BRACERS Notes

Record no. Notes, topics or text
58003
58004
58005
58006
58007
58008
58009
58010
58011
Not a letter but a leaflet announcing the formation of the BRPF.
58012

Not a letter but a donation form for the Atlantic Peace Foundation.

58013

Not a letter but a mimeograph titled "Statement of Bertrand Russell at Television Interview and Press Conference on Launching of Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation and Atlantic Peace Foundation 29 September, 1963".

58014
58015
Russell had requested his autograph.
58016
58017

Printed letter To the Electors of the Wimbledon Division of Surrey.

Included is a signed photograph of BR.

58018

Letter of thanks titled "Wimbledon Parliamentary Bye Election 1907".

58019

Attached is a typed copy of the letter. Enclosed with the original was a letter from Gilbert Murray as well as the document at record 58020, and a "note regarding Bertrand Russell", dated 1918/03/23, by Wiseman.

58020
58021
58022
58023
58024

Telegram concerns CCNY controversy. Included in the file is a photocopy of a BR article titled "What I Believe", appearing in The Nation, 30 Mar. 1940.

58025
58026
58027

There is a dictated ms. of this letter and a TL(CAR) in RA, records 1615 and 85547, respectively.

Kotte Autographs GmbH had it for sale on Abebooks on 20 November 2025.

58028
58029

The signature is secretarial, probably in the hand of Ralph Schoenman.

58030

"I cannot agree with the philosophy of any of these writers, but I am afraid that I would need an essay on each in any way adequately to discuss either this or their literature."

58031

"I did not answer your question about literature because I had nothing interesting to say about it. I admire Camus and Gide, and I admire Sartre as a playwrite [sic] but not as a philosopher. Literature has at times been of very great importance. The great Russian novelists, for example, prepared the way for the overthrow of the Czarist regime. It is impossible to know at present whether any writer has any importance, since we do not know whether there will be any readers or other human beings ten years hence."

58032

"We must overcome the sense of helplessness which possesses most people."

58033
58034
58035
58036

Letter is printed in a publication titled 50 Federal Supplement under a section titled "Russell v. Barnes Foundation. Civil Action No. 2932".

58037

Letter is included in the ts. titled "In the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania Bertrand Russell ... vs. The Barnes Foundation ... Plaintiff's Affidavit in Support of Motion for Summary Judgment", p. 3.

58038

Letter is included in the ts. titled "In the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania Bertrand Russell ... vs. The Barnes Foundation ... Plaintiff's Affidavit in Support of Motion for Summary Judgment", p. 3.

58039

Letter is included in the ts. titled "In the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania Bertrand Russell ... vs. The Barnes Foundation ... Plaintiff's Affidavit in Support of Motion for Summary Judgment", p. 3.

58040

Letter is included in the ts. titled "In the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania Bertrand Russell ... vs. The Barnes Foundation ... Plaintiff's Affidavit in Support of Motion for Summary Judgment", p. 3.

58041
58042
58043
58044
58045

Attached is a photocopy of a typed copy of a ms., a "Brief Synopsis of My Proposed Lectures", enclosed in the original letter.

The ms. is titled: "Philosophy and Cultural Development in Europe".

58046
58047
58048
58049
58050
58051
58052
58053

On BRPF letterhead.

58054
58055

BR explains his pacifist views and relates them to world government. One sentence was widely misinterpreted in the media when the Simon Wiesenthal Centre's Museum of Tolerance, Los Angeles, announced its acquisition of the letter for US$4,000. The following sentence was seen as referring to Hitler himself: "... if the Germans succeeded in sending an invading army to England, we should do best to treat them as visitors, give them quarters, and invite the Commander in Chief to dine with the Prime Minister."

Also in the file is the news story in the Mail Online, 23 Jan. 2014, about the letter's upcoming sale, with images of the letter and 21 readers' comments. BR addressed the envelope thus: Godfrey J. Carter Esq. | New Buildings | Eton College | Windsor

B&R J89.01 is a quotation from the letter in a Sotheby's catalogue.

58056

Three photocopies.

The original letter is in Greg's copy of Principia Mathematica, purchased in 1993 by Karl Popper.

58057

The letter is addressed to "Mr. Pontius".

(Steven Bayne on Russell-l on 1999/11/11 says that he knew a Pontius at Harvard who said he knew Russell. Thus the identification is good but tentative).

58058

Enclosed manuscript is on pacifism with fighting for certain principles being justifiable.

58059
58060
58061
58062

Enclosed ms. is titled "Capitalism or What? by Bertrand Russell".

58063

Mrs. Lovett was a student of BR's at the Barnes Foundation.

58064
58065
58066
58067
58068

Re Barnes: "I was sorry to be torn from the class, and from those who, like yourself, were becoming friends."

58069
58070
58071

Holograph copy made by Caroline Lovett.

58072

Holograph copy made by Caroline Lovett.

58073

Not a letter but a ts. titled "Speech by Bertrand Russell for Trafalgar Square Meeting, 29 October, 1961".

58074

Copy of a letter from the Committee of 100, signed by BR and Scott.

58075

Copy of a letter from BR, a statement titled "Notes on the Berlin Crisis".

58076

A typed copy of the letter is attached.

58077

A typed copy of the letter is attached.

58078

Letter is substantially the same as the previous letter at record 58077, but is not addressed specifically to Rabinowitch; rather it is headed "For publication in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists: to the Editor".

58079
58080
58081
58082
58083
58084
58085
58086

Photocopy of a newsclip from The New York Times printing of a BR letter to the editor headed "Vietnam Policy Protested; Russell Holds Our Aim is to Block Economic Reform".

58087

Enclosed printed note asks for financial contributions to the Bertrand Russell Peace Fund. It ends: "This note is inserted quite unknown to Lord Russell by his secretary."

58088
58089
58090
58091
58092
58093

Enclosed statement concerns the dismissal of Biagi and Howard Ozmon from Patterson State College.

58094
58095
58096
58097

Signed "Bouvardine" (from Flaubert's novel). Mary, in reply to record 132308, is "delighted to hear hear that you [BR] got your Fellowship at the first try. You were most cunning in leading us not to expect it, for now it comes as such a surprise that if the others feel like me, they will bow in humble reverence before you and hail you Genius!!!"

58098
The date is that of the last postmark.
58099
The date is that of the last postmark.
58100
58101
58102