Rotblat hopes to visit BR in Wales soon. He introduces BR to Dr. Oliver Scott of the Radiobiological Unit of Mount Vernon University who is interested in Pugwash. Dr. Oliver and his wife will be in Wales and would like to visit 1966/05/29 if convenient.

Source: Churchill Archives Centre, RTBT 5/1/1/6 File 6.

The original letter is available at record 117689.

Rotblat thanks BR for his letter of 1964/05/12. He would be glad to serve on the Council of Scientific Advisers of the Bertrand Russell Foundation. Rotblat has been in Czechoslovakia to organize the forthcoming Pugwash Conference.

Source: Churchill Archives Centre, RTBT 5/1/1/6 File 6.

The original letter is available at record 96757.

Schoenman asks Rotblat whether he would nominate BR for the Aspen Award.

Source: Churchill Archives Centre, RTBT 5/1/1/6 File 6.

The carbon for this letter is available at record 99762.

Rotblat thanks Schoenman for his letter of 1964/03/25 and says he would be delighted to nominate BR for the Aspen Award.

Source: Churchill Archives Centre, RTBT 5/1/1/6 File 6.

The original of this letter is available at record 99763.

Burhop asks Rotblat to critique the draft letter he has written before they show it to BR.

Source: Churchill Archives Centre, RTBT 5/1/1/3 File 1.

Eaton supports BR's statement on nuclear warfare and offers Pugwash, Nova Scotia, as a location for the conference.

Source: Churchill Archives Centre, RTBT 5/1/1/3 File 1.

A request to help fund the travel expenses for scientists to meet in New Delhi on 9-12 January 1959 for the purpose of discussing the dangers of nuclear war.

The same letter text was presumably sent personally to each of the 4 addressees.

Source: Churchill Archives Centre, RTBT 5/1/1/3 File 1.

BR thanks Kothari for declaring his intention to participate in the conference in India. BR goes on to list who will be attending and who will not, as well as who has yet to reply. BR also includes a draft agenda.

Source: Churchill Archives Centre, RTBT 5/1/1/3 File 1.

Draft of an invitation letter to the conference in India, January 1957. There are emendations and corrections in two hands.

Source: Churchill Archives Centre, RTBT 5/1/1/3 File 1.

Burhop encloses Powell's letter to BR and accompanying "aide-memoir of his interview with Nehru" [not present]. Burhop asks if Rotblat has heard from Count Bernadotte yet.

Source: Churchill Archives Centre, RTBT 5/1/1/3 File 1.

Rotblat encloses a copy of a letter he already sent to Krishnan in Delhi (record 7512). BR wants it to be certain that the Prime Minister Nehru's intentions were understood.

Source: Churchill Archives Centre, RTBT 5/1/1/3 File 2.

Rotblat wishes to confirm that he has understood Nehru's intentions to support a scientists' conference in India.

Source: Churchill Archives Centre, RTBT 5/1/1/3 File 2.

Acknowledges BR's letter of 1956/07/06.

Source: Churchill Archives Centre, RTBT 5/1/1/3 File 2.

Rotblat confirms that all 27 letters were sent 1956/08/29 and that he saw BR on Tuesday when the letters were signed. BR will send any replies to Rotblat. BR is willing to sign a letter requesting financial aid from Cyrus Eaton for the conference.

Source: Churchill Archives Centre, RTBT 5/1/1/3 File 2.

Powell confirms his address in the Lebanon (Syria) and is pleased to hear that BR will forward replies to the invitations to Rotblat. Further to Rotblat's letter (record 7514), Powell encloses a draft letter to Cyrus Eaton [not present].

Source: Churchill Archives Centre, RTBT 5/1/1/3 File 2.

BR confirms that everyone except Bridgeman and Muller have agreed to sign the letter inviting scientists to meet in India and he encloses a copy of the letter [not present].

Source: Churchill Archives Centre, RTBT 5/1/1/3 File 2.

