Corrections to Enlightening: Letters 1946–1960

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i 11 Marx, Marx, The Age of Enlightenment, [roman commas]
8–6 up edited […] (2009). (co-)edited many other books by Berlin, including all those listed above, as well as the four-volume edition of his letters to which the present volume belongs. 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).
4 up researcher and genealogist researcher, genealogist and biographer
3 up with Henry Hardy (with Henry Hardy)
2 [insert below:] https://isaiah-berlin.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/
ii [replace whole list with new list, centred line for line:] Also by Isaiah Berlin
*
Karl Marx
The Hedgehog and the Fox
The Age of Enlightenment
Russian Thinkers
Concepts and Categories
Against the Current
Personal Impressions
The Crooked Timber of Humanity
The Sense of Reality
The Proper Study of Mankind
The Roots of Romanticism
The Power of Ideas
Three Critics of the Enlightenment
Freedom and Its Betrayal
Liberty
The Soviet Mind
Political Ideas in the Romantic Age
Unfinished Dialogue
(with Beata Polanowska-Sygulska)
*
Flourishing: Letters 1928–1946
Building: Letters 1960–1975
Affirming: Letters 1975–1997
iv 3 The Isaiah The Trustees of the Isaiah
xi 9 000 p. 486, note 4
13 note 9, 1 Rabbi Possibly Rabbi
note 16, 3 b. 1911 1911–2001
21 note 1, 1 b. 1923 1923–2017
28 note 4, 1 Lord Francis Aungier (‘Frank’) Pakenham (1905–2001), Francis Aungier (‘Frank’) Pakenham (1905–2001), Baron Pakenham 1945,
31 note 5, 1 b. 1916 1916–2011
32 note 8, 1 b. 1886 1880–1958
33 note 4, 1 Vladimir Konstantin Simić (b. 1897) Vladimir Simić (1894–1974)
36 note 6, 2 1934–44; 1934–44 (thereafter Distinguished Fellow);
42 8 volume of his part of his war
11 [<draft manuscript> and transcript made for Churchill] [delete]
13 < [delete]
15 could testify can testify,
15–16 overpopulation overcrowding
16 & and
my College my own teeming College
has has,
17 civilized civilised
18 > [delete]
19 re-arrangements rearrangements
note 4, 1 [insert at beginning] Book I of
note 4, 2 draft text proof
note 4, 2–3 about it […] Papers. a long report on it to Churchill (now available in bit.ly/e-supp), also writing comments on the proof. Churchill Archive, CHAQ/2/3/14.
note 5, 2–4 Martin […] trace. Churchill Archive, CHAQ/2/3/5/17.
43 14 War war
note 1, 3 Rise rise
note 1, 3–4 Gilbert […] either). Churchill Archive, CHAQ/2/3/14/3.
44 1 thirties 1930s
11 > [delete]
12 grateful I am to have been allowed to see this work greatly I appreciate the opportunity of seeing this great work
13 how great an honour and a what an honour and
14–15 are now completely recovered & that I may one day be allowed to see you again. have now fully recovered, and need not add that if there is anything further that you would like me to do, I should be only too ready to do it.
16 Yours very yrs
17 > [delete]
16 [insert at end of line, flush right] CHAQ/2/3/16, fos 16–17
note 2, 2 Service Services
48 note 1, 1 Lord (Alexander Dunlop) Alexander Dunlop
50 note 1 [replace existing note with the following:] Abdul Majid Taji Farouki (1912–86), son of a wealthy Palestinian landowner; New College PPE 1932–5 (L1 102/11).
