General correspondence

Title

General correspondence

Shelfmark

MS. Berlin 225

Summary

Includes letters from and copies of letters to:

(fols. 159, 172, 176) Alistair Cooke

(fols. 143-148) J.G.S. Donaldson, Baron Donaldson, about Donaldson's intended speech on the War Crimes Bill

(fol. 132) Aileen Kelly

(fols. 167-171) Marco Marzano, about questions put forward by Marzano on the fall of Communist regimes, Marxism, and liberalism

(fols. 180*, 182) Eric Moonman, about the integration of Jews into British Society in the early part of the 20th century, including comments by Berlin based on his own experience

(fols. 150-151, 156-158) Beata Polanowska-Sygulska, including remarks about the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union

with letters from

(fol. 66) Henry Brandon

(fol. 130) David Cairns

(fol. 112) Elena Chukovskaya

(fol. 81) D.M. Hopkinson

(fol. 104) D.P.T. Jay

(fol. 65) H.A. Kissinger

(fols. 12-29, 183) Richard McKane , about an essay in Russian by Mikhail Kralin on 'Sir Isaiah Berlin and the "Guest from the Future"' (by Anna Akhmatova)

(fol. 4) Anatoly Namian

(fol. 5) Yu Senokosov, discussing 'the English tradition and Russian history', with reference to Berlin

(fols. 95, 102, 131) Elisabeth Sifton

(fol. 155) Irving Singer

(fol. 173) R.O. Wilberforce, Baron Wilberforce

and letters about:

(fols. 56-57, 58-59, 70) an article about Boris Pasternak in the Times Literary Supplement, including draft of Berlin's published response to the piece

Date

Jan.-June 1990

Language

English

Physical extent

184 Leaves