General correspondence
MS. Berlin 216
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Title
General correspondence
Shelfmark
MS. Berlin 216
Summary
Includes letters from and copies of letters to:
(fols. 254-255*, 259) ariel, about proposed revisions to Berlin's article on Talmon
(fols. 27, 173-174*, 180, 243) Nahum Goldmann, discussing Zionist activities in wartime Washington
(fols. 188*, 190*, 202-204*, 213-214*) John Grigg, about Einstein's attitude to Zionism, and on Berlin's Zionism
(fols. 267-268) Peter Halban
(fols. 187*, 199, 212) the Observer, about Einstein's attitude to Zionism
(fols. 64-65*, 127-128*) Arieh Harell, about Tolstoy
with letters from
(fols. 287-288) Susan Mary Alsop
(fols. 9, 178) Raymond Aron
(fols. 293-294) John Bayley, about Kant, and the play of consciousness
(fol. 239) M.G. Brock
(fol. 46) James Callaghan
(fol. 292) Lord David Cecil
(fols. 43-44, 193) Lidiya Chukovskaya, about Berlin's reminiscences about his meetings with Anna Akhmatova and Boris Pasternak, and about Korney Chukovsky's centenary
(fols. 113-114) John Clive
(fols. 20, 57-58) Olivia Constable
(fols. 8, 30-31) Alistair Cooke
(fol. 275) Edward Crankshaw
(fol. 284) Max Fisch, about Vico
(fols. 3-4) Ann Fleming
(fol. 7) Michael Foot
(fol. 98) Gideon Rafael
(fol. 90) K.M. Halle
(fol. 33) Philippe Halban
(fols. 262-263) Richard Cobb
(fols. 36, 49) Avraham Harman
(fol. 264) T.L. Hodgkin, about a 'birthday book' for Maire Gaster
(fol. 38) Roman Jakobson
(fol. 171) D.P.T. Jay
(fol. 228) G.F. Kennan
(fol. 32) Yehudi Menuhin
(fol. 200) Joan Moore, Countess of Drogheda
(fols. 233-235) Agnes Headlam-Morley
(fols. 260, 265) Sir Claus Moser
(fols. 238, 297) Iris Murdoch
(fols. 10-12, 34-35, 142) Ursula Niebuhr
(fol. 53) Bertell Ollman
(fols. 91-93) Dame Iris Origo
(fol. 220b) Josephine Pasternak
(fol. 299) A.M. Quinton
(fol. 98) Gideon Rafael
(fol. 48) L.B. Schapiro
(fols. 18, 129) Elisabeth Sifton
(fol. 257) Gleb Struve, about Anna Akhmatova
(fol. 282) Lucy Syson, about a 'birthday book' for Maire Gaster
(fol. 88) M.P. Tree
(fol. 291) Diana Trilling
(fols. 66-85*) Sir Siegmund Warburg, enclosing a translation of an article by Gershom Shocken on Zionism
(fol. 5) Hugh Seton-Watson
(fols. 289-290*) Bill Weinstein, about J.P. Plamenatz
(fols. 110-111, 245-246, 277-278) B.A.O. Williams
and letters about:
(fols. 1-2*, 3-4, 6-8*, 19-20*, 23-24*, 26*, 46*, 51-52, 60, 88-93, 113, 117, 125-126, 171*, 221*, 233-235*, 304-305) Berlin's Personal Impressions
(fols. 59, 96-97, 104, 275, 277-280, 287-288, 298, 302) the performance and publication of A Month in the Country, translated by Berlin
(fols. 181-185) an International Conference in honour of Andrei Sakharov, including a short appreciation by Berlin of Sakharov
(fols. 195-197, 200, 205, 207-211, 215-217, 225-226) Berlin's television interview with Bernard Levin
Date
1981
Language
English
Physical extent
307 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
