BRACERS Notes

Record no. Notes, topics or text
56301

In praise of Britton's "Murder's Last Word".

56302

Britton has written notes about ABC of Relativity.

56303
56304
56305
56306
56307
56308
56309
56310
56311

BR agrees to two reprintings. 

The photocopy makes the letter appear to be unsigned, but it really is signed.

56312
56313
56314

Re BR's visit to Wellesley College.

56315
56316
56317

On work for peace that American citizens are undertaking.

56318
56319

Enclosed letter to the editor of the New Statesman by BR was not published.

56320
56321
56322
56323
56324
56325

"All drafts received agree with you re annexations think Halifax best next Temple Wood I will sign what you and Murray agree on = Russell".

I.e., Viscount Templewood, i.e. Samuel Hoare, who won the elections BR contested in Chelsea in 1922 and 1923.

56326

"I have your letter with the addendum. I incline to the plan of a very large number of signatures, as influential as possible. I think you and Gilbert Murray and I have pretty well used up our capital of influence in regard to Germany. I dare say my judgment is wrong, and I will agree to whatever you decide."

56327

Gollancz asks BR to sign the enclosed letter to the editor of The Times. He has asked other prominent individuals to sign it.

56328

"I am very glad to sign the letter to The Times that you have sent me. I was thinking of getting up such a letter, as the matter is one on which I feel very vehemently."

With this letter is BR's signed copy of the letter to The Times.

Re the treatment of German Field Marshalls Rundstedt, Brauchitsch and Manstein.

56329

BR is willing to sign a petition or join in signing a letter re Ernst von Weizsaecker.

"It seems abominable—but Americans have no feeling for justice."

"As from" Ffestiniog.

56330

Misdated by BR as 8.12.48.

"I read the bundle of evidence for the appeal that you had sent to me. It is quite clear that his [Ernst von Weizsaecker's] condemnation is monstrous."

BR has written in support of Gollancz to The Times.

56331

BR has written to The Times to support Gollancz on dismantling German industry. "They usually refuse to print letters from me, on theological grounds." (The letter was not published.)

"I have long felt indignant about dismantling and I hope with all my heart that it will be abandoned."

(On the 19th of August the German factory Reichwerke Salzgitter-Watenstedt was the object of a demonstration by 12,000 workers who opposed dismantling.)

56332
56333

Re a letter BR sent to Ernest Gellner.

56334
56335

The form letter asking the recipient to join the British "Who Killed Kennedy?" Committee.

56336
56337
56338
56339
56340

The text of the letter is in Latin.

56341
56342
56343
56344
56345
56346
56347
56348
56349
56350
56351
56352
56353

BR could not answer Einstein's cable satisfactorily. BR had not heard of the proposal in question and is not in touch with the people in question.

[Yet this may concern B&R F47.03. See Einstein on Peace, pp. 462-4. Einstein seems to have inferred from BR's letter that his signature on the appeal in B&R F47.03 was not authorized by BR, as Einstein told Henry Usborne on 9 January 1948.]

56354
56355
56356

On the letterhead of the Committee of 100.

56357
56358
56359
56360

Enclosed appeal is to Khrushchev on behalf of Soviet Jews.

56361
56362

Re the return of BR's letter to Martin Luther King of 9 Sept. 1963, "By the postal authorities, who appear to be anxious to be unhelpful." Farley encloses the returned letter and asks Slater King to "Kindly see that the letter arrives."

56363

Enclosed appeal is to Khrushchev on behalf of Soviet Jews.

56364

A typed transcription is attached.

56365

"Very sorry impossible. Russell" is BR's reply, perhaps to a request for an article.

56366

Dated incorrectly 1947.

56367
56368
56369
56370

On letterhead of Chalet Soleil, Randogne sur Sierre, Switzerland, so possibly written from there [Elizabeth Russell's home].

56371
56372

Letterhead: "On Board S.S. Celtic".

56373
56374
56375

Re BR's pacifism.

"I will confess that I have less certainty now of having been right than I had at the time [WWII], because I think the Soviet government just as bad as the Nazis. I lived in America from 1938 to 1944, and I think perhaps my patriotism was stimulated by the jocose indifference of the Californians until Pearl Harbour."

Also on pacifism in WWI.

BR thanks Graves for an unidentified book.

56376

A superb letter on BR's positions on Asia, Africa, Russia, and Europe. He adds: "... I cannot but feel that a war [with Russia] would do less harm than world-wide tyranny."

56377
56378
56379

Two photocopies.

56380

Letterhead: Ritz-Carlton Hotel.

M. Moore replied at record 56381.

56381
56382

Not a letter but a memorandum of a telephone call by Marianne Moore of The Dial to Dorothy Harvey re an article of Harvey's that BR sent to The Dial for publication.

56383

Enclosure is titled: "Geneva—a Message to the Foreign Ministers", signed by BR and three others.

56384
56385

(Although written on Overstrand Mansions letterhead, Russell was at Newlands Farm at this time.)

56386
56387

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56388
56389
56390
56391

Re the CCNY controversy.

56392
56393

Enclosed is a statement signed by BR but, according to the letter, written by Patricia Russell; it was intended as a press release to counter misrepresentations in the American press surrounding the CCNY controversy.

56394
56395

Not a letter but a press release by the American Civil Liberties Union including the statement submitted by Patricia Russell with her letter of 8 April 1940.

56396
56397
56398
56399

The letter relates to Conrad Memorial, 1927 Aug. 12.

56400

Russell gives his address as "as from University of Chicago", but the text shows that he wrote this letter before leaving England. Moreover, he was not due to arrive in New York until Sept. 25.