Corrections to Building: Letters 1960–1975
All the corrections listed are present in the Pimlico paperback edition (which should therefore be used for translations), except those in this colour, which should also be incorporated in future impressions and in translations. Corrections marked * apply only to the English-language edition.
| Page | Line | For | Read |
| i | 11 | Marx, | Marx, The Age of Enlightenment, [roman commas] |
| 11–8 up | – including […] (2009). | (co-)edited many other books by Berlin, including all those listed above, as well as the four-volume edition of his letters that the present volume inaugurates. He is co-editor of The One and the Many: Reading Isaiah Berlin (2007), editor of The Book of Isaiah: Personal Impressions of Isaiah Berlin (2009), and author of In Search of Isaiah Berlin: A Literary Adventure (2018). | |
| last | http://berlin.wolf.ox.ac.uk/ | https://isaiah-berlin.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/ and http://berlin.wolf.ox.ac.uk/ | |
| ii | 1 | By | by |
| 15 | of Enlightenment | of the Enlightenment | |
| 16 | its | Its | |
| iv | 12 | The Isaiah | The Trustees of the Isaiah |
| vii | 1 | ix | x |
| 2 | xii | viii | |
| 1–2 | [invert] | ||
| ix | 9 up | Dmitry | Dimitri |
| ix–xi | [renumber as x–xii] | ||
| xi | plate 27 | unknown | Stephen Grounds |
| xii | [move to become viii–ix: centre diagram on viii and print list in two columns on ix] | ||
| xii | [Add following entries and darken numbers in relevant vignettes:] | 2. N. I. Mikhailov 6. Jesus, Simon Peter 11. Policeman and demonstrator, Jerusalem 12. Reinhold Niebuhr 16. Niccolò Paganini 25. Gracchus Babeuf 26. Dmitry Shostakovich 31. V. M. Garshin 32. N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov 35. Brian Urquhart, Yitzhak Shamir 36. Apple-seller, Emily Davies, Elizabeth Garrett, J. S. Mill (Bertha Newcombe) 37. IB (back row, third from left) in India 47. Charles de Gaulle, Dwight D. Eisenhower (obscured) 51. Harry Levin 52. Pope Paul VI 54. Grand Choral Synagogue, St Petersburg 58. Thomas Balogh 59. Mesopotamian ruler, 3rd millennium BC |
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| [no. 28] | (right) | with workers | |
| [no. 50] | [add at end:] | with their wives | |
| 4 | note 3 | b. 1915 | 1915–2014 |
| 7 | [delete note 4 and cue] | ||
| 5 | note 5 | (b. 1922), great-grandson | (1911–96), grandson |
| 8 | note 7, 1 | b. 1927 | 1927–2019 |
| 10 | note 2, 1 | b. 1923 | 1923–2015 |
| note 3, line 1 | Anne Gilmour | Anne Gilmour Fisher | |
| 11 | note 2, 1 | b. 1919 | 1919–2021 |
| 13 | note 1, 1 | b. 1925 | 1925–2015 |
| note 5, 1 | b. 1929 | 1929–2016 | |
| 23 | note 2, 1 | b. 1917 | 1917–2016 |
| 28 | note 3 | b. 1920 | 1920–2014 |
| 34 | note 3, 1 | b. 1926 | 1926–2016 |
| 46 | note 3, 1 | b. 1933 | 1934–2023 |
| 58 | note 3, 1 | b. 1936 | 1936–2024 |
| 68 | note 2, 1 | b. 1934 | 1934–2021 |
| note 3, 1 | b. 1926 | 1926–2019 | |
| 75 | note 2, last | [‘last judgement’] | [“last judgement”] |
| 82 | note 3, 3 | b. 1923 | 1923–2019 |
| 85 | notes 6–9 | [renumber text cues and notes as 1–4] | |
| new note 1 | b. 1930 | 1930–2020 | |
| new note 3, 1 | b. 1923 | 1923–2005 | |
| 89 | note 2, 1 | 1986 | 1906 |
| 92 | note 1, 1 | b. 1936 | 1936–2015 |
| 96 | note 1, 1 | b. 1920 | 1920–2017 |
| note 3, 1 | b. 1923 | 1923–2015 | |
