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

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MS. Berlin 226

Includes letters from and copies of letters to:

(fols. 18, 41) N.O. Brown
(fols. 71-75*, 86-87, 92-93*) Michael Crum, including discussion on music
(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
(fol. 122) John Murray
(fols. 108-109, 123-124) Sir Karl Popper
(fols. 107, 112) Louis Rapoport
(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

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

and letters about:

(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