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A letter from C. D. Broad to Hollond dated 22 May 1964 correcting Hollond's account of the interview for the television programme on Bertrand Russell, and expressing his desire to let Russell know that he had been interviewed but cut from the programme, accompanied by a copy letter from Hollond to Russell dated 26 May 1964 incorporating this information and enclosing a copy of a letter of protest at Broad's treatment to the B.B.C. television executives. Hollond's letter to Russell shares memories of Russell's visit to give the Lowell Lectures at Harvard University in the spring of 1914, mentioning the visit of Rupert Brooke, a dinner with Roscoe Pound, his reaction to a recital by Alfred Noyes, a visit with Mrs Fiske Warren, and a dinner party with Amy Lowell and Elizabeth Perkins; he also mentions speaking with Victor Purcell on the telephone after a visit with Russell, and remembering a conversation between T. C. Nicholas, and George Trevelyan about giving Russell a Title B Fellowship. With added notes at the bottom in Hollond's hand identifying people mentioned in the letter.

Lists attendees at Wittgenstein's lectures and Whewell's Court gatherings in 1930-1931 and 1931-1932. Expands information given in Wittgenstein's Lectures 1930-1932 on Broad's notes, is now 'as sure as I can be that these stem from conversations with Con Drury'; his own friendship with Drury.

Tale of A. E. Housman refusing to let Wittgenstein use his lavatory; 'He [Wittgenstein] was greatly perturbed, indeed very angry, and poured out the whole sorry story to me with great indignation. He was incapable of an unthinking, mean or selfish act of this sort'.

Kindness shown by Wittgenstein to Francis Skinner, and to King himself. 'It has been fashionable nowadays to denigrate great men and to ascribe to them failings which were hidden in their lifetime... Those of us knew LW in the 30's saw not an iota of what Bartley ascribes to him; and [it] is about as remote from his behavior as, say, landing on the moon. Nothing ever suggested to me that there was anything remotely resembling homosexual interest and of all men I have ever met, he was the most ascetic.'

King's confidence in the reliability of his recollections of Wittgenstein's lectures and other conversations with him.

'All of this material has either been published in LW Personal Recollections or in LW Lectures 1930-32 or sent to Brian McGuinness, at Queen's College, Oxford who is writing the biography'.

Notes on quotations.

Informs the Master that Margaret Keynes has sent these papers relating to the resignation of A. R. Forsyth to him; has added a note on the 'incident'; he and Broad agree that the papers are worth keeping in the Library.

Three letters to J. R. M. Butler: two of them from C. D. Broad dated 7 and 12 June, one from G. E. Moore dated 11 June. A letter from Butler to T. C. Nicholas is dated 12 June 1933.

Wishes to alter the note on Kant after discussion with C. D Broad and Rosenbaum [re edition of Hume's Abstract of a treatise on human nature?].

The papers consist of:
Two copies of an annotated typescript catalogue of the Newton library by Heinrich Zeitlinger in 1929, with a later copy of the book list with five more books added by H. M. Adams.
Cuttings about the Newton library dated 1942-1944.
One postcard from Tressilian Nicholas to H. M. Adams and fifteen letters dated August to October 1943 from Henry Sotheran Ltd and from Barnby, Bendall & Co. Ltd. to the Trinity College Librarian H. M. Adams concerning the shipping of the Newton library.
Later notes and letters about the books stored in the Muniments Room and value of the alchemical books in the collection with two letters dated 1943-1944 from Dorothea Waley Singer and John Read to C. D. Broad.
A later note from F. E. Manuel about manuscripts by and about Newton in the British Library, dated June 1957.

Typescript letter with reminiscences of the early days of the Society of Psychical Research, Henry Sidgwick and William Barrett.

Valö, Inga, Finland. - Staying with family in Finland; surroundings unsuitable for his work; stayed at Trinity as the guest of Professor Broad; wishes to speak with Wittgenstein on the discussions he had in Cambridge; correspondence between language and reality; sense experiences; thanks him for his teaching; wishes to keep up correspondence with him.