DL/A-Z//HOLR - [Correspondence with Michael Holryod]

DL/A-Z//HOLR

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[Correspondence with Michael Holryod]

29/05/1997-30/09/2000

1 Letters (MS)
1 Invitation
5 Postcards
2 Greetings cards

Spectator, The

Drabble, Margaret

Holroyd, Michael, 1935-

001 is a postcard from Michael Holroyd to Doris Lessing, enclosing an invitation to an event organised by Job Ownership Ltd. to meet an employee ownership study group from Zimbabwe: "I know that employee ownership is NOT one of your subjects. On the other hand Zimbabwe is." 002 is the invitation.

003 is a letter from Holroyd to Lessing, asking whether he can meet her on two dates when his wife Margaret Drabble is away.

004 is a postcard from Holroyd to Lessing, arranging social engagements.

005 is a postcard from Holroyd to Lessing, thanking her for something [an event?] involving "the images of geometry". Mentions Lessing's new cat.

006 is a postcard from Holroyd to Lessing, explaining arrangements for a party. "The answer to your question is, of course, YES."

007 is a greetings card from Holroyd to Lessing, expressing his admiration for her novel Dann and Mara. "I felt like a schoolboy again (a schoolboy in the holidays)". He discusses the novel's ice imagery and themes of memory and knowledge.

008 is a postcard from Holroyd to Lessing, agreeing with her comments in a recent Spectator article [published 15/04/2000] about her biography.

009 is a greetings card from Holroyd to Lessing, written between "trifle-eating", thanking her for a party.

[See DL/A-Z//DRA]