BRACERS Notes

Record no.	Notes, topics or text
79201	A transcription of the original; also a carbon copy. The statement is BR's of 1918/03/30. Given the increase in the military age, BR may have to remain in prison.
79202	A transcription of the original, record 52367; also a carbon copy. BR sets out tactics to achieve exemption for himself before the Tribunal. Dewey could be asked for a testimonial.
79203	A transcription of the original; also a carbon copy. BR intends to do no further pacifist work but will not promise that.
79204	A transcription of the original; also a carbon copy. On BR's giving up pacifist agitation.
79205	A transcription of the original; also a carbon copy. The original (or an image of it) is not in the Russell Archives but most likely in the Murray Papers, Bodleian Library. BR's lawyer, Tindal Atkinson, has decided to call no character witnesses. BR is in "a very dangerous condition of strain" re the petition.
79206	A transcription of the original, record 52376; also a carbon copy. BR encloses a plan of work (not present). He is "at large" for the moment.
79207	A transcription of the original; also a carbon copy.
79208	A transcription of the original, record 52374; also a carbon copy. BR has corrected both copies. BR asks for books on non-Aryan languages in order "to feel quite at home in a language that makes no distinction between verbs and nouns."
79209	A transcription of the original, record 52375; also a carbon copy. BR thanks Murray for J.A. Smith's letter (record 2062) on books on language.
79210	A transcription of the original, record 52377; also a carbon copy. On liberalism, the collapse of Wilson, his own head to be the first to fall. He is going to The Trojan Women and refers to the suffering of the vanquished.
79211	A transcription of the original; also a carbon copy. Br's annotation on the original is typed. "Virtue depends on the glands...."
79212	A transcription of the original, record 52379; also a carbon copy. BR is "as much against revolutionary wars as against others." His divorce will be a relief.
79213	A transcription of the original, record 52380; also a carbon copy. BR invites Murray to Cornwall.
79214	A transcription of the original; also a carbon copy. On running for parliament.
79215	A transcription of the original, record 52382; also a carbon copy. Re the Boxer money and Chinese education.
79216	A transcription of the original, record 52383; also a carbon copy. On the unauthorized use of BR's name by Prométhée.
79217	A transcription of the original, record 52384; also a carbon copy. Frank Russell's death was "a great shock to me". BR supports Briand's campaign for a United States of Europe.
79218	A transcription of the original, record 52390; also a carbon copy. BR is sending the typescript of Religion and Science.
79219	A transcription of the original, record 52392; also a carbon copy. BR asks for "the best literature" for a study of the history of the League of Nations.
79220	A transcription of the original, record 61073; also a carbon copy. Murray provides references on the League of Nations.
79221	A transcription of the original, record 52393; also a carbon copy. On Freda Utley's predicament.
79222	A transcription of the original, record 61075; also a carbon copy. BR has annotated both copies. Murray suggests speaking to Russian ambassador Maisky about Utley's husband.
79223	A transcription of the original, record 52394; also a carbon copy. BR thinks an approach to Maisky should wait; later, Sokolnikov can be brought up, too.
79224	A transcription of the original, record 52397; also a carbon copy. BR has annotated the TL(TC) about Ossietzky and about a picture of BR's mother and sister Rosalind. "It is now at Naworth. 1949."
79225	A transcription of the original, record 52398; also a carbon copy. BR quotes a letter of 8 August 1915, just returned to him, about a strong disagreement with Mary over Gilbert's pamphlet. (The letter is to Ottoline Morrell, document .001312, record 18488.)
79226	A transcription of the original, record 52400; also a carbon copy. BR could not write a book on how to think clearly. He praises the intellectual balance of the University of Chicago. In Auto., the letter is incorrectly dated 1935/01/15.
79227	A transcription of the original, record 52401. Jacobsthal; Reichenbach. BR "cannot maintain the pacifist position in this war", though he is not ready to say anything publicly. He remains in the U.S. out of "the most imperative financial necessity".
79228	A transcription of the original, record 61080; also a carbon copy. On moral indignation. The arrival of the Blitzkrieg. English civilization.
79229	A transcription of the original; also a carbon copy. The war is between liberalism and tyranny.
79230	A transcription of the original. BR feels as if they are living in the 5th century. "sometimes i think the best thing one can do is to salvage as much as possible of civilization before the onset of the dark ages." "sympathy in this country is growing more and more emphatic on our side."
79231	A transcription of the original; also a carbon copy. BR has annotated the ribbon copy.
79232	A transcription of the original, record 52403. "I am now established in a small country house 200 years old...." Pythagoras, Plato.
79233	A transcription of the original, record 61083. Murray refers to Churchill saying summer and autumn 1941 are to be the worst. "... the story of the Battle of Britain in the air last year is really rather miraculous."
79234	A transcription of the original, record 52404. "I admire English resistance with all my soul, but hate not to be part of it." BR has English friends who are going back.
79235	A transcription of the original, record 52405. BR has reached Charlemagne in his History. America is undergoing fundamental change. Asia.
