BRACERS Notes

Record no. Notes, topics or text
80301

"And now we hear that you are really had"—this probably refers to BR's sentencing that day in 1918.

80302
A transcription of document .055763; also a carbon copy. BR has corrected both and annotated the ribbon copy.
80303

Scott reports from the U.S. on views of the war.

80304
A transcription of document .055768; also a carbon copy. Corrected and the ribbon copy annotated by BR.
80305

Scott is with Lucy Donnelly. She asks for more U.D.C. pamphlets to distribute in the U.S.

80306
A transcription of document .055770; also a carbon copy. Corrected by BR.
80307

The year is inferred from Scott's reference to "your Atlantic article" (B&R C15.06). She continues her peace efforts and hopes to visit the editor of The Independent.

80308

Scott is returning to England. She seeks the U.D.C.'s permission to reprint its pamphlets in the U.S.

80309

Scott conveys Ramsay MacDonald's advice about BR publishing in the U.S.

80310
A transcription of document .055775; also a carbon copy. Corrected by BR.
80311

Scott tells BR that the French are interested in a French U.D.C. and suggests that BR go to Paris to help start it.

80312

Scott is proud of BR for his letter to The Times.

80313

On Trinity's dismissal of BR from his lectureship and an invitation to dine with Ramsay MacDonald.

80314

Scott will not be able to go to BR's appeal because of illness.

80315
BR provided the year.
80316

BR has provided the year.

On the Brotherhood Church incident.

80317
A transcription of document .055782; also a carbon copy.
80318

Scott is visiting the U.K. and asks BR to invite her to dinner.

80319

Scott would like to meet Dora and invites BR to dine with her and Ramsay MacDonald and perhaps Molly Hamilton.

80320
A transcription of document .055784; also a carbon copy. BR has annotated the ribbon copy.
80321
Scott understands BR's position.
80322
Scott refers to their time together.
80323
A transcription of document .055788; also a carbon copy.
80324

The Hibbert Journal would print anything by BR in the summer issue.

80325

BR does not feel inclined to write anything about Körner's book—it was not as interesting as BR expected.

80326

Scott "cannot, of course, pretend not to understand."

80327

In French.

Schweitzer states that he was touched by BR taking the trouble to see him in London. A photograph of them together will be sent to BR.

BR responded on 25 November 1955.

80328

Sheffer is in Paris and will be present for BR's lectures. He brings BR up to date on his work.

80329

Sheffer asks for the complete formula for "A's brother-in-law married B's sister-in-law".

80330
80331
A transcription of document .055881; also a carbon copy. BR has annotated the ribbon copy.
80332

Sheffer has seen both Peano and Frege.

80333

Sheffer writes from the University of the State of Washington on finding 2 copies of Principia there and on the U.S. presidential elections.

80334
A transcription of document .055883; also a carbon copy. BR has corrected both.
80335
Sheffer would like to see BR on his trip in 1914.
80336
Sheffer apologizes for not sending BR a statement of his qualifications; jobs and health.
80337
A transcription of document .055886; also a carbon copy.
80338

Sheffer provides Harvard news.

80339

On the war and Sheffer's recent work and his new course on logical atomism.

80340
A transcription of document .055890; also a carbon copy.
80341

Sheffer encloses a "typoscript" (not present) for BR to review for the Harvard Philosophy Department.

80342

Sheffer has seen BR's letter to Woods re BR not being able to come to Harvard.

80343

On BR's "Vagueness" paper. Sheffer returned BR's "French paper on Zermelo".

80344

On position in "sense" in relations in theory of judgment.

80345
Shelton continues the discussion on his rejected paper.
80346
Shelton writes again on metageometry and the theory of parallels.
80347

His article has appeared in the January 1910 Mind.

80348

On "satisfaction" in ethics.

80349

Shelton offers his "independent evaluation" of the danger of fall-out.

80350
Shelton is skeptical about atmosphere change due to nuclear fall-out.
80351
Shelton seeks the facts on the medical dangers from fall-out.
80352

Shelton's essay is titled "Estimate of Probable and Possible Effects of Atomic Warfare".

80353

"Obviously my credit is seriously damaged."

80354
On the facts of the nuclear danger.
80355

Shelton has written to Haddow and requests Rotblat's address.

80356
On medical reports on radioactive fall-out.
80357

On Human Knowledge and the Michelson-Morley experiment.

80358

On the Michelson-Morley experiment.

80359
Notes dictated by BR beginning "shelton seems too cantankerous and difficult to enter into a discussion with". BR did not answer the letter.
80360

Shwayder mentions that BR lent him "some three years ago, certain notes and letters of Wittgenstein." He has now finished his thesis.

