General correspondence
MS. Berlin 155
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Title
General correspondence
Shelfmark
MS. Berlin 155
Summary
Includes letters from and copies of letters to:
(fols. 94-5, 112-113, 125-126, 221-223, 294) Richard Pipes, discussing a proposed book on the Russian Intelligentsia, and about Boris Pasternak's Dr Zhivago
(fols. 281, 283, 290) Sir Leon Simon, about advising the Prime Minister of Israel on the formal definition of Jewish nationality
with letters from
(fol. 169) W.G.S. Adams
(fols. 89, 263) Michael Astor
(fols. 213, 230, 313) A.J. Ayer
(fol. 224) John Wheeler-Bennett
(fols. 56, 260) James Billington
(fol. 142) Norman Birnbaum
(fol. 171) T.S.R. Boase
(fols. 87, 265) Robert Boothby, Baron Boothby
(fols. 55, 69) G.E.G. Catlin
(fol. 219) Norman Chester
(fol. 41) Giles Constable
(fols. 132-133, 249) Robert Craft
(fol. 66) Margaret Deneke
(fol. 50) Sir Oliver Franks
(fols. 196-197) Sir Henry d'Avigdor Goldsmid
(fols. 91, 158) Philip Graham
(fol. 93) Boris Guriel
(fols. 11, 20-21) K.M. Halle
(fols. 316-317) Salome Halpern
(fols. 271b-271f) Raimund von Hofmannsthal, enclosing a copy of Berlin's points against a Boris Pasternak cover [on Time and Life]
(fol. 17) Lady Patricia Hornak
(fol. 305) William James
(fol. 191) D.P.T. Jay
(fols. 81, 90, 104, 114-116, 129, 231-233, 318-319) Sir Gladwyn Jebb, about reading Boris Pasternak's Dr Zhivago
(fol. 277) Sergey Konovalov
(fol. 62) Baronne Johanna Lambert
(fol. 321) Eugene Lampert
(fols. 207, 220) Peter Laslett
(fols. 198-203) J.F. Lively, discussing Berlin's essay on Joseph de Maistre
(fols. 29-30) M.E. Malia
(fols. 43, 52) Sir Simon Marks
(fol. 306) A.D. Momigliano
(fols. 247, 267) C.M. Monteith
(fol. 322) Iris Murdoch
(fol. 18) John Murray
(fol. 189) Sir Lewis Namier
(fol. 42) Elisabeth Niebuhr
(fols. 7, 205) C.D.W. O'Neill
(fols. 15-16, 327-331) Josephine Pasternak
(fol. 5) Elliott Perkins
(fol. 174) E.E. Evans-Pritchard
(fols. 60, 65, 107) Marc Raeff
(fol. 196) Sir Patrick Reilly
(fols. 147, 238-239) Nathalie Ridley
(fols. 204, 250) Baronne Alix de Rothschild
(fol. 326) Baron Guy de Rothschild
(fols. 310-311) F.A. Rumbold
(fol. 268) E.H. Samuel
(fol. 195) Meyer Schapiro, about Dr Zhivago and the award of a Nobel Prize to Boris Pasternak
(fol. 152) J.W. Scott
(fols. 98-100) Olive Sheldon, about corrections to a draft of Berlin's work on Joseph de Maistre
(fols. 34, 53) Dmitrii Shostakovich, about his visit to Oxford
(fols. 240, 256) Lydia Pasternak Slater
(fol. 185) Michel Strauss
(fol. 168) A.J.P. Taylor
(fols. 295-302) Philip Toynbee
(fol. 255) Franco Venturi
(fols. 143, 257) Mayir Vereté
(fol. 211) S.G. Warburg
(fol. 162) Evelyn Waugh
(fols. 258-259) Vera Weizmann
(fols. 12-13, 308-309) Edmund Wilson, about his article on Dr Zhivago
(fol. 173) E.F.L. Wood, 1st Earl Halifax
(fols. 177-178) Sir Ernest Woodward
and
(fols. 3b-3f, 74, 161-209 passim) letters about Berlin's essay on Richard Pares, including a draft of Sir Lewis Namier's essay on the same topic
(passim) comments on Boris Pasternak and Dr Zhivago
Date
June-Dec. 1958
Language
English
Physical extent
347 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
