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DL/A-Z//NAG - [Correspondence with Ruth Nagley]

Reference code
DL/A-Z//NAG
Level of description
File
Title
[Correspondence with Ruth Nagley]
Date/s
1998
Quantity & Format
1 Letters (typescript)
Creator
Nagley, Ruth
Creator
Lessing, Doris May, 1919-2013
Scope and content
1 item, highlighted. Letter from Doris Lessing to Ruth Nagley, in reply to Nagley's letter (missing).

DL/A-Z//NAG/001 [from Doris Lessing to Ruth Nagley, 20/09/1998]

Letter, 1 leaf, typed.
Discusses Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and the collapse of the Soviet Union. Mentions American culture, and how "one may love and admire individual Americans, but hardly, surely, the culture". Mentions "Naomi M." (most probably Mitchison), writing that she was "a very childish person", but this was obscured by her "social and literary success". Discusses World War II and politics. Mentions the British Council.
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