BRACERS Notes

Record no. Notes, topics or text
99703
99704
99705
99706
99707
99708
99709
99710
99711
99712
99713
99714
99715
99716
99717
99718
99719
99720
99721
99722
99723
99724
99725
99726
99727
99728
99729
99730
99731
99732
99733
99734
99735
99736
99737
99738
99739
99740
99741
99742
99743
99744
99745
99746
99747
99748
99749
99750
99751
99752
99753
99754
99755
99756
99757
99758
99759
99760
99761
99762
99763
99764

Also in file: a second TL(CAR), document .155843.

99765

Also in file: a second TL(CAR), document .155845.

99766
99767
99768
99769
99770
99771
99772

Also in file: a second TL(CAR), document .155859.

99773
99774

Also in file: a second TL(CAR), document .155862.

99775

Also in file: a second TL(CAR), document .155864.

99776

Also in file: a second TL(CAR), document .155866.

99777
99778
99779
99780
99781
99782
99783
99784
99785
99786
99787
99788
99789
99790
A birthday card.
99791
99792

Three lines of shorthand, evidently a letter to (perhaps to L.E.P. Tylor), are on the verso of the 2nd sheet of John P. Merrill's letter of 1946/02/07  to BR.
 

99793
99794
99795
99796
99797
99798
99799

This is the title page, "Early Letters", of his and Colette's set of literary letters.

He has written instructions underneath the title about their fictional initials and addresses used in the actual letters.

99800

This letter, no. 1, was typed for a literary collection of their letters. The original is not present, but there is a version in the Malleson-Urch ts., same date, document .104579c, record 112934, letter no. 3.

This document is signed "M", the initial chosen to represent Colette in the collection. It has been crossed out and replaced with "C". The fictional address "Edwardes Square" has been replaced by "Bernard Street". This contradicts the instructions of Russell in document .052351a, record 99799, where he writes that "Edwardes Square" should be changed to "Mecklenburgh Square".

99801
99802

This letter, no. 3, pp. 6-7, was prepared for a literary collection of their letters. It uses the fictional address of "Cheyne Walk" for "Gordon Square" and ends with the letter "L" rather than Russell's own name.

It begins with the second line of the original letter: "I feel you the embodied hope of the world...."

The original handwritten letter is document .200005, record 19042. There is also another typed version, document .201108, record 115360.