6 The title was ‘On Denoting’.
7 It turned out to be all nonsense.
8 Which became Principia Mathematica.
9 ‘Dora’ was my former Swiss governess, Miss Bühler.
10 My aunt’s companion.
11 The cause of Free Trade.
12 I have worn this watch and chain ever since 1949.
13 The woman whom Theodore loved, and whom, after Theodore’s death, Crompton
wished to marry.
14 A review of George Trevelyan’s Garibaldi’s Defence of the Roman Republic.
15 They had refused to print the article.
16 I can’t think why. I never saw Sir George Trevelyan there.
7 CAMBRIDGE AGAIN
1 Grandmother of the Queen-Mother, Elizabeth.
2 Alys died on January 21, 1951.
3 To leave Alys.
4 Publishers of The Home University Library of which Gilbert Murray was one of the
editors.
5 Assistant Editor.
6 A humorous résumé of my conversations with Jourdain.
7 Most unfortunately I have forgotten this proof, and have no note of it, so this rather
important matter must remain in doubt.
8 He thought that Bacon wrote Shakespeare and that Christ was the natural son of
Joseph of Arimathea.
9 Henry John Roby was elected a member of the Society, but wrote to say that he was
far too busy to attend the meetings and was therefore ritualistically cursed and his
name was spelt thenceforth without capitals. Ever after when a new member was
elected the curse was solemnly read out.
10 Trevelyan.
11 Nevertheless he turned out well.
8 THE FIRST WAR
1 His brother-in-law was A. V. Hill, eminent in scienti?c medicine. He had rooms on the
next staircase to mine.
2 The full text is reproduced on page 250.
notes 7053 I spoke of this to T. S. Eliot, who put it into The Waste Land.
4 The suggestion sometimes made, however, that one of us in?uenced the other is
without foundation.
5 See also my letters to Ottoline with reference to Lawrence on pages 262–3.
6 Afterwards Lord Allen of Hurtwood.
7 Some of my letters to Lady Ottoline, written during the early years of the War and
re?ecting the state of my mind at that time, are to be found on pages 261–7, 270–3,
and 277–9.
8 See also my letter to Lady Ottoline on page 262.
9 The full text will be found on pages 274–5.
10 See my statement concerning my meeting with General Cockerill of the War Of?ce on
page 283.
11 The full text is reproduced on pages 292–3.
12 Now included in Chinese Poems (London, George Allen & Unwin Ltd).
13 Later I recognised the fact that my feeling sprang not only from jealousy, but also, as is
often the case in so deeply serious a relationship as I felt ours to be, from a sense both
of collaboration broken and, as happened so often and in so many ways during these
years, of the sanctuary de?led.
14 This and what follows is no longer true (1967).
15 This passage was written in 1931.
16 The central part of this letter has been omitted as being too technical for general
interest.
17 I wrote to congratulate him on having resigned from the Government on the outbreak
of war.
18 ‘Elizabeth’, my brother’s third wife.
19 I told her about Josephine’s dog biting Napoleon. What Emperors have borne, she
may. [Josephine’s dog bit Napoleon in the calf on their wedding-night.]
20 These lectures afterwards became Principles of Social Reconstruction.
21 I soon got over this mood.
22 The charwoman at my ?at. She said I was ‘a very percentric gentleman’. Once when
the gasman came and turned out to be a socialist, she said ‘he talked just like a
gentleman’. She had supposed only ‘gentlemen’ were socialists.
Mrs Eliot was ill and needed a holiday. Eliot at ?rst could not leave London, so I went
?rst with her to Torquay, and Eliot replaced me after a few days.
23 Armstrong was a man whom I came to know as an under-graduate at Cambridge.
He enlisted at the beginning of the war, lost a leg and became a paci?st.
24 Afterwards Sir Sidney. He was a nephew of Elizabeth, and in the Foreign Of?ce. We had
many common friends at Cambridge.
25 The heading to this letter was added by The Times.
26 The President of Harvard University.
27 It was not my language, but my attending Socialist meetings, that was objected to.
28 I appealed and was again convicted.
29 Cornford was a Fellow of Trinity, and a distinguished writer on ancient philosophy. His
wife was Frances Cornford the poet. His son was killed in the Spanish Civil War. I was
very fond of both him and his wife.
