General correspondence

Title

General correspondence

Shelfmark

MS. Berlin 233

Summary

Includes letters from and copies of letters to:

(fols. 139-140, 158) James Billington

(fols. 172-177, 183-186, 207-210, 219-221) Jonathan Dancy, about the difficulty of moral choices in extreme situations

(fols. 2, 218) John Gray, about Gray's book on Berlin

(fols. 145-147, 241-243) Michael Ignatieff

(fols. 78-83) George Ireland, about a draft obituary of Sir William Hayter by Ireland

(fol. 254) Tatyana Matskovsky [a cousin], about the passage about alleged spying activities by Berlin in the Kostyrchenko book

(fols. 8-10, 77) John Russell, about an article on the Anna Akhmatova Museum in St Petersburg

(fol. 6) Elisabeth Sifton

(fols. 95-101, 115-116) Elinor and Robert Slater, about an intended entry about Berlin in a book on 'Great Jewish Men', including comments by Berlin on a draft entry, and answers to questions on his Jewish identity

(fols. 17-31, 85, 150-156, 159) Robert Wokler, about Gray's book on Berlin, including a draft of Wokler's review

(fols. 259, 262, 264-291, 294, 297-302) Bryan Wilson, about the setting up of the All Souls College Visiting Fellowships Scheme in the 1960s

(fols. 5, 13-14, 109-111) F.S. Worms, about Zionist politics in wartime Washington

with letters from

(fols. 86, 167, 258) Roger Hausheer

(fols. 194-195) Derek Hill

(fol. 263) Richard McKane

(fol. 135) Yehudi Menuhin, Baron Menuhin

(fol. 90) Anatoly Naiman

(fol. 253) Beata Polanowska-Sygulska

and a letter about:

(fols. 198-200) a passage about alleged spying activities by Berlin in the Soviet Union in 1945, in a book Imprisoned by the Red Pharaoh: Political Persecution of Jews in the USSR during Stalin's last decade by G. Kostyrchenko

Date

Jan.-June 1995

Language

English

Physical extent

304 Leaves