Re Lady Susan Townley's book My Chinese Notebook. "I find it fascinating and it makes me wish that I had known China before 1911. I am puzzled, as I gather you were, by your name in the index giving a reference to a page which does not exist. I can only suppose that part of the book, for some reason, was suppressed."

"Thank you very much for the delightful present that you sent me for my birthday. I am ashamed not to have written sooner, but President Johnson has kept me busy."

"I have been thinking about a name for 'I' in Satan and the Suburbs in reply to Mr. Tutte Lemkov's letter and the best that I can think of is 'Mr. Miching'. This is the other half of Miching Mallako which comes out of Hamlet." The use of a cocktail party is too reminiscent of T.S. Eliot.

"I agree entirely with what you say about Mind, but I cannot very easily dissociate myself from the Mind Association since the only condition of membership is to subscribe to Mind ... I hardly think that it is worth while to publish a statement repudiating Mind. You may remember, I quarrelled with Ryle some years ago in the Times."

"I entirely approve of the Appeal that you sent me and return it herewith with my signature."

"I should be very grateful if you would answer the enclosed questions <not present> as the subject with which they deal is of particular interest to me as well as to many other members of your constituency."

BR answers Nucho's questions: "Man will not avoid a nuclear war. Man will not become free of the fetters of religion unless he ceases to exist. If Man survives in health and vigour, he will practice eugenics on himself.... I think man's future would have been brighter if Goldwater had been elected as he would have been more likely than the present ruffian to rouse universal opposition."

"The letter of Whitehead's that you write about represents the end of our explicit collaboration. He had made a number of important notes for Volume IV of the Principia ... but he was sore because he thought that I had plagiarized him in my Our Knowledge of the External World. I thought that I had made adequate acknowledgements at the beginning of that book. He did not, in fact, send his work to me after the date of that letter."

"I shall be very happy to see Mr. Ronald Clark at any time convenient to him and me. I should think that his book about the Huxley family should be very interesting."

"I have long been an admirer of your books but I have only quite recently learned that you are interested in the doings of Oxfam in which I am also interested." BR invites Creasey to come to see him in London.

"Did the BBC give you any reason for its continued ban on your work? I am entirely willing to write to them pointing out all the reasons why they should have promoted your work instead of banning it, but I should be glad, before writing, to know what reasons, if any, they gave for their action."

Re Lucy's math tutor: "I think that she benefited substantially by your teaching which she certainly enjoyed."

"I do not think that, as our respective policies stand, full co-operation is possible, but I think that, if we were to meet and argue, we might come to some agreement." The draft has substantial revisions.

"I do not know the answers to your questions about Vivienne Eliot. At the time when I knew her, she was not dancing. ... I very much liked Tom Eliot's early work, but I failed to keep up with anything that he wrote after The Waste Land."

"I am interested to hear from a grandson of my friend Jimmie Baillie, whom I last saw when I was visiting Vancouver on a lecture tour. We were close friends when we were boys and, if Vancouver were not so far away, I should have wished to see more of him in later years."

"Thank you for your letter containing a picture of 'the April Fool' at the age of 1 day. ... I would have written sooner, but we have been frantically busy with protests about Vietnam, Helsinki Conferences and other matters involved in the campaign for peace. I am glad to hear that Charlie is getting more and more radical. Please give him warm encouragement from me."

"My warm thanks for the lovely cushion that you have sent me. It is fun identifying the items from 'Mr. Apollinax'."

"My connection with Eliot in 1914 was not exactly as you have been told it. I did not single him out as my best pupil, but I was interested in the only remark that he made during the time I was teaching at Harvard. When on one occasion I said that I admired Heraclitus he replied, 'Yes. He always reminds me of Villon'. This caused me to take an interest in him when I met him by chance in London in the following October."

"My grand daughters … wish to go a tour to France and Spain and, if possible, also Tangier. We are willing to give permission."

"My grand-daughters … have told me that they have discussed with you the possibility of an advance by your Bank on their next quarterly allowance."

"Kindly place the Sterling proceeds of the enclosed cheque for $500 to the credit of my account."

"Sept. 1-8 Peterhouse" (?).

Drawing of a rabbit and scribbles.

"I did not introduce Eliot to Bloomsbury though he may have got to know some of them through me. He at no time agreed with my philosophy."

"There is a great deal among your suggestions that I feel we could usefully adopt." BR will discuss them with his colleagues.

"I, too, have pleasant recollections of old times at Trinity so that it was doubly pleasant to hear from you."

BR thanks him for sending the Annotated Bibliography of his books. "As you know, I have always felt that your work may be of very great importance, but I do not know enough physics to take a definite view on this matter."

Re Young's warning that allegations may come of Schoenman's "misbehaviour" at Helsinki. "As we were not there, we cannot pass upon the accuracy of the reports that you have heard, but the report given us by Mr. Schoenman—in whom we have faith—and the congratulations which he has received from delegates who were at Helsinki, including the Americans with the exception of Mr. Goodlet ... make us think that he was undoubtedly right is standing out for the right of the Chinese and, especially, the Vietnamese to speak at some length, and, particularly, in opposing the American resolution which was at first passed. He acted as he did because he was begged by the Vietnamese to take action which they were unable to do, and he thought that their position was valid." Schoenman is definitely not anti-communist, she adds.

"I was interested to learn that nothing is known in San Francisco of what I have been trying to do about Vietnam, or other sources of conflict, as you doubtless guess, our great difficulty is in disseminating our views—and I am immensely grateful to you for your offer to arrange radio broadcasts. I am enclosing three which I hope may be of use for this purpose."

"You have my profound sympathy, and I wish I knew what action to recommend. ... I think you should consult a lawyer, since only a lawyer will know how to manage the intricacies of the law."

"Many thanks for sending my your book on Psychiatric Justice which I have read with the greatest interest. I was first led to take an interest in your subject by the case of Claude Eatherly who was concerned in the Hiroshima bombing."

"I have looked up Chapter XV in my Problems of Philosophy and I do not find anything in it that I should wish to alter."

"The bombing of the dams in North Vietnam is felt by people throughout the intellectual community in Britain to be a barbarous act against the civilian population, which calls for public condemnation by the British Government. I am writing to ask if you could receive urgently in the Isles of Scilly a delegation of approximately 10 people...."

On the verso is the list of names who wish to "express their dismay about this latest American action." The names of those who "accept to be on delegation" and also agree to sign the letter about Vietnamese visas are: Lord Silkin, Dr. Ralph Miliband, Dr. Ruth Glass, Prof K.W. Wedderburn, Miss Iris Murdoch, Dr. David Glass, Archbishop Roberts, Kingsley Martin and Sir Claude Auchinleck (in principle). The names of those who only agree to sign the letter are: Prof Asa Briggs (support) and Bishop Stockwell, Bishop of Southwark.

A "public voucher" for payment to BR of $72.00 for an invoice no longer attached. It is stamped "Sep 8 1953". BR was paid the sterling equivalent of £25.11.2 (at $2.816875 to the pound).

This record used to have the document number 00000069.

"I agree with you about the folly of Bertie's attitude towards parents. I suppose he is inflamed against 'mother love' because Dora will not give up her children! The interview he gave the Times was very foolish but probably the tone was partly due to the reporter."

"Akhter" which appears on the carbon should be "Akhtar".