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General correspondence, July-Dec. 1990; n.d. [c.1980-190]

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MS. Berlin 226
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Includes letters from and copies of letters to:

  1. (fols. 18, 41) N.O. Brown
  2. (fols. 71-75, 86-87, 92-93) Michael Crum, including discussion on music
  3. (fols. 26-31, 77) Freda Jackson, about a magazine to be compiled by the Oxford Jewish Congregation for its 150th anniversary, including a draft contribution by Berlin on his early experiences as a Jew in Oxford
  4. (fol. 122) John Murray
  5. (fols. 108-109, 123-124) Sir Karl Popper
  6. (fols. 107, 112) Louis Rapoport
  7. (fols. 110-111, 119, 125-129) Kyril Zinovieff, including discussion of events in the Soviet Union and Berlin's pleasure at the survival of the Russian Intelligentsia, about anti-semitism in the Soviet Union and elsewhere, and the political situation in Israel

with letters from

  1. (fol. 132) Sir Hugh Casson
  2. (fol. 165) Lord David Cecil
  3. (fol. 21) Alistair Cooke
  4. (fols. 44, 184) J.G.S. Donaldson, Baron Donaldson, including comments on the Gulf War
  5. (fol. 167) Amanda Haight
  6. (fol. 20) Henry Hardy
  7. (fols. 23-25) Rex Harrison
  8. (fol. 106) Roger Hausheer
  9. (fol. 42) D.M. Hopkinson, about the death of Maire Gaster
  10. (fols. 50, 62, 64) Robert Rhodes James, about his intended biography of Robert Boothby
  11. (fol. 168) Kiri Te Kanawa
  12. (fols. 139-140) Richard McKane
  13. (fols. 36, 169-171) Sir Claus Moser
  14. (fols. 63, 116, 163-164) Anatoly Naiman, including discussion of Anna Akhmatova
  15. (fol. 43) Dame Iris Origo
  16. (fols. 175-177) A.M. Quinton, Baron Quinton
  17. (fols. 117-118) M.H. Thatcher
  18. (fols. 83-85) J.B. Wain
  19. (fol. 179) B.A.O. Williams

and letters about:

  1. (fols. 32-33, 37-38, 40, 44-45, 49, 55, 65-66, 69, 80-81, 88-89, 95, 106, 110, 121-122) Berlin's The Crooked Timber of Humanity , especially the work on Joseph de Maistre

Dates

  • Creation: July-Dec. 1990; n.d. [c.1980-190]

Extent

188 Leaves

Language of Materials

  • English

Shelfmark

MS. Berlin 226

Arrangement

Undated letters arranged alphabetically

Repository Details

Part of the Bodleian Libraries Repository

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