BRACERS Notes

Record no. Notes, topics or text
79801

On removing BR's father's desk from 68 Lincoln's Inn Fields.

79802
Alys will send BR the little oak table, his family photographs, china and ornaments, and some papers of his.
79803

On Karin's engagement to Adrian Stephen. Alys requests a copy of BR's Labour Leader article. She is not sure she any longer agrees with BR on the war.

79804

Alys would like to give BR £100 because persecution must interfere with his income.

79805
A transcription of document .055027; also a carbon copy.
79806
Alys thanks BR for his letter upon her new operation for career.
79807
Dr. Duke's life policy and mortgage. Family news.
79808
A transcription of document .055028; also a carbon copy. BR has corrected the ribbon copy.
79809
A transcription of document .055029; also a carbon copy. BR has corrected both.
79810

"I feel I must break the silence of all these years by sending thee a line of congratulation on thy O.M." Lucy Donnelly is mentioned.

79811

Alys sends BR some letters and an article of his, and believes all other letters were destroyed. [Just about all survived.]

She encloses her write-up of their marriage, which begins "Bertie was an Ideal Companion" (one sheet).

79812

The 1909 letters she sent BR were returned "Not known" with the gift of A Religious Rebel.

79813

Alys enjoyed BR's visit and hopes they will be friends. She asks what he thinks of Gathorne-Hardy's Recollections of Logan Pearsall Smith.

79814

Alys refers to "my radiant memories of our life together".

79815

"... I am utterly devoted to thee...."

79816

Alys thanks BR for two of his books.

79817

Korea. Her birthday. Happy events (the last letter [lost?] being full of woes). Trevor-Roper on the Berlin Congress for Cultural Freedom.

79818

On books while BR is in Australia, and sewing on BR's buttons during their honeymoon (according to letters she wrote then).

79819

On the Nobel Prize for BR.

79820
Perkins mentions people she has been seeing. "no one is 'thinking about war' in your sense."
79821

She tells BR that he "could see Dr. [President] Wilson satisfactorily."

79822

A letter has gone to William Phillips (a U.S. Secretary of State). She asks if Russell has seen "an extract form Mr. Roosevelt's article in the Times today?".

79823

Perkins asks if BR has seen the Carnegie Report. She mentions poets BR knew in Boston: Miss Lowell and Alfred Noyes. [BR reviewed it.]

79824

Enclosed: letter to "Bessie" from Third Assistant Secretary of State, Washington.

Perkins thinks Ambassador Spring Rice would present BR to Wilson.

On BR writing for U.S. periodicals.

79825

On BR's article for the Atlantic.

79826

Perkins encloses Ellery Sedgwick's letter (not present) and asks BR to destroy it.

79827

A maid of hers had a brother on board the Lusitania, just sunk. (He survived.)

79828

War news, including Germany in Belgium.

79829

News from the Perkinses' 10 weeks back in America.

79830

BR has annotated the top: "This lady is a Roman Catholic."

It is good news that BR will be coming to the U.S. The Boston Herald had an editorial on it. Perkins thanks BR for Justice in War-Time. The preface gave her great joy.

79831
On efforts to publish BR's essays.
79832

Perkins encloses a rejection letter (not present), evidently from the Yale Review.

79833

Perkins is returning unplaced articles, evidently because BR has contracted for book publication of the chapters of Principles of Social Reconstruction.

79834

Perkins commiserates on BR's loss of Trinity College. The enclosure is an editorial on BR, "A Conscientious Objector", The Boston Herald, 30 July 1916, p. 6.

79835

More on placing BR's manuscripts, including Nock's involvement. She is reading on infinity in Our Knowledge.

79836

She sends a draft of something (not present). She refers to the possibility of a manuscript reaching her with an unfamiliar style.

79837

On more articles by BR. Perkins refers to "the Negro riots".

79838
Perkins thinks a letter of hers to BR did not reach him. Much post-war social and political news.
79839

Perry asks BR to find someone to respond to the platform of the New Realists.

79840

A transcription of document .054301; also a carbon copy.

79841

Perry invites BR to lecture at Harvard in 1912-13 and to give the Lowell Lectures.

79842

A transcription of document .054303; also a carbon copy. BR has annotated the ribbon copy.

79843

Perry would like to see BR in the U.K.

79844
A transcription of document .054875; also a carbon copy.
79845

Perry missed seeing BR and wanted to discuss possible Harvard appointments with him.

