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  1. For more information on Bryn Mawr’s Mathematics Department, see Karen Parshall, “Training Women in Mathematical Research: The First Fifty Years of Bryn Mawr College (1885–1935)” The Mathematical Intelligencer, 37 (2015), pp. 71–83.

  2. Letter from Alys Russell to Carey Thomas, 1 Feb 1896 (#122422), courtesy of Bertrand Russell Archives, McMaster University.

  3. Letter from Charlotte Scott to M. Carey Thomas, 1 Aug 1896, in the M. Carey Thomas Papers, Bryn Mawr College, Reel 153.

  4. See [2].

  5. Letter from Carey Thomas to Alys Russell, 14 Jul 1896 (#122432), courtesy of Bertrand Russell Archives, McMaster University.

  6. The Lantern of Bryn Mawr College, 1897, pp. 137–138.

  7. Ibid.

  8. Ronald Clark, The Life of Bertrand Russell, Knopf (1976), p. 66.

  9. See [2].

  10. Ibid.

  11. Letter from Bertrand Russell to M. Carey Thomas, 1 Dec 1896, in the M. Carey Thomas Papers, Bryn Mawr College, Reel 153.

  12. Letter from Alys Russell to M. Carey Thomas, 26 Nov 1896, in the M. Carey Thomas Papers, Bryn Mawr College, Reel 153.

  13. M. Carey Thomas, 4 Dec 1896, in the M. Carey Thomas Papers, Bryn Mawr College, Reel 20.

  14. M. Carey Thomas, 5 Dec 1896, in the M. Carey Thomas Papers, Bryn Mawr College, Reel 20.

  15. See [13].

  16. Letter from Alys Russell to M. Carey Thomas, 8 Dec 1896 (#122428), courtesy of Bertrand Russell Archives, McMaster University.

  17. See [13].

  18. Letter from David Scull to M. Carey Thomas, 8 Feb 1897, in the M. Carey Thomas Papers, Bryn Mawr College, Reel 153.

  19. Letter from David Scull to M. Carey Thomas, 9 Jan 1897, in the M. Carey Thomas Papers, Bryn Mawr College, Reel 153.

  20. Letter from David Scull to M. Carey Thomas, 12 Jan 1897, in the M. Carey Thomas Papers, Bryn Mawr College, Reel 153.

  21. “Our New York Letter,” in The Philadelphia Ledger, 11 Jan 1897, p. 18.

  22. See [20].

  23. Letter from M. Carey Thomas to Lucy Donnelly, 12 Mar 1914, in the M. Carey Thomas Papers, Bryn Mawr College, Reel 129.

  24. Bertrand Russell, Autobiography 1872–1914, George Allen and Unwin (1967), p. 131.

  25. Edith Finch, Carey Thomas of Bryn Mawr, Harper (1947), p. 245.

  26. Nicholas Griffin (ed.), The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell, Vol. 1, Houghton Mifflin (1992), p. 338.

  27. Clark, p. 66.

  28. Letter from Bertrand Russell to Agatha Russell, 27 Nov 1896 (# 72092), Bertrand Russell Archives, McMaster University.

  29. Ray Monk, Bertrand Russell: The Spirit of Solitude, 1872–1921, The Free Press (1996), p. 113. (By the way, Frank Morley was the discoverer of the remarkable geometrical theorem that now bears his name: the pairwise intersections of adjacent trisectors of the angles of any triangle form the vertices of an equilateral triangle within the original.)

  30. Bertrand Russell, The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell: 1872–1914, George Allen and Unwin, Ltd (1967), p. 247.

  31. Ibid., p. 249.

  32. Ibid., p. 256.

  33. Griffin, p. 401.

  34. Bertrand Russell, Letter #5, Special Collections, Bryn Mawr College.

  35. Like Russell, Alfred North Whitehead would spend time at Bryn Mawr, with an extended appointment during the 1929–1930 academic year.

  36. Monk, p. 142.

  37. Griffin, p. 444.

  38. Letter from M. Carey Thomas to Lucy Donnelly, 12 Mar 1914, in the M. Carey Thomas Collection, Bryn Mawr College, Reel 129.

  39. Caroline Moorhead, Bertrand Russell: A Life, Sinclair-Stevenson (1992), p. 200.

  40. Russell, Autobiography: 1872–1914, p. 44.

  41. Bertrand Russell, Skeptical Essays, Norton (1928), pp. 149–150.

  42. Russell, Autobiography: 1872–1914, p. 286.

  43. Clark, p. 471.

  44. Ibid., p. 470.

  45. Barry Feinberg and Ronald Kasrils, Bertrand Russell’s America, Vol. 1, Allen and Unwin (1973), pp. 344–345.

  46. Ibid.

  47. Ibid.

  48. In 2012, the collection was moved to the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia.

  49. Bertrand Russell, The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell, 1914–1944, Little, Brown (1968), p. 248.

  50. Ray Monk, Bertrand Russell: The Ghost of Madness, 1921–1970, The Free Press (2000), p. 48.

  51. Paul Weiss, Lost in Thought: Alone with Others, in The Library of Living Philosophers Vol. 23: The Philosophy of Paul Weiss, Open Court (1995), p. 10.

  52. Bryn Mawr Alumnae Bulletin, Dec 1943, pp. 10–11.

  53. Russell, Autobiography, Vol. 2, p. 222.

  54. See [51].

  55. Russell, Autobiography, Vol. 2, p. 223.

  56. See [51].

  57. Letter from Bertrand Russell to Katherine McBride, 2 Oct 1943, Special Collections, Bryn Mawr College.

  58. Russell, Autobiography, Vol. 1, front matter.

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Dunham, W. Bertrand Russell at Bryn Mawr. Math Intelligencer 38, 30–40 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00283-016-9654-1

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