More Flourishing - supplementary letters 1928-1946

An online selection of the more significant letters to have emerged since the publication of Flourishing: Letters 1928-1946  (London, 2004: Chatto & Windus; London, 2005)

• First posted 20 January 2019
• Last updated (i.e. this edition) 13 June 2025

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 13 letters from IB's friend and contemporary, the Oxford philosopher A. J. Ayer, all but one written in the 1930s: the exception is from March 1940, when Ayer wrote from the Guards Depot at Caterham, in Surrey, where he underwent preliminary training with 16 Coy. Coldstream Guards

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