BRACERS Notes

Record no. Notes, topics or text
61103

Santayana. Murray went with Price to de la Warr's Psychical Rsearch Laboratory.

61104

Murray on BR's "Faith and Mountains": "... it quite keeps up your combination of the preposterous with the highly plausible."

61105

On BR's prostate operation. On Murray's six BBC talks on people he has known. On the hungry birds in the current deep snow.

61106

On Rosalind. Murray's presidential address.

61107
Edith has told him that BR's recovery is delayed. China. Nations can no longer take war lightly.
61108

"What did Verrall say to Granville Barker about Jane?" (Re Jane Harrison.)

61109
61110

Murray sends his piece on a classical education. He is grieved by "the last four volumes of Arnold [Toynbee's] history" in their "religiosity".

61111

On science for humanists. The "damnation of the heathen". Arnold [Toynbee]'s vol. 8 is "extraordinarily interesting".

61112
61113

Murray must obey his doctor and not journey to hear BR on Mill, as "she sometimes tells the truth".

61114
On the liar paradox and some odd sayings.
61115

Murray likes "Philosophers and Idiots" (B&R C55.08). He is "beginning to get terribly conscious of failing powers".

61116

On Einstein and Murray's personal contract with him.

61117

On Corliss Lamont and his account of BR and the CCNY case. Excessive democracy. Schönberg's story "A Survivor from Warsaw".

61118

The enclosed letter is from Miriam G. Dunsford, of Psychic and Literary Luncheons, to BR.

61119
61120

Murray asks for BR's lecture on Mill, having been reading Packe's Life of Mill. On civilized nations and the renunciation of war.

61121

On Mill. Murray has just lectured at Cambridge to European Vice-Chancellors.

61122

Murray was moved by BR's broadcast on the beginning of World War I.

61123
Murray did not think BR was bothered by lack of herd feeling.
61124
On BR's sixth talk, the state of the world, and excesses of democracy.
61125

Murray liked BR's analysis of Princess Margaret's divorce problem and expands on the origins of Christianity's approach to marriage.

61126

Murray suggests that BR write for Marchant's book of essays on "Adam, Where Art Thou?".

61127

Murray likes BR's essay on mankind, "Prologue or Epilogue?" (B&R A98).

61128
Murray thanks BR for his telegram on his 90th birthday the previous day: "I feel that whatever you say you mean."

The text of the telegram cannot be found.
61129
On his 90th birthday telegrams, and the devotion of his life to the struggle against falsehood and cruelty. G.M. Trevelyan.
61130

On Mary Murray's regard for BR. With her death after "68 years of close companionship", "I feel even more lost than I expected."

61131

Murray notes that BR has responded favourably to the Revue International de Psycho-Pedagogie for the improvement of civilization.

61132

Murray gave BR an introduction to Mrs. Lamont, and now BR is championing Corliss! Murray thinks highly of Toynbee's Historian's Approach to Religion.

61133

Murray wants to read BR's Helsinki speech (B&R C55.27) and expands on the role of the UN and "a monstrous amount of petty violence". On Eisenhower and Nehru.

61134

Murray praises Portraits from Memory.

[Murray died on 20 May 1957.]

61135

A fragment of a letter, with a typed signature, "GGAM", typical of Murray in 1901.

Murray is writing a lecture and will say "It is ridiculous to say that ritual is not spiritual, and, if possible, bow towards you."

61136
61137

On the death of Mary's father. On renunciation.

61138

Alys and Logan heard Gilbert's address on Friday.

61139
61140
61141
61142
61143
61144
61145
61146
61147
61148
61149
61150
61151
61152

Enclosed with another letter to Edwards of the same date, record 61151, enthusiastically approving Edwards' introduction and appendix to Why I Am Not a Christian.

61153
61154
61155
61156
61157
61158
61159
61160
61161
61162
61163
61164
61165
61166
61167
Handwritten note initialled by BR, appearing at the top of the letter described in record 61166. The addressee is inferred.
61168
61169

Copy of a letter probably included in a letter to Edwards, not present in this file. At the foot is a note to Edwards by BR reading: "The above is the result of your letter. Bertrand Russell".

61170

Letter and enclosure re BR's 90th birthday celebration. Notes are titled "Festival Hall. May 19. 1962 A Musical Tribute to Honour Bertrand Russell on His 90th Birthday".

61171
61172
61173

Attached is a photocopy. Re her "days at McMaster University".

61174

In support of BR.

61175

Possibly from John Baker.

61176
61177

A chain letter, with BR's name at the top, referred to in Patricia Russell's letter to Gill at record 61176.

61178
61179
61180
61181
61182

Not a letter but a ts. message titled "Message to Be Read at the Meeting on April 30, 1957, of the National Council for Abolition of Nuclear Weapon Tests".

61183

Not a letter but a message in support of a meeting of CND, ending with the declaration: "Come to this meeting and help to save mankind!".

61184

BR asks Jones to join the Committee of 100.

61185
Two photocopies.
61186

Enclosed tear-sheets from the Keats-Shelley Memorial Bulletin, xvi, 39-41 (1965), of an article by King-Hele titled "Shelley and Nuclear Disarmament Demonstrations".

61187
61188
61189
61190
61191

Enclosed "remarks" by BR (9 pp.) are on a paper Joachim sent to him. BR states that if Joachim publishes this paper, BR will probably repliy to it. Joachim's paper was on the nature of truth, The correspondence theory of truth is discussed in the paper. It may have become a chapter in Joachim's The Nature of Truth, which BR reviewed in B&R C06.09 and C06.15.

61192
61193
61194
61195
61196
61197
61198
61199
61200
61201
61202

There are 3 original documents in this file; the remainder of documents are photocopied. They include correspondence re travel to America as well as Mary Neylan's application for a non-immigrant visa, 16 August 1940. There is also an interview with Mary Neylan about BR: she was the Head of the English Department at Dartington in the 1930s.

There are also three photocopies of this letter in the file; the original was purchased in 1996.