DL/A-Z//PART - [Correspondence with William Phillips and Edith Kurzweil of Partisan Review]
Reference code
DL/A-Z//PART
Level of description
File
Title
[Correspondence with William Phillips and Edith Kurzweil of Partisan Review]
Date/s
1984, 1989, 1996-2004
Quantity & Format
23 Letters (typescript)
9 Fax
1 Invitation
1 Press cuttings
9 Fax
1 Invitation
1 Press cuttings
Creator
Partisan ReviewCreator
Kurzweil, Edith, 1925-2016Creator
Lessing, Doris May, 1919-2013Creator
Phillips, William
Scope and content
34 items, some highlighted. Correspondence between William Phillips and Edith Kurzweil of the Partisan Review and Doris Lessing.
DL/A-Z//PART/001 [from Doris Lessing to William Phillips, 01/01/1984]
Letter, 2 leaves, typed.
Writes to thank Phillips for sending her a copy of his book. Makes several corrections to the passage he wrote on her, including how he wrongly described her hair, her "impoverished middleclass" origin, and her move to "conquer England".
DL/A-Z//PART/003 [from Doris Lessing to William Phillips, 24/03/1989]
Letter, 1 leaf, typed.
Discusses the threat to Salman Rushdie and asks if Lessing would consider writing a piece about it. Writes that "it would be a fresh note, as against all the stale comments that are being promulgated daily".
DL/A-Z//PART/007 [from Edith Kurzweil to Doris Lessing, 07/04/1993]
Letter, 1 leaf, typed.
Writes that they are planning a conference on anti-Semitism, aiming to examine the causes of anti-Semitism and "its persistence around the world". Mentions Saul Bellow and Cynthia Ozick. Asks if Lessing will be a keynote speaker. Lessing handwrites on the letter "sorry".
DL/A-Z//PART/009 [from Edith Kurzweil to Doris Lessing, 15/03/1994]
Letter, 1 leaf, typed.
Discussed Lessing's opinion on political correctness and liberalism. Mentions the "anti-Vietnam and anti-intellectual tide". References the National Endowment for the Humanities.
DL/A-Z//PART/012 [from Doris Lessing to Shelley Hall, ?/04/1996]
Letter, 1 leaf, typed.
Writes with a quote for the jacket blurb for Edith Kurzweil's A Partisan Century: Political Writings from The Partisan Review. Writes that the collection is "full of plums -- pieces that have become classics of political and social writing".
DL/A-Z//PART/015 [from Doris Lessing to Edith Kurzweil and William Phillips, date unknown]
Letter, 1 leaf, typed.
Discusses Volume II of her autobiography, Walking in the Shade, and "what a political time that was". Mentions Eric Hobsbawm's The Age of Extremes. Discusses her opera.
DL/A-Z//PART/001 [from Doris Lessing to William Phillips, 01/01/1984]
Letter, 2 leaves, typed.
Writes to thank Phillips for sending her a copy of his book. Makes several corrections to the passage he wrote on her, including how he wrongly described her hair, her "impoverished middleclass" origin, and her move to "conquer England".
DL/A-Z//PART/003 [from Doris Lessing to William Phillips, 24/03/1989]
Letter, 1 leaf, typed.
Discusses the threat to Salman Rushdie and asks if Lessing would consider writing a piece about it. Writes that "it would be a fresh note, as against all the stale comments that are being promulgated daily".
DL/A-Z//PART/007 [from Edith Kurzweil to Doris Lessing, 07/04/1993]
Letter, 1 leaf, typed.
Writes that they are planning a conference on anti-Semitism, aiming to examine the causes of anti-Semitism and "its persistence around the world". Mentions Saul Bellow and Cynthia Ozick. Asks if Lessing will be a keynote speaker. Lessing handwrites on the letter "sorry".
DL/A-Z//PART/009 [from Edith Kurzweil to Doris Lessing, 15/03/1994]
Letter, 1 leaf, typed.
Discussed Lessing's opinion on political correctness and liberalism. Mentions the "anti-Vietnam and anti-intellectual tide". References the National Endowment for the Humanities.
DL/A-Z//PART/012 [from Doris Lessing to Shelley Hall, ?/04/1996]
Letter, 1 leaf, typed.
Writes with a quote for the jacket blurb for Edith Kurzweil's A Partisan Century: Political Writings from The Partisan Review. Writes that the collection is "full of plums -- pieces that have become classics of political and social writing".
DL/A-Z//PART/015 [from Doris Lessing to Edith Kurzweil and William Phillips, date unknown]
Letter, 1 leaf, typed.
Discusses Volume II of her autobiography, Walking in the Shade, and "what a political time that was". Mentions Eric Hobsbawm's The Age of Extremes. Discusses her opera.
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