General correspondence
MS. Berlin 217
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Title
General correspondence
Shelfmark
MS. Berlin 217
Summary
Includes letters from and copies of letters to:
(fols. 181-184*, 200*) Om Bakshi, about a work by Bakshi on Political Theory
(fols. 39*, 50*, 53*, 67-68*) Olivia Emmet, about the alternatives of total human extinction and the continuance of human suffering
(fols. 122-123, 261-262) E.D.R. Honderich
(fol. 95-97, 280) Sir Claus Moser
(fols. 285-296*) Bhikhu Parekh, about a chapter on Berlin in Parekh's Contemporary Political Thinkers
(fol. 55) Isaac Stern, about his visit to Israel, commenting on politics and music
(fols. 268-269*) Norman Stone, commenting on a work by Stone on E.H. Carr
(fols. 206*, 216*) Mary Warnock, about the death of Guy Chilver, including comments by Berlin on Warnock's draft address for the memorial service
with letters from
(fol. 73) Tatiana Albertini
(fol. 18) F.M. Barnard
(fol. 171) M.G. Brock
(fol. 273) Sir Hugh Casson
(fols. 274-247) Lord David Cecil, about the death of his wife Rachel
(fols. 175-176) Richard Chilver, about the death of Guy Chilver
(fols. 40-43) Lidiya Chukovskaya, about Anna Akhmatova
(fols. 78-79) W.G. Eytan
(fol. 6) Katharine Graham
(fols. 4, 33-36, 74) K.M. Halle
(fols. 15, 72) Henry Hardy
(fol. 169) F.J.H. Haskell
(fol. 69) A.H. Head, 1st Viscount Head
(fols. 70, 111) Edward Heath
(fol. 86) Dorothy Hodgkin, about the death of her husband Thomas Hodgkin
(fol. 254) Michael Ignatieff
(fol. 271) A.N. Morgan
(fol. 280) Sir Claus Moser
(fols. 223-234) Ursula Niebuhr
(fol. 142) Dimitri Obolensky
(fol. 138-139) Conor Cruise O'Brien
(fol. 256) Sir Con O'Neill
(fol. 24a) Sir Karl Popper
(fol. 230) Meyer Schapiro
(fols. 75, 193-197, 207) M.J. Sieff, Baron Sieff
(fols. 119-121) Irving Singer
(fol. 225) George Steiner
(fol. 242) Gleb Struve
(fols. 12, 140, 166) M.P. Tree
(fols. 177-179) Sir Siegmund Warburg
(fols. 187-191, 219-220) B.P. Whitbread, about the death of Guy Chilver
(fols. 26, 44, 64) R.O. Wilberforce, Baron Wilberforce
and letters about:
(fols. 3-4, 6, 22-23) Berlin's translation of A Month in the Country
(fols. 4, 26, 33-36, 38, 44, 74) the death of Sir John Foster
(fols. 232-237, 244, 257, 284) the award of the Erasmus Prize to Berlin
Date
1982
Language
English
Physical extent
300 Leaves
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Collection contents
Papers of Sir Isaiah Berlin, 1897-1998, with some family papers, 1903-1972
Correspondence and papers
General correspondence
General correspondence
