DL/A-Z//CHENN - [Correspondence with Ives Mabin Chenneviere]

DL/A-Z//CHENN

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[Correspondence with Ives Mabin Chenneviere]

1996

2 Letters (typescript and MS)

Chenneviere, Ives Mabin
Lessing, Doris May, 1919-2013

2 items, highlighted. Lessing references her adopted daughter, Jenny Diski.

DL/A-Z//CHENN/001 [from Ives Mabin Chenneviere to Doris Lessing, 12/06/1996]

Letter, 1 leaf recto and verso, handwritten.
Writes that she is thinking of Lessing. Mentions the philosopher Gilles Deleuze, who has recently passed away. References the "madeleine" in Proust's Swann's Way. Writes that she has recently decided to adopt on her own.

DL/A-Z//CHENN/002 [from Doris Lessing to Ives Mabin Chenneviere, 02/07/1996]

Letter, 1 leaf, typed.
Writes that in her "little guest flat" she has staying with her Ownes Wiwa, brother of Saro Wiwa, who the Nigerians hanged in 1995 for fighting for the rights of Ngoni. Mentions that in the Sixties she "sort of" adopted a girl (Jenny Diski), who is now middle aged and a novelist. Lessing writes that "there is no accounting for the people with whom we feel kin". Mentions the football and Wimbledon.