Rotblat encloses a letter to Cyrus Eaton for BR to sign, asking for financial help for the conference in India (record 7518).

Rotblat informs BR that the Atomic Scientists' Association is planning to start a journal called The Atomic Age, keeping the public informed on issues regarding atomic energy. Rotblat has become editor of The Atomic Age.

"I am very anxious that we should get as wide a circulation as possible and felt that it would be a great help to us if we were able to get the backing of a number of well known personalities. I believe that one of my colleagues has written to you to ask you for an appreciation of about 300 words, in which you would say something about the importance of such a journal and the function it may fulfill."

Source: Churchill Archives Centre, RTBT 5/1/1/3 File 2.

The original of this letter is available at record 116961.

A draft of a letter composed by Joseph Rotblat thanking Eaton for the offer of Pugwash and requesting further financial assistance for the conference.

Source: Churchill Archives Centre, RTBT 5/1/1/3 File 2.

Rotblat sums up the state of the India conference in terms of attendance and relates that Cyrus Eaton has sent a refusal of financial aid to BR.

Source: Churchill Archives Centre, RTBT 5/1/1/3 File 2.

BR apologizes in this letter drafted for him for omitting a copy of the Indian Congress invitation with his letter of 1956/09/04 and encloses one now [not present]. At the bottom of the letter are the names and addresses for Born, Joliot-Curie, Infeld, Pauling, and Yukawa. It is assumed that each was sent a personal copy of the letter.

Source: Churchill Archives Centre, RTBT 5/1/1/3 File 2.

Rotblat has sent on the letters relating to the Indian Conference to BR for signature, except for the one to Kothari.

Source: Churchill Archives Centre, RTBT 5/1/1/3 File 3.

Powell sends six letters to be sent on to BR for him to sign requesting financial support [not present].

Source: Churchill Archives Centre, RTBT 5/1/1/3 File 3.

Powell asks Rotblat to compose letters for BR to sign inviting Prof. Pai Sit San of the Institute of Experimental Biology, Academia Sineca, Peking, and Dr. C.C. Price of the Federation of American Scientists to the Indian Conference. Powell had arranged a luncheon for BR and Topchief [Topchiev] on 1956/10/18, which went well.

Source: Churchill Archives Centre, RTBT 5/1/1/3 File 3.

Powell sends a letter for Prof. Kothari for Rotblat to approve or rewrite and then send to BR [not present].

Source: Churchill Archives Centre, RTBT 5/1/1/3 File 3.

Powell would like to meet BR on 1956/11/13. If this is impossible, he "might make a special visit on Saturday" 1956/11/10.

Source: Churchill Archives Centre, RTBT 5/1/1/3 File 3.

BR thanks Warburg for his offer of financial assistance for the conference (in India) and details the next steps. BR then outlines the difficulties they have experienced in getting financial support, but that the broad response for the conference in general bodes well.

Source: Churchill Archives Centre, RTBT 5/1/1/3 File 4.

Burhop mentions that Li Tze-kuang has written to BR in support of Chou Pei-yuan re a Pugwash meeting.

A draft letter postponing the Indian conference, apparently for BR's eventual use since the identical hand-revised text was used in the letters in records 7529, 7530 and 7531.

Source: Churchill Archives Centre, RTBT 5/1/1/3 File 4.

BR announces the postponement of the Indian conference due to the "international situation and travel difficulties".

Source: Churchill Archives Centre, RTBT 5/1/1/3 File 4.

BR announces the postponement of the Indian conference due to the "international situation and travel difficulties".

Source: Churchill Archives Centre, RTBT 5/1/1/3 File 4.

BR announces the postponement of the Indian conference due to the "international situation and travel difficulties".

Source: Churchill Archives Centre, RTBT 5/1/1/3 File 4.

BR announces the postponement of the Indian conference due to the "international situation and travel difficulties".

Source: Churchill Archives Centre, RTBT 5/1/1/3 File 4.