55 note 2, 1 b. 1924 1924–2017
note 3, 1 b. 1922 1922–2013
56 note 6, 1 b. 1919 1919–2016
59 note 4, 1 b. 1917 1917–2013
note 4, 1 b. 1912 1912–80
66 note 1, 3 War war
71 note 1, 1 b. 1920 1920–2021
72 note 4, 1 b. 1915 1915–2014
note 4, 3 War war
79 11 take rake
80 note 3, 1 1880–60 1880–1960
87 note 1, 1 b. 1925 1925–2010
note 8, 1 b. c.1922 1922–2000
90 5 up [carbon] [delete]
91 last to whom for whom
92 1 devotion sense of loyalty
6 [insert new line after:] [double indent] Isaiah Berlin
10 publish anything that would [delete]
106 note 7, 1 b. c.1918 1917–2013
111 note 2, 1 b. 1922 1921–2011
112 7 asymptomatic asymptotic
note 4 b. 1912 1912–2017
115 note 9, 1 b. 1914 1914–2012
120 note 7, 3 literarure literature
note 9, 1–2 critic; a disciple of Chernyshevsky (like him imprisoned) who critic who
122 note 5, 1 Dmitry Dimitri
124 note 5 b. 1927 1927–2010
127 note 9 David David Peter
128 20 say see
135 note 7, 1 George Fischer (b. 1923) George Uri Fischer (1923–2005)
note 7, 3 City Universities the City University of New York
139 note 2, 1 b. 1923 1923–2011
note 2, 3 b. 1926 1926–2014
141 note 3, 1 b. 1915 1915–2015
143 note 5, 1 Dmitry Petrovich Mirsky (1890–1939), Prince Dmitry Petrovich Svyatopolk-Mirsky (1890–1939), pen-name D. S. Mirsky,
144 note 1, 1 4 December 24 December
145 note 6, 1 b. 1917 1917–2016
148 note 1, 1 philospher philosopher
150 note 1, 1 b. 1920 1920–2010
160 note 1, 1 b. 1928 1928–2009
170 note 3, 1 Presumably the concert by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at the Albert Hall on 1 March, in which the Given by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in the Sheldonian Theatre on 9 February. The
179 note 3 [replace existing note with the following:] On 26 April Kennan began to dictate what was already, when he broke off, a long and thoughtful critique of the article, which he eventually sent, still incomplete, to IB on 19 June. IB did not reply until 13 February 1951 (213–20).
203 note 1, 1 b. 1919 1919–2013
204 6 up [First line of Hebrew should be flush right]
note 1, 6–7 Beachcomber [...] 1924–75. No use by Beachcomber (J. B. Morton) of the remark IB cites has been traced; rather it appears to have been coined by Gordon Beckles (Daily Express, 5 March 1929, 8).
212 17 [May] April
20 expounded written
220 note 1, 1 1842 1942
note 3, 3 Catalina (Cataline Catilina (Catiline
224 running head [centre date]
225 running head [centre date and insert missing folio]
228 note 4, 1–2 (the US equivalent of All Souls) (the rough equivalent of All Souls in the US)
229 note 2, 1 b. 1916 1916–2013
230 note 2, 1 b. 1925 1925–2015
232 note 2, 2 born in London, pace IB. specialist in Roman law.
241 note 1, 2 1945–55. 1945–55; like Wheare, an Australian.
245 note 2 H. M. Thornton Hermann Mumm Thornton
256 note 2, 1 Barsov (b. c.1917) Porfir′evich Barsov (1917–50)
note 2, last 1949. 1949. He was shot in 1950.
259 note 1, 1 b. 1931 1931–2015
264 note 3 life living
267 note 2, 1 b. 1925 1925–2011
271 note 1, 3 (Oxford, 1953), v (Preface). (Oxford, 1953), v (Preface).
273 last & and &
276 note 1, 1 b. 1925 1925–2010
295 note 1 [add at end:] In a letter of 10 October 1922 Harold Laski wrote to Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr, of ‘dons who spent most of their days in that state of resentful coma that they dignified by the name of research’; he repeated the epigram in a letter to the same correspondent of 1 March 1925, referring to ‘that state of resentful coma we call research’. Holmes–Laski Letters: The Correspondence of Mr Justice Holmes and Harold J. Laski 1916–1935, ed. Mark DeWolfe Howe (Cambridge, Mass., 1953), 454, 716. Since this volume was published in the year in which IB wrote this letter to MacBride, it seems safe to assume that it is his (direct or indirect) source.
305 note 1, 2 b. 1926 1926–2010
306 note 1 b. 1928 1928–2014
312 note 8 b. 1922 1922–2023
313 note 7 b. 1919 1919–2012
note 10 [replace existing note with the following:] Agnes Mongan (1905–96), curator of drawings, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard, 1947–75 (assistant director 1951–64; associate director 1964–8; director 1969–71).
315 note 8, 2 1944 1943
358 20 [add note cue 2 after ‘inactivity).’]
[add new note 2:] 2 See 295/1.
361 note 1, 1 (b. c.1906) et Courmeyer (1905–79)
363 note 2, 1 b. 1930 1930–2017
note 3, 1 b. 1927 1927–2019
note 4, 1 b. 1929 1929–2020
378 12 up [typed transcript of untraced original] [delete]
380 note 3 453/4. 453/4. In Terrorism and Communism (Petrograd, 1920) – p. 63 in the English translation The Defence of Terrorism (London, 1920) – Trotsky writes: ‘As for us, we were never concerned with Kantian-priestly, vegetarian-Quaker chatter about “the sanctity of human life”.’
