BRACERS Notes

Record no. Notes, topics or text
78501

Norton's dissertation is on the mathematics of Mendelianism.

78502

On electing Norton and Broad to Fellowships. BR has evidently said he is not a specialist in philosophy of religion or Lotze.

78503

Jackson did not sign this letter reminding BR of his subscription to the 1917 club.

78504

McTaggart is forwarding Broad's dissertation.

78505

BR is invited to donate to the Elizabeth Allen Fund.

78506

Dorward will not be submitting a dissertation this year.

78507

Jackson sends BR her best wishes for his trip to Russia.

78508

On proofs for Mind.

78509

BR is asked to participate in making representations to the committee on broadcasting.

78510
A transcription of document .051346; also a carbon copy. BR has corrected both.
78511

McTaggart's "Reality and Experience", dated May 1907, is annotated by BR.

78512

MacColl encloses a copy of his reply to Shearman in Mind.

78513

BR has supplied the year. The month is estimated.

BR has resigned from the Co-Efficients.

78514

BR encloses an unspecified letter.

78515

MacColl is glad BR will be reviewing his Symbolic Logic in Mind.

78516

Mee warns BR to take care of his eyesight, mentions text-books, and the opening of Channing Hall attended by BR.

78517

MacColl is pleased that BR has reviewed his book so promptly.

78518

MacColl has corrected the proof of BR's review for Mind.

78519
Megarry makes a joke about writers on wills dying intestate.
78520

MacColl thanks BR for his Athenaeum review.

78521

Megarry has discovered that both Jarman and Sanger died with wills, but that Vaughan Hawkins died intestate.

78522
A transcription of document .051438; also a carbon copy. BR has annotated the ribbon copy.
78523

On the Hibbert Journal.

78524

BR has a note of 3 sentences on Alexius Meinong.

78525

On Jourdain's account of MacColl's system of symbolic logic.

78526

Re BR's upcoming lecture, "Freedom and the Guilds", on Feb. 26, 1920.

78527

MacColl has read Haldane and BR's reply on infinity.

78528
Hobhouse thanks BR for his note and signed book.
78529

A transcription of document .052864; also a carbon copy. BR has corrected both.

78530

In German.

78531
On further proofs of photographs.
78532

Dated summer 1908 in The Works of William James, 2: 299.

78533

Edith Russell tells the photographer that none of the photographs of the couple together is good. They are "the fault of our own rigid self-consciousness". The Russells hope they will be suppressed.

78534

On the photographs that Meitner-Graf intends to give the Russells.

78535

Meitner-Graf would like to photograph the Russells together again.

78536

Edith chose only one photograph because other people liked it much better than the rest.

78537

Bedford thanks BR for his birthday telegram.

78538
BR asks for the bill for a photograph he requested.
78539
A card on BR's 90th birthday.
78540

BR thanks Meitner-Graf for the amaryllis and "an extraordinary photograph".

78541

Menon proposes a peace march from New Delhi to Moscow and Washington.

78542

Randle, as secretary, is passing on Menon's letter to BR re a new march.

78543

BR approves of the march from New Delhi to Moscow and Washington.

78544

Menon hopes to start his peace march on May 1st.

78545

The march is now due to start June 1, with Satish Kumar.

78546

BR is pleased with the progress of the World Peace Brigade.

78547

The Committee of 100 supports the march.

78548
Re the march.
78549
Re the march.
78550

Menon met with the Shah of Iran, who said: "It is a very nice work you are doing under the able leadership of Bertrand Russell." They are about to enter the U.S.S.R.

78551
Re the march.
78552

Menon has reached the U.K. and is anxious to see BR.

78553

BR asks Menon to telephone his secretary in 10 days to fix a meeting time. BR is at present entirely occupied with the formation of his Peace Foundations.

78554

A transcription of document .051464; also a carbon copy.

78555

A long note on Hugh Owen Meredith by BR.

78556

A transcription of document .056210; also a carbon copy. BR may have corrected it, but the corrections are in another hand.

