DL/A-Z//ALT - [Correspondence with Lisa Alther]
Reference code
DL/A-Z//ALT
Level of description
File
Title
[Correspondence with Lisa Alther]
Date/s
03/06/1994-11/30/2006
Quantity & Format
3 Letters (typescript)
2 Fax
2 Postcards
2 Fax
2 Postcards
Creator
Alther, Lisa
Scope and content
Lisa Alther’s letters and cards to Doris Lessing mention Lessing’s autobiographies, The Grandmothers and The Cleft; also Alther’s travel plans and gardening.
002 is a letter from Lessing to Alther (carbon copy, 1 leaf, on the back of a 1st pass proof of page 252 of Sherwin B Nuland’s How We Die). Lessing refuses to provide a quote for Alther’s forthcoming book [likely Five Minutes in Heaven]: “It is not my kind of book.” She states that she has been criticised for “puffing” friends’ books and will not provide a quote for Tahir [Shah]’s book either. At the bottom she hand writes [for the benefit of the archive?]: “I thought the book 2nd rate. And the [items] of lesbianism. I always think the book is [illegible, 4 words]”
002 is a letter from Lessing to Alther (carbon copy, 1 leaf, on the back of a 1st pass proof of page 252 of Sherwin B Nuland’s How We Die). Lessing refuses to provide a quote for Alther’s forthcoming book [likely Five Minutes in Heaven]: “It is not my kind of book.” She states that she has been criticised for “puffing” friends’ books and will not provide a quote for Tahir [Shah]’s book either. At the bottom she hand writes [for the benefit of the archive?]: “I thought the book 2nd rate. And the [items] of lesbianism. I always think the book is [illegible, 4 words]”
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DL - Doris Lessing Archive
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DL/2008 - Doris Lessing Archive 2008 deposit
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DL/A-Z - [A-Z Correspondence of Doris Lessing]
- DL/A-Z//ALT - [Correspondence with Lisa Alther]
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DL/A-Z - [A-Z Correspondence of Doris Lessing]
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DL/2008 - Doris Lessing Archive 2008 deposit