BRACERS Notes

Record no. Notes, topics or text
60203
60204

BR should "look upon higher things and not in the gutter".

60205

Ledet supports BR's anti-Catholicism and him in the CCNY case.

60206

Paine supports BR in the CCNY case and has written to Bishop Manning.

60207

Schwartz is a Public Relations Counsel. Patricia replied on 5 April, record 120528. BR noted at the top: "Inform Fraenkel chosen".

60208

"Every sign points to a resurgence of bigotry...."

60209

The signature is illegible, but the writer knows BR and Patricia Russell and says that "Language Fact and Truth" is a splendid title. This knowledge and a signature comparison reveal that the correspondent is Norton's employee, Storer Lunt.

60210

Street, supporting BR, apologizes for New York City.

60211

Symmers admires BR's courage in the CCNY case.

60212

Williams believes most of religion is a collection of "pious frauds" and takes up the accusation that BR's writings are "salacious".

60213

The signature of this writer from Kalamazoo is either missing or illegible. The letter is critical of McGeehan and Manning.

60214
60215

Not a letter but a typescript titled "Suggested Statement for the Press by the Committee of 100: May 8, 1962". Typed endorsement, "Bertrand Russell President, Committee of 100". Re nuclear disarmers' membership in the Labour Party.

60216
60217
60218
60219
60220

Enclosed is a carbon copy of a letter from Cadogan to Colin Sweet.

60221
60222
60223
60224

Not a letter but a signed "Statement to the Press". Attached is a carbon copy of the statement and a dictated draft in Ralph Schoenman's hand, re Labour Party and Nuclear Disarmers.

60225
60226

Enclosed is a copy of a letter to Cadogan from Ivor Montagu, Chairman of the British Preparatory Committee, World Congress for General Disarmament and Peace.

60227
60228
60229

Enclosure is titled "Facts about World Disarmament Congress 1962".

60230

Tinker suggests BR use one of "those pens left over from the ones Foges gave you for the Queen of Sheba." This is for signing a leaflet with the text "Join me at the Air Ministry on September 9 Bertrand Russell".

60231

Dictated note, in Christopher Farley's hand, intended to be rewritten by BR and included in a Committee of 100 leaflet for 9 Sept. 1962.

60232
60233
60234
60235
60236
60237
60238

Williams was General Secretary of the Labour Party.

60239
60240

Mimeo form letter "To all Friends of Conscientious Objectors".

Enclosed mimeos are titled "Press Release Editor of French Journal on Hunger Strike" and "Press Release Is the French Gandhi to be Left Dying?".

60241
60242
60243
60244
60245

Letter of support from a 16-year-old.

60246
60247

Enclosed is a bulletin issued by the Irish Campaign, dated May 1962.

60248
60249

Written from Wormwood Scrubs Prison.

60250

Re BR's World War I prison experience (composed by Ralph Schoenman and sent in BR's name). Although this carbon is initialled "B.R.", see records 60251 and 127843). BR had to correct an error about his Brixton experience.

60251

BR corrects a mistake in a letter which Ralph Schoenman, on behalf of BR, wrote in reply to Randle's letter. "His letter says that when I was at Brixton in 1918 the Governor, at first, refused permission to have the manuscript of my Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy sent to the publisher. This is not true. He accepted my assurance that there was nothing political in the manuscript, and altogether his behaviour was as kindly as the regulations allowed."

60252
60253
60254
60255

Not a letter but the first leaf of a handwritten statement on speaking in the House of Lords titled "Message to Press 28/6/62". Attached is a newsclip from the Manchester Guardian, 29 June 1962, titled "Lord Russell Wants Action by Neutrals".

60256
60257

Letter contains a message to the International Congress of Mathematicians, Stockholm.

60258

Dictated telegram re Industrial Committee's leaflet (for which see record 60266).

60259
60260
60261
60262
60263
60264
60265

Enclosed pamphlet is titled Military Thinking and Unilateralism, the Technical Argument.

60266

Enclosed leaflets are in Russian and English, the English version being titled Against All Bombs. See record 60258.

60267
60268

Enclosed extract is from an article by Yury Zhukov in Pravda, 9 July 1962.

60269
60270
60271
60272

Full name: Everyman III London—Leningrad—Moscow Voyage Against Nuclear Tests.

60273

Letter to the editor by BR as sponsor of the Everyman III Project under the auspices of the World Peace Brigade.

60274

Enclosed leaflet is titled National Petition Denouncing Manufacture and Testing of All Nuclear Weapons.

60275
60276
60277
60278

According to the previous entry, record 60277, the letter is a draft "never sent".

60279

Tinker refers to an enclosed letter (not present) that he sent to all Committee members.

"I hope you appreciate how much I am personally upset by the disagreements we have been having recently. I retain as some of the most rewarding and happy times of my life the periods when I was working for you."

[This letter was wrongly entered as from BR and the C100 to Tinker.]

60280

Tinker sends BR an inscribed copy of Beerbohm's The Poet's Corner (in Russell`s library).

60281

BR thanks Tinker warmly for the gift of Beerbohm's The Poet's Corner (in Russell's library).

60282
60283
60284

Typed on the same sheet as the previous entry, record 60283. Attached is a carbon draft of a message included in the letter sent to Jones.

60285

Enclosed mimeo is titled "N.S. Khrushchov Receives Delegation of Gandhi Peace Fund"; enclosed tear-sheet is from International Affairs, Sept. 1962, of an article by Zhukov titled "New NATO Weapon: Ideological Subversion". See record 52335 for a note on the letter. [Khrushchev]

60286

According to a note at record 60285, this letter was to have been drafted by Christopher Farley.

60287
60288
60289

Enclosed carbons are titled "Memorandum to: Bertrand Russell Albert Schweitzer from: Erich Fromm date: September 30, 1962"; and "Long Live Life!".

60290

Enclosed form letters are newsletters issued by the group.

60291

Foot of the letter is cut off; the missing part is copied at the top in Ralph Schoenman's hand.

60292
60293
60294

Statement on behalf of Peace News included in the body of the letter.

60295

Copy of a letter to Peace News, sent with compliments to BR by Bevis.

60296
60297
60298

Enclosed draft is titled "A Report to the Nation; H-Bomb War: What It Would Be Like".

60299
60300

Draft letter to the editor in Edith Russell's hand, marked "not to be sent".

60301

Draft marked "Unsent". Attached is a carbon copy of the draft, and a newsclip from the Sunday Express, 4 Nov. 1962.

60302