Paris, Edmund 600
Paris Embassy 86, 92, 96, 245
Parkland Memorial Hospital 678
Parliament 414, 550
Parliament Act 195
Parliamentary World Government
Association 546
Parliament Square 589, 590
Parnell, Charles Stewart 35
Parthenon 541
passions, and ethics 504, 505
Past 156, 158, 179
Pater, Walter 69, 87, 88
patriotism 619; B. R.’s love of
Britain 157, 227, 497; Shaw on
258
Paul, St 301
Pauli, Wolfgang 444
Pauling, Linus 548, 592, 654
Paulos, John, letter to 650
Pavlov, I. P. 421
Peak District 579
Peano, Giuseppe 135, 136
Pearsall Smith, Alys see Russell,
Alys (B. R.’s ?rst wife, née
Pearsall Smith)
Pearsall Smith, Hannah Whitall
139–40
Pearsall Smith, Logan 69, 70, 71,
89, 94, 95, 99, 121, 132, 139–40,
163, 196, 199, 264, 433, 518;
letters from 75–84
Pearsall Smith, Robert 139
Pearsall Smith family 64, 69
Pears and Guinness 603
Pears’ Cyclopaedia 545
Pearse, Christopher 268
Pearson, Hesketh 467
Peel, Lady Georgiana (née Russell:
B. R.’s aunt) 88
the autobiography of bertrand russell 734Peking 340, 341, 342, 346, 347, 383;
Legation Chapel at 530
Peloponesus 540
Pembroke, Lady 9
Pembroke Lodge 5, 9–10, 12, 14, 16,
19, 21, 69, 156, 356, 529, 530, 531,
538, 542, 561; garden 20, 537–38;
Gladstone’s visit to 46; visits by
Irish MPs 35
Penguin Books 586, 596
Pentagon 656
Peppard, Chilterns 199
Pepper, Miss 541
percepts 394
‘The Perplexities of John Forstice’
505
Perris, Mr 210
Perry, Ralph Barton 205, 217, 259,
326, 327, 328
Persia 376
pessimism 508
Peter and Paul Fortress, Leningrad
319, 320
Petersburg 96
Peters?eld, Hampshire 368
Petersham, Parish Church at 29
Petrograd (now Leningrad) 292,
315, 317; Mathematical Society of
316
Phelps, Elspeth 126
phenomenology 58, 249
Philadelphia 442, 510
Philadelphia Quakers see Quakers
philanthropy 69
Philippi, Signora de see
Fitzmaurice, Lady Edmond (née
Fitzgerald, later Signora de
Philippi)
Phillimore, Bobby 433
Phillimore, Lion see Fitzpatrick,
Lion
Phillimore, Robert 363, 434
Philosophical Essays (B. R.) 207
Philosophical Logic 336
Philosophische Bemerkungen
(Wittgenstein) 419
philosophy 29, 47, 52, 58, 194, 246,
267; British 507; ‘common
usage’ 508; game of 423; and
geometry 116, 117; Greek 312;
habits of thought 63; Harvard
school 205; and mathematics
205; philosophers 119; Stoic 48,
178, 464
Philosophy and the Social Problem
(Durant) 424
Philosophy of Leibniz (B. R.) 127, 524
Philpott, Wm. F, letter from 379
physics 374–75, 376, 382, 414, 473,
647
Pigou, A. C. 257
Pilate, Pontius 301
‘Pimp-Hater’, letter from 446–47
Pisa, Italy 300
Pitt, William (the Younger) 245
Pitt-Rivers, General 126
Pitt-Rivers, Mrs (B. R.’s aunt) 126
Pitt-Rivers, St George 126
Piz Corvach/Piz Palü (mountains)
33, 36
Plain Tales from the Hills (Kipling) 13
plane crash (Oslo to Trondheim)
492
Plas Penrhyn 544
Plato 47, 150, 151, 327, 361, 376, 395,
460, 463, 472, 473, 608, 652; as
comic poet 463
pleasure 148
Plotinus 513
poetry 29, 312, 462; Greek 52; by T.
S. Eliot 205; by Waley 243
Poincaré, Henri 120, 125, 212
Poland 396, 659; see also Warsaw
Polaris Base 685
Policy of the Entente (B. R.) 143, 283
Political Economy and Logic (Mill)
30, 35, 57
political prisoners 631, 632, 662,
667, 674
politics 11, 35, 194, 202; see also
under individual political parties
Poor Law Reform 51
Popoff, Dr 322
Portal, Lady Charlotte (née Elliot: B.