BR announces the postponement of the Indian conference due to the "international situation and travel difficulties".

Source: Churchill Archives Centre, RTBT 5/1/1/3 File 4.

BR announces the postponement of the Indian conference due to the "international situation and travel difficulties".

Source: Churchill Archives Centre, RTBT 5/1/1/3 File 4.

BR announces the postponement of the Indian conference due to the "international situation and travel difficulties".

Source: Churchill Archives Centre, RTBT 5/1/1/3 File 4.

BR announces the postponement of the Indian conference due to the "international situation and travel difficulties".

Source: Churchill Archives Centre, RTBT 5/1/1/3 File 4.

BR announces the postponement of the Indian conference due to the "international situation and travel difficulties".

Source: Churchill Archives Centre, RTBT 5/1/1/3 File 4.

BR announces the postponement of the Indian conference due to the "international situation and travel difficulties".

Source: Churchill Archives Centre, RTBT 5/1/1/3 File 4.

BR announces the postponement of the Indian conference due to the "international situation and travel difficulties".

Source: Churchill Archives Centre, RTBT 5/1/1/3 File 4.

BR announces the postponement of the Indian conference due to the "international situation and travel difficulties".

Source: Churchill Archives Centre, RTBT 5/1/1/3 File 4.

BR announces the postponement of the Indian conference due to the "international situation and travel difficulties".

Source: Churchill Archives Centre, RTBT 5/1/1/3 File 4.

BR announces the postponement of the Indian conference due to the "international situation and travel difficulties".

Source: Churchill Archives Centre, RTBT 5/1/1/3 File 4.

BR announces the postponement of the Indian conference due to the "international situation and travel difficulties".

Source: Churchill Archives Centre, RTBT 5/1/1/3 File 4.

BR announces the postponement of the Indian conference due to the "international situation and travel difficulties".

Source: Churchill Archives Centre, RTBT 5/1/1/3 File 4.

BR thanks Burhop for drafting the letter to Howard Samuel; he has signed and sent it. He also includes an endorsed cheque for £100 and agrees with Rotblat and Burhop that it would be better to hold the conference at Pugwash.

Source: Churchill Archives Centre, RTBT 5/1/1/3 File 4.

The dictation for this letter can be found at record 15244.

Burhop encloses the drafts of the letters he agreed to write. He discusses the changes and substitutions that have been made to the conference guest list including: Oparin, Sissakyan, Topchiev, Nuzhdin, Li Tse Kuang, Chou Pei Yian, Sitsan, Kapitza, Born, and Hinshelwood.

Source: Churchill Archives Centre, RTBT 5/1/1/3 File 5.

Signatories: M.L.E. Oliphant, H. Thirring, G. Brock Chisholm, Chou Pei-yuan, A.M.B. Lacassagne, C.F. Powell, J. Rotblat, I. Ogawa, H. Yukawa, S. Tomonaga, M. Danysz, D.F. Cavers, H.J. Muller, P. Doty, E. Rabinowitch, W. Selove, V. Weisskopf, A.M. Kuzin, D.F. Skobeltzyn, and A.V. Topchiev.

Powell thanks BR for his letter of 1957/07/18 (which is not in the Russell Archives). He is pleased the BR approves the statement issued at Pugwash and goes on to give him a report of the conference proceedings. In the conclusion of the letter he proposes attending a Quaker convention in Switzerland to see if they would be interested in sponsoring a later conference. Brock Chisholm, the Canadian, suggested this.

Source: Churchill Archives Centre, RTBT 5/1/1/3 File 5.

Powell encloses a copy of BR's reply to his letter of 1957/07/22 (record 7548) and asks Burhop to send it on to Rotblat and ask him to advise on the idea of attending the Quaker conference. Powell also asks that Burhop draft a letter to Nature.

Source: Churchill Archives Centre, RTBT 5/1/1/3 File 5.

