DL/A-Z//NEWM - [Correspondence with Michael Newman]

DL/A-Z//NEWM

File

[Correspondence with Michael Newman]

1998

2 Letters (typescript)

Newman, Michael
Lessing, Doris May, 1919-2013

2 items, highlighted. Correspondence bettwen Professor Michael Newman and Doris Lessing, regarding a biography on Ralph Miliband.

DL/A-Z//NEWM/001 [from Michael Newman to Doris Lessing, 20/04/1998]

Letter, 1 leaf, typed.
Writes that he is producing a biography of the late Ralph Miliband, and has access to a "great amount of material" from the 1960s, as well as some diaries and letters from 1940. Writes that he doesn't have much information about Miliband in the 1950s, and asks if Lessing could give him any details from around that time.

DL/A-Z//NEWM/002 [from Doris Lessing to Michael Newman, 03/05/1998]

Letter, 1 leaf, typed.
Writes that she knew Miliband when he was involved with the New Left Review, and "concerned with redefining socialism". Discusses communism and how he was a "solid, sensible, well-based character" in comparison to the "hysteria that was washing around in some circles".