DL/A-Z//MUSE - [Correspondence with the Museum of Mankind]

Reference code

DL/A-Z//MUSE

Level of description

File

Title

[Correspondence with the Museum of Mankind]

Date/s

1990

Quantity & Format

3 Letters (typescript)
1 Documents

Creator

Museum of Mankind

Creator

Lessing, Doris May, 1919-2013

Scope and content

4 items, some highlighted. Correspondence between the Museum of Mankind and Doris Lessing, concerning the name of a devil or deity.

DL/A-Z//MUSE/001 [from Doris Lessing to Museum of Mankind, 25/09/1990]

Letter, 1 leaf, typed.
Lessing writes that she is writing a novel, and that her heroine was born in Martinique. Asks for help in finding a name of "some local devils, or devil, or a baleful diety [sic]". Asks "perhaps there was, or is, a naturalised African spirit whose name would have been known".

DL/A-Z//MUSE/003 [from Michael O'Hanlon of Museum of Mankind to Doris Lessing, 02/11/1990]

Letter, 1 leaf, typed.
Writes to say that he has been unable to track down a name. Gives Lessing a list of possible texts to try. Encloses a document of copied pages from 'Morne-Paysan: peasant village in Martinique' by M.H. Horowitz (item 004).

DL - Doris Lessing Archive
- DL/2008 - Doris Lessing Archive 2008 deposit
  - DL/A-Z - [A-Z Correspondence of Doris Lessing]
    - DL/A-Z//MUSE - [Correspondence with the Museum of Mankind]

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