BRACERS Notes

Record no. Notes, topics or text
56803

BR agrees to try to have a Born article published in an English paper.

56804
56805
56806
56807
56808
56809
56810

Enclosed statement is against weapons of mass destruction; list is of "suggested signatories".

56811

Enclosed press statement is to correct the error BR made in stating that Born had refused to sign the scientists statement on the perils of nuclear war, published 9 July 1955.

56812
56813

Enclosed is a copy of a draft letter drawn up by Joseph Rotblat and E.H.S. Burhop to promote the idea of an International Conference on the Perils of Nuclear Weapons.

56814
56815
56816
56817

Although Queen's Road, Richmond, is typed on this letter as BR's address he had moved to his next home, Plas Penrhyn in Wales at this time.

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56819
56820
56821
56822
56823
56824
56825
56826
56827
56828
56829
56830
56831
56832
56833
56834
56835

Enclosed documents are "a complete text of the cables that I have sent during the Cuban Crisis...." Press statements and memoranda are also enclosed.

56836
56837

Copy of a telegram to BR declining to sign letters to Kennedy and Khrushchev prepared by Erich Fromm.

56838
56839
56840

Letter contains drawings of two cats and a bird. Since this is a photocopy it is not possible to tell when the drawings were added.

56841

Letterhead: "On Board the Cunard R.M.S. Mauretania". Sir Francis Younghusband is also on board.

56842
56843
56844
56845

Letter contains a list of books which BR found interesting on war. But BR notes: "The most important thing for pacifists is to know the facts, not to read pacifist literature."

56846
56847

Enclosed ts. is titled "What America Could Do With the Atomic Bomb By Bertrand Russell".

"I would not trouble you but for the overwhelming importance of the matter."

56848
56849
56850
56851
56852
56853

Re BR lecturing at Smith College. There is also an incomplete, different version of this on the verso.

56854

This letter was forwarded to Nevile M. Butler of the Foreign Office by E.G. Howarth of the Board of Education, asking for Ponsonby's advice on how Trevelyan should reply. Re Boxer Indemnity Committee.

56855
56856

Two photographs of the letter.

56857

BR introduces Lady Ottoline Morrell.

56858

Two photocopies. The enclosed list is of suggested signatories to a statement about the dangers of thermo-nuclear war.

56859
56860
56861
Two photocopies.
56862
Two photocopies. Enclosed is a revised list of proposed signatories to the statement against nuclear weapons.
56863
Two photocopies.
56864

Supporting BR's statement on nuclear warfare. Suggests Pugwash as a place to meet.

56865
56866

Two photocopies. A photocopy of BR's original letter is in Rec. Acq. 1,029.

56867
56868
56869

Two photocopies. Re Christians and the Bible.

56870
56871

Two photocopies.

56872

Two photocopies.

56873

BR asks if he could see his replies in proof, "as the world situation keeps changing".

56874

Urquhart's previous letter must have gone astray.

56875

BR will try to answer her questions "as soon as I can". "I feel the outlook extremely gloomy, and have not much hope, but I still have some."

56876

BR sends her his answers to her questions.

56877

On his replies: "I see nothing that urgently requires change, though if I were writing now I should make less of Communist power for mischief in France and Italy. But this is not important."

56878
56879
56880
56881
56882

BR endorses Clara Urquhart's letter to The Observer in support of Albert Schweitzer.

56883

Re the alleged genetic inferiority of Negroes.

56884
56885
56886
56887
56888
56889
56890
56891
56892

BR invites Bell to visit them in Cambridge. Patricia "is prevented by war-time household ties from going out except on rare occasions".

56893

BR provides precise directions for getting to his house by bus (no. 6 to Red Cross, then 3rd house on the right).

56894

BR accepts Bell's invitation for June 14, possibly in London.

56895

BR (by this letter) introduces Michael Goodwin, "who is writing a book about Bloomsbury in the twenties and about our more eminent friends". BR has done his part to help Goodwin (who apparently owned or edited Twentieth Century. No such book appeared).

56896

Not a letter but notes by BR on the dissertation of A.G.D. Watson in theoretical physics.

56897

Not a letter but a ts. titled "Earl Russell's Reports on Mr. A.G.D. Watson's Dissertations 1933 and 1932".

56898

Miss Pate worked as a typist for BR.

56899

A printed copy of the letter, from the Russell Society News, no. 67, is included in the file.

56900

A printed copy of the letter, from the Russell Society News, no. 67, is included in the file. The signature is not BR's but an imitation by Edith Russell.

56901

Included in the file is a copy of a brief article on BR by Brender and Bloom, published in Hudde Lights, spring 1965. The letter is reproduced as part of the article.

56902