The Isaiah Berlin Catalogue

Enlightening: Letters 1946–1960, ed. Henry Hardy and Jennifer Holmes (London, 2009, Chatto and Windus; London, 2011: Pimlico)

• letter of 28 June 1958 to Rowland Burdon-Muller repr. as ‘Shostakovich at Oxford’, New York Review of Books, 16 July 2009, 22–3 (see also Bib.263 above), and in facsimile in Stephen Hebron, Marks of Genius: Masterpieces from the Collections of the Bodleian Libraries (Oxford, 2014: Bodleian Library Publishing), cat. 80, 237–41 at 238–41
• other extracts in Prospect, June 2009, 80

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Excerpts from 2 letters in La Vanguardia, 6 June 2009, 44

More Enlightening - supplementary letters 1946-1960

An online selection of the more significant letters to have emerged since the publication of Enlightening: Letters 1946–1960 (London, 2009, Chatto and Windus; London, 2011: Pimlico)

• First posted 30 January 2019
• Latest updated (i.e. this edition) 6 March 2024

The four published volumes of Berlin's letters focus on the outgoing letters, i.e. those written by him. Where we have the other side of the correspondence, and have been able to secure the necessary copyright permission, the online supplements will now also include a selection of the more important letters written to Berlin.

• This update includes letters from IB to his wife, Aline, written in the 1950s; Sir Winston Churchill's communications to IB for this period; and IB to David Pryce-Jones, nd 1957, in which he comments on Evelyn Waugh.

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