What happens when someone less instinctively sympathetic to Toynbee engages with someone more sympathetic.
Toynbee did not, I feel, dash off his letters to Cary-Elwes with publication in mind. Perhaps the big guns should be trained on the Study of History, not a mere letter. See the Comments after this post:
December 27 2007 at 6:06 pm
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