Identity area
Reference code
Beaton/A/A1/51
Unique identifier
GB 275 Beaton/A/A1/51
Title
Sir Isaiah Berlin. Typescript letter signed to Eileen Hose, Beaton's secretary, from Oxford.
Date(s)
- 23 Sep. 1955 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent and medium
1p Typewritten paper
Context area
Name of creator
(1909-1997)
Biographical history
Philosopher, political theorist, historian of ideas.
Repository
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Thanks Eileen Hose for sending proofs of photographs that Beaton took of him. Asks if he could also be sent larger prints of some of the photographs. Sends Beaton his love and writes that he was 'torn by horror at my own features and admiration for his devastating art'. Praises Beaton.