See document .052999 for BR's retained carbon copy.

BR will attend the oral exam for Wittgenstein if he must, and asks for informal advice on what one ought to do at a viva.

Miles Malleson has been visiting Colette at Lavenham. He writes in appreciation of Portraits and of BR's work for peace.

See document .053002 for BR's retained carbon copy (without the enclosed report). The report is for Trinity College Council on Wittgenstein's recent work. See document .053038a.

Colette has "made a friend of solitude" and lives "in the strangest mixture of austerity and comfort".

BR encloses a report (not present) on a dissertation by Cornforth.

Malleson thanks BR for his note following The Life and Times of Bertrand Russell on the BBC.

BR is reading a dissertation and may have forgotten what is expected—the last one was 20 years ago.

BR wants to get back to philosophy and work on the relation of language to fact, on which Carnap's ideas seem "very inadequate".

Is there no possibility at Cambridge?

BR has apparently applied for a Leverhulme Fellowship.

"Bless you!", Malleson writes BR for agreeing to read his play.

Malleson is very keen to see BR.

Moore provides separate criticism (not present) of BR's essay on ethics ("The Elements of Ethics"), mentions Keynes and then meaning and propositions, and states that he has finished the review of Principles for Archiv.

[Moore did not publish the review.]

Malleson has just seen and talked with BR, and was glad to "find you so full of work, and happy. Knowing you has been one of the fortunate things of my life."

Malleson discusses plans to visit BR.

Malleson explains that he has not money to leave for the Foundation, given his family obligations; but perhaps his manuscripts.

BR comments on Malleson's anti-nuclear play notes.

BR asks Malleson to will something to the BRPF.

Nock is glad he did not actually miss "your friend", D.H. Lawrence.

Nock is closing a contract in BR's name with century for Principles of Social Reconstruction. He will get the rest of BR's second series from BR's friend in Jamaica Plain, Mass.

Mallik invites BR to speak to "our Indian Club" at Oxford next term. India is not a nation of children, he adds.

Nock invites BR to join the Society of the Haters of Plato. He and BR lunched nearly 20 years ago in Houston.

Nuclear disarmers need not abandon their viewpoint, according to Noel-Baker.

Noel-Baker will come to tea at BR's invitation.

BR gave Moore a "very valuable" interview in the 1930s when he worked for Frederick Roman's Adult Educational Forum.

BR is asked to give the David Davies Memorial Lecture.

Moore says that BR wrote him about his own liberal sexual philosophy when Moore was a reporter in Indiana in 1926.

Noel-Baker thanks BR for what he wrote him about the Nobel Prize.

Moore mentions a 6-page letter BR wrote him about 25 years ago, when Moore was a literary critic on an Indiana newspaper and had commented on a book by BR.

Noel-Baker thanks BR for his article in International Relations.

BR sends Noel-Baker his memorandum to Nehru and would like to talk with him "as to what can be done in the new distressing situation."

Noel-Baker asks BR to get Nehru to speak to the UN General Assembly for the neutral nations.

Noel-Baker congratulates BR "on the success of your demarche with Mrs. Pandit."

BR's original letter to him was dated Dec. 14, 1926. It said "Puritanism" was a problem in BR's marriage to Alys.

Noel-Baker encloses, at the author's request, D.F. Fleming's table of contents for his history of the Cold War, and asks BR if he can find support for its distribution by Cyrus Eaton.

On Whitman.

On Einstein's executor forbidding Moore to publish Einstein's letters to him without permission. Moore has become an editor of a peace journal.

Noel-Baker comments on the finality of Nehru's answer to BR, but now Khrushchev is going to the UN.

Evidently Moore published Einstein's letters to him on peace anyway.

Noel-Baker tries again to get BR to persuade Nehru to go to the UN.

Moore asks if BR received the mimeographed letters from Einstein.

Noel-Baker will read the paper by Yavden-Trebull.

BR declines to "badger" Nehru and would like to see Noel-Baker when BR is in London for a meeting at Trafalgar Square.

Nehru is going to New York after all.

