Brev till Felix Frankfurter, 23 augusti 1937. Isaiah Berlin beskriver oenigheterna inom hans college angående förslaget att bjuda in Bertrand Russell till Oxford under en termin. Det fanns många som var ytterst fientliga till detta förslag, framförallt med tanke på Russells radikalism och okristliga moral. . .
My conversation with the Warden [of All Souls college] I cannot reproduce, it was absolutely wonderful: he plainly hates Russell & all connected with him, but finally said ‘I suppose, at bottom, he is a very lovable kind of man?’ really I didn’t know what to say. I might have said, I suppose, ‘Many women appear to have found him so, sir’ but didn’t, only just though.
Björn Östbring 