On BR's being "crocked up", needing a long rest, and not writing Religion and Science on deadline. Murray is taking a meeting for BR on "The Place of Force in Civilization".

Reporting on the meeting at Conway Hall that Murray took over for BR, he adds that "half measures are no good" when one is overworked.

Murray has read Religion and Science with minor criticisms.

Murray suggests that BR write a book on how to think; he has read Power.

As editor of the Home University Library, Murray asks for revisions to The Problems of Philosophy, now with Oxford.

Murray is indignant over Barnes firing BR and has approached both Hardy and Lucy Silcox. Murray complains of the lack of servants.

"Bad cold sorry cannot come London = Gilbert".

Murray comments on perhaps BR's first broadcast in the "Living in an Atomic Age" series: too rationalist.

On an unidentified lecture by BR, perhaps one in the "Living in an Atomic Age" series.

On BR's sixth lecture in the series "Living in an Atomic Age". Truman's Point Four.

On liberalism, E.H. Carr, Nietzsche, and Murray's old nurse.

On BR's Conrad broadcast, which was 11 Sept. 1953 (2 years later than Murray's date). The death of old friends.

On Murray's own life, failure and the comfort of an OM, DCL or FRS.

Osborn has sent BR's letter of 1952/08/26 to several prominent people and newspapers, including Nehru and Eisenhower.

Murray is sorry to hear of BR's "new divorce".

A separate note in Edith Russell's hand states: "From Gilbert Murray on the Webbs in Portraits from Memory".

Murray sends BR his presidential address (not present). His Mau Mau dream.

Murray congratulates BR on his engagement to Edith Finch.

Murray, who saw BR and Edith the other night, gives BR "full permission" to publish any of his letters in BR's autobiography.

Enclosed with Osborn's letter of 1952/09/06 to BR.

Murray has read Satan in the Suburbs. He asks if BR started life believing in Shelley and Godwin.

On Shaw and Wells, following BR's broadcasts.

On BR's Nightmares, the common man, and Greco-Judaean civilization.

On Human Society in Ethics and Politics. Disagreeing about sin, he instances as unclean someone who betrayed a Jew to the Gestapo, and as blameworthy someone who talked or ate with the betrayer in a friendly way.

In praise of "Man's Peril".

BR suggests several steps to be taken to mitigate his prison sentence.

BR encloses a statement on the exact circumstances in which he would return to pacifist work.

There is shorthand on the verso.

Osborn encloses John Foster Dulles' response to her letter with BR's enclosed.

She discusses Reginald Thompson's Cry Korea.

Morley, the politician, tells Miss Stanley that he would much like to meet with BR but is too occupied at present.

Osborn pursues with Dulles BR's suggestion of a commission of inquiry led by India re the conduct of the Korean war.

BR has altered the year from 1916. Morley is grateful for BR's support over his resignation from the government and World War I. BR has supplied a brief note.

BR disagrees with E.H. Carr and is still fundamentally a Liberal. He is making a fuller statement in a book.

Osborn encloses documents concerning India and world peace.

BR congratulates Murray on his letter re Princess Margaret (and Captain Townsend) and writes his own imagined pro-divorce letter within the letter.

BR alludes to Gott's imprisonment for blasphemy decades earlier (Papers 15: 562).

Osborn repeats a suggestion from BR regarding India's role in world peace.

On India's role in world affairs.

A resolution commending Mrs. Chase Osborn and others for defying "patriots".
 

Rosalind has said that BR may visit the Murrays in September. [Gilbert's letters of August 1911 suggest that year as a possibility for this letter, which lacks the year.]

Mary Murray never had any "bad feelings" about BR "at the time you were angry with Gilbert".

With the Christmas and New Year's card is another little card, "All good wishes", unsigned.

Osborn sends BR his manuscript on ethics. His theme is hinted at in What I Believe.

BR acknowledges receipt of Osborn's manuscript.

Julian sends her note with "Mummie's letter". She adds "I miss you very much."

BR thanks Osborn for reclaiming his ms. BR receives an average of 3 such typescripts a week.

BR added the month and year. Julian is going to a circus and reports on it next day.

The card (depicting "life in Chickendom") is addressed by Ottoline Morrell to BR at Lake Garda. Julian says she loves BR's postcard.

On the (non)-objectivity of ethical values. An American army officer told BR of his ability to convince Japanese prisoners of war that it was not their duty to commit suicide. BR does not know how to convince Nazis not to massacre Jews.

