DL/A-Z//AFRICAN - [Correspondence with Charles Larson of African Skies Library Foundation]

DL/A-Z//AFRICAN

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[Correspondence with Charles Larson of African Skies Library Foundation]

20/09/1999-22/06/2001

5 Letters (typescript and MS)

African Skies Library Foundation

Correspondence between Charles Larson and Doris Lessing. Larson invites Lessing to join the International Advisory Board of the African Skies Library Foundation and donate (which she does). Eventually he informs her that the foundation has shut down for lack of funds.

001 is a letter from Larson to Lessing. He mentions Lessing’s “Books for the Hungry” in Index on Censorship 1999. Mentions Larson’s Under African Skies and the National Peace Corps Association’s WorldView.

003 is a letter from Larson responding to Lessing’s criticism of his The Ordeal of the African Writer. Mentions Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions and the film Neria. Mentions Ngugi wa Thiong’o in the context of Marxism. Mentions Chinua Achebe. Blames bad press regarding AIDS for lack of foundation funding.

004 is a letter from Larson inviting Lessing to dine with him in Washington D.C. at some date around her reading on 14/09/2000.