General correspondence
MS. Berlin 167
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Title
General correspondence
Shelfmark
MS. Berlin 167
Summary
Includes letters from and copies of letters to:
(fols. 163, 178, 199) Norman Birnbaum
(fol. 176) W.G. Eytan
(fols. 158, 166) J.R. Hicks
(fols. 47, 76) Raimund von Hofmannsthal
(fols. 60, 81, 160, 170) R.F. Kahn
(fols. 187-190, 277-278) John Keegan, discussing Berlin's The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy 's View of History
(fols. 169, 180, 192, 194-195) Sergey Konovalov
(fols. 46, 88, 98) Peter Laslett
(fols. 93-95, 149, 177, 235) Baruch Litvin, about Litvin's intended publication (opposed by Berlin) of Berlin's response to David Ben-Gurion on the question of the technical definition of a Jew
(fols. 228-229, 248-249) Arthur Lourie
(fols. 20, 89-90, 151-153, 182-184, 238-240) V.P. Mehta, about Mehta's article on Oxford in the New Yorker
(fols. 1, 19) Dame Marie Rambert
(fols. 6, 117) I.M. Sieff
(fols. 96-97, 148, 159) Sir Leon Simon
(fols. 167-168) B.M.H. Tripp
(fols. 242, 274, 287) Sir Mortimer Wheeler
(fols. 1, 74) Sir Isaac Wolfson
with letters from
(fol. 208) William Clark
(fol. 234) Martin Gilbert
(fols. 34-37) Boris Guriel, enclosing data for Berlin's article on Weizmann
(fol. 297) K.M. Halle
(fol. 31) Salome Halpern
(fols. 154-155) D.M. Hopkinson
(fols. 267-268) Joan Moore, Countess of Drogheda
(fol. 256) Josephine Pasternak
(fol. 207) Bertrand Russell, 3rd Earl Russell
(fol. 255) George Steiner
and letters about:
(fols. 73, 78, 115, 119, 134-144) Berlin's review of E.H. Carr's What is History?
(fols. 83, 104, 178) Ernst Bloch's invitation to Oxford
(fols. 96-97, 148, 159, 244-249) a controversy over the election of a new President of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
(fols. 167-169, 180, 192, 224-225, 285-286) a proposed visit to Oxford by Korney Chukovsky
Date
Jan.-Feb. 1962
Language
English
Physical extent
297 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
