DL/A-Z//DRA/2 - [Correspondence with Margaret Drabble 1990-1995]

DL/A-Z//DRA/2

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[Correspondence with Margaret Drabble 1990-1995]

10/01/1990-07/03/1995

5 Letters (typescript and MS)
5 Postcards

Brownjohn, Alan
Greene, Gayle

Drabble, Margaret

004 is a letter from Doris Lessing to Margaret Drabble. It refers to a [missing] letter from Qu Shijing to Lessing, inviting her to visit Shanghai with Drabble. [see DL/A-Z//ALD/4] Lessing discusses her reluctance to accept, based on the political situation [soon after the Tiananmen Square massacre] and also the series of banquets and speeches that the trip would entail. She laments the lack of "intellectual fodder" available in China, mocking the idea that "the stream of consciousness" a la Virginia Woolf would be considered "topical".

005 is a letter from Drabble to Lessing, expressing her own indecision about visiting china. Mentions Alan Brownjohn.

006 is a letter from Lessing to Qu Shijing, regretfully declining his offer to visit Shanghai.

007 is a letter from Drabble to Lessing, introducing Gayle Greene [Lessing scholar], who is hoping to visit from California, and attempting to arrange a lunch for all three of them. Attached is a letter from Drabble to Greene, offering to arrange a meeting.

008 is a postcard from Drabble to Lessing.

009 is a letter from Drabble to Lessing, inviting her to her residence in Porlock. Lessing hand writes "Alas no".

010-013 are postcards from Drabble to Lessing. She mentions seeing operas and appearing on Desert Island Books. She includes a press clipping about research proving that horses enjoy mints.