Dated by Jo Vellacott.

On a deputation to Prime Minister Asquith on C.O.s condemned to death.

"Wednesday". Morrell encloses Hansard for Tuesday 18 April 1916 containing his Commons speech on Chappelow.

Morrell asks BR to simplify the "Gilbert Murray scheme" devised by Clive Bell. Ottoline feels strongly about it.

The Bishop annotates the letter to tell (BR) that he has "written thus to Morrell" regarding Long's scheme for the treatment of "irreconcilable" individual C.O.s.

BR's note on a separate scrap of paper: "From Philip Morrell M.P."

Morrell asks BR to meet with him to reconsider his rejection of his friends' offer to pay his fine by buying his goods at auction.

Morrell describes Ottoline's serious illness of the jaw and mentions Rudolf Kircher's book as "amazingly well-informed".

Morrell thanks BR for writing as he did upon Ottoline's death. He asks BR for an impression of her for a short biographical memoir and sends his "address" (not present) at her memorial service.

Morrell quotes several passages on BR from Ottoline's journal of 1930. Morrell complains of BR's refusal to write about Ottoline and even his letter upon her death, "knowing how little you liked me in her life".

Morrell remains upset that BR will not break his "silence" on Ottoline. Morrell does not accept his concentration on impersonal subjects.

"... surely it is better for you to forget her."

Morrell encloses document .053330, record 79113, and tells BR that its writing was due to "depression of spirits" and his loneliness.

Excerpts from letters about dying from radiation sickness at Hiroshima, edited by Morris.

Morris inquires as to BR's success in publishing some extracts.

BR tells Morris that both The Observer and New Statesman turned down the extracts. He encloses Kingsley Martin's letter (not present).

Morris regards Kingsley Martin's suggestions as very good.

Morris tells BR that the extracts appeared in "this week's" New Statesman in the context of her article on Hiroshima and on their own in the enclosed newsclip from France-Observateur, 17 July 1958.

Morris asks to see BR in Wales.

BR suggests the Morrises visit on September 17.

The Morrises cannot visit BR on September 15 but perhaps will see BR at the scientists' meeting on the 22nd.

Morris asks BR to read and recommend her novel, The Flowers of Hiroshima.

BR is sorry that he cannot read her manuscript until he returns to Wales.

BR critiques The Flowers of Hiroshima—one is too conscious of the author's intentions on behalf of her moral.

Mudd answers at length BR's concern with the possible truth of the allegations against Aleister Crowley.

BR refers Mosley to Herman Kahn. The Sunday Times excerpted BR's world government chapter because of its comparative innocuousness.

Edith Russell answers as BR's secretary, as he is ill.

BR writes: "I feel obliged to say that the emotional universes we inhabit are so distinct, and in deepest ways opposed, that nothing fruitful or sincere could ever emerge from association between us."

A transcription of the original, record 52321; also a carbon copy.

BR will be visiting Aunt Agatha.

"I am glad to see that you do justice to the influence of the Bogomils on twelfth century Italy, which is, I think, usually under-estimated."

A transcription of the original, record 52322; also a carbon copy.

The opening part of the letter is addressed to Plato. BR tells Murray that he will insert his quotation (in "The Study of Mathematics").

A transcription of the original, record 52323.

BR provides detailed praise of Murray's translation of The Bacchae. Atlas. BR is reading The Republic.

In a note BR identifies Muirhead as "once my tutor".

Muirhead opposes the "various acts of persecution against BR".

A transcription of the original, record 61030.

Murray provides detailed criticisms of BR's Carlyle paper [which is lost]. The enclosed statement lists reasons why Murray should not go to Florence.

A transcription of the original, record 2053; also a carbon copy.

On The Bacchae and Murray's seediness.

Murchie asks to call on BR in September.

A transcription of the original, record 52325.

On interruptions of one's private moments. Blake. The Storrs. Sleeplessness: "Sometimes sleepless nights are a time for thoughts that remain with one as a comfort through the day: I find darkness a help to isolating the essentials of things and fixing one's whole attention upon them."

There are phrases from "The Pilgrimage of Life".

A transcription of the original, record 52326. Corrected by BR.

On London, the McCails' charwoman, civilization, and self.

A transcription of the original, record 52327; also a carbon copy. BR corrected both.

On depression, BR's shrine, Sir Francis Jeune, Plato and his cave, BR's Carlyle paper.

A transcription of the original, record 61031.

Murray dreamt about Russell's paradox.

A transcription of the original, record 52328.

On beautiful houses vs. privation and the contrast with the mental furniture. Glory. Calculus.

A magazine is to be published (The Lord Rector).

A transcription of the original, record 52329, which was a postcard; also a carbon copy.

A long quotation on tragedy from "The Free Man's Worship".

The Socialist Club is preparing another issue of their magazine and asks for a photo of BR.

Murray describes plans for the Rectorial campaign. He mentions Gilbert Murray's Liberal candidature.

A transcription of the original, record 52330; also a carbon copy.

BR has been doing proofs and work at Cambridge.

A transcription of the original, record 61033; also a carbon copy.

Murray is reading "The Free Man's Worship".

BR has supplied the year.

A transcription of the original, record 61034, but only of the last page.

It begins with a point about a page numbered 14, on Atlas, in "The Free Man's Worship".

A transcription of the original at record 78964, where BR provided the year.

A transcription of the original, record 61035.

