DL/A-Z//RUS K - [Correspondence with Menina Russell-King]

DL/A-Z//RUS K

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[Correspondence with Menina Russell-King]

1980-1983

21 Letters (typescript and MS)
1 Postcards
1 Notes (MS)

Russell-King, Menina
Lessing, Doris May, 1919-2013

23 items, some highlighted. Correspondence between Menina Russell-King and Doris Lessing, regarding The Diary of a Good Neighbour and the typing of The Diary of Jane Somers.

DL/A-Z//RUS K/007 [from Doris Lessing to Menina Russell-King, 07/01/1981]

Letter, 1 leaf, typed.
Writes that Russell-King must not "tell a soul" that she is working on another book, "particularly not Tom" (Maschler)? Discusses that she wants to publish a book under another name (Jane Somers). Writes "if one person in the publishing world knows about it, then they all will...it is a small incestuous world".

DL/A-Z//RUS K/010 [from Doris Lessing to Menina Russell-King, undated]

Letter, 1 leaf, typed.
Writes that "Cape turned down Neighbour" (The Diary of a Good Neighbour), and that this gives her "a nasty pleasure" at not being recognised.