January 22, 2009 (8:41 pm) G:\WPData\TYPE2802\russell 28,2 048red.wpd russell: the Journal of Bertrand Russell Studies n.s. 28 (winter 2008–09): 163–70 The Bertrand Russell Research Centre, McMaster U. issn 0036-01631; online 1913-8032 ibliographies, rchival nventories, ndexes RECENT ACQUISITIONS Sheila Turcon Ready Division / McMaster U. Library Russell Research Centre / McMaster U. Hamilton, on, Canada l8s 4l6 turcon@mcmaster.ca T he previous general update of correspondence and manuscript acquisitions appeared in Russellz n.s. 28, no. 1 (summer 2008): 65–8. There are 26 entries in the correspondence listing below, covering 110 items. Received in December 2008, the latest acquisition reported is number 1,583. The manuscript listing of 10 items brings the total to 633 such entries since 1968. The latest manuscript acquisition is 1,582. Some items were received from other institutions, to whom McMaster Library is very grateful. The following abbreviations are used: L(s). or l(s). = letters(s); P(s). or p(s). = photocopies; p.c.(s). = post card(s); Ts. = typescript; tel. = telegram. Thanks are due to Carl Spadoni, Research Collections Librarian, for pursuing many of the leads whose fruition is evident here. correspondence [Anonymous] Final paragraph from a l., signed by BR, [1933]. The top containing the name of the recipient, date, and place has been cut oT. What remains was then framed. It mentions an unpublished article “What Is Happening to the World?” (220.013480). Purchase. rec. acq. 1,565. Arkansas Alumnus (Reba Wilcoxon) L. from BR, 19 Aug. 1959. Re writing an article (C60.01). Purchase. rec. acq. 1,566. Bacon, Ernest L. from BR, 4 Dec. 1962. Re Cuban Missile Crisis. The ts. carbon is in ra1 720. P., courtesy of David Goldman. rec. acq. 1,537. Balgemann, Merci L. from BR, 5 June 1952. Merci was a child living in Grant Park, il. Her original l. to BR which he describes as “very nice” could not be found through a bracers search. Purchase . rec. acq. 1,544. Biggs, Claude A. L. from BR, 29 Aug. 1962, thanking him for some verses. Purchase. rec. acq. 1,567. Bing, Harold F. (War Resisters’ International ) L. from BR, 22 Jan. 1964; original in ra2 330, box 9.57. P., courtesy of International Institute for Social History , Amsterdam. rec. acq. 1,517b. Burhop, E.yH.yS. L. from, 27 Nov. 1957, and BR’s reply, 30 Nov. 1957. BR decides against letting his name go forward for the International Peace Prize January 22, 2009 (8:41 pm) G:\WPData\TYPE2802\russell 28,2 048red.wpd 164 sheila turcon given by the World Peace Council. Ps., courtesy of University College London. rec. acq. 1,520. Clark, Grenville 2 ls. from BR, 9 May 1956 and 26 Feb. 1963. Ps., courtesy of Dartmouth College Library. rec. acq. 1,552. Davis, Jr., Sammy L. from BR, 17 May 1963. Re anti-nuclear fundraising, when Davis was at the Mayfair Hotel, London . Signature is by one of BR’s secretaries . Purchase. rec. acq. 1,519. Farr, Elliott 2 ls. from BR, 1944 and 1947; one l. from Patricia Russell to Farr and his wife, 1947; re storing and shipping of trunks and boxes. Draft typed l. about Hitler in response to someone, c. 1940 (“I would 1,000 times rather be dead than say Heil Hitler”). Found in Farr’s copy of An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth. Prints of email attachments from Caroline Farr whose parents who were neighbours of BR on Pennstone Road, Bryn Mawr, pa. rec. acq. 1,569. Hand, Learned(“Jay”) and Fanny 5 ls. from Edith Russell, 1952–57. Ps., courtesy of Harvard Law School Library. rec. acq. 1,581. Jack, Homer L. of 29 June 1957 (710 .051423) to BR; reply, 2 July 1957; encl. ts. of interview. Ts. is an earlier version of the one reported in rec. acq. 1,432. Ps., courtesy of Swarthmore College. rec. acq. 1,509. MacDiarmid, Hugh L. from BR, 22 Sept. 1960. Invitation to join the Committee of 100. Typed transcript from John Manson who obtained a copy from Edinburgh U. Library for his book. rec. acq. 1,538. Magpie and Stump (Mr. Martineau) L...