80361

BR writes about a salaries vs. buildings dispute with Mrs. Sidgwick.

80362

On Newnham College matters, including whether to have a new building. At the end she refers to his circular having just arrived.

80363

On Newnham College matters. Sidgwick thinks a proposition is preposterous. She mentions her forthcoming memorandum. BR has provided the year.

See, in the file, BR's explanation half a century later of the controversy over debt, building and staff salaries, and his memorandum published by S. Turcon, "Russell at Newnhan", Russell 7 (1987): 141–6.

80364

Silcox writes amusingly about The Problems of Philosophy.

80365

A transcription of document .055934, record 80364; also a carbon copy.

BR comments in pencil via another's handwriting at the foot of the ribbon copy: "Miss Silcox, the headmistress of St Felix School, was one of my dearest friends until her death."

80366

Silcox writes on "The Perplexities of John Forstice".

80367

On The Problems of Philosophy. The dating is "2.II.1912".

80368

A transcription of document .055937; also a carbon copy. BR has annotated the ribbon copy. One annotation in ink on the ribbon copy, but deleted in pencil, is this: "[**Miss Silcox, the headmistress of St. Felix School, was one of my dearest friends for very many years.]"

The date on the transcription is "2.11.1912", but that is an error for the original's "2.ii.1912".

80369

Silcox's original enclosure ("I am enclosing a little missive") is missing. It is possible that the account of the visions that occupy the remainder of the current letter are, in fact, the missive. Another enclosure was incorrectly catalogued here, and has been recatalogued as record 125462.

Also a transcription and a carbon copy.

80370

Silcox is keen to read BR's Labour Leader article.

80371
A transcription of document .055940; also a carbon copy. BR has corrected them.
80372

Silcox provides a critique of the "education" chapter for Principles of Social Reconstruction.

80373

Silcox is proud of BR for his "Adsum Qui Feci" letter to The Times.

80374
A transcription of document. 055943; also a carbon copy. BR has corrected and annotated the copies.
80375

Silcox is again proud of BR.

80376
A transcription of document. 055945; also a carbon copy. BR has corrected both.
80377
Silcox appears to be distraught over the war and BR's sentencing two days before.
80378

"How delightful of you to have written. I do believe you have a hundred hands!"

80379

Silcox writes of Ottoline Morrell and Lytton Strachey.

There is a transcription of this letter, document .055950, record 80380.

80380
A transcription of document .055949, record 80379; also a carbon copy. BR has corrected both and annotated the ribbon copy.
80381

Silcox looks forward to the 11th. There is a transcription of this letter, document .055952, record 80382.

80382
A transcription of document .055951, record 80381; also a carbon copy. BR has corrected both.
80383

Silcox mentions a review of Mysticism and Logic in this week's Spectator.

80384

Silcox mentions that Lloyd George referred to BR in the House of Commons. She hopes to get to know Dora Black through her writing.

80385

Silcox asks if John Conrad Russell has been born.

80386
80387
A transcription of document .055955; also a carbon copy. BR has corrected them.
80388

She is glad BR laying the curse that has clung to Telegraph House. She does not know who BR's "present lady" is.

80389

Elizabeth, also in the U.S., asks BR to suggest a place where she could teach English literature.

80390

Silcox will soon visit Beacon Hill School.

80391

She is glad BR's troubles are over. [The year is provided by the obvious reference to the CCNY case and Barnes's rescue of BR.]

80392

This letter was smuggled in a book to BR in prison. "I don't suppose there ever was anybody with so many devoted friends."

"I love my little expeditions with Colette to you."

80393
A transcription of document .055958; also a carbon copy.
80394

A typed copy of a Durrant's press cutting from the Glasgow Bulletin, 10 May 1921, reminiscing about Alys Russell's great beauty, and on Elizabeth Russell's portrayal of "the Teuton" before the war.

80395

Dated by the reference to the Russells' divorce, and an airplane crash (in Grenoble).

80396

The number "950" was written in pencil at the top of this two-line letter.

BR asks Elizabeth to pass on to Frank Russell 2 Chinese poems that he has copied below, "Captivity" and "Business Men".

There is a typed transcription of this letter, document .055309, record 80397.

80397

A transcription of document .055308, record 80396; also a carbon copy. BR has annotated the ribbon copy, identifying Cave as the Home Secretary.

80398

BR defines "ambivalent" as used by psychoanalysts. BR now recalls Elizabeth's visit to Beacon Hill School. He had recent news of her from Colette.

80399

BR tells her that "all Frank's property and papers were left to Miss Otter...."

80400

BR provides a note about the epistolary novel that he and Elizabeth started to write, using fictitious characters.