General correspondence, Jan.-June 1995

File

MS. Berlin 233

Includes letters from and copies of letters to:

(fols. 139-140, 158) James Billington
(fols. 172-177, 183-186, 207-210, 219-221) Jonathan Dancy, about the difficulty of moral choices in extreme situations
(fols. 2, 218) John Gray, about Gray's book on Berlin
(fols. 145-147, 241-243) Michael Ignatieff
(fols. 78-83*) George Ireland, about a draft obituary of Sir William Hayter by Ireland
(fol. 254*) Tatyana Matskovsky [a cousin], about the passage about alleged spying activities by Berlin in the Kostyrchenko book
(fols. 8-10*, 77*) John Russell, about an article on the Anna Akhmatova Museum in St Petersburg
(fol. 6) Elisabeth Sifton
(fols. 95-101*, 115-116*) Elinor and Robert Slater, about an intended entry about Berlin in a book on 'Great Jewish Men', including comments by Berlin on a draft entry, and answers to questions on his Jewish identity
(fols. 17-31, 85, 150-156*, 159*) Robert Wokler, about Gray's book on Berlin, including a draft of Wokler's review
(fols. 259*, 262*, 264-291*, 294*, 297-302*) Bryan Wilson, about the setting up of the All Souls College Visiting Fellowships Scheme in the 1960s
(fols. 5*, 13-14*, 109-111) F.S. Worms, about Zionist politics in wartime Washington

with letters from

and a letter about:

(fols. 198-200*) a passage about alleged spying activities by Berlin in the Soviet Union in 1945, in a book Imprisoned by the Red Pharaoh: Political Persecution of Jews in the USSR during Stalin's last decade by G. Kostyrchenko