DL/A-Z//PREN - [Correspondence with Prentice Hall]

DL/A-Z//PREN

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[Correspondence with Prentice Hall]

1988

5 Letters (typescript)

Prentice Hall
Lessing, Doris May, 1919-2013

5 items, some highlighted. Correspondence between Jan Morris of Prentice Hall and Doris Lessing, regarding a piece by Lessing on the Pickles Family Circus for a book entitled 'Destinations'.

DL/A-Z//PREN/001 [from Jan Morris to Doris Lessing, ?/01/1988]

Letter, 1 leaf, typed.
Writes that she has been invited by Prentice Hall to preside over a new series of "original travel books literary value", called 'Destinations'. Asks whether Lessing would be interested in contributing a book, and that she could choose "whatever country, city, river, ocean or continent" that she liked.

DL/A-Z//PREN/002 [from Doris Lessing to Jan Morris, 05/02/1988]

Letter, 1 leaf, typed.
Agrees to contribute a piece, and pitches the idea of travelling with the Pickles Family Circus along the West coast of the U.S., "going to all the little towns where the Circus is an institution".

DL/A-Z//PREN/005 [from Doris Lessing to Michael Moore of Prentice Hall, 31/08/1988]

Letter, 1 leaf, typed.
Writes that "other things have intervened", and that she has had to "put off" the Pickles project. Writes that she doesn't know when she'll be able to pick it up again, and agrees to be in touch in the future.