Underrated: Søren Kierkegaard

Frances Weaver — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 15:29:34 +0100

Author:Daniel Johnson

At Home with the Letwins' Salon

Frances Weaver — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 11:38:24 +0100

Author:Charles Moore

They created something tremendous: Bill and Shirley Letwin with Margot Walmsley and Peter Vansittart

Kingsley Amis, A.J. Ayer, Keith Joseph, Friedrich von Hayek, Sybille Bedford, Peregrine Worsthorne, Elie Kedourie, John Gross, V.S. Pritchett, Frank Johnson, Irving Kristol, Maurice Cowling, Ferdinand Mount, Michael Oakeshott, Colin Welch and Daniel Bell were all people whom I met for the first time at 3, Kent Terrace, the house in Regent's Park lived in (though not, to their regret, owned) by Bill and Shirley Letwin. With little money, excellent cooking (Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking was the Bible) and endless ingenuity, Shirley and Bill, two American academics in London, created something tremendous.

Philosophy

Underrated: Søren Kierkegaard

At Home with the Letwins' Salon