Camille R. Honig
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Camille R. Honig
Classmark: BC MS 20c Herbert Read/12/283
Related People: Sir Herbert E. Read(Recipient); Isaiah Berlin(Sender)
Site Location(s): Created in - Blexleyheath, London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom ( 51.4527, 0.128837 )
Date(s): 1965 - 1968
Size and medium: 1 file
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/705075
Collection group(s): Herbert Read Collection
Description
This file contains letters to Herbert Read from Camille R. Honig, as well as letters regarding Honig from correspondents including Isaiah Berlin.
Honig founded the International Martin Buber Society and Institute in 1965, for which he asked Read to be a sponsor. Read initially accepted but asked for his name to be removed from the list after receiving a letter from the Buber family. The family advised that they had not been consulted about the foundation, and that many people listed as sponsors had not given their consent.
A letter from 1968 to Herbert Read from a company owed money by Honig, suggests that his name continued to be associated with the society.
In a letter to Read regarding the situation, Isaiah Berlin advises that he has managed to remove his own name from the list of sponsors. He writes of Honig: 'I too am sorry for him - he is no doubt an imposter, but not a terribly wicked one; but ther is no doubt that we must all steer absolutely clear of him.'
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