Spender (Sir Stephen)

Title

Spender (Sir Stephen)

Shelfmark

MS. Berlin 283

Summary

Includes:

(passim) references to Spender's work and career

(fols. 8-9) comments on Berlin's broadcasts on ' Freedom and its Betrayal', 1952

(fols. 15-19) letters about the publication of Berlin's broadcasts on ' A Marvellous Decade' in Encounter , 1955

(fols. 44-48) description by Spender of his impressions of Poland, following a visit, 1958

(fols. 49-52) comments by Spender on Berlin's inaugural lecture as Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory on ' Two Concepts of Liberty', and Berlin's response, 1958

(fol. 73) copy letter from Spender to the Observer, about an article on Berlin's appointment as head of Wolfson College, 1966

(fols. 74-84) discussion of a libel action brought by Conor Cruise O'Brien against Encounter over an article by Goronwy Rees, 1966

(fols. 88-102) discussion of the controversy over the revelation of the involvement of the CIA in the funding of Encounter , 1967

(fol. 98) comment by Berlin on the Six Days War, 1967

(fols. 106-117) correspondence and papers about a possible new independent journal, 1967

(fols. 119-133) translation by Berlin of a letter from Pavel Litvinov to Spender, about the possible formation of a committee to support the democratic movement in the Soviet Union, 1968

(fol. 146) comment by Berlin on the election of Stuart Hampshire to the Wardenship of Wadham College, 1970

(fols. 155-156) comments by Spender on Berlin's Romanes Lecture on Turgenev, 1972

(fols. 173-180) copy of Recent Poems inscribed to the Berlins, 1978

(fol. 188) translation by Spender of some lines from Heine, 1979

(fol. 189) draft of Spender's poem 'Late Stravinsky Listening to Late Beethoven', 1979

(fols. 245-246) draft of 'Six Variations (Thoughts for Isaiah Berlin, arising from reading Pepys Journal)', 1991

(fol. 248) incomplete earlier draft of 'Six Variations', 1991

Date

1950-1995

Language

English

Physical extent

260 Leaves