Murray refers to his cancelled trip to Cornwall. He is taking another trip in its place.

A transcription of the original, record 61036. BR provided the year.

On Berenson; on a general liking for "men and dogs".

A transcription of the original at record 78966.

A transcription of the original.

On beauty. On reducing the amount of consciousness through "murder".

A transcription of the original, record 61037.

Re a "draft agreement", probably for building a house.

A transcription of the original at record 61038.

Murray wants the building stopped.

A transcription of the original, record 61039.

Murray is at Naworth Castle, Carlisle.

A transcription of the original, record 52332; also a carbon copy.

BR is reading Cobden's life, free trade literature, and the Mosely Commission report, and makes observations on the mating habits of French officers and youngish French women. The Russells will not build yet (re the Vaughan Williamses).

A transcription of the original; also a carbon copy.

On the value of having children; on self-control and the emotions.

A transcription of the original, record 52333; also a carbon copy. BR has corrected both.

On visiting Naworth Castle. Mosely report. The Webbs. Harrison.

BR and Alys will be at 13, Cheyne Walk when they return to London.

A transcription of the original, record 78972; also a carbon copy.

A transcription of the original, record 52336; also a carbon copy. BR has annotated the ribbon copy.

The Russells would take Ingle Nook for a year. "... current politics are so exciting" that BR may not do much work.

Naworth and Alys's "wigging".

A transcription of the original, record 52337; also a carbon copy. BR has annotated the ribbon copy.

BR is lecturing and writing on free trade. He refers to Resurrection.

A transcription of the original, record 52338; also a carbon copy. BR has annotated the ribbon copy.

BR asks if he may join Murray and A.C. Bradley on a holiday. BR feels himself "becoming a personage". He is converted to Dickens.

A transcription of the original, record 52339; also a carbon copy.

Tragedy. Fiscal question. The English and the Irish.

A transcription of the original, record 52340; also a carbon copy.

BR is at Sennen, along the coast from St. Ives, Cornwall. "The sudden sense of rest blends with the landscape most curiously."

Murray can return "History" later.

A transcription of the original, record 61042.

The performances of The Hippolytus are going well.

A transcription of the original, record 52341; also a carbon copy. BR has corrected both copies.

BR is glad to give encouragement—"in which there seems to be no alloy of evil".

A transcription of the original, record 52342; also a carbon copy.

On the performance of The Troades. BR's new address is Lower Copse, Bagley Wood, "henceforth".

A transcription of the original, record 52343; also a carbon copy. BR has annotated the ribbon copy.

On Brailsford's passport crime. BR "reached" Lower Copse on Easter Monday with its "palatial" study. His disciple, young Dakyns, is mentioned.

A transcription of the original, record 61047; also a second ribbon copy. BR has annotated one.

Murray asks BR to read his translation of Electra.

A transcription of the original, record 52344; also a carbon copy. BR has corrected the ribbon copy much more than the carbon.

BR must push on with Principia.

A transcription of the original, record 61048.

Murray, at Bryn Mawr College, praises the "controversial placards" of the Wimbledon campaign.

A transcription of the original, record 61050.

Murray asks BR to criticize his approach to an article for The Times' Women's Supplement.

A transcription of the original, record 52345; also a carbon copy.

On the Royal Society. BR is looking forward "greatly" to teaching.

A transcription of the original, record 61051.

Murray asks BR to read the prospectus for the Home University Library from Williams and Norgate.

A transcription of the original, record 61052.

Murray insists that BR should write on philosophy, if not mathematics, for the Home University Library.

Maria Huxley confirms lunch with BR and Peter Spence on [Jan.] 17 at 1:30 pm.

A transcription of the original, record 52347.

BR's annotation to the original is typed: re leaving Alys.

A transcription of the original, record 52349; also a carbon copy. BR's annotation to the original is typed.

On The Problems of Philosophy and Platonic ideas. Parliament Bill.

A transcription of the original, record 52353; also a carbon copy.

BR asks about Tripoli; also the Chinese Republic. He objects to his paragraphing being altered in The Problems of Philosophy.

A transcription of the original, record 52354; also a carbon copy.

BR has been writing on his own religion: "devilish edifying". Cornford on Plato's ideas.

A transcription of the original, record 52355; also a carbon copy.

BR has heard of Rosalind's engagement to Toynbee.

A transcription of the original, record 52356; also a carbon copy.

BR got people to sign a petition re blasphemy, and came within an ace of repeating the exact words in the Cambridge market-place.

A transcription of the original, record 52357; also a carbon copy.

On Cole, McKenna, and publishing the Lowell Lectures.

A transcription of the original, record 52358; also a carbon copy.

BR has dated the original "(?) autumn 1914". "'Love one another' seems to me the whole of ethics, and I don't believe in the possibility of a good life from any self-centred motive, such as the wish to be 'good'."

BR refers to Murray's lecture on Stoicism. He gave the Conway Memorial Lecture on that topic on 16 March 1915, and it included "phusis" (the process of growth). Thus the re-dating.

A transcription of the original.

On their pamphlets about the war.

A transcription of the original; also a carbon copy.

On the conscientious objectors, the tribunals, and pacifism.

A transcription of the original; also a carbon copy. BR has supplied the year.

On the nature of the lectureship from which BR was dismissed.

A transcription of the original, record 52363; also a carbon copy.

BR thinks that his sentence will not be changed, but after the appeal pressure may be brought to bear upon the Home Secretary.