, which review was broadcast over the BBC on 27 May 1947.

In his new home ("suite"), BR has 2 bedrooms, so he can put them both up any time. He has had his hair cut.

BR has transcribed a letter from Lion Phillimore (see RA1 710.054361, record 79328), as the original "was falling to bits". He asks Elizabeth to put it at the end of the letters from Phillimore.

Australian Lecture Tour (1950)

Letterhead: Usher's Hotel, Sydney.

"I should be enjoying myself but for worry about Korea. I have just returned from dining with the Australian Foreign Secretary, Spender, who does not think the Korean trouble will lead to a world war. I think probably he is right, but I don't feel at all sure. I think the Chinese may come in, and if so everybody will. I hate being so far from home at such a time."

"If there is likely to be war, I should like to have a refuge in N. Wales for John's family." He asks them to bid for Penralltgoch, which Patricia owns.

"I am actuated by the fear of war."

"... I am haunted by nightmares of atomic death, and here, where I know no one, they drive me nearly mad."

Australian Lecture Tour (1950)

"I think, even if the present war does not spread, Korea has made a world war soon much more likely. The only hope I see is that Americans may be frightened by their failure." Thus he wants a house in Wales.

"Here people are much more conscious of Asia; they were alarmed when the Japs got into Papua, and have remained so."

Tylor has power of attorney for BR.

Row with Catholics over birth control.

The 2 representatives of the King in Australia "are both working men, both socialists, and both proud of it. One of them I knew in S. Wales in 1916, when he and I were on the verge of going to prison."

"My views are utterly gloomy so I laugh all day."

Australian Lecture Tour (1950)

Written from the Menzies Hotel.

Newsclip is taken from a Melbourne paper portraying in a cartoon a koala bear presuming to be BR.

BR found the koala to be "a charming little beast which lives in trees".

"I have become very grand."

"Even if there is no war now, there will be one soon."

John and Susan may not really wish to live apart.

Re negotiations by Crawshay-Williams on BR's behalf for the purchase of Penralltgoch.

Australian Lecture Tour (1950)

Newsclips from Australian newspapers concern BR's row with the Catholic Bishop of Melbourne. Letterhead: Hotel Esplanade, Perth.

On Perth.

On Penralltgoch.

"I am very gloomy about the world. It seems Korea will not lead to a world war, but there remain Formosa, Indo-China, Hongkong, Persia, Turkey, and Finland, not to mention Tito. I don't see how, with America in its present mood, we are to get through the next two years without a clash."

London on the 27th, Wales soon after that.

Australian Lecture Tour (1950)

Letterhead: Hotel Esplanade.

"... world war does not seem immediately imminent...."

Penralltgoch. Susan loves North Wales. Row with Archbishop.

BR will come by the usual train Wednesday and leave by it Monday.

The year may be as early as 1948. Dated simply Sunday. Except for the crossed-out address on BR's letter of 1950/12/26, this letter's ink and handwriting match those of the dated one. It may go with the letter at record 56069.

BR has too much work to do to get away to Wales before going to America.

Written with a ballpoint pen.

"America was beastly. The Republicans are as wicked as they are stupid, which is saying a great deal. I told everybody I was finding it interesting to study the atmosphere of a police state, which didn't make me popular except with the young."

Nobel Prize.

BR wants to retire from the world.

On getting the Nobel Prize in Sweden. "I think there will be war, and propose to act on that assumption."

BR returns an "excellent thriller" and will visit again after returning from the U.S.

BR suggests that he visit from Oct. 6 to 9.

Newsclip is of a letter to the editor of the Times titled "Religious Broadcasting".

Postscript by Edith Russell at the foot of the letter.

The verso contains a lengthy postscript from Edith Russell.

Re BR's efforts to purchase Penralltgoch.

BR gives permission to quote an unspecified passage.

Two photocopies.