78557

BR states that the politics of both Carlyle and Marx seem to have been the result of digestive troubles. He believes there is nothing in human nature to make the abolition of war impossible.

78558

Nawab would like to meet BR.

78559
A transcription of document .052905.
78560

Meredith complains of his feelings which are not persistent and that he ought to break it off with Miss Graveson.

78561

A transcription of record 78560.

Meredith complains of his feelings which are not persistent and that he ought to break it off with Miss Graveson.

78562

Meredith thanks BR for his letter, possibly about his book of poems, Week-Day Poems (1911).

78563

Meredith says he got a "Russell Research Studentship of L.S.E." [London School of Economics] 50 years ago. He encloses his swan song (not present) and has never regretted becoming an economist.

78564
A transcription of document .056212. BR has corrected it.
78565

Jackson refers to BR's letter amplifying Problems of Philosophy on defining truth as correspondence between belief and object.

78566

In Romanian. Also in the file: perhaps the same letter in German.

78567

Macdonald asks BR to come by for tea on a Sunday.

BR has written MacDonald's name on a separate slip of paper.

78568

MacDonald's schedule clashes with BR's. The letter is signed with a rubber stamp.

78569

Nearing declares how it will be a great thing for the Rand School to have BR for 2 lectures.

78570

Mettler thanks BR for telephoning him re Schweitzer's "three appeals" and sends BR a photograph of himself with Schweitzer.

78571
The booklet contains a lecture and theses.
78572

On "truth" and BR's "unlimited dialectic superiority".

At record 78575 is a transcription corrected by BR.

78573

Meijer asks BR to send the ms. of the translation to Bing.

78574

Meijer is glad BR will write the introduction to his wife's booklet.

[This was for the English translation, with Harold Bing in charge of publication. There is no trace of an English edition of a booklet by Clara Meijer-Wichmann.]

78575

A transcription of document .051466; also a carbon copy. BR corrected both.

78576

Meyerhoff would like to see BR.

78577

Meyerhoff thanks BR for everything (he was a student of BR's), and asks him why the picture of Spinoza is on his mantel.

78578

BR explains "x" as a variable and comments on the "search for perfection". An image of the ribbon copy was published; see record 131388.

78579

BR has supplied the year.

On BR's separation from Alys.

78580

A brief note on A.S. Neill.

78581

MacDonald includes a new poem, "Mushroom Banquet", addressed to those who oppose BR's sit-downs.

78582

MacDonald includes poetry, comments on Canadian politics, and tells BR he will be remembered as a saviour.

78583

On immortality.

78584

"The most awful thing about old age is the loss of one's old friends".

78585

BR enjoys both his prose and his poetry.

78586

BR shares MacDonald's views on neutrality for Canada.

78587

Milford pursues the puzzlement of existence.

78588

Milford encloses the remarks of General Gattie (not present) on BR's latest book.

78589

Milford has shown BR's letter to General Gattie, who "hopes not to become infinitely fat." (BR's dictated letter cannot be found, but from the "infinitely fat" remark it is likely he commented on souls and immortality.)

78590

Milford is puzzled by the ego.

78591

Milford reports that Punch predicts BR would win the Western Philosophers' Handicap.

78592

Milford has succeeded in everything, but apparently there is no purpose to it all.

78593

Milford refers to General Gattie.

78594

Milford offers to send BR "a few hundreds" if he will stop writing and spoiling his reputation.

78595

A transcription of document .052318; also a carbon copy. BR has annotated the ribbon copy.

78596

On "direction" in teaching. Neill comments in reply to BR's question about Lane on suckling. In Auto., the letter is incorrectly dated 1926/03/23.

78597

Neill writes about an unsigned letter involving Christ identification. He wants BR to tell him about the (Beacon Hill) school when he visits Summerhill.

78598

Neill would like it if BR "were to send an introduction along with my article". Neill may not sell BR his car after all. He wants BR to return to Summerhill and give a mathematics lesson. (There is a reference to "John", which may mean that John Conrad Russell came to Summerhill.)

78599

Milford again offers BR cash.

78600

Milford is reading Portraits from Memory.