DL/A-Z//RICK - [Correspondence with Jocelyn Rickards]
Reference code
DL/A-Z//RICK
Level of description
File
Title
[Correspondence with Jocelyn Rickards]
Date/s
1997
Quantity & Format
4 Letters (typescript and MS)
Creator
Rickards, JocelynCreator
Lessing, Doris May, 1919-2013
Scope and content
4 items, some highlighted. Correspondence between Jocelyn Rickards and Doris Lessing, regarding Peter Whitebrook's book on John Osbourne.
DL/A-Z//RICK/002 [from Peter Whitebrook to Doris Lessing, 17/11/1997]
Letter, 2 leaves, typed.
Writes that he is completing a book on the life and work of John Osbourne, and asks if Lessing could assist in a few details of his life, particularly in regard to socialism and activism. References 'Letter to My Fellow Countryman' and the Committee of 100. Mentions a demonstration in Trafalgar Square, where Osbourne was arrested and fined. Discusses Declaration and the "Angry Young Man 'movement'".
DL/A-Z//RICK/003 [from Doris Lessing to Peter Whitebrook, 28/11/1997]
Letter, 1 leaf, typed.
Writes that Helen Osbourne and Jocelyn Rickards disapprove of the book, and that Whitebrook "should have told" her. Asks that he does not use her name "in any way whatever in connection with your proposed book".
DL/A-Z//RICK/004 [from Doris Lessing to Jocelyn Rickards, 23/12/1997]
Letter, 1 leaf, typed.
Encloses a copy of the letter sent to her by Peter Whitebrook (item 002). References the Royal Court. Mentions that "all the A.Y.M are dead", and that writing Volume II of her autobiography was "like walking through a graveyard".
DL/A-Z//RICK/002 [from Peter Whitebrook to Doris Lessing, 17/11/1997]
Letter, 2 leaves, typed.
Writes that he is completing a book on the life and work of John Osbourne, and asks if Lessing could assist in a few details of his life, particularly in regard to socialism and activism. References 'Letter to My Fellow Countryman' and the Committee of 100. Mentions a demonstration in Trafalgar Square, where Osbourne was arrested and fined. Discusses Declaration and the "Angry Young Man 'movement'".
DL/A-Z//RICK/003 [from Doris Lessing to Peter Whitebrook, 28/11/1997]
Letter, 1 leaf, typed.
Writes that Helen Osbourne and Jocelyn Rickards disapprove of the book, and that Whitebrook "should have told" her. Asks that he does not use her name "in any way whatever in connection with your proposed book".
DL/A-Z//RICK/004 [from Doris Lessing to Jocelyn Rickards, 23/12/1997]
Letter, 1 leaf, typed.
Encloses a copy of the letter sent to her by Peter Whitebrook (item 002). References the Royal Court. Mentions that "all the A.Y.M are dead", and that writing Volume II of her autobiography was "like walking through a graveyard".
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DL/A-Z - [A-Z Correspondence of Doris Lessing]
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DL/A-Z - [A-Z Correspondence of Doris Lessing]
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DL/2008 - Doris Lessing Archive 2008 deposit