BRACERS Notes

Record no. Notes, topics or text
78801

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

78802

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

78803

BR forwards economic reform typescripts by Yavden-Trebull.

78804
A transcription of document .052587; also a carbon copy. BR has corrected and annotated the ribbon copy.
78805

Armstrong, private secretary to Noel-Baker, writes that he is in America until June 24.

78806

A single-paragraph extract on the non-significance of existence: "I think all values are human, but none the less important on that account."

78807

BR is ill but asks for the text of the Baruch proposal and for Noel-Baker's objections to provisions that deliberately made it impossible for the Russians to accept it.

78808

Mansfield cannot "write all" as BR has asked her to do.

78809

Norman, now a shorthand writer, returns BR's notes for his address at "the Festival lunch". (See "The Use of Books", Bibliography, vol. 1.)

78810
A transcription of document .052589; also a carbon copy. BR has annotated both.
78811

Dated by BR. Mansfield agrees to dine with BR.

78812
Norton brings BR up to date on the 30 years since they last met and asks if BR will meet friends of his son.
78813
A transcription of document .052591; also a carbon copy. BR has corrected both.
78814

BR thanks Nicholson for his support of the BRPF's exhibition.

78815

Dated by BR. Mansfield says it was "a wonderful evening".

78816
A transcription of document .052593; also a carbon copy. Annotated by BR.
78817
The date is from the transcription.
78818

Norton reports on the auction of BR's goods in order to pay his fine of £100 [which took place on July 26, 1916].

The date is a conjecture; BR dated the letter August 1916.

78819
A transcription of document .052596; also a carbon copy.
78820

She returns a letter BR received from a young man. She and BR are going to be "truthful" with each other.

78821
A transcription of document .052597; also a carbon copy.
78822
A transcription of document .053879; also a carbon copy. BR has corrected both.
78823

Mansfield thinks BR will dismiss her as a woman with an "ill-regulated mind".

78824

Nicod has been translating BR's Justice in War-Time in La Forge with publication in book form to follow. The Nicods will come to Lulworth.

78825
A transcription of document .052599; also a carbon copy. Both are corrected by BR.
78826
A transcription of document .053881; also a carbon copy. BR has corrected both.
78827
Mansfield appears to be upset or ill.
78828
She raises the possibility of a meeting.
78829

Mansfield has read his letter to Wilson in The Ploughshare that BR sent her. She criticizes "The World after the War".

78830

Nicod thanks BR for train times. Jean and Thérèse do not mind sharing a room (at Lulworth).

78831

Probably 21 or 28 January 1917. Re a meeting. She will return some letters.

78832
An envelope only.
78833
A transcription of document .053883; also a carbon copy. BR has annotated the ribbon copy.
78834

Nicod will write a thesis on the external world.

78835
A transcription of document .053885; also a carbon copy.
78836

BR has supplied the year. Apparently he visited Nicod in France. Nicod encloses "The Geometry of the Fish, as you said you liked it" (not present).

78837
78838
A transcription of document .053887; also a carbon copy. BR has corrected the ribbon copy.
78839

Nicod's letter is written on letterhead of the League of Nations, International Labour office. He asks about BR's definition of a point.

78840

BR is asked for a donation to help a boy from the East End.

78841

BR has provided Nicod's return address. Nicod encloses a letter (not present) to Keynes on induction. The Nicods "love" The Problem of China.

78842

BR is asked for a donation.

78843

BR is asked for a donation.

78844

BR is asked for a donation. The photograph is of 7 boys playing at the seashore.

78845
A transcription of document .053890; also a carbon copy. BR has corrected both.
78846

Nourse, a former tutor to BR, congratulates him on his "open mathematical scholarship", at Trinity. BR has annotated the letter.

78847

Nicod asks BR's permission to dedicate his Géométrie book to him.

78848

BR is asked for a donation.

The photograph is of 2 boys in the uniform of the St. John Ambulance Brigade.

78849
A transcription of document .053892. BR has corrected it.
78850

On the announcement of BR's death, and his illness. BR and Dora are just as happy as before they were married.