383 note 2, 1 b. 1929 1929–2018
note 5, last b. 1916 1916–95
384 note 1, 1 b. 1933 1933–88
395 8 Elliot Eliot
16 Elliot Eliot
21 Elliot Eliot
note 1, 1 Elliot Eliot
406 note 2, 1 b. 1928 1928–2016
407 note 2, 3 2005) 2005),
409 13 positives positivists
410 note 8, 1 b. 1924 1924–2012
412 note 1, 1 b. 1918 1918–2012
423 note 1, 1 While Taylor A. J. P. Taylor
note 1, 2 his review but his review
note 2 life.’ living’.
426 note 3, 3–4 the former […] Cressida. mother of IB’s friend Jasper, husband of VBC’s daughter Cressida. See also 193/3, 245/3, 315/8, 372/2.
430 note 1, 1 b. 1924 1924–2014
432 note 2 life.’ living’.
note 5, 1 b. 1919 1919–2021
447 note 2, 1 b. 1917 1917–2015
449 14–13 up these kind these kinds
458 note 6, 1 b. 1925 1923–2021
464 note 3, 1 b. 1926 1926–2018
466 note 1, 1 b. 1917 1917–2018
469 note 3, 1 b. 1915 1915–2014
482 7 up writer of writer on
492 note 1 Tape MI MI Tape
499 note 10, 1 b. 1917 1917–2012
501 note 2 b. 1921 1921–2009
509 note 4, 1–2 Chicago University the University of Chicago
512 8 who whom
516 note 4, 3 b. 1936 1936–2021
521 note 3, 1 b. 1926 1926–2012
528 note 2, 2 Massachusetts Mass.
529 note 1, 1 b. 1920 1920–2009
539 note 1, 2 ‘empirik’ “empirik”
540 note 7, 2 Celestine Célestine
542 note 2, 1 b. 1922 1922–2022
543 note 1, 1 b. 1926 1926–2016
552 note 1, 1 b. 1932 1932–2020
note 2, 1 b. 1933 1933–2011
note 3 b. 1936 1936–2024
563 note 1, 1 Gerold Tanquary Robinson (1892–1971), Slavic studies specialist; Geroid Tanquary Robinson (1892–1971), historian of Russia;
567 note 7, 2 1951. 1951; Namier, A. J. P. Taylor and Trevor-Roper were rivals for the post.
576 note 3, 1 Bronman Bronfman
578 note 3, 1 b. 1927 1927–2016
note 4, 1 b. 1929 1929–2021
579 note 1, 2–3 [delete ‘(and the Mason Hammonds)’]
590 note 5, 1 b. 1929 1929–2016
600 22 [insert note cue 3 after ‘local library.’]
5 up [replace note cue 3 with note cue 4]
notes [insert new note 3 above current note 3:] In fact the Codrington Library at All Souls.
note 3 [renumber as note 4]
601 note 4, 1 b. 1915 1915–2011
603 1 provisional provincial
note 6 1979 1879
611 note 10 b. 1926 1926–2011
613 note 1, 1 b. 1921 1921–2017
616note 2euphemism for causingHebrew expression meaning to cause
618 note 3, 1 b. c.1911 1911–78
note 5, 1 b. 1922 1922–2014
620 note 2, 1 b. 1929 1929–2011
624 note 3, 1 b. 1925 1925–2011
626 note 1, 1 b. 1927 1927–2009
637 note 1 Y. Yury Nikolaevich
639 12 [insert new note cue 2 after ‘first violin’ and renumber current note cues 2 and 3 as 3 and 4]
notes [renumber current notes 2 and 3 as 3 and 4 and insert new note 2 as follows:] Presumably Manoug Parikian (1920–87), Leader, Philharmonia Orchestra, 1949–57, thereafter soloist; he had performed Shostakovich’s violin concerto and spoke Russian.
644 note 2, 1 b. 1923 1923–2018
648 note 1, 1 b. 1923 1923–2015
649 note 1, 1 b. 1929 1929–2015
note 2, 1 1926 1926–2015
661 note 4, 3 (‘Susan’) (‘Susan’) Hunter
664 11 Morgan Mongan
677 note 1, 1 b. 1932 1932–2020
679 10 up four-three four–three
685 note 1, 1 b. 1919 1919–2013
691 note 1, 1–2 Emperor of Germany German Emperor
704 12 up [insert note cue 2 after ‘hand.’]
notes [insert new note 2 below current note 1:] Sibyl Colefax’s writing was notoriously illegible.