| 102 | note 2, 1 | b. 1938 | 1938–2015 |
| 104 | note 3, 1 | b. 1925 | 1925–2022 |
| 107 | note 1, 1 | b. 1924 | 1924–2020 |
| 109 | note 3 | b. 1927 | 1927–2015 |
| 109 | note 5 | [replace with:] | Martin Gilbert (92/1). Gilbert and Richard Gombrich became good friends as undergraduates at Magdalen; when Gombrich later studied at Harvard on a Harkness Fellowship 1961–3, they undertook a road trip across America together. |
| 110 | note 3, 2 | b. 1921 | 1921–1999 |
| note 3, 4–5 | née Joxe (b. 1929). | Marianne Isabelle (1929–2020) née Joxe. | |
| 113 | note 2, 3 | b. 1926 | 1926–2015 |
| 115 | note 4, 1 | b. 1921 | 1921–2017 |
| 120 | 4 up | Washington | Washington chez Joe Alsop (2720 Dumbarton Street) |
| 132 | note 3, 1 | b. 1912 | 1912–2017 |
| 136 | note 1, 1 | b. 1933 | 1933–2019 |
| 153 | 5 | тoлко | толко |
| 155 | note 3, 1 | b. 1942 | 1942–2017 |
| 166 | note 2, 1 | [replace with:] | 1925–2014 |
| 167 | note 2, 1 | b. 1925 | 1925–2014 |
| 181 | note 4, 1 | b. 1930 | 1930–2017 |
| 191 | note 2, 1 | b. 1929 | 1929–2017 |
| 199 | note 1, 2–3 | wife’s name was Mar(i)a (b. 1905/6) | wife was Mara née Aronstamm (1902–88) |
| note 2, 1 | b. 1928 | 1928–2021 | |
| note 3, 1 | b. 1922 | 1922–2014 | |
| 203 | 8 up | [add note after ‘vivre,’:] | ‘Sweetness of living’. |
| 212 | note 1, 1 | b. 1920 | 1920–2021 |
| 223 | note 1, 1 | Burlington | Burlington House |
| *225 | 14–13 up | memo-rial | memor-ial |
| 228 | note 2, 1–2 | b. 1919 | 1919–2021 |
| 231 | note 1, 1 | Dmitry | Dimitri |
| note 3, 1 | b. 1924 | 1924–2017 | |
| 234 | note 6, 2 | b. 1930 | 1930–2017 |
| 243 | 3–2 up | [do not break ‘W. E.’] | |
| 247 | 17 up | director | head |
| 252 | note 1, 1 | b. 1940 | 1940–2022 |
| 253 | note 4, 1 | b. 1917 | 1917–2015 |
| 254 | note 1, 2 | b. 1924 | 1924–2020 |
| 269 | note 1, 1 | author | was probably the author |
| 275 | note 2, 4 up | 10 April 1954 | 1 September 1953 |
| 281 | note 2, 1 | b. 1922 | 1922–2016 |
| 289 | note 1, 1 | b. 1930 | 1930–2021 |
| 303 | note 2, 1 | b. 1934 | 1934–2023 |
| note 3, 1 | b. 1928 | 1928–2023 | |
| 306 | 7 up | his | this |
| 311 | note 2, 1 | b. 1927 | 1927–2019 |
| then and now | [delete] | ||
| 320 | note 1, 1 | b. 1924 | 1924–2017 |
| note 7, 1 | b. 1932 | 1932–2019 | |
| 321 | note 1, 1 | b. 1922 | 1922–2013 |
| 323 | note 3, 1 | b. 1926 | 1926–2018 |
| note 5, 1 | b. 1930 | 1930–2021 | |
| 333 | note 2 | b. 1919 | 1919–2019 |
| 335 | note 1, 3 up | Series B, vol. 2 | Series B |
| 341 | note 2, 1 | b. 1921 | 1921–89 |
| 342 | note 2, 1 | b. 1921 | 1921–89 |
| 358 | 5 | postcard | manuscript postcard |
| 362 | note 3, 1 | b. 1933 | 1933–2017 |
| 367 | note 4, 1 | b. 1928 | 1928–2016 |
| 368 | note 1, 1 | b. 1923 | 1923–2018 |
| 370 | note 4, 1 | b. 1916 | 1916–2013 |
| 373 | note 2, 5 | 1966 | 1965 |
| note 2, last | b. 1933 | 1933–2018 | |
| 377 | note 2, 1 | b. 1921 | 1921–2016 |
| 379 | note 2, 2 | b. c.1923 | b. 1923 |
| 390 | note 1, 4 | b. 1915 | 1915–2017 |
| 400 | note 4 | b. 1917 | 1917–2018 |
| 403 | note 3, 1 | b. 1939 | 1939–2018 |
| 416 | note 4, 1 | b. 1925 | 1925–2016 |
| 417 | note 1 | [substitute the following:] | The title of a 1937 tract by Stephen Spender, calling for internal reform of the USSR along more liberal lines; published in London by Victor Gollancz’s Left Book Club. |
| note 2, 1 | b. 1929 | 1929–2020 | |
