Also not said in the letter: "therefore also we chose to turn in the Berkeley faculty, staff, and students who anybody ever complained once about, so the government can deport them or whatever"

Thank you, I'm really flattered!

You should! It was great.

They have a strong record of supporting Indigenous applicants (including in linguistics, though the bulk of grants are in science fields). You can see all past grant recipients here: www.amphilsoc.org/grants/lewis...

I share your intuition, and surely it has been rare, but interestingly it is also documented continuously from the late 1500s to the present. (Ryland, 1780: "He searched up all the Hebrew copies he was able, and burnt them.")

www.oed.com/dictionary/s...

There's an unsurprisingly icky obituary at the icky "Heritage and Destiny" site. ("He founded Northern World, a cultural, non-political Journal of North European Friendship, with the particular goal of promoting reconciliation between the closely related nations of Northern Europe.")

Oddly, Wikipedia doesn't even note Pearson's death (though it was a couple of years ago).