DL/A-Z//JONAT - [Correspondence with Jonathan Clowes]

DL/A-Z//JONAT

File

[Correspondence with Jonathan Clowes]

1980-2007

47 Letters (typescript and MS)
2 Memorandum
2 Greetings cards
1 Notes (MS)
12 Fax
1 Printed ephemera

Clowes, Jonathan

Jonathan Clowes

Contains correspondence between Doris Lessing and literary agency Jonathan Clowes. Correspondents within Jonathan Clowes include Jonathan Clowes, Lydia Ludlow, Brie Burkeman, Lisa Whadcock, Isobel Creed, Chloe Lloyd, Olivia Guest and Isobel Pilsworth.

The correspondence is largely professional, concerning promotional activities, rights sales, tax, travel arrangements and adaptations.

DL/A-Z//JONAT/1 contains items from 1980 to 1989 and covers Lessing's transfer to Jonathan Clowes and an abandoned effort to adapt her Children of Violence for television.

DL/A-Z//JONAT/2 contains items from 1991 to 1994 and includes a controversy regarding Lessing's cover photograph.

DL/A-Z//JONAT/3 contains items from 1995 to 1999.

DL/A-Z//JONAT/4 contains items from 2000 to 2007.

DL/A-Z//JONAT/5 contains undated or incompletely dated items and includes an effort to secure representation for Penelope Mortimer, and a list of the right to Lessing's works that are vested in trusts.