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Corrections to Personal Impressions
Corrections to the 2018 Pimlico edition
The third edition (Princeton University Press [PUP], 2014) was completely revised throughout, with the addition of eleven further essays. It was reprinted with further corrections by Pimlico (2018). So translations should be made from the Pimlico reprint, with the following additional changes:
| Page | Line | For | Read |
| i | 11 | Marx, | Marx, The Age of Enlightenment, [roman commas] |
| 3–1 up | the first […] letters. | all those listed above, and a four-volume edition of his letters. 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). | |
| i [Pimlico] / ii [PUP] | paragraph on Hermione Lee | [replace with:] | Professor Dame Hermione Lee was President of Wolfson College, Oxford, 2008–17. She was Founding Director of the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing at Wolfson, and is Emeritus Professor of English Literature in the English Faculty at Oxford. Her books include biographies of Virginia Woolf, Edith Wharton, Penelope Fitzgerald and Tom Stoppard. |
| v | [add subtitle under title:] | Twentieth-Century Portraits | |
| vi | 15 | The Isaiah | The Trustees of the Isaiah |
| xiii | 9 | 38, | 38 (right), |
| The Isaiah | The Trustees of the | ||
| 10 up | The Isaiah | The Trustees of the | |
| 9 up | V. Slavinsky | V. I. Slavinsky | |
| The Isaiah | The Trustees of the | ||
| 6 up | The Isaiah | The Trustees of the | |
| 5 up | 39, | 38 (left), 42, courtesy of Anna Akhmatova Museum, Fountain House, St Petersburg (42, gift of Aline Berlin); 39, | |
| 3–1 up | ; 42, […] Berlin) | [delete] | |
| xxviii | 14 up | trip | trip’ |
| 12 up | Embassy’. | Embassy.3 | |
| 9 up | USSR.)3 | USSR.)4 | |
| 1 up | the first footnote to the essay reads: | in his acknowledgements Berlin writes: | |
| note 2, 2 | Soph'ya | Sof'ya | |
| [insert new note 3] | Von Zitzewitz, op. cit. (xxii/2, on xxiii), 16. | ||
| 9 up and existing note 3 | [renumber note 3 as note 4] | ||
| xxix | 7 | recall | can recall |
| them. | them.1 | ||
| [add new note:] | 1432. | ||
| 10 and note 1 | [renumber note 1 as note 2] | ||
| xxxvii | 6 up | ten | eleven |
| xxxix | 14 | Roosevelt’: | Roosevelt’ began life as a radio talk delivered on the BBC Third Programme on 12 April 1955, the tenth anniversary of FDR’s death; it was first published in the |
| (1955), | (1955), and | ||
| 15 | Eyes’, | Eyes’ in the | |
| 23 | 2 up | doucer | douceur |
| 49 | after line 4 | [insert postscript:] | Postscript, 6 May 1955 This talk was prepared before the recent publication of the Yalta documents, but they seem to me to add nothing of significance to our knowledge of the President’s character or motives. In these days, when his detractors speak as if all that remained visible are his feet of clay, it is perhaps worth reiterating that his faults and errors as a statesman were the consequences of his virtues. He trusted the Soviet leaders and credited them with good intentions because the motives of those who denounced Stalin appeared to him prejudiced. He was certainly mistaken; but so were a very great many persons, both in the US and in Britain, whose uncritical enthusiasm for the Soviet Union also sprang from their (partly correct but, alas, misleading) belief that it had been misrepresented to them by reactionaries and ex-Communists. Roosevelt’s breezy anti-imperialism, which occasionally took reckless forms, his belief that the Russians were at bottom good fellows, if a little rough, who could be cajoled into harmonious cooperation with the democratic world, and, above all, his conviction that personal contact between him and the head of the Soviet State could always settle everything – all these opinions came from too generous and simple a view of his own powers and of the human qualities of others. If he had lived, he might, as so often before, himself have provided the swiftest and most effective correctives of his own gigantic aberrations. |
| 211 | 3 up | Harbour | Harbor |
| 223 | 4 | Mr Roosevelt | Roosevelt |
| 255 | note 1, 3 (on 256) | Schreiemusik | Schreimusik |
| 414 | note 1, 2 | [prime not apostrophe in pis′ma] | |
| 438–40 | [Pimlico edition only] | [remove mistaken page break on 438, which displaces the remainder of the essay: 438 should continue until the fifth line up on 439, ending ‘being strangers’, the remaining text following on 439] | |
| 450 | note 1 | 450 | 43 |
Corrections to the 2014 PUP edition
The following corrections to the 2014 PUP edition were made in the 2018 Pimlico edition:
| Page | Line | For | Read |
| iii [PUP] / iv [Pimlico] | [add at end:] | Affirming: Letters 1975–1997 | |
| xxiii | 10 | second | third |
| 23 | 2 up | plaisir | douceur [but see above] |
| note 1 | [replace with this:] | ‘Celui qui n’a pas vécu au dix-huitième siècle avant la Révolution ne connaît pas la douceur de vivre.’ [‘Anyone who has not lived in the eighteenth century before the Revolution does not know the sweetness of living.’] La Confession de Talleyrand (1754–1838) (Paris, 1891), 57. | |
| 81 | 5 up | 1936 | 1937 |
| 111 | 2 up | Ouspensky | Uspensky |
| 380 | 13 up | this: the | this. The |
| 414 | [substitute new version of photo] | ||
| [substitute new caption:] | Akhmatova photographed by Ida Moiseevna Nappel'baum, 28 September 1945, at Nappel'baum’s Leningrad apartment, 7 Rubinstein Street; Akhmatova ‘willingly stood by the bookshelf, and I took her picture with an old camera, with a row of books in the background’;1 | ||
| [add new note:] | 1 Ida Nappel'baum, ‘Fon k portretu’, in Inna Inavovna Slobozhan (ed.), Ob Anne Akhmatovoi: stikhi, esse, vospominaniya, pis'ma (Leningrad, 1990), 197–213 at 206. The photograph is reproduced from the original glass negative. | ||
| [move text (8 lines) to 415 (below image), reducing size of image to fit] | |||
| 424 | 7–8 | war, when they were both being evacuated to cities in Uzbekistan. | war in Tashkent, where they were both evacuated. |
| 432 | at foot | [insert:] | I wish to acknowledge my gratitude to Miss Amanda Haight, Dr George Katkov, Dr Aileen Kelly, Dr Robin Milner-Gulland, Professor Dimitri Obolensky, Mr Peter Oppenheimer, Mrs Josephine Pasternak, Mrs Lydia Pasternak-Slater, Mr John Simmons and Mrs Patricia Utechin, all of whom were kind enough to read the first draft of this account. I have greatly profited by their suggestions, nearly all of which I have followed. For all the faults that remain, I am, of course, solely responsible. I have never kept a diary, and this account is based on what I now remember, or recollect that I remembered and sometimes described to my friends during the last thirty or more years. I know only too well that memory, at any rate my memory, is not always a reliable witness of facts or events, particularly of conversations which, at times, I have quoted. I can only say that I have recorded the facts as accurately as I can recall them. If there is documentary or other evidence in the light of which this account should be amplified or corrected, I shall be glad to learn of it. I.B. 1980. |
| 474 | Lewis, Clarence Irving | World Order | World-Order |
| 477 | Ouspensky | Ouspensky | Uspensky [and move entry to 481 after ‘Urquhart’] |
| 480 | Seifullina | [take back ’383’] | |
| Shuvalov | [insert new entry after:] | Simon, Francis, 328 | |
| Stalin | Jugashvili | Jughashvili |