BRACERS Notes

Record no. Notes, topics or text
59703
59704
59705
59706

On the verso of Gregory's letter at record 59705.

59707

Enclosed mimeo minutes are from the Council meeting of 21 January 1961.

59708
59709

Enclosed copy is of a letter to the editor of The Humanist.

59710
59711
59712
59713
59714

Attached are two typed drafts of the letter, one signed, both marked "Not sent".

59715

Enclosed ts. is headed: "The following resolutions and amendments relevant to the relationship between the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and Direct Action and the Committee of 100 were considered at the Annual Conference".

59716
59717
59718
59719
59720
59721
59722
59723
59724

Not a letter but a statement re BR's intention to speak at Trafalgar Square at the end of the Aldermaston March as President of the Committee of 100, not as a member of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.

59725

Enclosed carbon copies, "chiefly for office use", are "a programme of the main tasks to be undertaken within the next few weeks and also a draft budget for this period...."

59726
59727
59728
59729

Enclosed letter to Sambridge from the Queen's Hotel, Birmingham, confirms the reservation of a room for the Russells.

59730

Enclosed ts. is an account of "The Easter Monday Sit-Down".

59731
59732
59733

Dictated draft of a telegram, in Edith Russell's hand.

59734

Form letter to "Dear Committee Member". Enclosed mimeo is titled "Committee of 100 Summary of Working Group Discussion on 6th April about Easter Sit-Down".

59735
59736

Enclosed copies of letters are from Underwood to Peggy Duff, the editor of the New Statesman, and the editor of Tribune.

59737
59738
59739
59740
59741

Enclosed mimeo is titled "Statement of Aims".

59742

Enclosed mimeo is titled "Issued by: Topic Records Ltd. 12001. Songs Against the Bomb".

59743
59744
59745
59746
59747

Attached is a typed carbon copy transcription of the letter.

59748

Attached is a different carbon copy of the same letter. BR is ill.

59749
59750
59751
59752
59753
59754

Enclosed draft letter is copied at the end of Smythe's letter, and includes the names of Smythe and 3 others as signatories.

59755
59756

Enclosed draft is an appeal for funds.

59757
59758
59759
59760

Not a letter but a mimeo titled "Nominations for the National Council 1961." The document puts forward BR's name as a nominee for Council.

59761
59762
59763
59764
59765
59766

On the verso of Randle's letter at record 59765.

59767

Dictated copy in Edith Russell's hand.

59768

Not a letter but a statement headed: "Message for the Demonstration in Parliament Square, 29 April, 1961". Written at the top in Edith Russell's hand: "Sent to Ralph Schoenman and Michael Randle".

59769

Enclosed mimeo and draft flyers are against nuclear tests and apartheid in South Africa, the former issued by the Christmas Vigil Anti-Nuclear Committee.

59770
59771
59772
59773

This is the first signed letter at end of BR's illness.

59774
59775
59776

Enclosed resolution is titled "Resolution Passed at Midland Regional Youth CND Conference—15.4.61. Copy to Lord Russell". Enclosed letter is a form letter for the media from the Birmingham Youth Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.

59777
59778

Enclosed mimeo is titled "Information Sheet No. 1 World Peace Brigade Conference Preparatory Committee".

59779
59780

Signed telegram draft in BR's hand on a small slip of paper.

59781

Enclosed newsclip, from The Sunday Telegraph, 30 April 1961, is about a "Pirate Radio Station called 'Voice of Nuclear Disarmament'".

59782
59783
Schweitzer on BR and himself.
59784
59785
59786
59787

Attached is a carbon copy transcription of the letter.

59788

Attached is another carbon copy, typed on the same sheet as the copy noted in the previous record, 59787.

59789

Attached are two separate carbon copy drafts of the letter.

In the letter BR notes that "This is the first day that I have been permitted since my illness to write a letter."

59790

The flyer, issued by the Council, announces a rally to take place at Aberystwyth, 20 May 1961.

59791

Dictated draft, in Edith Russell's hand.

59792

Typed copy of a postscript appears at the foot of the carbon copy of the letter.

59793

Edith caught chicken pox from BR's shingles.

59794
59795

Encloses a £50 cheque for the National Youth Campaign.

59796
59797
59798
59799
59800
59801
59802