Letters between Isaiah and his parents
MS. Berlin 297
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Letters between Isaiah and his parents
Shelfmark
MS. Berlin 297
Summary
Includes:
(fols. 1-25) correspondence while Berlin was at Harvard University as a Visiting Lecturer and at Bryn Mawr to give the Flexner Lectures, 1952
(fols. 1-6, 13, 16-17) discussion of the new Wardenship election at All Souls College, owing to the illness of Sir Hubert Henderson, 1952
(fols. 2, 6-8) references to T.S. Eliot's accusations of an insult to him in Berlin's articles in the Jewish Chronicle, 1952
(fols. 36-39) comments on Berlin's broadcast lectures on ' Freedom and its Betrayal', 1952
(fols. 67-106) correspondence while Berlin was at Harvard University as a Visiting Lecturer, including references to Mendel Berlin's health, 1953
(fols. 85-106) discussion of the offer to Berlin of the Wardenship of Nuffield College, 1953
Date
1952-1953; n.d. [1928-1953]
Language
English
Physical extent
169 Leaves
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Collection contents
Papers of Sir Isaiah Berlin, 1897-1998, with some family papers, 1903-1972
Correspondence and papers
Family correspondence
Correspondence between Isaiah Berlin and his parents, Mendel and Marie Berlin
Letters between Isaiah and his parents
Letters between Isaiah and his parents
