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Legal Correspondence
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RC0096-760
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1925-1949; 1960-1981 (Creation)
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76 cm of textual records (7 boxes)
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Series consists of correspondence with Russell's legal firm, Coward, Chance & Co., relating Russell's letting of Telegraph House from his brother, 1927-1931; divorce proceedings between Russell and Dora, 1932-1935, as well as custody and schooling for their children, John and Kate, 1932-1936 (as noted in the print finding aid for Archives 2, “this part of the correspondence is sometimes annotated by Russell in ball-point pen”); the mental health of Russell's eldest son John, 1960, 1964; custody, education, and finances of his grandchildren, Anne, Sarah, and Lucy (children of John Conrad and Susan Russell), 1961-1969; Russell's and Edith's week long imprisonment in Brixton Prison for the Committee of 100's anti-nuclear demonstrations, 1961; wills drafted for Russell and Edith, 1963; a legal amendment to the parentage of Harriet Russell (Dora Russell's daughter by Griffin Barry); and other matters. Also noted in the print finding aid: “Crompton Llewelyn Davies was Russell's chief contact” at Coward, Chance & Co. “until his death in 1935; L.E.P. Tylor succeeded him.”
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This series contains embargoed documents.
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Finding aids
Online: For a listing of the letters in this series, use the advanced search screen of BRACERS. In the “Class” field, enter series number: 760.
Print: The print finding aid for Archives 2 also lists the content of this series. See K. Blackwell and C. Spadoni, The Second Archives of Bertrand Russell (Bristol: Thoemmes, 1992), pp. 309-311.
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Box numbers for this series: 8.02, 8.29-8.34
Document numbers for this series: 760.101129-760.101137; 760.101001-760.102160; 760.133001-760.133924
