DL/A-Z//KLET - [Correspondence with Michael Klett]
Reference code
DL/A-Z//KLET
Level of description
File
Title
[Correspondence with Michael Klett]
Date/s
1984-1986
Quantity & Format
5 Letters (typescript and MS)
Creator
Klett, MichaelCreator
Lessing, Doris May, 1919-2013
Scope and content
5 items, some highlighted. Correspondence between Michael Klett and Ulrike Killer of Klett-Cotta publishers and Doris Lessing, including a 65th birthday letter from Klett to Lessing dating 21/10/1984.
DL/A-Z//KLET/001 [from Michael Klett to Doris Lessing, 21/10/1984]
Letter, 3 leaves, handwritten.
Writes to discuss a trip to London he planned and the various ways it was repeatedly rescheduled. Admires Lessing's writing, "what a fine prose". Mentions Lessing's editor and the Jane Somers Diaries. Discusses art. Metions Ulrike Killer. Lessing handwrites a note (to the archivist?) along with the letter that reads "Michael Klett for my 65th birthday".
DL/A-Z//KLET/003 [from Ulrike Killer to Doris Lessing, 06/08/1986]
Letter, 2 leaves, typed.
Writes that Klett-Cotta will be publishing an almanac in celebration of their 10th anniversary, and asks if Lessing will contribute a short piece that has never been published before in Germany. Lists authors that have already confirmed that they will contribute. Suggests publishing an anthology of political non-fiction, and asks what Lessing thinks of the idea. Mentions Michael Klett. References 'A Small Personal Voice' and 'Prisons We Choose to Live Inside'.
DL/A-Z//KLET/004 [from Doris Lessing to Ulrike Killer, 11/08/1986]
Letter, 1 leaf, typed.
Writes that she doesn't having anything unpublished "lying in a drawer", nor does she have time to write something new. Writes that creating a "think-piece" for his political non-fiction idea would take up too much time and she would rather write fiction. Discusses an "embarrassing" moment in Berlin when she did a reading of 'Homage' for Isaac Babel, and was told it was badly translated. Asks whether it was Klett-Cotta who had published this edition.
DL/A-Z//KLET/005 [from Ulrike Killer to Doris Lessing, 19/08/1986]
Letter, 2 leaves, typed.
Discusses the translation Lessing wrote about in her previous letter (item 004). Discusses the issues with translations, particularly in relation to the titles of Lessing's work.
DL/A-Z//KLET/001 [from Michael Klett to Doris Lessing, 21/10/1984]
Letter, 3 leaves, handwritten.
Writes to discuss a trip to London he planned and the various ways it was repeatedly rescheduled. Admires Lessing's writing, "what a fine prose". Mentions Lessing's editor and the Jane Somers Diaries. Discusses art. Metions Ulrike Killer. Lessing handwrites a note (to the archivist?) along with the letter that reads "Michael Klett for my 65th birthday".
DL/A-Z//KLET/003 [from Ulrike Killer to Doris Lessing, 06/08/1986]
Letter, 2 leaves, typed.
Writes that Klett-Cotta will be publishing an almanac in celebration of their 10th anniversary, and asks if Lessing will contribute a short piece that has never been published before in Germany. Lists authors that have already confirmed that they will contribute. Suggests publishing an anthology of political non-fiction, and asks what Lessing thinks of the idea. Mentions Michael Klett. References 'A Small Personal Voice' and 'Prisons We Choose to Live Inside'.
DL/A-Z//KLET/004 [from Doris Lessing to Ulrike Killer, 11/08/1986]
Letter, 1 leaf, typed.
Writes that she doesn't having anything unpublished "lying in a drawer", nor does she have time to write something new. Writes that creating a "think-piece" for his political non-fiction idea would take up too much time and she would rather write fiction. Discusses an "embarrassing" moment in Berlin when she did a reading of 'Homage' for Isaac Babel, and was told it was badly translated. Asks whether it was Klett-Cotta who had published this edition.
DL/A-Z//KLET/005 [from Ulrike Killer to Doris Lessing, 19/08/1986]
Letter, 2 leaves, typed.
Discusses the translation Lessing wrote about in her previous letter (item 004). Discusses the issues with translations, particularly in relation to the titles of Lessing's work.
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