DL/A-Z//PULS - [Correspondence with Gary Pulsifer]

DL/A-Z//PULS

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[Correspondence with Gary Pulsifer]

1996

2 Letters (typescript)
1 Documents
1 Fax

Pulsifer, Gary
Lessing, Doris May, 1919-2013

4 items, some highlighted. Correspondence between Gary Pulsifer of Arcadia Books and Doris Lessing, regarding Peter Owen's staff walking out and Lessing's attack on Pulsifer. Includes a copy of advance information on the first ten titles that Arcadia hope to publish (item 002).

DL/A-Z//PULS/001 [from Gary Pulsifer to Doris Lessing, 11/09/1996]

Letter, 1 leaf, typed.
Writes that all of Peter Owen's full-time staff "walked out" at the end of May, that they "had had enough". Writes that he and a few others have set up a new publishing house, Arcadia Books. Encloses a document of advance information about the first ten titles to be published (item 002), and asks Lessing if she will read through the page proofs and provide a quote if she "thought the book merited it".

DL/A-Z//PULS/003 [from Doris Lessing to Gary Pulsifer, 16/09/1996]

Letter, 1 leaf, typed.
Writes that she shall "be having nothing to do with Arcadia", and that he should be careful not to use her name as a supporter.

DL/A-Z//PULS/004 [from Gary Pulsifer to Doris Lessing, 18/09/1996]

Fax, 1 leaf, printed.
Writes that he was "shocked and extremely upset" by Lessing's letter (item 003). Details the extent of his "repeated humiliation and lack of gratitude" that he experienced by Peter Owen, and that he "did not expect this sort of attack" from Lessing.