R’s great aunt) 13, 110
Portal, Lord 497
index 735‘A Portrait of a Lady’ (Eliot) 205
Porthcurno, Cornwall 367
Portland, William John A. C. J.
Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of 196
Portman Square 512
Portmeinon 409
Portos (French boat) 339
Portraits from Memory (B. R.) 548,
647
Positivism 23
‘Possibility of Peace in South East
Asia’ (Purcell) 641
Pott, Constance 212
Potter, Beatrice see Webb, Beatrice
Potter, Mr 66, 68
Potter sisterhood 6
Pound, Roscoe 328
Powell, C. F. 552, 555
Power, a New Social Analysis (B. R.)
412, 413
Power, Eileen 349; letter from 361
Practice and Theory of Bolshevism (B.
R.) 323
Pragmatism 181
predestination 39
‘Prelate and the Commissar’ 508
Press: addiction to reiteration 384;
best newspaper 348; power of
619
press conference, Caxton Hall
(Westminster) 570–73
Pride and Prejudice (Austen) 69
Priestley, J. B. 682
Priggishness 78
Primrose League 401
Princeton 444–45, 499
Principia Ethica (Moore) 503
Principia Mathematica (B. R.) 25,
135–94, 195, 309, 368, 460, 524,
649; re-publication of 384, 386
Principles of Mathematics (B. R.)
136, 242–43, 375, 460
Principles of Social Reconstruction (B.
R.) 229, 230, 267, 288, 289, 304,
367, 566
Prior, Joey 56
Problème logique de l’Induction, Le
(Nicod) 386
Problem of Knowledge (Ayer) 602
The Problem of China (B. R.) 344,
361, 378
Proceedings of the London
Mathematical Society (B. R.) 243
Prodigal Son 18
Prohibitionists 130
proof 188
propaganda 228, 247
‘Pros and Cons of Reaching Ninety’
606–7
The Prospects of Industrial
Civilization (B. R.) 368
prostitution 31, 105
Protection 143, 144
Protestantism 212, 457, 504
Proudhon, Pierre Joseph 327
‘Prufrock’ (T. S. Eliot) 205
psycho-analysis 227, 232, 507
psychology 11; of B. R. 28–29; and
latency period 27
Psychology (James) 7
‘Psychometabolism’ (Huxley) 647
puberty 28, 87
Pugwash movement 555, 558, 577,
581; Conference of Scientists 556,
557
punishment, theory of 108
Punto San Vigilio 200
Purcell, Victor 595, 641
Puritanism 11, 12, 31, 131, 173, 178,
199, 247, 473
Putney, London 310
Puxon, Grattan 630
P’u Yi see Emperor of China, last
(P’u Yi)
Pythagoras 472, 648
Quai d’Orsay 551
Quakers 65, 69, 115, 123, 124, 131,
197, 246, 248, 316
Queen Mary 487
Quine, W. V., letters to 434–35, 446,
518
Radcliffe College 445, 512
Radicals 6, 68, 381
Radlett, Herts 434
the autobiography of bertrand russell 736Rákosi, M. 428
Ramsgate 18
Ransome, Arthur 292
Rapacki, Adam 684
Ravenscroft (later Cleddon Hall) 7,
8, 541
Read, Sir Herbert 682
realism 53; French 82
Realm of the Spirit (Santayana) 464,
465
reason 40, 41; and emotion 318
Recollections of Logan (Gathorne-
Hardy) 520
‘Red Cockatoo’ (Waley) 243
Redgrave, Vanessa 595, 654
Redmond 175
Redmond, Jean 594
Red Sea 339
Rees Jones, Maud 522
reform 229
Reformation 472
refugees 632
Regent’s Park 539
Regional Seats of Government 597
Reichenbach, Hans 385, 450, 469
Reichstag 439
Reith Lectures 493, 497
relativity theory 311
A Religious Rebel (letters of Mrs
Pearsall Smith) 519
religion 27, 29; and war 496; see
also individual religions
Renaissance 178, 504
Renan, Henriette 129
Reno, Nevada 369
Republic (Plato) 47, 151
Resurrection (Tolstoy) 320
Retaliation 184
Reval, Estonia 322, 323, 337
revolution: French 122, 308, 353,
495; Industrial 423–24, 500;
Kerensky 240
Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale
383, 386
Reynolds, Reginald 568
Reynolds, Warren 680
Rhayader, Lord see Jones, Leif (later
Lord Rhayader)
