Total Published Records: 135,557
BRACERS Notes
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| 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.) |
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| 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". |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
| 61135 | A fragment of a letter, with a typed signature, "GGAM", typical of Murray in 1901. |
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| 61137 | On the death of Mary's father. On renunciation. |
| 61138 | Alys and Logan heard Gilbert's address on Friday. |
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| 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. |
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| 61167 | Handwritten note initialled by BR, appearing at the top of the letter described in record 61166. The addressee is inferred. |
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| 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". |
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| 61173 | Attached is a photocopy. Re her "days at McMaster University". |
| 61174 | In support of BR. |
| 61175 | Possibly from John Baker. |
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| 61177 | A chain letter, with BR's name at the top, referred to in Patricia Russell's letter to Gill at record 61176. |
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| 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". |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