30 Moore had been invited back from Edinburgh where he had had a post.
31 Of July 29th, 1916.
32 I was able to in 1921. The allusion is to my being turned out of Trinity.
33 McTaggart.
34 Sir Roger Casement, who ?rst became known for his protests against atrocities in the
notes 706Congo, was an Irish rebel who sided with the Germans. He was captured, tried and
executed.
35 Nothing came of this.
36 His daughter.
37 Miss Rinder worked at the No Conscription Fellowship, and was chie?y concerned with
details in the treatment of paci?st prisoners.
38 Afterwards Sir Edward. He had been a close friend of mine when we were undergradu-
ates, but became a civil servant, an admirer of Winston Churchill and then a high Tory.
9 RUSSIA
1 The postscript to this letter has been omitted because of its technical nature. It can be
found in Wittgenstein’s Notebooks 1914–1916, pp. 129–30.
2 Wilhelm Ostwald, editor of Annalen der Naturphilosophie, where the Tractatus with my
Introduction ?rst appeared in 1921.
3 This note now appears at the beginning of the Tractatus.
10 CHINA
1 The military Governor of the Province.
2 Cf. p. 33.
3 Published in The Nation, January 8th, 1921.
4 She was suspiciously friendly with her chauffeur. The Duke of Bedford gave her a car,
which she was too nervous ever to use, but she kept the chauffeur.
5 The music critic.
6 The move from one abode to another in London after we returned from China.
7 The Analysis of Mind.
8 Who did not agree that Julius Caesar is dead, and when I asked why, replied: ‘Because I
am Julius Caesar.’
11 SECOND MARRIAGE
1 The Problem of China.
2 This letter was addressed to my brother and is about his My Life and Adventures,
published 1923.
3 This refers to his ?rst wife.
4 This, of course, was quite untrue.
5 Who became the Rev. Rachel Gleason Brooks, for whose still unpublished book on
China I in 1931 wrote a preface.
12 LATER YEARS OF TELEGRAPH HOUSE
1 Briffault was a general practitioner from New Zealand who ventured into sociology,
and for whose book Sin and Sex I did an introduction in 1931.
2 Mátyás Rákosi, a Hungarian communist, re-arrested upon his release from a long
prison sentence. His life was saved but he was again imprisoned. In 1940 Russia
obtained him in exchange for Hungarian ?ags captured in 1849. Later Rákosi became
Deputy Prime Minister of Hungary.
3 However, he died of heart disease some years later.
4 Principia Mathematica.
notes 70713 AMERICA. 1938–1944
1 Information about this suit will be found in The Bertrand Russell Case, ed. by John
Dewey and Horace M. Kallen, Viking Press, 1941; and also in the Appendix to Why I am
not a Christian, ed. by Paul Edwards, George Allen & Unwin, 1957.
2 The Registrar of New York County said publicly that I should be ‘tarred and feathered
and driven out of the country’. Her remarks were typical of the general public
condemnation.
3 The Sangers’ daughter.
4 I advocated unilateral disarmament at this time only for Britain.
5 Progressive Education Association.
6 He had become Master of Trinity.
7 Donald Tovey, Clifford Allen, Goldie Dickinson, Roger Fry.
8 His brother.
9 Desmond MacCarthy.
10 His wife, my cousin Margaret Lloyd, my Uncle Rollo’s daughter, and her eldest son
John.
11 A. W. Benn, the classical scholar.
12 Murray had appealed to me on behalf of a German anti-Nazi Professor named
Jacobsthal.
13 A well-known liberal schoolmistress.
14 RETURN TO ENGLAND
1 Cf. page 443.
2 Cf. page 310.
3 Helen Thomas Flexner.
4 Where she died in the Summer of 1948.
5 A daughter of Sir Mountstuart Grant Duff.
6 This statue had an inscription on the pedestal:
A Ld
John Russell
Italia riconoscente.
7 This ?rst appeared at the end of my article ‘The Best Answer to Fanaticism –
Liberalism’, in The New York Times Magazine, December 16, 1951.