BR considers the UN Association's statement "admirable", but considers that an overwhelming public opinion "can only be generated by some very simple proposal." In a postscript BR says he will discuss the U.N.A. statement with Canon Collins.

BR congratulates Noel-Baker on winning the Nobel Peace Prize.

BR encloses correspondence with Nehru (not present).

Moran asks BR to speak on voluntary euthanasia at the Athenaeum Club. "I think we last met when you were seedy at the Hague." (Moran was Churchill's physician. BR attended the Congress of Europe, 7-10 May 1948, at The Hague.)

Manning has found the location himself.

BR believes very firmly in voluntary euthanasia. (Lord Moran was Churchill's doctor.)

Mordell sends BR his Erotic Motive in Literature. He has many questions to ask BR (in B&R E27.14 he got to ask them).

Dated by the mention that Kegan Paul are bringing out an English edition of Erotic Motive, which happened in 1919.

BR believes the Ministry of Labour was "on the run". Neill should tell BR's secretary whether BR's letters to Trevelyan and Bondfield should be sent.

BR encloses a signed letter to Sellar who wrote on Bondfield's behalf; Neill should send the letter if he agrees it would further his cause "but remember that Miss Bondfield is celibate".

On the financial hardships of running a school. BR refers to his wife's infant and to the boy who "shits" his pants.

BR and Dora are overjoyed at the prospect of the Neills visiting them.

BR is "seriously annoyed with Ethel Mannin's references to Beacon Hill School".

BR advises Neill to delete the medical parts of his new book for W.W. Norton. On the BBC's engaging BR.

"I agree that there is much pleasure in hearing sad stories about Dartington Hall."

Enclosed with document .053836, record 78773.

On social theory.

A transcription of document .053833; also a carbon copy.

Nelson encloses documents .053832 and .053834.

Nelson asks BR to come to Switzerland for a course of 9 days on the last chapter of Principles of Social Reconstruction.

BR's note concerns Eric Neville, whose wife would not have another child after the death of the first. "His dead child was the only corpse I have ever seen." [But BR had to identify his brother's corpse.]

On the death of the Nevilles' baby boy "this morning".

On Trinity College politics where they concern BR's anti-war efforts.

Neville writes again on Trinity College politics.

On BR's dismissal from his Trinity lectureship.

On an Indian mathematician whose letter Neville encloses (not present), a discovery by Ramanujan, and prospects for the war.

Neville asks why BR cannot remember Neville's address, referring to Principia *50.2, and asks if BR referred his Labour Leader interviewer to *72.411. (*50.2 is ⊢ . I = Ĭ.)

Neville has lost his hospital clerical job and sees Whitehead's point in criticizing his ms.

Neville saw BR "at the memorial service on Tuesday" (for Morel) and quotes an 1883 French book on mathematics.

Neville has visited BR and tells him of A.E. Housman's remark about BR during WWI.

Neville encloses a letter (not present) from Lady Mander (aka Glynn Grylls).

On The Analysis of Matter. Newman is glad BR found useful the list of papers Newman sent him. BR has provided the year.

Newman asks BR to support Gödel being elected to foreign membership of the Royal Society. In a postscript Newman writes, "I remember talking to you about Gödel's proof soon after it appeared."

Kreisel will find out what is to be done if BR does not wish to "sign the book" for Gödel at Burlington House.

BR has been convinced by Newman's Mind article on him that he is wrong about structure.

BR is "delighted" to support the election of Gödel to the Royal Society.

BR asks for Conceptual and Methodological Problems in Psychoanalysis.

A list of Society publications, followed by BR's signed membership card for 1960, document .053865; and for 1963, document .053868.

BR holds that we mind unpleasant things in the future more than in the past. In Dear BR, the letter is incorrectly dated 1959/08/25.

A transcription of document .053872, record 2347; also a carbon copy. BR has corrected both.

On any significance to existence.

BR encloses a letter from M.A. Husain, India's High Acting Commissioner (document .053948a).

BR cannot undertake to read Fleming's long book or approach Cyrus Eaton, for BR is persona non grata with him.

A transcription of document .053874; also a carbon copy. BR has corrected both.