DL/A-Z//BEEC/2 - [Correspondence with Jack Beeching 1992-2002]
Reference code
DL/A-Z//BEEC/2
Level of description
Sub-file
Title
[Correspondence with Jack Beeching 1992-2002]
Date/s
28/12/1986-09/01/2002
Quantity & Format
4 Letters (typescript and MS)
1 Manuscripts
2 Press cuttings
1 Greetings cards
1 Notes (MS)
1 Invitation
1 Manuscripts
2 Press cuttings
1 Greetings cards
1 Notes (MS)
1 Invitation
Creator
Beeching, Jack, 1922-2001
Scope and content
013 is a letter from Jack Beeching to Doris Lessing. He discusses Spinoza, Rumi, and Lessing's work, focusing on The Good Terrorist and The Fifth Child. Discusses his family life in France.
014 is a letter from Beeching to Lessing. He discusses his health, and his latest writing projects, including an [unpublished] work called The End of England – "the Bulawayo/St Leonards novel" – a planned novel called Europe in the Evening and a poetry collection called The Invention of Love.
015 is a letter from Beeching to Lessing. He mentions a researcher named Andy Croft who is working on a book about Randall Swingler. He assumes Lessing wants to be excluded from this research.
016 is a letter from Beeching to Lessing: "Such a pleasure to glimpse your live Christmas spark across the dark void." He mentions his work routine and his health. He describes the experience of "becoming history" as an old communist. "Tom McGrath's [widow] gets invited to posh Eastern colleges to tell the young what it was like to be a c*mm*n*st in the 30's and 40's. As if we have lived it down." Mentions Randall Swingler
017 is the manuscript of the poetry collection "Marking Time" [unpublished under this title]. It includes 14 poems.
018 is a clipping from Page 113 of the Partisan Review, Jan-Feb 1997. It is a review of Beecher's The Invention of Love by Charles Hobday.
019 is a handwritten greetings card from Beeching to Lessing. He describes his failing health, dialysis and encroaching blindness. He mentions Poems 1940-2000.
020 is a handwritten note from Beeching to Lessing, inviting her to attend the launch of Poems 1940-2000. Mentions Lessing's family sickness.
021 is an invitation to the launch of Poems 1940-2000 in Waterstones Bookshop, Earl's Court, London.
022 is a clipping from The Independent, 09/01/2002. It is an obituary of Jack Beeching by Mary Corbett.
014 is a letter from Beeching to Lessing. He discusses his health, and his latest writing projects, including an [unpublished] work called The End of England – "the Bulawayo/St Leonards novel" – a planned novel called Europe in the Evening and a poetry collection called The Invention of Love.
015 is a letter from Beeching to Lessing. He mentions a researcher named Andy Croft who is working on a book about Randall Swingler. He assumes Lessing wants to be excluded from this research.
016 is a letter from Beeching to Lessing: "Such a pleasure to glimpse your live Christmas spark across the dark void." He mentions his work routine and his health. He describes the experience of "becoming history" as an old communist. "Tom McGrath's [widow] gets invited to posh Eastern colleges to tell the young what it was like to be a c*mm*n*st in the 30's and 40's. As if we have lived it down." Mentions Randall Swingler
017 is the manuscript of the poetry collection "Marking Time" [unpublished under this title]. It includes 14 poems.
018 is a clipping from Page 113 of the Partisan Review, Jan-Feb 1997. It is a review of Beecher's The Invention of Love by Charles Hobday.
019 is a handwritten greetings card from Beeching to Lessing. He describes his failing health, dialysis and encroaching blindness. He mentions Poems 1940-2000.
020 is a handwritten note from Beeching to Lessing, inviting her to attend the launch of Poems 1940-2000. Mentions Lessing's family sickness.
021 is an invitation to the launch of Poems 1940-2000 in Waterstones Bookshop, Earl's Court, London.
022 is a clipping from The Independent, 09/01/2002. It is an obituary of Jack Beeching by Mary Corbett.
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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]
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DL/A-Z//BEEC - [Correspondence with Jack Beeching]
- DL/A-Z//BEEC/2 - [Correspondence with Jack Beeching 1992-2002]
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DL/A-Z//BEEC - [Correspondence with Jack Beeching]
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DL/A-Z - [A-Z Correspondence of Doris Lessing]
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DL/2008 - Doris Lessing Archive 2008 deposit
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