15 AT HOME AND ABROAD
1 Later, I changed my opinion of their proceedings and thought that they had done the
adaptation very well if it had to be done.
2 I am sometimes asked why I did not at the time fulminate against the Russian
suppression of the Hungarian Revolt. I did not because there was no need. Most of the
so-called Western World was fulminating. Some people spoke out strongly against the
Suez exploit, but most people were acquiescent.
3 ‘Until recently I could only apprehend the speculative power of your train of thought,
together with its enormous in?uence on the Weltanschauung of the present era,
without being in a position to form a de?nite opinion about the amount of truth it
contains. Not long ago, however, I had the opportunity of hearing about a few
instances, not very important in themselves, which in my judgment exclude any other
notes 708interpretation than that provided by the theory of repression. I was delighted to come
across them; since it is always delightful when a great and beautiful conception proves
to be consonant with reality.’
4 Ten – Prof. Max Born and Prof. Linus Pauling to be added.
5 Ten.
6 Prof. of Physics in the University of London.
16 TRAFALGAR SQUARE
1 The New Leader received 3,000 dollars from Chiang Kai-shek’s treasury for publishing
an article hostile to China. Later it prepared the book The Strategy of Deception: A Study
in World Wide Communist Tactics and was secretly paid 12,000 dollars by the us
Government. When the us information Agency asked a House Appropriations Sub-
Committee to increase its allowance for ‘book development’ from 90,000 dollars to
195,000 dollars, the Agency assured the legislators that the funds would go for books
‘written to our own speci?cations’ and having ‘strong anti-communist content’ (The
New York Times, May 3 1964).
17 THE FOUNDATION
1 In seeking to liberate prisoners, my colleagues and I made no distinction of party
or creed, but only of the justice or injustice of the punishment in?icted and the
unnecessary cruelty caused by the imprisonment.
2 Prominent members of that Commission had been the former director of the CIA and
an associate of the FBI.
3 Room 422, 156 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. (telephone: YU 9–6850).
POSTSCRIPT
1 Published separately as ‘Re?ections on my Eightieth Birthday’ in Portraits from Memory.
notes 709INDEX
Publication Titles beginning with ‘A’, ‘An’ or ‘The’ will be ?led under the
?rst signi?cant word. References to B. R. stand for Bertrand Russell. Page
numbers referring to footnotes will have the letter ‘n’ following the number
Aannestad, Elling 421
Abbotsbury 578
The ABC of Atoms (B. R.) 368
The ABC of Relativity 368, 487
Abel 362
Abelard, Peter 278
Abendroth, W. 664
A-bomb 656, 671
Aborigines 498
abortion 396
Abraham and Sarah 301
academic freedom 440, 453, 509;
and Sheffer 328
Acheson, Dean 562
Acland, Lady Eleanor 267
Acropolis 540
‘Act or Perish’ (lea?et) 584, 610–12,
673
Adam and Eve 23
Adams, Bill 433
Adams, Peg 374
Addams, Jane 425
Addis, Sir Charles 363
Adenauer, Konrad 620
Adrian, Lord Edgar 547–48
advertising 421
aestheticism 197
Age of Cyberculture (Hilton) 649
aggressive nature of man 599
Aiken, Clarice Lorenz, letters from
and to 395–96
Alastor (poem by Shelley) 29, 88
Albert, Prince 113
alcohol 117
Alderley 579
Aldermaston March (1960) 576,
577, 586
Alexander, Samuel, letter from
279
Algebra 25, 42
Algeria 298
Alice, Princess 113
Alice Springs 498
Allen, Clifford 233, 234, 240, 272,
277, 281, 310, 312, 315, 317–18,