| 418 | 12 | [if?] | [if] |
| 14 | who, by this time were, I think | who by this time were, I think, | |
| note 1, 1 | b. 1929 | 1929–2021 | |
| 419 | 4 up | peace and the whole | peace and [a solution to] the whole |
| 432 | note 1, 7 | is | are |
| 438 | note 4, 1 | b. 1916 | 1916–2015 |
| 439 | 4 | mediaeval | medieval |
| 454 | note 2, 1 | b. 1928 | 1928–2020 |
| note 3, 1 | b. 1937 | 1937–2022 | |
| 458 | note 1, 1 | b. 1919 | 1919–2016 |
| 460 | note 5 | [add at end:] | Poem without a Hero, third dedication, line 18: cf. L1 597. See also 599 below. |
| 468 | note 2, 1 | b . 1914 | 1914–2014 |
| 469 | 12 | [carbon] | [delete] |
| 470 | 8 | [Isaiah] | Isaiah |
| 481 | note 2, 1–2 | Emperor of Germany | German Emperor |
| 485 | note 1, 1–2 | director […] 2010 | chief editor, New Left Books, 1969–74 |
| 490 | 9 | isskustva | iskusstva |
| 502 | note 1, 1 | b. 1937 | 1937–2020 |
| 507 | note 1, last | 599 | 600 |
| 519 | note 1, 1 | b. 1910 | 1910–2015 |
| note 2, 1 | b. 1926 | 1926–2019 | |
| 558 | note 2, 1 | 1953 | 1952 |
| 564 | note 4, 2 | 1997 | 1974 |
| 571 | note 1, 1 | b. 1932 | 1932–2023 |
| 573 | note 1, 1 | b. 1925 | 1925–2011 |
| 574 | note 1, 1 | b. 1925 | 1925–2011 |
| 588 | note 1, 1 | b. 1922 | 1922–2015 |
| note 2, 1 | b. 1927 | 1927–2022 | |
| 592 | note 2, 1 | b. 1920 | 1920–2020 |
| 595 | note 4, 1 | b. 1923 | 1923–2015 |
| 598 | note 1, 2 | sung | sang |
| note 1, 5 | [close up two spaces in URL] | ||
| 599 | note to p. 68, 1 | b. 1932 | 1932–2014 |
| note to p. 162, 3 | b. 1925 | 1925–2013 | |
| [add after note on p. 424:] | p. 460 [addition to note 5] IB confuses Cinque with A Sweetbriar in Blossom, whose second poem speaks (lines 4–6) of ‘the cigar’s blue smoke, / And the mirror in which, as in clear water, / You could now be reflected’: cf. Poem without a Hero, part 1, chapter 1, ‘The White Hall’, lines 3–6. | ||
| 611 | 15 | Albergo | Rome for a day (planned but not confirmed); then Albergo |
| 614 | after 12 April entry | [insert new entry:] | 24 April Lectures on ‘Expressionism in the Eighteenth Century: A New Aesthetic and Social Doctrine’ at Ohio State University |
| 618 | after line 4 | [insert new entry:] | 30 September Tenure of Chichele chair ends |
| 622 | after line 2 | [insert new entry:] | 8 & 9 March Lectures at Princeton |
| 625 | 2–3 | Gauss Seminars | Christian Gauss Seminars in Criticism |
| 631 | Berlin, Aline, 1 | b. 1915 | 1915–2014 |
| 633 | Brock, 1 | b. 1920 | 1920–2014 |
| Brock, 2 up | b. 1921 | 1921–2020 | |
| 640 | Silvers, 1 | b. 1929 | 1929–2017 |
| 642 | Walicki, 1 | (b. 1930 in Warsaw), | (1930–2020), born in Warsaw |
| 643 | White, 1 | Gabriel (b. 1917), | Gabriel (1917–2016) né Weisberger, |
| 651 | Ashcroft | Dame Peggy | Peggy |
| 657 | Bundy | director | head |
| 660 | Elvin | 596 | 596 |
| 661 | *Gerschenkron, Alexander | [take over ‘528’] | |
| Gilbert, Felix | [delete entry] | ||
| Gilbert, Martin | 92 | 92, 105 | |
| 662 | Gretton | 596 | 596 |
| 665 | Jacobs | 485 | 485, 524 |
| 666 | Lambert | 596 | 596 |
| 667 | Levi | 596 | 596 |
| 669 | Murari […] | [delete entry] | |
| Nabokov, Claude Thérèse | Thérèse | Thérèse Marianne Isabelle | |
| 670 | Obolensky | Dmitry | Dimitri |
| 675 | Simmons, John […] | 171 | 171, 296 |
| 679 | White, Morton | Gabriel | Gabriel (né Weisberger) |