BR will stay an extra day or two in London to meet with Simon.

BR analyzes two articles on the U.S. deterrent in The Times.

BR tells Simon that 29 Millbank is being pulled down. His London address after Nov. 8 will be 43 Hasker St.

BR encloses a draft of his speech (not present). Lady Simon's arrangements are "quite perfect".

BR prefers Young not to be present with Gaitskell so that all may be as free and informal as possible.

BR encloses 2 letters from S.W. Green (not present).

BR's ribbon copy of this letter was returned to him. Also in file: a TL(CAR).

BR admires C.P. Snow's lecture, but there was nothing new in Brock Chisholm's article on biological warfare. BR hopes "Gaitskell will not funk meeting us".

BR is wary of any organization in which Bernal is important.

Addressed to: Simon, Broomcroft, Didsbury, Manchester.

BR asks to see Simon alone on the 17th.

BR agrees with giving money to Collins. BR refers to a letter he sent to The Times a few weeks earlier as promoting East-West conciliation.

[BR makes no reference to the U-2 incident, announced by Khrushchev on May 5; the Paris Summit was not scuttled until May 16.]

BR proposes that Pugwash hire Wayland Young as public relations officer.

Colette follows this address, Bradley, 14 Old Bond St. London, with the message: "I shall be a little late."

Written on the verso of sheet 2 of a letter from May Sinclair to BR dated 1919/06/07, record 80786.

Also in file: a second TL(CAR), document .151929.

BR will be in London only a few days longer.

BR acknowledges a card and greetings.

On a boiled egg for BR's tea, and breakfast in bed.

On W.R. Sorley. BR quotes himself on traditional formal logic.

Simons has a problem with a syllogism.

On lecturing for Ward.

Based as we are in the present, how can we infer the past and future, Simons asks.

BR refers Simons to Human Knowledge.

On BR's neutral monism, especially perception; he is not prepared to combat Simon's criticism of BR's theory of desire.

A transcription of document .056474, record 2952; also a carbon copy. Proofread by BR (and marked "illegible" by him at one point).

Simons asks about Gödel's production of a well-formed proposition in the system of Principia that was indeterminable for its truth value.

BR apologizes for not answering Simon's letter sooner [!].

"Gödel's proof that in any deductive system there must be at least proposition of which the truth or falsity can not be determined from the axioms is, I think, not so upsetting to deductive systems as is sometimes supposed.

"I can not see why you think that is has any bearing on empiricism. Empirical philosophies do not start from a set of axioms. In any case, all that Gödel proves is that there are propositions which in a deductive system can be enunciated in terms of the original indefinables, but can not within the system be proved either true or false. This is in no degree surprising and was allowed for in Principia Mathematica.

"For example, in the case of the axiom of infinity, of which we said that it could only be proved or disproved by empirical evidence, it is allowed for."

Simon's writes further on perception and in praise of Unarmed Victory.

A transcription of the original document in RA2 710 (embargoed); also a carbon. The ribbon copy is annotated by BR.

On John Russell and on Kate's vers libre.

On Trinity's dismissal of BR.

Spencer-Brown refers to solving the four-colour theorem with his brother.

On writing BR's biography.

BR offers to put up Spencer-Brown for 2 or 3 nights.

On reading BR's Autobiography.

On a publisher for a biography of BR.

Unwin. BR suggests that Spencer-Brown publish a critical account of BR's work and a volume of letters (instancing Schiller and Bradley).

Spencer-Brown would prefer writing BR's biography to a critical account and a volume of letters ("scholars are not difficult to come by").

Re a meeting in London.

Re a meeting.

Re a meeting over the proposed biography.

BR finds the discovery of a proof of the four-colour theorem interesting but worrying that no competent person has been found to examine it. But Spencer-Brown should consider Grassmann, Frege and Mendel who became famous some time after their discoveries.

Spencer-Brown has thought much on how to write BR's biography.

On his mathematical discoveries, with an enclosure on those of the past 2 years; BR's biography.

BR encloses a letter (not present) to Quine for Spencer-Brown's use. The 2 publishers seem to have agreed that BR's biography should not be written until after his death.

Stafford describes his book, A Catwalk, to BR. He encloses an "author's note" on his book.

Stafford seeks publishing help from BR, and encloses pages from his Nectar and the Speed of Light.

Stafford asks BR ("the finest critical mind in our century") to read his play, Cain's Corner.

They invite BR to stand for the Lord Rectorship of St. Andrews University against Lord Beveridge and Lord Kilmuir.

Duncan is still deliberating on whether BR should be a pacifist candidate for the Lord Rectorship of St. Andrews.

Strauss thanks BR for the loan of the report of the proceedings at Abingdon.

Stawell and BR have an appointment for Monday morning. She wishes she could make BR like Goethe.

A transcription of document .056529; also a carbon copy.

BR is nicknamed "W-W". She tells BR when Lucy Donnelly will be staying with her.

BR has provided the year. Stawell refers to being "torn to pieces" between peace and liberty. She refers to sending BR press clippings and providing quotations for the "Notes".

BR has evidently agreed to examine a manuscript and has declined to speak to the Philosophical Society at Bedford College.

BR provides a note on Leibniz and his supposed phrase, "monas monadum".

BR has provided the year with a query.

Costelloe is reading Kant and doubts the value of learning German unless it is done very well. Her Scottish vacation.

BR has provided the year, although Costelloe refers obliquely to The Problems of Philosophy as being much appreciated. She is about to go to India.

BR has provided the year. Costelloe writes from India but with enthusiasm for Bergson.

BR has provided the year.

She is reading The Problems of Philosophy, "an old friend", and disagrees with BR about Bergson, "that it would be a hateful universe if he happened to be right about it." BR described the Aristotelian dinner with Bergson for her.

BR has provided the year.

Costelloe has abstracted BR's "On the Relations of Universals and Particulars" manuscript.

Costelloe is sending her paper on Bergson to Carr and asks BR to go for a walk.

On whether her conversion to Bergson is a matter of intellect or nature.

Stephen encloses a new paper on Bergson and reality (not present).

BR forgot to give her a note for the porter—she very much wants to see his paper on matter. She supposes BR is "working again tooth and nail".

BR has supplied the year.

Costelloe returns BR's chapter on time and thanks him for lending her the whole thing (i.e., "Theory of Knowledge"). She has marked p. 139 [which would be the chapter on time for which the manuscript is not extant].

BR has supplied the year.

Costelloe says that BR sounds "terribly busy" and thanks him for the letter of reference to Xavier Leon. She has lunched with Bergson.

The year is no later than 1910, since "Aunty Loo" (Alys) and BR are still together. The letter concerns Miss Strachey coming to tea.

Costelloe thanks BR for a photograph of Spinoza [whom BR had just reviewed in 1910—B&R C10.07].

BR has supplied the year.

Costelloe is on a political committee (perhaps suffrage). She asks if BR is still uncomfortable with his writing.