DL/A-Z//BERGM - [Correspondence from Ingmar Bergman]
Reference code
DL/A-Z//BERGM
Level of description
File
Title
[Correspondence from Ingmar Bergman]
Date/s
01/09/1974-12/09/1974
Quantity & Format
2 Letters (typescript)
Personal name
Russell, Ken
Creator
Bergman, Ingmar
Scope and content
001 is a letter from Ingmar Bergman to Doris Lessing. He praises her in strong terms and asks to meet in order to discuss adapting one of her works into film. Mentions The Golden Notebook.
002 is a reply from Lessing to Bergman. She praises him in strong terms and suggests he might be interested in her new book The Memoirs of a Survivor, an English version of which she encloses. She mentions asking her Swedish publishers to forward a Swedish version to Bergman as soon as it is ready. She also suggests filming The Summer Before the Dark, which she states she "did see as a film, right from the beginning". Mentions that Ken Russell bought the rights to Briefing for a Descent Into Hell but had not filmed it.
002 is a reply from Lessing to Bergman. She praises him in strong terms and suggests he might be interested in her new book The Memoirs of a Survivor, an English version of which she encloses. She mentions asking her Swedish publishers to forward a Swedish version to Bergman as soon as it is ready. She also suggests filming The Summer Before the Dark, which she states she "did see as a film, right from the beginning". Mentions that Ken Russell bought the rights to Briefing for a Descent Into Hell but had not filmed it.
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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//BERGM - [Correspondence from Ingmar Bergman]
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DL/A-Z - [A-Z Correspondence of Doris Lessing]
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DL/2008 - Doris Lessing Archive 2008 deposit