General correspondence, 1981

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MS. Berlin 216

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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