BRACERS Notes

Record no. Notes, topics or text
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Not a letter but a notice for the 1972 Dacorum Lecture by Michael Burn, titled "A Talk in Celebration of the Bertrand Russell Centenary: 'Living to the Full'". The notice reprints the prologue to the Autobiography of BR, and contains a list of titles published by BR.

56523

Letterhead: Waverley-Temperance Hotel, Pontypool.

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Dated "Wed." only.
56528
Dated "Saturday" only.
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Dated "Sat." only.
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Dated "Tuesday in the train" only.

56532

BR's London telephone: ask for "Miss Lavinia Potts".

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BR has just returned from Marseilles after Frank Russell's death. Dated "Monday" only.

56538
Dated "Tuesday" only. Frank has just died.
56539

Dated "Tuesday" only; postmark illegible.

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An invitation to BR's wedding to Patricia Russell.

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Letterhead: "Union-Castle Line S.S. Dunluce Castle".

56551

Two photocopies and a photocopy of a typed copy.

On Mrs. Richardson, Mrs. Williams (called "Billings") and Andrew Green in Santayana's book. There is nothing to "vex" BR in it.

56552

Two photocopies.

BR provides the names of Frank Russell's firms of solicitors.

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BR cannot come to "the dinner". He did not know John Dewey was in England and invites him to visit Beacon Hill School.

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"Mr Bertrand Russell has now been released from prison...."

Not a letter but a printed request sent to Keynes for subscriptions to a BR fund to enable him to pursue "philosophic work". The document is not addressed to John Maynard Keynes but is from his papers at King's College.

Another copy of this document is in Recent Acq. 1,085.

Also in that file is a letter from M.A. Halls, Modern Archivist, to S. Turcon describing the document.

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Two photocopies.

BR declines an invitation to Madrid for a League of Nations "conversation" on "Whither Civilization".

56575

Two photocopies.

56576

Two photocopies.

Mary Murray encloses BR's letter to her of 15 April 1933 declining the invitation to Madrid.

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BR is invited to attend a meeting on the "Foundation and Method in Mathematical Sciences" at the Polytechnical School of Zurich. The topics and invitees are listed.

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Not a letter but a printed form reply from BR declining because he is abroad the invitation of the International Institute for Intellectual Cooperation to attend a meeting in Zurich.

Two photocopies.

56581

Re the Kalinga Prize.

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Ts. contains biographical data about BR.

56584

Enclosed ts., titled "Bertrand Russell—Kalinga Prize Winner 1957" is a press release with biographical data on BR announcing his receipt of the prize.

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Enclosed ts. is titled "Address of Acceptance of the Kalinga Prize by Bertrand Russell".

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Not a letter but a typescript of the programme for the presentation of the Kalinga Prize in Paris. BR is listed as the last speaker.

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Re disposition of the microfilm of BR's Autobiography after his death.

56596

Re disposition of the microfilm of BR's Autobiography after his death.

56597

Re disposition of the microfilm of BR's Autobiography after his death.

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56599

An "official letter" entrusting Cameron with safekeeping a microfilm copy of BR's Autobiography and disposal of same after his death.

56600

Letter and newsclip from the Vancouver World, 11 Feb. 1918, concern BR's imprisonment. The recipient was Chief Press Censor for Canada.

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