Ray has received the preface to the French edition of BR's Leibniz. Ray asks for permission to include his wife in the acknowledgements and discusses the omissions and languages of citation.

BR has added the year 1908, but the letter was clearly written at the beginning of the correspondence when BR wanted to assure himself of the quality of the proposed translation of The Philosophy of Leibniz by Jean and Renée Ray. Enclosed is a translation of section 1 of the book. BR has made one correction.

Ray read BR's "message" to the Fifth Convention of Indian Rationalists and encloses a newspaper report.

Ray would like to meet BR in London.

BR will be in London May 17-21.

Ray will see BR on May 20.

BR encloses a short statement on Ray's volume of essays.

Read will not resign from the Committee of 100.

Read will not resign from the Committee of 100 if BR wishes him to remain.

Read approves of BR's letter to Khrushchev re Mrs. Harrari.

Read's enclosure is an anonymous article, "The Committee of 100", Freedom, April 1961.

Read encloses an appeal to the Committee of 100, whose policy "becomes increasingly provocative and violent". He reports that its meetings are chaotic.

Read encloses a further note on policy for the next Committee of 100 meeting.

BR is asked to attend a conference on Afro-Asian Solidarity in Bombay.

Packe is thrilled that BR will review Mill for The Observer.

Packe thanks BR for his letter and blurb for the publisher, and for his "brief account of your divergence from, and development of, Mill's Logic."

Packe cannot attend BR's British Academy lecture on Mill.

Packe thanks BR for his "pamphlet" on Mill.

Packe sends BR his new book (on Orsini).

BR rang the Criccieth Hotel looking for Page.

Page will try again to see BR.

Page encloses a letter to the Daily Telegraph from Horace King quoting BR on the Russians in 1955.

Page sends some notes on Lord John Russell.

Lewis introduces Hermann Cohen.

BR will be happy to meet Cohen.

BR has been elected Honorary President of the International Committee.

Cohen has to postpone his trip to Wales due to ill health.

BR recommends the Portmeirion Hotel.

Shaw sends a copy of Why I Am Not a Christian for BR's autograph for Cohen.

Jackson sends BR Kallen's meeting address (not present) and Meiklejohn's (present) and draws BR's attention to The Letters of Sacco and Vanzetti, one of which has a passage on Why Men Fight.

A typed carbon of the letter is at  https://picryl.com/media/gardner-jackson-typed-letter-copy-to-bertrand-…;

Ja'fari asks BR the meaning of "x" as a variable and to comment on the "search for perfection".

Cohen asks BR to recommend a book on World War I. (It is E.D. Morel, Truth and the War.)

Cohen's request to purchase Morel's book was met with a note that the book could not be traced.

Cohen asks BR to obtain Morel's book for him.

BR tells Cohen he has asked Bumpus to find a copy of Morel "who died of injuries to his health incurred while he was in prison."

BR asks Wilson to find Morel's book and to notify Cohen.

Cohen writes about Morel's book.

A long letter in which BR tries to dissuade Reed from leaving the Committee of 100.

BR comments briefly on dissensions in the Committee of 100.

BR will sign his name only, "on such occasions".

BR will read Read on civil disobedience and hopes they will still meet at the weekend of April 29.

BR congratulates Read on his letter, "The Chinese Case", The Times, 27 Nov. 1962.

BR invites Read to join the BRPF's council of advisors.

Read encloses some writings, including "On Civil Disobedience".

On the short notice of Committee of 100 meetings.

Lewis asks BR to use his "influence" to get the City of London to provide a site for a statue of Paine.

BR would ensure the project's rejection if he advocated it!

Lewis has obtained a site for a statue of Paine and asks BR to be a speaker at its unveiling in 1965.

BR tells Lewis that he was much pleased with the Paine Award from the Emergency Civil Liberties Committee.

A transcription of document .054152; also a carbon copy. For the dating of this letter, see record 2502.

Very strong drugs were prescribed to BR to dull the pain of shingles.

Read's first book of poems has an epigraph from BR. The Taylor-Frankl matter may concern copying a portrait of Lord John Russell.

The book is Naked Warriors (Russell's Library, no. 689).

A letter full of friendly criticisms with a reference to Miss [Eva] Kyle coming to type for BR on 3 September. BR is not a democrat until he has eaten chips out of a newspaper on the street.

The letter is undated. A copy of BR's letter (which is presumed to be to Catherine E. Marshall of the No-Conscription Fellowship) that Pallister calls "that dreadful letter" is at record 53372. Since BR dated this one himself as 14 August 1916, her letter to him must have been written within a few days later. The matter of Russell's unsuccessful visit to see Clifford Allen prior to his court martial, down to the sergeant who may (or may not) have been awaiting beheading (as Pallister jokes) is written up in Jo Vellacott, Conscientious Objection: Bertrand Russell and the Pacifists in the First World War (1976, 2015), pp. 110-11, without mentioning Pallister's letter.

Readhead is keen to meet BR.

BR is glad of Readhead's wish to work for "our cause", i.e., the Committee of 100.

BR is "sorry that you find life so difficult", and suggests a time to meet again.

BR likes "walks in this part of the world". He mentions the builder of his house, Plas Penrhyn. He has derived great pleasure from Pantin's remarks about Darwin and Fitzroy in the current New Scientist.

Readhead resigned from the Committee of 100.

Rhees returns BR's Wittgenstein papers, listing the groups.

Redefer suggests April 19-May 1 for a meeting.

BR cannot meet Redefer then as he has to be in Copenhagen.

BR does not wish to comment on Beacon Hill.

Reed encloses a reprint of "The Rights of the War" (not present) in the Sunday Sun, New York.

Parker, reading The Conquest of Happiness, inquires whether smoking is a conditional sin, because of the mental anguish it may give one's parents.

She thanks BR for letting her read his paper. She has corrected "Ghibelline".

Pantin sends BR his Darwin address (not present).

On probability and induction in Human Knowledge.

Reichenbach, Jr., is having difficulties in finding a publisher and encloses a statement of support from BR and a letter declining to read his ms. from Solly Zuckerman.

Congratulations on BR's 80th birthday and thanks for the "great help" given to his son.

Family news. BR has noted "Ans" at the top.

Family news. BR has noted "Ans" at the top.

Family news.

Family news. BR noted "Ans" at the top.

Reichl and daughter Ruth [who became editor of Gourmet Magazine] will visit BR in London.

A small thank-you card, perhaps from the 1962 visit.

A birthday greeting.

BR is sorry not to have written Miriam after her visit.

On the relative nuclear ignorance of the Soviet public.

Reymond sends BR a copy of his thesis, "Logique et Mathématiques".

Reymond takes up points from BR's review of his thesis in Mind.

Richardson asks if BR received his Spiritual Pluralism and Recent Philosophy.

Power asks if BR wants Mrs. Dalton's pram and to tell Power what is the best elementary text-book on Einstein.

Power asks for an introduction to relativity and whether BR would like to buy a friend's pram for £7.

Richardson suggests BR study the cultural works of Dr. F. Muller-Lyer.

Power sends BR B.H. Chamberlain's The Invention of a New Religion.

Kingsley Martin wants to meet BR. Power is dining at the Webbs'.