DL/A-Z//GILLE - [Correspondence with Paul Gillen]
Reference code
DL/A-Z//GILLE
Level of description
File
Title
[Correspondence with Paul Gillen]
Date/s
1995
Quantity & Format
3 Letters (typescript)
Creator
Gillen, PaulCreator
Lessing, Doris May, 1919-2013
Scope and content
3 items, some highlighted. Correspondence between Paul Gillen and Doris Lessing, regarding Jack Lindsay.
DL/A-Z//GILLE/001 [from Paul Gillen to Doris Lessing, 13/04/1995]
Letter, 1 leaf, typed.
Gillen is writing a biography on Lindsay and asks her for details, particularly about political disagreements in the 1950s.
DL/A-Z//GILLE/002 [from Doris Lessing to Paul Gillen, 01/05/1995]
Letter, 1 leaf, typed.
Lessing replies that herself and Lindsay were both members of the Communist Party Writer's Group in the early fifties. Writes that they argued about communism because Lindsay was a "hard-liner". Writes that the other people in the Communist Party Writer's Group were Jack Beeching, Montague Slater, John Somerfield, and Randall Swingler.
DL/A-Z//GILLE/001 [from Paul Gillen to Doris Lessing, 13/04/1995]
Letter, 1 leaf, typed.
Gillen is writing a biography on Lindsay and asks her for details, particularly about political disagreements in the 1950s.
DL/A-Z//GILLE/002 [from Doris Lessing to Paul Gillen, 01/05/1995]
Letter, 1 leaf, typed.
Lessing replies that herself and Lindsay were both members of the Communist Party Writer's Group in the early fifties. Writes that they argued about communism because Lindsay was a "hard-liner". Writes that the other people in the Communist Party Writer's Group were Jack Beeching, Montague Slater, John Somerfield, and Randall Swingler.
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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//GILLE - [Correspondence with Paul Gillen]
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DL/A-Z - [A-Z Correspondence of Doris Lessing]
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DL/2008 - Doris Lessing Archive 2008 deposit