Letters between Isaiah and his parents

Title

Letters between Isaiah and his parents

Shelfmark

MS. Berlin 293

Summary

Includes:

(fols. 2, 5) brief references to correspondence with E.H. Carr about Bakunin, 1938

(fol. 5) comments on Harold Nicolson, 1938

(fol. 6) brief comment on Adam von Trott, 1938

(fols. 7-15) postcards from Berlin in Ireland, including references to working on completion of Marx biography, 1938

(fols. 20-21) comments on moving into New College and on the political situation in Europe, 1938

(fols. 34-42) letters written en route to and on arrival in North America with Guy Burgess, 1940

(fols. 43-68) letters from Washington and New York, including discussion of the abandonment of the planned continuation of his journey to Moscow, the possibility of work in the United States, and in the meantime working on an analysis of the Associated Press dispatches, 1940

(fols. 69-70) letters from Portugal, while travelling back to Britain, 1940

(fols. 71-78) telegrams and letters on Berlin's journey back to the United States, 1941

(fols. 79-167) telegrams and letters mainly from New York, while working for British Information Services, 1941

(fols. 125-126) comments on the Jewish world in the United States, and on Weizmann, 1941

Date

1938-1941

Language

English

Physical extent

167 Leaves