BR thanks Powell for his report on Pugwash (record 7548) and agrees that cooperating with the Quakers is a good idea. BR agrees to be Chairman so long as Powell and Rotblat continue to do most of the legwork. BR looks forward to seeing him when Powell has the time.

Source: Churchill Archives Centre, RTBT 5/1/1/3 File 5.

"I am sorry that I cannot part with important autograph letters such as you ask for." BR needs them for possible controversies.

BR thanks him for the invitation to give the Romanes lecture, but he is unable to accept the invitation as he is overwhelmed with work, and so he is "... compelled to echo the sad words of Lady Jingly Jones: 'Your proposal comes too late.'"

"In principle I do not object to your proposal, but it sounds as if it would demand a great deal of time in looking out material and the time and energy of both myself and my secretary are already fully occupied."

"I entirely agree with you about World Government, as you will see from Chapters VI and VII of the little book that I enclose." A British admiral might have to obey a Russian superior.

"You ask how I acquired serenity. The answer is that I did not, except to a very limited extent which is set forth in 'How to Grow Old' and 'Thoughts on My Eightieth Birthday' (both of which are published in Portraits from Memory)." BR's energy is congenital.

"You will find my opinion of Nietzsche in the Chapter on him in the History of Western Philosophy. There is not and cannot be a syllogism disproving the existence of God. Speaking generally, it is always difficult to disprove existence since one is not acquainted with the whole universe."

BR would be glad to meet her son in London sometime in March. "My wife thanks you warmly for the kind things that you say about Carey Thomas." The Russells will be glad to see her friend, Elizabeth Eames.

"You will find the relevant passage on page 135 of my book Religion and Science (Oxford University Press, 1935)."

"I shall be quite willing to subscribe £25 towards presents for the Master and Lady Adrian on their retirement."

"I am sorry that I do not think it worth while to publish only the first paragraph of the letter that I sent you about S. Vietnam. I take it for granted that if you do not publish my letter in full you will not mention anywhere in your paper what is said in the first paragraph of my letter".

BR is glad that Sarah will have the opportunity to go to Russia, but he would like to have the opinion of a doctor first.…"

"I have sent a further letter to The Observer that Astor has refused to print except in part which I cannot consent to. I disagree with Peace News and Hugh Brock about S. Vietnam. ... It is very good news that you think that John is so much better."

"Your letter inviting me to give the Romanes Lecture ... was so sympathetic that it has occurred to me that you might be willing to meet me with a view to talking over the subject of nuclear disarmament. I have lately started a new Foundation which is not intended to practice civil disobedience or to do anything else that might be illegal."

"I shall be in London (43 Hasker Street) from March 1 for a fortnight and I should be delighted if you could come sometime for a talk."

"I have been consulting our doctor here, Dr. Prichard.…"

"Has Juliette yet written her opinion of the book Ottoline or, if not, will she do so? I hope very much that she will do so. Meantime we hope to get hold of her own book, which we have not yet seen but look forward to."

"I am returning the Italian letter to you, hoping that you will deal with it when Sir Stanley returns."

"I have no doubt that you are correct in raising the insurance on 43 Hasker Street to 7000. I enclose a cheque for £8.15.0 as you request."

"Filing Case—A & N".

"I remember V.K. Ting vividly as I saw a good deal of him while in China." BR proposed both Ting and Hu Shih for the Boxer Indemnity Committee.

"I do not believe that democracy is likely to be successful at first in a country which has never had it. ... As for the general question of war and peace, it is obvious that, if there is to be peace, it must be joined in by countries which are not democratic."

"I do not possess Chrome Yellow and therefore have been unable to look up the passages concerned. The chief passage was one repeating my remark that I liked the underground because nothing visible in it was created by God. This was said as a joke but Huxley's character said it in deadly earnest."

"You will find a number of letters from my Grandfather to my father in The Amberley Papers." There are more such letters in "the welter of my papers". [Re Archives.]

