General correspondence
MS. Berlin 214
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Title
General correspondence
Shelfmark
MS. Berlin 214
Summary
Includes letters from and copies of letters to:
(fols. 33-34, 47) Roger Bowen, about Bernard Spencer
(fols. 102-105, 138-139) R.W. Childers, about Anna Akhmatova
(fols. 91, 93-94) John Gray
(fols. 38-42, 51-53, 95-96, 101) Amanda Haight
(fols. 8-9, 12, 14-15) Rosamund Lehmann, about the death of Goronwy Rees and reminiscences of him
(fols. 16, 21, 182, 195-196) Edward Mendelson, about W.H. Auden
(fols. 56-68, 78, 154-162, 297-299) Sidney Morgenbesser, on his review of Berlin's Against the Current
(fols. 227–229, 292-293) Dita Shklar, about Anna Akhmatova, Boris Pasternak, Herzen and Machiavelli
(fols. 43-46, 54) Lydia Pasternak Slater
(fols. 92, 97-98, 113-116) Anne [-], about Bernard Berenson
with letters from
(fol. 272) Raymond Aron
(fols. 230-232) Sir John Balfour
(fol. 286) Henry Brandon
(fols. 85, 152, 212) M.G. Brock
(fol. 48) Joseph Brodsky
(fol. 276) John Clive
(fol. 289) Edward Crankshaw
(fol. 257) J.G.S. Donaldson, Baron Donaldson
(fol. 194) Michael Foot, about Berlin's work on Disraeli
(fol. 240) Patrick Gardiner
(fols. 249, 283) Nahum Goldmann
(fol. 244) Miriam Gross
(fols 119-121) Peter Halban
(fols. 253-4, 270-271) Richard Cobb
(fols. 280-281) Avraham Harman
(fol. 215) F.J.H. Haskell
(fols. 36, 73-76) E.C. Hodgkin
(fols. 117-118) Gladwyn Jebb, 1st Baron Gladwyn
(fol. 223) James Joll
(fol. 275) Aileen Kelly
(fol. 50) G.F. Kennan
(fol. 252) Sir Robert Mayer
(fol. 250) A.J.P. Taylor
(fols. 144-146) Joan Moore, Countess of Drogheda
(fol. 225) Sir Claus Moser
(fols. 27-28) Josephine Pasternak
(fol. 209) Dimitri Obolensky
(fol. 35) Bertell Ollman
(fol. 210) D.F. Pears
(fols. 13, 80, 178) A.M. Quinton
(fol. 166) Gideon Rafael
(fols. 205, 300-304) A.J. Ryan, including a draft of Ryan's review of Berlin's Personal Impressions
(fol. 232b) L.B. Schapiro
(fols. 106-112, 179) J.H. Stallworthy, enclosing translations of Boris Pasternak's verse
(fol. 143) Gleb Struve
(fols. 24-25, 32) Giorgio Tagliacozzo
(fol. 290) J.B. Wain
(fol. 216) Sir Leonard Wolfson
and letters about:
(passim) Berlin's lecture and article on Anna Akhmatova and Boris Pasternak
(fols. 206-304 passim) Berlin's Personal Impressions
Date
1980
Language
English
Physical extent
309 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
