General correspondence
MS. Berlin 213
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Title
General correspondence
Shelfmark
MS. Berlin 213
Summary
Includes letters from and copies of letters to:
(fols. 78-81, 86) Lord Bethell, about sections on Berlin in Bethell's book The Palestine Triangle, about Zionist politics in wartime America
(fols. 39-40, 173-175, 180, 190) Roger Bowen, about Berlin's memories of Bernard Spencer
(fols. 193-5, 222) Andrew Boyle, discussing Boyle's book Climate of Treason about Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean, and about the illness and death of Goronwy Rees
(fols. 103-104, 163-164) R.W. Childers, about Anna Akhmatova
(fols. 29-30) J. A. Ellison, about a tribute to Norman Tucker, including a draft contribution by Berlin [not published; see also MS. Berlin 592, fols. 1-2]
(fols. 83, 91-94) Avraham Harman
(fols. 153, 167, 169) H.O. Malone, about Adam von Trott
(fols. 8-18, 22) Comparative Literature Studies, about Berlin's reply to Scouten on Vico, including a draft
with letters from
(fol. 228) Sir John Balfour
(fols. 7, 146) M.G. Brock
(fols. 155-158) Lord David Cecil, about Berlin's Against the Current, especially the essays on Disraeli and Verdi
(fols. 35, 113-114) G.A. Cohen
(fols. 28, 231) Edward Crankshaw
(fol. 170) Ann Fleming
(fols. 152, 165) Jean Floud
(fol. 50) Sir Nicholas Henderson
(fol. 41) Harold Macmillan
(fol. 100) A.D. Momigliano
(fol. 98) C.G.P. Moore, 11th Earl of Drogheda
(fols. 111-112) Joan Moore, Countess of Drogheda
(fol. 223) Anatoly Naiman
(fol. 118) Bertell Ollman
(fol. 171) Shimon Peres
(fols. 151, 224) A.M. Quinton
(fols. 5-6) Gideon Rafael
(fol. 52) Nathan Rotenstreich
(fol. 139) A.J. Ryan
(fols. 140, 154, 226) Diana Trilling, including one about Goronwy Rees
(fols. 133-138) Hugh Seton-Watson, about Berlin's Against the Current
(fols. 24-26) Anne [-], about her own life and Jewish identity, and that of Bernard Berenson
(fols. 129-130) Jim [-], about Berlin's Vico and Herder , with annotations by Berlin
and letters about:
(fols. 64-65, 77) Berlin's memories of significant 20th-century events for a book on that topic, including his recollections of Pearl Harbor, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the J.F. Kennedy assassination, the death of F.D. Roosevelt, and the Russian Revolution
Date
1979
Language
English
Physical extent
232 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