322, 329, 337; death of 461
Allen, Grant 92
Allen & Unwin Ltd 267, 596, 642
Alps 308, 560
Altgeld, fall of 131Amalgamated Society of Engineers
163
Amazon River 244
Ambatielos, Betty 631; letters from
and to 667
Ambatielos, Tony, letters from and
to 667–68
Amberley, John (Viscount) (B. R.’s
father) 5, 7–8; epilepsy of 73;
marriage 6–7; publications by 6;
death of 8
Amberley, Kate (Viscount) (B. R.’s
mother) 216; marriage 6–7;
death of 5
The Amberley Papers 412, 436, 467
American Civil War 538
America see United States
American Committee for Cultural
Freedom 554
American Emergency Civil Liberties
Committee 632
American Mercury 477, 509
Amery 143
Amos, Bonte 132
Amos, Mrs 92
Amos, Sir Maurice Sheldon 76, 97,
98–99; letter from 132–33; letter
to 413–14
Amos family 158
Amsterdam 115, 527
Amy Foster (Conrad) 202
The Analysis of Matter 368
The Analysis of Mind (B. R.) 243,
329, 368
anarchism 51, 337, 351
Anaximander 472
An Analysis of Religious Belief
(Amberley) 6
Anderson, Dame Adelaide 363
Anderson, W. C. 272
Andes 114
Andorra 312
Angell, Norman 254
Anglicanism 29, 600
Anglo-American cooperation 477
Anglo-Boer War see Boer War/Boers
Anglo-Japanese Alliance 358
animals 37
Annalen der Naturphilosophie 707n
Annam 243
Ann Arbor University 206
Anne, Queen 120
Annesley, Lady Clare (Colette’s
sister) 234
Annesley, Lady Priscilla (Colette’s
mother) 234
d’Annunzio, Gabriele 425
An Outcast of the Islands (Conrad)
202
Anrep, Boris 539
anti-war movement 227
Anuradhapura 114
aphorisms 160
Aphrodite 66
The Apostles see Moral Science
Club
appearance and reality 297
Appolinaris Sidonius 300
Aquinas, St Thomas 460
Arabs 632, 660
Arbuthnot, Helen 521
Arcadia 540
Archbishop of Melbourne 499
Archimedes 149, 302
Arden, John 682
Argyll, Duke of 44, 45
Argyrol (drug) 440
aristocracy 89, 475
Aristotelian Society 313
Aristotle 296, 460, 475, 501, 648
armaments 494, 616
Armistice 246, 248, 313
Armstrong 271, 706n
Army and Navy Club, London
327
art 150, 151
Arts Club 204
Ascension Island 690
ascetics 69, 197
Ashby, Margery I. Corbett, letter
from 211
Ashford, Kent 201, 302
Ashley Gardens, London 118
Ashley-Montagu, M. F., letter from
449
Asia Minor 205–6
the autobiography of bertrand russell 712Asquith, H. H. 226, 227, 233
Associated Press 679
Association of Parliamentarians for
World Government 551
Astor, Nancy (Viscountess) 328
Astrakan, USSR 317
astronomers 423
atheism 7, 30, 38, 183
Athenaeum Club 192
Athens 631, 648
Atlantic 300
Atlantic Peace Foundation 634, 645,
653, 655; see also Bertrand Russell
Peace Foundation
Atomic Scientists’ Association 550
atomic war 506, 516, 534; see also H-
bomb; nuclear warfare
atoms 37
atrocities 644, 645; in Congo 690,
695, 706n, 707n; by Germany
621; by US 554, 644
Attlee, Clement, letter from 516
Auchinleck, Field Marshal Sir
Claude, letter from 653
Auckland 565
Augustine, St 119, 376, 429;
Confessions 156
Augustus 429
Auschwitz 665
Austen, Jane 19, 69
Australia 50, 173, 269, 522; visit to
498
Australian Institute of International
Affairs 498
Austria 207, 335, 430, 471; Academy
of Sciences 557; Army 313;
Government 338; Pugwash
conference 556; Vienna 314, 333,
556, 557, 558
Austria-Hungary 239
authority 274, 360, 411, 495, 497,
533, 534, 675; moral 625
Autobiography (Mill) 30
Averroes 474
axiom of reducibility 435
axioms 25, 148
Axioms of Geometry (Erdmann) 105
Axionev (spy) 323
Ayer, A. J. 594; letters from and to
603–4
Bacchae (Murray) 150, 152
Bach, J. S. 359
Bachelard, Gaston 388
Baedeker’s Guides 319
Bagley Wood, Oxford 142, 196, 206,
312
Bahrein, Sheikh of 633