78851

A charming letter thanking BR for the gift of Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy. BR has marked it "Please return".

78852
A transcription of document .053894.
78853
A transcription of document .053973; also a carbon copy. BR has corrected both.
78854

On Keynes, Principia Mathematica and truth-functions, getting articles for an enclosed prospectus (not present), and the Tokyo earthquake.

78855

Nunn has received the chapters [of The Analysis of Mind] that BR wants him to read on psychology.

78856

On BR's "Mind and Matter" chapter (not found as such in The Analysis of Mind).

78857
A transcription of document .053896.
78858
Nunn is writing on the theory of education.
78859

On Semon and on Wohlgemuth.

78860

Nunn forwards Coleman's account of his researches. BR read Nunn's book, perhaps that on theory of education.

78861

Nunn claims that BR has over-thanked him in The Analysis of Mind. "Enjoyment" as it could be analysed.

78862

Nicod has nothing on hand for the new journal.

He reminds BR that he has reduced Principia's 5 primitive propositions to 3. Keynes did answer Nicod's letter.

78863
A transcription of document .053900. BR has corrected the ribbon copy.
78864

Oakeshott refers to "St. Bertrand", whom no one would accuse of being woolly.

78865

BR invites Vice-Chancellor to talk over nuclear disarmament with him.

78866

Thérèse Nicod reports the death of Jean.

78867

A transcription of document .053902. BR has corrected it.

78868

Nicod thanks BR for the preface.

78869

A transcription of document .053904. BR has corrected it.

78870

It is not known what this memo, in the midst of the Nicod correspondence, concerns.

78871

Nicod describes the plans to republish Jean Nicod's theses and asks BR for "some lines" to accompany Lalande's preface to the work on induction.

78872

Mariani describes the exhibition of her work in Rome and encloses clippings.

78873

Nicod has written to Harrod.

78874

On reprinting Jean Nicod's theses.

78875

On BR's forthcoming preface.

Also in file: a card that accompanied a gift of flowers.

78876

Nicod thanks BR for his preface.

78877

Good wishes (in heartfelt French).

78878

BR has done the preface based on the English translation of Induction.

78879

BR's note reads: "From C.K. Ogden, inventor of basic English".

78880

BR is willing to add to Lalande's preface in Jean Nicod's work on induction.

78881

BR asks for guidelines for his new preface.

78882
Markham is glad to have anne helping.
78883

"I am struck afresh by the exquisite clarity of his style in which every sentence gives one aesthetic pleasure."

78884

Markham commiserates with BR for the sit-down occupation of his home and asks whether he still favours publication of Committee of 100 names.

78885
Morel's book. The risk of scaring away advertisers.
78886

On religion, mentioning Harrison's lecture on p. 27, which touches on BR.

For dating, see BR to Ogden, 7 May 1919, record 53606.

78887
A transcription of document .053996; also a carbon copy. BR has corrected both.
78888

The heading is "Draft Memorandum". The document concerns a peace settlement and is marked "Strictly Confidential". BR has revised it in his hand.

78889

Holograph note by BR: "E.D. Morel was secretary of the Union of Democratic Control and author of Truth and the War. He was in prison towards the end of the war."

78890
78891

On terms for The Analysis of Matter.

78892

On publishing Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus.

78893

A transcription of document .054000; also a carbon copy. BR has corrected both.

78894

The enclosed interview is between Henri Lambert and the New Statesman, which opposes a peaceful agreement with Germany over colonial trade.

78895

Ogden thanks BR for the duplicate copy of his introduction to the Tractatus. Dated by reference to the birth of John Conrad Russell.

78896

A memorandum of terms for the contract for The Analysis of Matter.

78897

Ogden writes about "Materialism Past and Present" for Psyche.

78898
Morel refers to his press-cutting books and provides many references to foreign affairs.
78899

A transcription of document .054004, record 78897; also a carbon copy. BR has corrected the ribbon copy.

78900

On The Analysis of Matter and a possible second book on the topic.

BR has supplied the year.