"Send Remittance to Madams in reply to his letter of March 2".

Re the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation. "... we propose to enlist the help of a number of advisers, each of whom must have some special knowledge of some troubled region. I have been wondering whether you would be willing to be an adviser whose advice would be especially valuable as regards South East Asia."

"I do not understand why you think the 'first language' is difficult to understand. I mean by it a language consisting solely of object words, such as 'dog' and 'cat' or 'black' and 'white'." BR disagrees about "p or q" on p. 85.

"I am glad that your son <Christopher Lasch> enjoyed his visit to us as we much enjoyed it. We thought him very interesting and very right-minded and we hope that he maybe able to help us about the Foundation."

"I have read the beginning of your book and it seemed interesting, but I am very sorry that my own work is taking up all my time and energy so that I cannot possible do an introduction."

"Many thanks for your very interesting letter about Russia and the Jews. It seems that the Soviet Government is, at last, taking the line that we desired."

"I am getting my secretary <Schoenman> to deal with the details in your letter and with your future plans." See record 7581.

BR sends Schoenman a copy of Louis-Jacques Cameron's letter. See record 7580.

BR thanks him for the typescript of his book on conscientious objectors. "I have read the book with interest, but I do not feel inclined to write a preface for it. I think a person opposed to conscientious objection would be more suitable for some of the young men concerned in the end decided to take part in the war."

BR would be glad to see him in Manchester the morning after his meeting.

"I am sorry to say that I do not possess a copy of the present edition of Bertrand Russell's Best."

"Thank you very much for sending me the book of drawings by your son which I am very glad to have. I like their sense of irony especially."

BR will be happy to see him on April 22nd at 43 Hasker Street.

"Will you kindly arrange for me the purchase of £3000 of tax certificates."

"... the rights in Bertrand Russell Speaks his Mind were secured by the publishers without my realization. The contract was, nominally, for television and I failed to notice that the small print gave them the right of publication in a book."

A testimonial for T. Hughes Ellis, a veterinarian. "Mr. T. Hughes Ellis has been repeatedly consulted by me during the past decade, since I have been living in this countryside, in regard to my animals. I have found him competent and careful both in skill and knowledge. He is, moreover, a very agreeable man, and I have no hesitation in recommending him." Sent in triplicate to Hughes Ellis.

"It would be a great pleasure to see you and your wife when you are in London provided I am there at that time."

Sundra had talks with both Schoenman and Farley. "I entirely endorse your work on behalf of the BRPF and welcome your establishing a bank account in New Delhi. I hope that it will make possible an office of the Foundation in India and should like you to use this letter to your best advantage, so that there should be no doubt of my support for your efforts."

"C. Farley Paddington Station to be called for" is noted at the top.

The letter's contents are: "I hereby authorize Mrs. Triska Sundra to open a bank account in India on behalf of the BRPF."

"I should much like to accept your invitation to see Butlin's Camp under your auspices. But, unfortunately, I am so overwhelmed with work...."

"I am grateful to you for the offer to undertake the business of getting my book about German Social Democracy translated into German, and I am quite willing that it should be reprinted in English, but, in this case, it would require a little prefatory note from me pointing out that when I wrote it I was not a Socialist. I became one in 1914."

"I do not now have time for any work on the theory of numbers and so I cannot tackle the Fermat problem even if I wanted to. I am relieved by what you say about the feelings of Germans as I have been alarmed by the rehabilitation of ex-Nazis."

"The whole show seems to have been very successful but it would have been improved if you had been able to take part."

"I have very vivid memories of your mother and of you as a child."

"I am glad that you found my broadcast remarks 'dignified and even persuasive'. It was nice to hear from you again."

BR hopes that her jaundice is better. "If we can arrange the London dates I shall enjoy making the acquaintance of my new grandchild whose photos I find delightful."

"Thank you very much for your kind telegram on the occasion of my birthday. It warmed my heart to have your good wishes."