General correspondence
MS. Berlin 136
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Title
General correspondence
Shelfmark
MS. Berlin 136
Summary
Includes letters from and copies of letters to:
(fols. 103, 155) Ian Bowen, including comments by Bowen on the death of Dylan Thomas, whom he knew slightly as an undergraduate
(fols. 127-129, 175, 335-337, 433-440) Lord David Cecil
(fols. 391-392) Norman Chester
(fols. 270, 311) John Clive
(fols. 131-132, 222-228, 372) Bill Deakin
(fol. 91) Geoffrey Faber
(fol. 242) Anne Fremantle
(fol. 325) Sir Gladwyn Jebb
(fols. 264-5) C.K.M. Kluckhohn
(fols. 54, 99, 151, 291, 402) P.E. Mosely
(fols. 45-49, 118-121, 191-192, 230, 232, 312, 367, 409) M.F. Perham, about the offer of the Wardenship of Nuffield College to Berlin, extended by Perham as Senior Fellow
(fols. 302, 347) Chaim Raphael
(fols. 373-374) the Sunday Times, about Berlin's contribution to Books of the Year, including a draft
(fols. 168-169, 246-247) L.B. Schapiro
(fols. 326-327, 395, 410) E.J. Simmons
(fol. 87) Sir Leon Simon
(fols. 104, 123, 196, 266-267, 293, 370) Solly Zuckerman
with letters from
(fol. 422) Max Ascoli
(fol. 126) James Billington
(fols. 146, 330-332) Sam Behrman
(fols. 210, 299, 442-445) Marion Frankfurter
(fol. 379) Alexander Halpern
(fol. 447) Wilhelmine Harrod
(fol. 448) Max Hayward
(fol. 449) A.P. Pryce-Jones
(fol. 413) R.F. Kahn
(fol. 354) G.L. Kline
(fol. 162) Eugene Lampert
(fol. 453) C.D.W. O'Neill
(fol. 454) D.F. Pears
(fols. 462-464) Gilbert Ryle
(fol. 465) Bernard Spencer
(fols. 81-84) Franco Venturi
(fol. 471) Sir Charles Webster
(fols. 80, 300, 355) Edmund Wilson
(fols. 304-306) Sir Ernest Woodward
and letters about:
(fols. 1-270 passim) a party organised in New York by Berlin and Raymond Bonham Carter, for Lady Violet Bonham Carter
(fols. 69-71, 76-77) Mendel Berlin's medical treatment for leukaemia
(fols. 127-392 passim) the offer of the Nuffield College Wardenship to Berlin
(fols. 395-429 passim) the sudden deterioration in Mendel Berlin's health, Isaiah's urgent return to Britain from the United States, and Mendel's death, including letters of condolence
Date
Nov.-Dec. 1953
Language
English
Physical extent
473 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