Osborn replies at length on ethics. He does not tell BR what he could say to Nazis with no ethical premiss in common with BR, though Osborn discusses anti-Semitism.

Julian thanks BR for stamps, including a Chinese stamp, and writes about her new puppies.

Osborn does not expect Harry T. Moore to say enough on the significance of the Russell-Lawrence relationship.

A transcription of document .054087; also a carbon copy. These were made in the late 1940s when BR was going through his archives.

A transcription of the original document in RA3 Rec. Acq. 1314, record 61741; also a carbon copy.

Ossowski critiques French translations of BR's Political Ideals and "The Causes of the Present Chaos".

Estate matters, mentioning Withers and Buckland.

Otter is about to have "a major operation".

BR has noted the hospital address at the top.

BR hopes Ottino's agitation in Switzerland will be successful.

Overend encloses his "Some Comments on Demarcation and Empiricism" and "Confusions in Contemporary Linguistics".

BR liked both papers by Overend.

Overend sends BR his book manuscript, "The United Nations and the Conflict of Morals".

BR agrees strongly with those parts of Overend's ms. that he has read.

A transcription of document .054104, record 2435; also a carbon copy. The ribbon copy is corrected.

Harris points out that Federal Union does not specify the internal constitutions of member states and asks BR to reconsider.

BR agrees to become Honorary President.

Harris thanks BR for accepting the Honorary Presidency.

Poulton has been asked by the registrar to reply to BR's letter.

It is not necessary even to mention Herbert Spencer in the lecture.

Julian encloses copies of several letters from BR to Ottoline Morrell and asks permission to include them in a book of her mother's correspondence. The letters enclosed are; (1) about China, with Gertler, John and Lytton as artist-governors, 31 Jan. 1922, record 18808; (2) 31 Jan. 1912, record 17398; (3) 28 Sept. 1911, record 17281.

A transcription of the original, record 52312.

On Murray's translation of the Hippolytus, which brings out "whatever is noble and beautiful in sorrow".

A transcription of the original, record 61023.

On translators getting to the meaning of what they are translating.

Murray is sorry to hear of Mrs. Whitehead's "serious illness".

[Re conversion.]

A transcription of the original, record 61024.

Murray thanks BR for 2 papers—one on series and "between", the other on Lotze and also absolute time.

A transcription of the original at record 52313; also a carbon copy. BR has corrected both.

On BR's 2 papers, one on relations, the other on points.

On his losing campaign in South Oxfordshire with thanks for BR's help. A Mr. Beeton complained of one of BR's speeches.

A transcription of the original at record 52314.

On moral axioms, utilitarianism, pleasure, eternal objects.

A transcription of the original, record 61026.

On utilitarianism; J.M. Robertson's analysis of poetry. Murray concluded the letter on April 7.

A transcription of the original, record 61027.

Harrison has Murray's Bacchae, but women cannot tear a live bull to pieces.

A transcription of the original, record 52315; also a carbon copy.

On providing a bull for Jane Harrison.

BR has annotated the Webbs differently on the 2 copies, only once in his own hand.

Morrell responds warmly to BR's offer of help during the coming electoral campaign in South Oxfordshire.

A transcription of the original, record 52316; also a carbon copy (which has the "REJ" notation).

BR is overjoyed by the peace reached at the end of Boer War.

A transcription of the original, record 52317; also a carbon copy. BR's annotation to the original is transcribed.

BR congratulates Murray on Basil's birth and provides his view of platitudes.

A transcription of the original, record 52318; also a carbon copy.

On Henry D. Harben, whose acquaintance Murray ought to make.

A transcription of the original, record 52319; also a carbon copy.

On R.C. Trevelyan's blank-verse tragedy. BR is deep in proofs and symbolic logic, where he has touched perfection, and Whitehead agrees. On doctors.

Julian asks BR's permission to include passages from his letters in Ottoline, edited by Gathorne-Hardy.

BR has no objection to the passages to appear in Ottoline.

A transcription of the original, record 61028; also a carbon copy.

On Mary's health and his own; blank verse.

A transcription of the original, record 52320; also a carbon copy.

BR is living "in town" (London) but can still see Orion rise and Saturn set.

The "REJ" notation is on the carbon.

The Gladstone League has decided against adult suffrage in its programme but invites BR to join the committee and sub-committee.