General correspondence, Nov.-Dec. 1953

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MS. Berlin 136

Held at the Weston Library

Includes letters from and copies of letters to:

(fols. 103, 155) Ian Bowen, including comments by Bowen on the death of Dylan Thomas, whom he knew slightly as an undergraduate
(fols. 127-129, 175, 335-337, 433-440) Lord David Cecil
(fols. 391-392) Norman Chester
(fols. 270, 311) John Clive
(fols. 131-132, 222-228, 372) Bill Deakin
(fol. 91) Geoffrey Faber
(fol. 242) Anne Fremantle
(fol. 325) Sir Gladwyn Jebb
(fols. 264-5) C.K.M. Kluckhohn
(fols. 54, 99, 151, 291, 402) P.E. Mosely
(fols. 45-49, 118-121, 191-192, 230, 232, 312, 367, 409) M.F. Perham, about the offer of the Wardenship of Nuffield College to Berlin, extended by Perham as Senior Fellow
(fols. 302, 347) Chaim Raphael
(fols. 373-374) the Sunday Times, about Berlin's contribution to Books of the Year, including a draft
(fols. 168-169, 246-247) L.B. Schapiro
(fols. 326-327, 395, 410) E.J. Simmons
(fol. 87) Sir Leon Simon
(fols. 104, 123, 196, 266-267, 293, 370) Solly Zuckerman

with letters from

and letters about:

(fols. 1-270 passim) a party organised in New York by Berlin and Raymond Bonham Carter, for Lady Violet Bonham Carter
(fols. 69-71, 76-77) Mendel Berlin's medical treatment for leukaemia
(fols. 127-392 passim) the offer of the Nuffield College Wardenship to Berlin
(fols. 395-429 passim) the sudden deterioration in Mendel Berlin's health, Isaiah's urgent return to Britain from the United States, and Mendel's death, including letters of condolence

Dates

473 Leaves

MS. Berlin 136

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