Bibliographic record
Abstract
Recent Acquisitions, 2022–23 Bridget Whittle (bio) The previous general update of acquisitions appeared in Russell, n.s. 41, no. 2 (winter 2021): 179–80. The new listing covers items numbered 1,840 to 1,871, plus additions to 285 and 429a, with the latest items arriving in November 2023. Several items were received from other institutions and through the generosity of researchers, to whom McMaster Library is very grateful. The following abbreviations are used: L(s). or l(s). = letter(s); X. = copies of any kind. correspondence The Atlantic Monthly (Ellery Sedgwick) L. to BR, 17 Jan. 1918, praising Dorothy Buxton’s work for the Cambridge Magazine, and re hardships in wartime America. X. The original is in the Ogden Papers, McMaster U. Library. rec. acq. 429a. Barnet, V. E. (Grapevine) L. from BR, 19 July 1962, encouraging the students of the U. of Omaha to join a movement of mass resistance against nuclear weapons. Internet print. rec. acq. 1,860. Bloomsbury Group and others 10 ls. to BR, from Virginia Woolf, G. A. Sutherland, H. G. Wells, Aldous Huxley, Aga Khan and others. Internet prints (not all letters are complete). rec. acq. 1,851. Braybrooke, Neville L. from BR, 18 March 1960, re BR’s juvenilia, which he does not want published. Internet print. rec. acq. 1,960. Britten, Benjamin L. to BR, 3 Dec. 1964, agreeing to perform with Peter Pears for the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation (brpf). X. Courtesy of the brpf. rec. acq. 1,867. Cole, Mr. L. from BR, 12 Oct. 1964, re the brpf and enclosing a signed photograph. Internet print. rec. acq. 1,860. Fisher, James L. from BR, 3 May 1957, re BR’s misuse of “coconuts” and other revisions to B&R B131. Internet print. rec. acq. 1,860. Hardy, G. H. L. to D. H. Robertson, 21 Sept. [1942?], re a footnote in Hardy’s Bertrand Russell and Trinity. X. rec. acq. 1,850. Hutchinson, Mrs. St. John 2 ls. from, 1916 and 1918, re visiting. X. Courtesy of U. of Texas, Austin. rec. acq. 1,859. Jones, Lief (Lord Rhayader) 2 ls. from BR, 1904–05, congratulating Jones on winning the North Westmoreland by-election and hoping to arrange a visit. Purchase. rec. acq. 1,840. Laric, Ivan Correspondence between Nicholas Griffin and Paul Laric, 2012, re Ivan Laric. Donation. rec. acq. 1,856. [End Page 178] Lord, James 2 ls. to BR and a reply, l. to C. S. Lewis and the reply, 1960, all relating to Christianity and BR’s agnosticism. Donation. rec. acq. 1,868. Mintoff, Dom (Prime Minister of Malta) 2 ls. from BR, 1963–64, re meeting with representatives of the brpf and Maltese misreporting of Patrick Pottle as its secretary. Internet print. rec. acq. 1,860. Neurath, Otto 40 ls. on various subjects, 1935–44. X. Courtesy of the Noord-Hollands Archief. rec. acq. 1,863. Peters, Arno L. to BR, 20 Dec. 1965, in German and including New Year’s wishes. rec. acq. 1,841. Ramesh, S. R. L. from BR, 4 May 1968, thanking Ramesh for his letter. Internet print. rec. acq. 1,860. Reiner, Markus L. from BR, 24 Dec. 1927, responding to a query about mathematics and a potential error BR had made; BR disputes this, referencing Foundations of Geometry. Purchase. rec. acq. 1,870. Russell, Edith Third accrual, arranged in the following series: (1) Correspondence, c.1876–1978 (1952–77 predominant); (2) Manuscripts, 1950–74; (3) Address and Telephone Books, Lists and Cards, Diaries, Domestic, Medical, Hair Clippings, [1936]–77; (4) Travel, Photographs and Artwork, c.1876–1972 (1951–72 predominant; (5) Legal, 1966–77; (6) Financial (1965–77); (7) Organizations (McMaster U., Bertrand Russell Society, brpf, Atlantic Peace Foundation), 1970–77; (8) Estate of Bertrand Russell, 1970–77; (9) Printed and Published Materials, [1930?]–77 (1970–77 predominant). rec. acq. 1,843 (see https://library.mcmaster.ca/finding-aid/erussell#third, and Sheila Turcon, “The Edith Russell Papers: Third Accrual”, Russell, n.s. 42 [winter 2022]: 169–76). Schoenman, Ralph 32 ls. and other documents, predominantly re his dismissal from the brpf. X. Originals in the Walter Kendall papers, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam. rec...
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".