BRACERS Notes

Record no. Notes, topics or text
80201
A transcription of document .055273; also a carbon copy.
80202

Clifford Allen and BR are welcome at Chalet Soleil in January, when there will be coal.

80203
A transcription of document .055275; also a carbon copy.
80204

She has heard that Allen is ill—"that angel friend of yours".

80205

A transcription of document .055744, record 2898; also a carbon copy. They mistakenly have "p. 2" in a Quebec address.

80206

Scott encloses a "sad little note of Alys's" (not present).

80207
A transcription of document .055746; also a carbon copy.
80208
A transcription of document .055277; also a carbon copy.
80209

Allen is staying with her. Colette came to tea the other day. Bob Trevelyan. "Letters of extremely wicked lying abuse from Frank". China.

80210
A transcription of document .055279; also a carbon copy. BR has corrected both.
80211

She has read and admires The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism.

80212
A transcription of document .055281; also a carbon copy. BR has corrected both.
80213

She has made a pilgrimage to look at Shelley's house at San Terenzo, of which a photograph is on the postcard.

80214
A transcription of document .055283; also a carbon copy. BR has corrected both.
80215

She is very happy over BR's news—evidently of the forthcoming baby. Her brother would look after Dora (he is a physician). [He was Sir Sydney Beauchamp—Monk, 1: 611.]

BR has written on the letter: "From Elizabeth Countess Russell".

80216
A transcription of document .055285; also a carbon copy.
80217

Dated by the reference to her wedding present to BR and Dora—a dinner service.

80218
A transcription of document .055287; also a carbon copy. BR has annotated the ribbon copy.
80219

Re the Russells' forthcoming baby.

80220

BR has noted at the top: "From Elizabeth". Re the Russells' forthcoming baby.

80221
A transcription of document .055290; also a carbon copy. BR has corrected both and annotated the ribbon copy.
80222

Scott writes about the school that she and Arthur Scott have in France.

80223

If she had had The Amberley Papers before she married Frank, she "wouldn't have". "Your brief comments and explanations are models of clearness."

80224

Scott wonders if BR still wants to visit the Scotts. She admires "The Essence of Religion". French politics.

80225

Elizabeth mentions that Katherine Mansfield has gone to Paris to a Russian doctor. BR notes that "she died of him".

80226
A transcription of document .055749. Also a carbon copy. BR has corrected both copies.
80227
A transcription of document .055292; also a carbon copy. BR has annotated the ribbon copy.
80228

Scott was unable to meet BR for a long talk and walk at Richmond. The month of May is chosen for the date because BR is evidently deeply absorbed in writing [it would be Theory of Knowledge].

80229

BR has annotated the letter for T.J. Cobden-Sanderson, and dated it. Elizabeth refers to BR recently visiting her in Switzerland.

80230

The Scotts have to leave France, and she will sail for Canada on July 5 with the children. She mentions BR's work.

80231
A transcription of document .055752; also a carbon copy. BR has corrected both.
80232

Scott is reading Descartes, following BR's suggestion. She writes of the "scented firs" and "blue hills" of her Canadian holiday in Quebec.

80233
A transcription of document .055754; also a carbon copy.
80234

She has been reading Berkeley and Hobbes, and George Meredith's letters.

80235

BR has provided the year. Scott has found a Montessori class for her daughter.

80236

BR has provided the year. It seems months since she was at Cambridge. She spent the weekend with Alys and Logan.

80237
A transcription of document .055294; also a carbon copy. BR has annotated the ribbon copy.
80238

BR has provided the year. Elizabeth thanks BR for his book and for showing her and a friend around Beacon Hill School.

(Perhaps the letter is 1928 or later, as BR missed the first few months of the school.)

80239

Scott provides BR with addresses of her relatives in New York.

80240
A transcription of document .055296; also a carbon copy. The ribbon copy is corrected.
80241
About the army crisis. Scott reminisces about alys setting her and BR out to walk together 18 years ago.
80242

Elizabeth has read Marriage and Morals and asks the meaning of "ambivalent". She reminds BR that she has visited Beacon Hill School.

80243
She would like her letters to frank returned, if BR comes across them.
80244

Her letters to Frank "are the record of a great love and a great betrayal."

80245
A transcription of document .055760; also a carbon copy. Both are corrected by BR.
80246

On Baron von Holstein with a mention of Bismarck, from her von Arnim background.

80247

Shaw returns the manuscript of BR's lecture.

