BRACERS Notes

Record no. Notes, topics or text
61003
61004
61005
61006

Enclosed mimeo is of an article titled "Monday, January 6, 1964 an Offensive for Peace".

61007
61008

Enclosed mimeos are of articles titled "Prey to Dangerous Illusions" and "An Impasse".

61009
61010
61011
61012

Enclosed message (carbon copy attached here) supports Mr. Craft of INDEC.

61013
61014

Two copies.

61015
61016

Renewal reminder for subscription to Resistance.

61017
61018

BR signs appeal.

61019
61020
61021
61022
61023

Record 79081 is a typed copy of this record. It is unclear why this document is a photocopy of an unsigned typed letter.

61024
61025

Murray has an affliction of the throat. He is completing his text of Euripides.

61026

On utilitarianism; J.M. Robertson's analysis of poetry. Murray concluded the letter on April 7.

61027

Harrison has Murray's Bacchae, but women cannot tear a live bull to pieces.

61028

On Mary's health and his own; blank verse.

61029

A quotation from Plato's Laws, p. 818. BR dated it 1903, but see his letter to Murray, 28 October 1902. The quotation was inserted in "The Study of Mathematics".

61030

Dated in BR's hand. Murray provides detailed criticisms of BR's Carlyle paper [which is lost]. The enclosed statement lists reasons why Murray should not go to Florence.

61031

Murray dreamt about Russell's paradox.

61032

On tragedy (he's been reading "The Free Man's Worship"). Yeats's plays.

61033
61034

These are "rough notes" re "The Free Man's Worship", ending as a letter would. Attached is a typed transcription, TLS(X), 3 s.

The page references seem to match the manuscript of "The Free Man's Worship".

61035

Dated by BR. Murray refers to his cancelled trip to Cornwall. He is taking another trip in its place.

61036

Postscript is dated 6 March. BR provided the year.

On Berenson; on a general liking for "men and dogs".

61037

Re a "draft agreement", probably for building a house.

61038

Murray wants the building stopped.

61039
61040

John Buchan told Murray that BR's "letters were the best free trade statements that there were."

61041

Two photocopies.

Mary Murray tells BR of Mr. Crompton's death. Albert Crompton will read the Positivist Service.

61042
61043
On BR's advice in an unspecified personal matter.
61044

Murray disagrees that a certain unspecified person could have influence over him. BR's change of opinion on an unspecified question has unprejudiced Mary about BR.

61045
61046

Two photocopies.

Mary Murray is touched by BR's letter and is glad he has been with Crompton Llewelyn Davies.

61047

Murray asks BR to read his translation of Electra.

61048
61049
61050
BR has annotated the letter: "Please answer enclosed about literature. Keep".
61051
61052

Murray insists that BR should write on philosophy, if not mathematics, for the Home University Library.

61053

A spoof letter, which BR headed by hand "[From Gilbert Murray, on 'Problems of Philosophy']". A rat-catcher and earwigs are mentioned.

61054

BR has supplied the year.

Murray criticizes some points in the typescript of The Problems of Philosophy and likes the last chapter "immensely".

61055

On Toynbee.

61056

Re Murray's blasphemer. (Not John William Gott, but "Dr. Nikola"; see Papers 15: 562 for Gott.) Re a blasphemy prosecution.

61057

Murray tells BR that he does not need to publish his Lowell lectures. BR notes that Murray was "a fanatical teatotaller".

61058

Murray relates his actions for conscientious objectors such as Chappelow.

61059

On the N.C.F. convention's rejection of alternative service.

61060

Murray did not approve of Trinity's dismissal of BR: "I have never spoken of you with anything but respect and friendship."

61061

Murray is indignant over "this further persecution of you" for criticizing the U.S. Army.

61062

Murray has been "brouillé" just when he wanted to discuss BR's case with Balfour and the Foreign Office. The Toynbees enjoyed their visit with BR.

61063
Murray is acting on BR's behalf. The philosophers and savants fill him with fear and disgust.
61064

Murray has spoken with General Smuts, who will speak to Cave.

61065

Enclosed petition, got up by Murray, asks that BR be allowed to serve his prison term in the first instead of the second division.

61066

The letter has a notation from BR's secretary that the letter has to await BR's return from the U.S. It concerns Promethee.

61067

Murray and Galsworthy refused Promethee. Murray notes that BR is engaged in educating the young.

61068

Murray invites BR to write on Religion and Science for the Home University Library.

61069

Murray is glad BR will undertake Religion and Science and sets out the royalty scheme.

61070
61071
Murray asks if BR is both all right again and working.
61072
61073
61074

The text side of postcard is photocopied on the same sheet as the letter at record 61703; the address side is on a separate sheet.

Murray deprecates any disparaging references to Adam and Eve.

61075
61076

Photocopied on same sheet as the letter at record 61075.

Murray wishes BR's first speech in the House of Lords had been in a better cause. As for a debate with BR, he does not wish to emphasize differences in the "peace party".

61077

Attached is a photocopy of a newsclip of a letter to the editor of The Times, by Murray, 16 Jan. 1937, commented on in Murray's letter to BR.

61078
61079

Murray asks if BR can help Ernest Jacobsthal find a place of refuge in the U.S. Murray wants to sound out BR on war and civilization.

61080
61081
Murray's signature is in BR's hand.
61082
Murray's signature is in BR's hand.
61083

Attached is another transcription of the letter, incomplete.

61084

On a Warsaw conference in 1938. The "false calm" in England. The future of civilization. Refugees and the "London International Assembly". Socialism after the war.

61085
61086
61087

Murray is glad to hear BR is back in England. Mary is a complete pacifist.

61088

Murray, having been given the first 2 sheets of BR's History of Western Philosophy, suggests revising two points.

"I am rather horrified at the American statements about the immense armaments they mean to keep, including the 'secret' of the bomb. I don't wonder why the Russians are frightened."

61089

Murray asks if BR will read Koszegi's manuscripts. He wonders if Molotov will be able to wreck the Marshall Plan.

61090

Murray forwards an article on Plato by Dodds.

61091

On BR's broadcast on Mill the previous night.

61092

On copying their correspondence. Pembroke Lodge and BR's very good letter to Key (he suggests also Tom Jones and Lord Macmillan). The division between liberal and despotic.

61093

On BR's time in "the icy sea" [at Trondheim] when his plane went down. Their reward in old age for their "highly temperate lives".

61094

On BR's first Reith lecture. Ants. William James on war and Graham Wallas's Great Society.

61095

Murray tells BR what he wore when he received the Order of Merit, and about his talk with King George VI on the people during the bombing of London.

61096

Murray has been reading Keynes's two essays. Keynes doesn't at all describe BR.

61097

Murray would like his letters back. He explains very well why BR should write his Autobiography. He praises BR's courage of conviction and willingness to change his mind, e.g. on pacifism.

61098

Murray gives BR permission to publish any of his letters in his Autobiography. Murray believes "we are slipping into a policy of appeasement". "... one group of powers wants desperately to avoid war, and the other is constantly committing aggression." He thinks BR has said this on certain occasions.

61099
61100

Murray was "greatly touched" by BR's letter to the Philosophical Society dinner. On the life of Josiah Wedgwood and failure.

61101

The address side of the postcard is photocopied on the same sheet as the second sheet of the letter at record 61100; the text side is on a separate sheet.

Murray praises BR's "Portraits from Memory", especially that of Whitehead.

61102

On their different backgrounds; and custom.