79236	A transcription of the original, record 52407; also a carbon copy. Barnes. John Conrad is in England.
79237	A transcription of the original, record 52410, which is retranscribed there; also a carbon copy. For a transcription of the enclosure see record 68555. BR asks Murray to sign the enclosed letter to the New York Times on food parcels.
79238	A transcription of the original, dated from the latter's postmark. Murray suggests that BR collect his essays.
79239	A transcription of the original.
79240	A Bodleian transcription of the original described in record 52311.
79241	A Bodleian transcription of the original at record 52312.
79242	A Bodleian transcription of the original at record 52313.
79243	A Bodleian transcription of the original at record 52314. On moral axioms, utilitarianism, pleasure, eternal objects.
79244	A Bodleian transcription of the original at record 52315. On providing a bull for Jane Harrison.
79245	A Bodleian transcription of the original at record 52316. "I was quite overjoyed by the peace".
79246	A Bodleian transcription of the original at record 52317.
79247	A Bodleian transcription of the original at record 52318.
79248	A Bodleian transcription of the original at record 52319.
79249	A Bodleian transcription of the original at record 52320.
79250	A Bodleian transcription of the original at record 52322.
79251	A Bodleian transcription of the original.
79252	A Bodleian transcription of the original, including a note from the flap of the envelope. The original is at record 52323.
79253	A Bodleian transcription of the original, record 52325.
79254	A Bodleian transcription of the original at record 53326.
79255	A Bodleian transcription of the original at record 52327.
79256	A Bodleian transcription of the original at record 52328.
79257	A Bodleian transcription of the original, record 52329. A long quotation on tragedy from "The Free Man's Worship".
79258	A Bodleian transcription of the original at record 52330.
79259	A Bodleian transcription of the original.
79260	A Bodleian transcription of the original.
79261	A Bodleian transcription of the original.
79262	A Bodleian transcription of the original at record 79168.
79263	A Bodleian transcription of the original.
79264	A Bodleian transcription of the original.
79265	"The state of politics is most delightful." Re Protection. A Bodleian transcription of the original, record 52338.
79266	A Bodleian transcription of the original at record 52339.
79267	A Bodleian transcription of the original.
79268	A Bodleian transcription of the original, record 52341.
79269	A Bodleian transcription of the original, record 52342.
79270	A Bodleian transcription of the original at record 52343.
79271	A Bodleian transcription of the original letter at record 52344.
79272	A Bodleian transcription of the original, record 52345.
79273	A Bodleian transcription of the original. Jocasta reminds BR of Gina in The Wild Duck (re Oedipus).
79274	A Bodleian transcription of the original.
79275	A Bodleian transcription of the original.
79276	A Bodleian transcription of the original.
79277	A Bodleian transcription of the original.
79278	Purcell is grateful for praise of The Sweeniad and confesses to hero-worship of BR. He explains who "Myra Buttle" is.
79279	A Bodleian transcription of the original.
79280	Purcell would like to use a blurb by BR for The Sweeniad.
79281	A Bodleian transcription of the original.
79282	Purcell thanks BR for being willing to be quoted on The Sweeniad. The enclosure is comprised of "extracts from letters to 'Myra Buttle' acknowledging The Sweeniad".
79283	A Bodleian transcription of the original, redated from the Bodleian's 17.1.14.
79284	Margaret Knight will soon speak on religion at Cambridge.
79285	A Bodleian transcription of the original. 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. See record 52358 for a BRACERS transcription. "'Love one another' seems to me the whole of ethics".
79286	Purcell hopes to make himself known to BR on March 3, when BR speaks to the Athenaeum on "Science and Religion". The enclosure is "extracts from the American Press" and "LI".
79287	A Bodleian transcription of the original.
79288	Purcell is sending BR The Bitches' Brew, or The Plot Against Bertrand Russell in typescript.
79289	A Bodleian transcription of the original.
79290	A Bodleian transcription of the original.
79291	A Bodleian transcription of the original.
79292	A Bodleian transcription of the original.
79293	Purcell responds with revised lines following BR's letter on The Bitches' Brew. He explains about Lord Adrian and the Royal Society president.
79294	Purcell hopes that the press are not asking BR what he wrote in his letter on The Bitches' Brew.
79295	Purcell invites BR to be a distinguished promoter of Joseph Needham's "great project".
79296	This reply was superseded by document .054567. BR is reluctant to express approval of Needham's work because of the latter's view that the Americans in Korea used bacteriological warfare. BR suspects Needham's judgment.
79297	A formal appeal for "moral support" of Needham's Science and Civilisation in China.
79298	Evidently a covering letter for a copy of The Bitches' Brew.
79299	BR writes: "I must say, I am glad to be not one of those whom you pillory. I am delighted by the extra lines that you have added to Juno's speech."
79300	Purcell thanks BR for his comments on an unnamed work. Enclosed is a chorus from a new work in progress, "Aere Perennius".

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