DL/A-Z//ARV/2 - [Correspondence with the Arvon Foundation 1990-1999]

DL/A-Z//ARV/2

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[Correspondence with the Arvon Foundation 1990-1999]

03/01/1990-28/04/1999

5 Letters (typescript and MS)
1 Pamphlets
1 Poem
1 Press cuttings
5 Postcards
1 Notes (MS)
2 Invitation

Hughes, Ted
Orchard, Carol
Pease, David
Plath, Sylvia

Arvon Foundation

015 is a postcard from Carol Orchard to Doris Lessing, referring to a planned "Arvon dinner" which Lessing will attend [on 05/02/1990?].

016 is a postcard from Ted Hughes to Lessing, refering back to "that dinner" [the same as 001?].

017 is a postcard from Hughes to Lessing dated 10/03/1992. "Thanks for the note. Nice to hear from you. What does [illegible] say: 'Obstacles are opportunities"?"

018 is a note by Lessing referring to 017: "Wrote a brief letter (5?) offering help if useful – said I was appalled at the continual persecution. 15.3.92" [presumably the 'persecution' is details of Hughe's relationship with Silvia Plath].

019 is a postcard from Hughes to Lessing: "The apprentice piece book is waddling slowly towards–"

020 is an invitation from the Arvon Foundation to Penelope Mortimer's Garden, open 07/09/1996.

021 is a letter from Robin Chichester-Clark of the Arvon Foundation to Lessing requesting that she write an article for the Arvon Newsletter. Chichester-Clark hand writes "It is really very impertinent". Lessing hand writes "Please say no, politely".

022 is a pamphlet for the Arvon Foundation Development Appeal.

023 is a letter from the Arvon Foundation to Lessing inviting her to attend a Charity Race Meeting on 18/05/1997.

024 is an invitation to the Arvon Foundation Charity Race Evening on 18/05/1998. Lessing hand writes "no".

025 is a form letter from David Pease to Lessing inviting her to participate in the Arvon Foundation 1999 Mini-Saga Competition.

026 is a photocopied article from the Daily Telegraph including the results of the Arvon Foundation's previous Mini-Saga Competition. Entries are included by Ruth Rendell, Beryl Bainbridge, Fay Weldon and A.S. Byatt.

027 is a letter from Lessing to Pease regarding the Mini-Saga Competition: "I hope this little piece is suitable."

028 is Lessing's submission to the Mini-Saga Competition, entitled "An Escape". [quotable]

029 is a postcard from Pease to Lessing, thanking her for her entry to the Mini-Saga Competition.

030 is a letter from Pease to Lessing, thanking her for her entry to the Mini-Saga Competition.