DL/A-Z//ARTS - [Correspondence with the Arts Council of Great Britain]
DL/A-Z//ARTS
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[Correspondence with the Arts Council of Great Britain]
14/10/1991-19/12/1996
8 Letters (typescript)
001 is a letter from Antonia Byatt of the Arts Council of Great Britain to Doris Lessing. Byatt asks Lessing if she would be willing to sit on a board that will review the output of magazines funded by the Arts Council, as well as areas in publishing that might benefit from Arts Council funding. The other people being asked to join include Derek Johns and Lorna Sage. Attached to the letter is a list of the magazines funded by the Arts Council. 002 is a reply from Lessing to Byatt, indicating that she is interested ("I care very much about small magazines") but that she is very busy, including judging the Independent Foreign Novel Prize.
003 is a letter from the Arts Council to confirm Lessing's attendence to a lunch in honour of Chinua and Christie Achebe on 26/01/1993. 004 is a letter from the Arts Council to Lessing inviting her to a special literary luncheon on 07/09/1993. Lessing hand writes "Salman R" [Salman Rushdie?].
005-008 are letters from the Arts Council to Lessing making invitations and arrangements for luncheons in the Board Room at the Arts Council from 1996 to 1997. Grey Ruthven, 2nd Earl of Gowrie, Mary Sophia Allen and Jenny Murray are among the named attendees.
003 is a letter from the Arts Council to confirm Lessing's attendence to a lunch in honour of Chinua and Christie Achebe on 26/01/1993. 004 is a letter from the Arts Council to Lessing inviting her to a special literary luncheon on 07/09/1993. Lessing hand writes "Salman R" [Salman Rushdie?].
005-008 are letters from the Arts Council to Lessing making invitations and arrangements for luncheons in the Board Room at the Arts Council from 1996 to 1997. Grey Ruthven, 2nd Earl of Gowrie, Mary Sophia Allen and Jenny Murray are among the named attendees.
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DL/A-Z - [A-Z Correspondence of Doris Lessing]
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DL/2008 - Doris Lessing Archive 2008 deposit