79846

Robertson encloses "The Married Ape" and other poems in his handwriting.

79847

On Procopius and Latin.

79848
A transcription of document .054306; also a carbon copy. BR has corrected both and annotated the ribbon copy.
79849

Perry offers BR a lectureship for Feb. 15-May 30, 1914. BR has annotated the letter with dates.

79850
Perry asks BR for course listings.
79851

Perry provides brief course listings for "Theory of Knowledge" and "Advanced Logic" and asks for fuller descriptions by April. He provides much information on meeting and grading students.

79852

There can be no objection to BR writing a critical article on the New Realists.

79853

Perry writes on behalf of Norbert Wiener possibly studying with BR.

79854

Perry disagrees with BR in International Journal of Ethics. He asks if BR is free to teach at Harvard next year.

79855
A transcription of document .054313; also a carbon copy. BR has corrected both and annotated the ribbon copy.
79856
Harvard is looking forward to having BR in 1917. Perry and BR might disagree about the war, but it would not be a fundamental disagreement.
79857

Robinson asks for the present status of the multiplicative axiom and the axiom of infinity.

79858

Robinson asks BR's help in gaining admission to Trinity College for philosophy.

79859
A transcription of document .054315; also a carbon copy. BR has corrected both.
79860

BR says that an individual cannot recommend a student for admission.

79861

Robinson inquires on Frank and causality; extra-sensory perception; Mill and doing good to others against their will.

79862

Robinson responds on E.S.P., and Frank and causality.

79863

Robinson asks about sense-data and also existence.

79864

BR responds on sense-data, and descriptions and existence with an example of a fallacious syllogism.

79865

A transcription of document .054321; also a carbon copy.

79866

He is saddened and appalled by Trinity's action re BR's lectureship.

79867

A transcription of document .054323; also a carbon copy.

79868

On BR's release from prison.

79869

A transcription of document .054325; also a carbon copy.

79870

Her husband, BR's age and whom she buried today, was nearly at the point of "sitting down" with BR.

79871

Pethick-Lawrence's death was a sorrow to BR after 60 years of friendship. They dined together on the day that women got the vote.

79872

A transcription of document .055042.

79873

A transcription copy of document .055046; also a carbon copy. BR has corrected them.

79874

A transcription of document .055047; also a carbon copy. BR has corrected both, including the date.

79875

A transcription of document .055049; also a carbon copy.

79876

A transcription of document .055051; also a carbon copy.

79877

A transcription of document .055054. BR has corrected it.

79878

A transcription of document .055056. BR has corrected it.

79879

A transcription of document .055058; also a carbon copy.

79880

A transcription of document .055450; BR has corrected it.

79881

Santayana will visit BR in Cambridge next week. He invites BR to be Professor of Philosophy at Harvard, 1912-13, with a salary expectation of $4,000.

79882

A transcription of document .055453; also a carbon copy. BR has corrected both.

79883

BR has written merely "From G. Santayana" on a slip of paper.

79884

BR has provided the year.

Santayana and Strong think of going to Cambridge next day. Mrs. Toy has commented on BR in the U.S.

79885

A transcription of document .055456; also a carbon copy.

79886

BR has expanded the initials "G.S." in the signature. Santayana quotes a Spanish newspaper on Kitchener, war babies and love in the UK.

79887

A transcription of document .055458; also a carbon copy.

79888

A transcription of document .055062; also a carbon copy. BR has corrected both.

79889

There is no recipient; it is only assumed to be BR, who identified the letter as from Santayana and dated it. [The letter appears in The Letters of George Santayana, as to BR.)

79890

A transcription of document .055063; also a carbon copy. BR has corrected both and annotated the ribbon copy.

79891

A transcription of document .055066; also a carbon copy.

79892

A transcription of document .055068; also a carbon copy. BR has corrected both and annotated the ribbon copy.

79893

A transcription of documents .055072 and .055072a.

79894

A transcription of document .055074.

79895

A transcription of document .055075, record 20919; also a carbon copy. BR has corrected both.

A comment at the top in a secretary's hand: "Intervening letters lost." [But they are not lost.]

79896

A transcription of document .055077; also a carbon copy. BR has corrected both and annotated the ribbon copy.

79897

A transcription of document .055079. BR has corrected both and annotated the ribbon copy.

79898
A transcription of document .055467; also a carbon copy.
79899

BR has expanded the initialled signature.

Sassoon has revised his statement.

79900
A transcription of document .055469; also a carbon copy.