More Affirming - supplementary letters 1975-1997

An online selection of the more significant letters to have emerged since the publication of Affirming: Letters 1975–1997 (London, 2015: Chatto and Windus; London, 2017, Pimlico)

• First posted 18 January 2019
• Last updated (i.e. this edition) 13 April 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, and where possible those about him:

• Included in this update is a letter (in Hebrew, with an English translation) from the Israeli historian Gavriel (‘Gaby’) Cohen to an unnamed correspondent, n.d., but possibly the Israeli politician and general, Yigal Allon, December 1975, in which Cohen reports on IB's meetings with officials, of varying degrees of seniority, from the US state department, and their view of the likelihood of war between Israel and Syria, and its possible consequences; there are letters here also from the Riga-born Harvard philosopher Judith Shklar, the US diplomat and historian George Kennan, and the writer and commentator David Pryce-Jones.

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