BR is puzzled by the reference Pauling found to abnormal births.

Rolland invites BR to be on Romain Rolland's Centenary Committee.

Rolland confirms that BR will not have to do any work on the committee.

The BRPF is seeking signatures to the Russell-Bernal statement rather than organize a conference.

BR agrees to be a member of the Rolland Centenary Committee.

An extract from BR's letter, found in Rolland's journal. The extract is BR's draft of a paragraph to replace one in the "Declaration".

Murobuse thanks BR for his letter of introduction to Rolland, who "professed me his great respect and affection to you". [BR dated the letter "1922?", but it is surely 1921.]

Rollis thanks BR for loaning him the entire Monist issue with "On the Experience of Time".

He critiques BR on time, mentioning James, Lorentz, Minkowski, Robb and alluding to Michelson and Morley.

Notes by Pauling on his difficulties in the U.K.

Working notes in Edith Russell's hand of BR's concerns re Pauling. There appears to be a reference to Canon Collins.

Rosenfield asks for cabled greetings for a reception for the Paulings.

Mrs. Roosevelt thanks BR for taking part in the televised panel on British defence policy.

Roosevelt states that Schweitzer and Churchill are sending items for the auction.

BR sends autographed books for the auction for the Eleanor Roosevelt Institute for Cancer Research. There follows a list of 21 items, including duplicates.

Roosevelt is grateful for the auction items that BR has sent.

On the Home Office scheme for conscientious objectors.

Greetings for Pauling.

On a "riot" at the Princeton settlement for C.O.s.

Peano writes n French and praises BR's facility and precision with logical symbols. Record 79720 is a corrected transcription with a carbon.

Document .054221, record 132592is a set of 3 scraps of paper with Peano's name on them.

A transcription of document .054222, record 79219. Corrected by BR.

In Italian.

On receiving The Principles of Mathematics. He addresses BR as "prestigious colleague".

A transcription of document .054224, record 79721; also a carbon copy. The Italian is corrected by BR on both copies.

In French.

Peano thanks BR for his subscription to Revue de Mathématiques. He writes of a review to come of The Principles of Mathematics.

In French. On symbolic logic.

In French. Peano thanks BR for an article.

In French. On the contradictions.

Peano thanks BR for Principia Mathematica and sends him articles of his own.

In French. On Peano's Congress contribution, and Latino Sine Inflexione.

In French. On his Congress contribution and thanks for Principia, vol. 2.

A transcription of document .054235, record 79732; also a carbon copy. BR has corrected both.

The letter is followed by a file of new transcriptions of Peano's letters, probably by H.C. Kennedy.

A note stating: "From Sir W. Rothenstein".

Carver raises the possibility of the BBC broadcasting "History as an Art".

The BBC is not interested in broadcasting the lecture.

Full name: The International P.E.N. Club. A World Association of Writers Centre for Writers in Exile.

Carver invites the Russells to P.E.N.'s annual dinner and recalls travelling on the same plane to Rome as BR on April 11.

Full name: XXVIII International Congress of the P.E.N.

Carver invites BR on a P.E.N. Congress trip to Cambridge.

Alice Rothenstein has just sent her son, John, to Bedales. [The year is provided in Summer's Lease by John Rothenstein, 1965, p. 19.]

The year is provided in Edith Russell's hand.

Rothenstein will dine with BR when she comes to London soon.

Full name: The P.E.N. A World Association of Writers.

BR is invited to a conference following A.L. Rowse's Ould Lecture.

Carver sets out the plans for P.E.N.'s expansion.

Lord Rothschild asks BR about his book on science and religion, but not his Religion and Science.

Rothschild asks if Trinity College may acquire the manuscripts or typescripts of some of BR's books, a topic he says they discussed some years before. Five titles are listed.

Roy is going to write articles on BR for The Modern Review and asks for his view on passive resistance and Gandhi.

Roy requests BR's responses to several detailed questions. He has in mind a book of interviews. (It sounds as if he has already interviewed BR, but that may be incorrect.) Roy has read an article by BR, "Cultural Cont. Betw. East and West".

Roy is glad that BR will see him over a period of days in Cornwall in the last week of May.