Ribbands, C. R. 564
Richardson, Tony 682
Richborough, ruins at 18
Richmond 17, 71, 542, 544, 551;
Presbyterian Church at 29
Richmond Green 72, 346, 366
Richmond Hill 530
Richmond Park 9, 537, 538, 542, 543
Rinder, Gladys, letter to 302–3
Rivers, W. H. R. 329
Roads to Freedom 327
Robertson, D. S. 511
Robertson, Gen. Sir William Robert
273
Robertson, J. M. 158
Robinson family 158
Robot bombs 512
Roby, Henry John 215
Rockefeller Institute, Peking 347
Roffen, Christopher (Bishop of
Rochester), letter from 598–99
Rogers (poet) 10
Roland, Madame 243, 299
Rolland, Romain 248, 270, 382
Roman Catholicism 72, 119, 120,
141, 457, 472, 499
Roman Catholicism, liberal 325
Romans 39, 429, 473
Romantics 19, 472
Rome 100, 161, 200, 204, 300, 495;
visit to 546, 548
Romilly, Lady Elizabeth (B. R.’s
great aunt) 13
Roosevelt, Eleanor 580; letter from
607–8
Roosevelt, Franklin D. 476
Rosenberg, Ethel and Julius 553, 554
Rotblat, Josef 550, 552, 555, 557, 570,
572
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques xii, xiii, 201,
202
Routh, M. J. 598
Royal Society 143
Royal Society of Medicine 499
Royce, Josiah 204, 205, 217, 259
Ruby, Jack 639, 676, 681
Rushmore 126
Ruskin College, Oxford 499
index 737Russell, Alys (B. R.’s ?rst wife, née
Pearsall Smith) 15, 64–65,
69–72, 106, 132, 141, 142, 170,
184, 196, 206, 208, 209, 214,
366, 391, 432, 433, 434;
character/temperament 139,
140; end of marriage to 198, 347,
519; letters from and to 84–99,
103, 518, 519–24
Russell, Arthur (Rollo’s son) 110
Russell, Bertrand Arthur William: at
Cambridge see Cambridge;
character/temperament 30, 43,
57–58, 119, 139; childhood 5–26,
27, 91; education 16–17, 20–21,
30–31, 40, 42; adolescence
27–45, 91; engagements 64–114;
health problems 198, 207,
345–47, 439, 543, 555–56, 635;
imprisonment 240, 243, 244, 315,
501, 620; marriages see
marriages of B. R.; parenthood
see parenthood; publications by
see individual publications, such as
Principles of Social
Reconstruction (B. R.)
Russell, Conrad Sebastian Robert
(B. R.’s younger son) 412, 441,
446, 474, 481, 487, 488, 510, 511
Russell, Dora Winifred (B. R.’s 2nd
wife, née Black) 310–11, 314, 315,
323, 339–40, 343, 345–46, 347,
349, 366–408; end of marriage to
409, 410; as Fellow of Girton 312
Russell, Edith (B. R’s 4th wife, née
Finch) 509, 522, 537–39, 541
Russell, ‘Elizabeth’ (Countess) 244,
264, 369
Russell, Flora (cousin of B. R.) 465,
529, 595
Russell, Francis (Frank), 2nd Earl
Russell (B. R.’s brother) 7, 10,
15–16, 19, 34–35, 111, 248, 264;
Buddhism of 34; cruelty of 370;
letters from and to 279–80, 299,
356; at Oxford 46; publications
by 369; death of 421
Russell, Gertrude 128, 356
Russell, John see Amberley, John
(Viscount) (B. R.’s father)
Russell, John Conrad (B. R.’s elder
son) 203, 350, 368, 371, 409, 410,
439, 441, 445, 446, 461, 463,
465–66, 481, 509, 510, 561;
illnesses 551
Russell, Kate see Amberley, Kate
(Viscount) (B. R.’s mother)
Russell, Katherine Jane (Kate, B. R.s
daughter) 367, 368, 409, 410,
439, 441, 445, 446, 461, 463, 481,
509, 510, 514, 581–82
Russell, Lady Agatha (B. R.’s aunt)
8, 13, 14–15, 18, 20, 34, 35, 70, 94,
110, 156, 171, 174, 391, 530, 531
Russell, Lady John (B. R.’s
grandmother) 11–12, 13, 18, 19,
20, 29, 33–34, 35, 41, 42, 56,
74–75, 88, 89, 91, 93–94, 103;
accomplishments of 10–11; on B.
R.’s ?rst wife 71; illnesses 85, 112;
letters from 109–12, 113–14,
127–29
Russell, Lord John (B. R.’s
grandfather, 1st Earl Russell) 10,
