Superbly readable and revealing letters, full of malice and gossip,
from a master historian When they met in 1947 Trevor-Roper, a young
historian at Christ Church, Oxford, was 33. Berenson, the
world-famous art critic, was 82, frail but still intensely curious
about the world. Trevor Roper promised to write to him and his
letters continued until Berenson's death in in 1959. Elegantly
constructed, beautifully and precisely written, they are shot
through with high-octane malice, sharp judgements and blistering
comments, and many wonderfully funny episodes. Trevor-Roper was an
intellectual heavyweight, but subjects range widely: several
brilliant set-pieces on Oxford college elections, books,
journalism, publishing, politics (postwar Europe, ex-Nazis and
collaborators, the Cold War, Suez, etc), history and
history-writing, personal life (including marriage to Earl Haig's
daughter Alexandra after her messy divorce), travel, gossip, and so
on. He has a memorable journey on a pilgrims' bus in Persia, goes
behind the Iron Curtain to meet Communist dignitaries and speeds in
his glamorous grey Bentley to visit duchesses in the Scottish
borders. Figures in the letters include Evelyn Waugh, Isaiah
Berlin, A.L. Rowse, Anthony Eden, Gerald Brenan, A.J.P.Taylor,
Arnold Toynbee, Dimitri Shostakovitch, C.S. Lewis and Harold
Macmillan.
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