Roy sends BR his report of their conversations (not present). He intends to collect his conversations with Tagore, Rolland, Gandhi, Aurobindo and BR in a book, Talks with Great Personalities.

Roy wants a photograph of BR for his book, Great Personalities.

A 17-year-old girl has published in Bengali, "Bertrand Russell and Mysticism".

Roy asks again for a photograph of BR with Dora and asks for a reply to his (lost) letter of December 1927.

Roy and his daughter, Indira, would like to play and sing for BR.

Barker tells BR that the trophy reception is to be held in the River Room of the Savoy Hotel at 11:30 am, and is sending him the new edition of the Pears Cyclopaedia.

Barker, editor of the Pears Cyclopaedia, offers BR the Silver Pears Trophy for "your work during the past year in the cause of world peace".

BR is gratified by the offer of the Silver Pears Trophy.

Robertson tells BR that he will be much in their thoughts in celebrating Whitehead's birth centenary.

BR is sorry to part with the Pears trophy after his annual tenure, "as it has been a source of great pleasure and pride to me."

BR is invited to a dinner to celebrate Sir David Ross's 80th birthday.

Barker is having a crystal goblet made for BR as a memento of the Pears award.

Barker would like BR to autograph Portraits from Memory, adding: "Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, is in the new edition in the section 'Prominent People'. How delighted he would have been to know that a great philosopher of the 20th cent. remarked on his absence from the pages and expressed a wish to see him represented here!"

Chetwynd encloses the annual report of the Merioneth branch for 1960-61 and remarks: "We have not had such a wonderful letter for a very long time."

BR has signed the membership payment forms.

Barker invites the Russells to attend presentation of the trophy to Sydney Chapman.

Royce, on grounds of health, turns down BR's invitation to speak at the International Congress of Mathematicians at Cambridge. He thanks BR for the gift of vol. 2 of Principia.

The source of the letter is cited as "Russell Archives. Continuum I Limited (London)."

Royce will gladly come to Cambridge from Oxford to lunch with BR on February 4.

Pemantle describes the interpretation of alienation in Marx.

BR states that he is ignorant of the works mentioned, and that Pemantle may well be right about the side of Marx they emphasize.

Rubinstein hopes that BR will be available in October to give evidence at the trial of Lady Chatterley's Lover.

BR is not prepared to give evidence at the trial of Lady Chatterley's Lover.

Rubinstein understands that BR does not want to be involved in the case of Lady Chatterley's Lover.

A play based on BR's short story of the same title.

On conditions for translating into German an unspecified book by BR, "written before the war".

A typed copy of the order prohibiting BR from entering or residing in areas mentioned in the Aliens Restriction Act, 1914.

Lieut. Colonel Russell is the "competent military authority".

Russell asks BR to forward his "lectures" for censorship, addressing them to Brig.-General G.K. Cockerill, C.B., Room 254, War Office, Whitehall, S.W.

Two different typed copies of this letter were made: one is in Rec. Acq. 1043, record 57806; the other is in Rec. Acq. 1410d, record 119043.

In the same file is an order, document .055012a, for Russell to be allowed to go to Newhaven until 18 December 1916. It is signed by Alich Russell and dated 7 December 1916.

Alys heads the letter "Executive Meeting with 50 Old Bores. Temperance Hall. Chester". Lady Henry Somerset is to live with the Russells. Alys encloses "Miss Morrell's repentant note" (not present).

Alys opened letters from Frank Russell. She is "dead tired" from her meetings.

Frank Russell is "most impudent to see A." Some visitors were "immensely impressed" by BR's list of books. Trevelyan will go to his lectures.

Alys signs herself "Rosebud". The violations in Candide.

Alys is with the Murrays. Her "mind is no longer full of self".

"I try very hard always to keep things on the surface, as thee wishes...."

Alys has readied their new home, Bagley Wood, for BR's arrival on Monday. She discusses her depression.

The clipping concerns the Wigan constituency.

BR provided the year.

"It seems odd to be writing to thee upstairs when thee is only downstairs...."

Alys wants BR's philosophical friendship with Karin Costelloe to continue, though not at Bedford Square.

On furniture and other possessions in storage as a result of their separation. The desks of Evelyn Whitehead and BR's father are mentioned.