BRACERS Notes

Record no. Notes, topics or text
57003
57004
57005
57006
57007
57008
57009
57010
57011
57012

Chinese legation in UK.

57013

Letter addressed to BR, MacDonald, and 9 other British luminaries from the Chinese Minister of Justice re a shooting incident in Shanghai.

57014
57015
57016
57017
57018
57019
57020

Excerpts from a BR letter included in a document from the American Committee for Cultural Freedom, titled "Memorandum re: Bertrand Russell and the A.C.C.F."

57021

Text of a BR letter included in a document from the American Committee for Cultural Freedom, titled "Memorandum re: Bertrand Russell and the A.C.C.F."

57022

Text of a BR letter included in a document from the American Committee for Cultural Freedom, titled "Memorandum re: Bertrand Russell and the A.C.C.F."

57023

Excerpt from a BR letter included in a document from the American Committee for Cultural Freedom, titled "Memorandum re: Bertrand Russell and the A.C.C.F."

57024

Excerpt from a letter included in a document from the American Committee for Cultural Freedom, titled "Memorandum re: Bertrand Russell and the A.C.C.F."

57025

Excerpt from a BR letter included in a document from the American Committee for Cultural Freedom, titled "Memorandum re: Bertrand Russell and the A.C.C.F."

57026

Excerpt from a BR letter included in a document from the American Committee for Cultural Freedom, titled "Memorandum re: Bertrand Russell and the A.C.C.F."

57027

Attached is a press release from A.C.C.F. in which the complete text of the letter is reproduced.

57028
57029
57030

Typed copy of a paragraph from the letter, headed "Pertinent Paragraph from Katharine B. Faulkner's letter of April 24, 1953 to Lord Bertrand Russell".

57031
57032
57033

Attached is a copy by BR of the second paragraph of the letter.

57034
57035

BR declares that he has dissociated himself from the Anti-War Movement, "as soon as I discovered that it was a Communist body in disguise." He refers to Gillies' pamphlet, The Communist Solar System. BR explicitly states that he is a Socialist, like Gillies.

Also in file: a photocopy of a typed copy of the letter with a handwritten note at the top: "19.9.33 original sent to Mr. Gillies | Copy to W.W.H."

Also in file: a colour printout of scan of the letter done in August 2015. Source: People's History Museum, Labour History Archive, LP/IC/CI/39/16.

Also in file: an email from Nicholas Griffin, who discovered the letter in 2005.

57036

The secretary acknowledges receipt of BR's letter to Gillies of Sept. 18, 1933 (record 57035).

57037

Gutmann asks if BR is a member of the Labour Party, and 2 other questions.

57038

Included in the file is a note by K. Blackwell: "The date is wrong, probably by a month. The review appeared 11 July 1937." Thus, supporing that it is the month that is in error, BR's date of "29.7.37" has been changed to 1937/06/29.

The letter was offered for sale in a catalogue by David Schulson Autographs in March 1984, item 89.

57039
Two photocopies.

Attached is a photocopy of a newsclip of the published letter.
57040

There are 2 letters dated 12 April 1963, one marked private.

Attached is a photocopy of a newsclip of the published letter.

57041

Photocopy is incomplete, page or pages of the letter are missing.

57042
57043
57044
57045
57046

A photocopy of a newsclip of a BR letter to the editor of The New Republic, headed "Chemical Warfare in Vietnam".

57047

A photocopy of a newsclip of a BR letter to I.F. Stone's Weekly, headed "Bertrand Russell on U.S. Use of Poisonous Chemicals in South Vietnam".

57048
57049
57050
57051

Enclosed pamphlet, by Adam Roberts, is titled War by Accident? Ts., by BR, is an introduction to the pamphlet.

57052
57053

A photocopy of a carbon copy of the letter is attached. Also attached is a memo from Lasch to "RK", reading: "Pls put this in the file with Russell's letter but we wont mail it for the present RL"; letter was not sent.

57054

Written at the top of the letter: "File not used RL".

57055
57056

Written at the top: "File not used RL".

57057
57058
57059
Two photocopies.
57060
57061
57062
57063
57064
57065
57066

BR writes: "In general I dislike reviewing works by friends."

57067
57068
57069

Photocopy of a letter printed in the Russell Society News, no. 43, August 1984.

57070
57071

Santayana states that Frank will not be recognized in The Last Puritan.

57072

Bynner met BR in China.

57073
57074
57075

Contains a BR witticism: BR imagines being reincarnated as a rattlesnake.

57076
57077
57078
57079

Re: The Free Man's Worship, Thomas Bird Mosher edition.

57080
57081
57082
57083
57084
57085
Headed: "For publication".
57086
57087
57088
Two photocopies.
57089
57090
57091

Enclosed ts. is an appeal re the danger of nuclear war in the Middle East; BR asks Oppenheimer to sign it.

57092

Signed "Diddy".

57093
57094
57095
57096
57097
57098

BR dated the letter 1955.

57099
57100
57101
57102