706 note 3, 2 Costello Costelloe
711 note 3, 1 b. 1926 1926–2019
713 note 2, 1 b. 1916 1916–2015
716 note 3, 1 b. 1926 1926–2010
note 4 b. 1931 1931–2020
note 6, 1 b. 1928 1928–2015
717 note 4, 1 b. 1928 1928–2020
718 note 1 [replace existing note with the following:] See 847.
note 3 b. 1918 1918–2016
730 note 1 b. 1905 1905–96
731 note 2, 2 b. 1917 1917–2017
734 note 2, 1 Peter Paul Stephen Brook (b. 1925) Peter Stephen Paul Brook (1925–2022)
735 note 10, 1 b. 1926 1926–2015
736 5 MOORE DROGHEDA
739 note 4, 1 b. 1910 1910–2008
760 running head 15 JULY 1960 THE INTELLECTUAL LIFE OF AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES
789 Churchill, (Anne) Clarissa, 1 b. 1920 1920–2021
792 Halban, Aline, 1 b. 1915 1915–2014
Halban, Hans, 4 up Els Fanny (Fanny) Ella (‘Els’)
Halban, Hans, 4–3 up b. c.1912 1912–2014
793 Hart, Jenifer, last line (1998). (1998), in which she admits to Communist affiliations and contact with a Russian spymaster during the 1930s.
795 Morgan, 1 b. 1924 1924–2017
Morgan, 2 up b. 1922 1922–2013
796 8 b. 1925 1925–2010
9 Brot (b. 1921) Brot-Moisset (1921–99)
c.1945 1941
797 Rowse, 4 Huntingdon Huntington
Schlesinger, 2 up b. 1912 1921–2017
c.1936 1936
799 White, 1 b. 1917 1917–2016
803 Eytan, Walter [126/244b–c] [Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs]
note 1 [indent as style and reduce typesize to match text]
804 Kennan, George [[123/41–7], 212 (CT) [ibid.], [123/41–7], 212 (CT) [ibid.], 213 [216/146–52],
805 Weizmann, Chaim 23 n3 24 n3
808 Amritsar 52 51
Annan 201, 285, 261, 285, 290,
812 Bevin, Ernest; policy towards Israel 52, 53, 52,
815 Buxton, (Edward) John Mawby 781 78
col. 1 Byron, George Gordon, Lord Byron, Lord (George Gordon)
817 col. 2 Costello Costelloe
819 col. 2 Elliot, Charles William 395 Eliot, Charles William 395 [and move entry up to precede that for George Eliot]
820 col. 1 [insert below Farouk entry:] Farouki, Abdul Majid Taji, 50 n1
823 Hampshire, Stuart Newton adores IB’s The Hedgehog and the Fox adores Barbara Warner’s sexual magnetism
Sketch . . . 427 n5; Sketch . . . 472 n5;
824 col. 2 Hornak, (Christine Mary) Odile [delete entry]
825 col. 1 [delete both Hourani entries]
826 Khrushchev 639 n2 639 n4
Kilmuir, Sir David Patrick Maxwell Fyfe 641–2 642
828 Loginov Y. Yury Nikolaevich
Longford, 7th Earl of Lord Francis Francis
829 Mirsky Petrovich Petrovich Svyatopolk-
830 col. 1 Morgan, Agnes Mongan, Agnes [and move entry to precede Monnet]
832 Obolensky Dmitry Dimitri
col. 2 Pakenham, Lord Francis Aungier (‘Frank’) Pakenham, Francis Aungier (‘Frank’), Baron Pakenham
[insert below Pareto entry:] Parikian, Manoug, 639 n2
834 col. 2 Robinson, Gerold Robinson, Geroid
837 Shostakovich 523 523; violin concerto, 639 n2
839 Sunday Times; ‘Atticus’ column on IB’s TV broadcast 639 n2 639 n4
842 White, Morton Gabriel Gabriel (né Weisberger)
847 [insert the following, styled as on p. 694 of Flourishing:]
SUPPLEMENTARY NOTE

The information given here came to our attention too late for it to be included in its proper place.

p. 718Almost certainly Donald Bradley Somervell (1889–1960), Baron Somervell of Harrow 1954, barrister and Conservative politician; Attorney-General 1936–45; Lord Justice of Appeal 1946–54; Lord of Appeal in Ordinary 1954–60. Elected a Fellow of All Souls in 1912, he was at the time of this letter dying of cancer.

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