Russell: The Journal of Bertrand Russell Archives

Recent additions to the bibliography by Kenneth Blackwell A RESEARCH TRIP to Britain last fall resulted in a flock of additions to the bibliography of Russell's periodical publications. Here they are, with a few other discoveries of recent vintage. The list stops with 1950, as discoveries after this time are less rare. The reference number denotes the year and sequence within the year of the C section, which will appear in the same format as below in A Bibliography ofBertrand Russell, Vol. 2: Serial Publications (Allen & Unwin, forthcoming 1989?)· Eleven of the additions provide new texts for Russell studies in the areas of pacifism and conscientious objection, China, Beacon Hill School, progress, use of his title, how to stay out of World War II, antiSemitism , and the problem of punishment. Two give earlier dates of first publication. And nine provide publication data for archival manuscripts whose publication until now was in doubt. It is important to dispel such doubts because Russell may have decided not to proceed to publication with the set of opinions concerned, or the item may have failed to find editorial acceptance. C38.11 is important for the additional information it gives us on Russell 's detestation of the Nazis' persecution of the Jews. He writes that "the [German] government ... encourages unofficial sadistic outrages on the part of its criminal partisans." With hindsight, however, we ascribe much more culpability to Hitler's government. C39.0S has the distinction of being the only known article that Russell wrote for exclusive British publication while he was resident in the U.S. during 193844 · The boldface references in the item notes are to other sections of the Bibliography. The B section describes books with original contributions (not reprints), and the H section describes books quoting from Russell's letters, manuscripts and conversation for the first time. (Together with section G, blurbs on dust-jackets, we have 550 titles in these sections.) A special feature of this Bibliography is the provision of notes on prepublication documents, complete with file numbers. This latter information is useful to Russell editors as well as to the Russell Archives' staffin our control of hundreds of manuscripts whose titles changed on the way to publication and whose location in the Archives is not always straightforward. 165 166 Russell winter 1986-87 Copies of all items are available in the Russell Archives. Thanks are due to Katharine Tait, who gave me access to Dora Russell's papers where several of the items and leads to others were found, to Graham R. Hill, University Librarian, and R.A. Rempel and SSHRCC, who funded my trip, to Fred Keay and Sheila Turcon who helped me find some of them, to John G. Slater who passed on a bookseller's lead, and to the British Library's Newspaper Library at Colindale and the BBC Written Archives. The Bertrand Russell Archives C1S.09 MR. BERTRAND RUSSELL AND THE ETHICS OF WAR. The Weslminster Gazette, 27 March 1915, p. 2. Letter to Ihe editor in reply to "The Ethics of War; a Philosopher's View" by "S.", ibid., 26 March, p. 3 (which itself is a comment on C1S.02); "S.'''s article is reprinted in The Literary Digest, New York, 50 (8 May 1915): 1,086.-Replies 10 "S." from "Y." and Charles C. Cope appeared in The Westminster Gazette, 27 and 30 March 1916, p. 2. "Amateur Diplomatist" replied to Russell's letter on 29 March, p. 2.-Reprinted in Collected Papers 13. C16.14 TRIAL OF MR. BERTRAND RUSSELL: BRILLIANT DEFENCE OF ANTI-MILITARISTS. The Labour Leader, 13, no. 23 (8 June 1916): 5. Not a report of Russell's courtroom speech on 5 June, but a lengthy abridgement of his draft speech, with some account of the actual proceedings interspersed. The quotations are usually verbatim from Russell's drafl.-Ms., ts. carbon and ts. mimeo, the last (BI96.13) perhaps being the abridgement's main source (RA 220.01I570).-Reprinted, with omissions, in "Making Martyrs of 'Conscientious Objectors' in England", Current Opinion, 61 (OCI. 1916): 257-8; in Collected Papers 13.-For a verbatim report of the actual proceedings, see Rex v. Bertrand Russell (8196.23); see also...