80248

Shaw criticizes the choice of Chelsea as a constituency for BR. (Cited in Papers 15: lxxvii.)

In Auto., the letter is dated "[1922]".

80249

A transcription of an original of what BR noted as a "[postcard]". Also a carbon copy. BR has corrected both. The missing original appears never to have arrived at McMaster (see Feinberg, Archives of Bertrand Russell, p. 183).

80250

Advice to BR who was to chair (?) a Fabian meeting for Shaw. In Auto., the letter is wrongly dated 1915/10/16.

80251
A transcription of document .055819.
80252

On Chappelow. A transcription of the handwritten postscript is document .055821 (no separate record created).

80253

On Eric Chappelow and C.H. Norman. Shaw has changed his mind on the strength of Chappelow's case.

80254

Incorrectly dated 1917, since Shaw writes about BR's appeal on May 2, 1918.

80255

Shaw criticizes defence counsel at BR's trial and recommends an approach for his appeal.

80256

Shaw has read My Life and Adventures (1923).

80257
A transcription of document .055828.
80258

"[From Mrs. Bernard Shaw]" is BR's note at the top. She is grateful for the gift of BR's lecture. The identity of the lecture is unknown, but Shaw regarded BR's stuff as corrective to her "mystical streak".

80259
80260
80261

On the Sacco and Vanzetti case.

80262
A transcription of the postscript to document .055625.
80263

Enclosed: "Mr. Goldwin Goes to Hell", a play by W.G. Shaw; 49 sheets.

80264

Shearman will be reviewing Principles of Mathematics for Mind.

80265
Shearman thanks BR for a manuscript and recent publications.
80266

Shearman is getting on with his review of The Principles of Mathematics.

80267
More inquiries about the philosophy of mathematics.
80268

On misprints in Shearman's review of Principles of Mathematics.

He was in full agreement with BR's Wimbledon address.

80269
More queries on the philosophy of mathematics.
80270

Shearman has found 2 more errors in "The Theory of Implication".

80271

Shearman is preparing a book on Peano, Frege and BR. His review of the Principles of Mathematics greatly helped in getting him a D.Litt.

80272

Shearman asks permission to quote propositions and symbols from BR.

80273

Shearman asks BR to write in support of his election to the Royal Society on the basis of his 2 books on symbolic logic.

80274

BR evidently declined to support Shearman's Royal Society application, based on the lack of originality in his 2 books.

80275

Shearman invites BR to speak to the Cambridge branch of the Teachers' Labour League.

80276

Shearman cannot yet give BR a definite answer to his proposal of Feb. 25, 1925.

80277

Shedlock, who has met BR, praises his article in the current Atlantic Monthly.

80278

A note on Mary Sheepshanks.

80279

Sheepshanks hopes to see BR.

80280

Dated by BR, the letter concerns Theodore Llewelyn Davies' death and Mary's offer of her empty house for BR. (Crompton lived across the street.) The photograph is apparently of Theodore and his father.

80281
A transcription of document .055860; also another ribbon copy. The first is annotated by BR.
80282

BR has provided the year. She would like to hear about Theodore from BR.

80283

On the aftermath of the death of Theodore Llewelyn Davies.

80284
80285

Dated by BR.

Sheepshanks tells BR: "Everything you say about the necessity of self repression is true".

80286

On Forster's book.

80287

BR has supplied the year.

On her trip to Italy.

80288

Sheepshanks is about to go to the Continent for a lecture tour on suffrage and co-operatives. She has been lecturing for Morley College.

80289

On suffrage in Germany and Poland.

80290

On suffrage in Germany.

The clipping is from a German newspaper and concerns co-operatives.

80291

Sheepshanks asks BR to adapt his "admirable" Labour Leader article for Jus Suffragii.

80292

Sheepshanks: "You did not seem to mind doing and saying things that were bound to hurt me deeply." She realizes that BR suffered too.

She provides "news" of peace terms.

80293
A transcription of document .055872; also a carbon copy. BR has corrected both.
80294

On a Fabian conference Sheepshanks has attended. She encloses a "scheme" (not present).

80295
A transcription of document .055874; also a carbon copy.
80296
BR has provided the year. Sheepshanks answers BR's queries about intelligent women bearing children.
80297

Scott asks BR to wait for her. Her visit to France has been delayed.

80298
News of friends.
80299

Scott is glad BR is against the war; she has seen his Nation letter. She invites him to "inspect" his godson.

80300
A transcription of document .055765; also a carbon copy. BR has corrected both and annotated the ribbon copy.