DL/A-Z//SAG - [Correspondence with Lorna Sage]

DL/A-Z//SAG

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[Correspondence with Lorna Sage]

1997-2001

5 Letters (typescript and MS)
5 Postcards
2 Invitation
1 Documents

Sage, Lorna
Lessing, Doris May, 1919-2013

13 items, some highlighted. Includes Lessing's speech for Sage's memorial.

Letters from Sage to Lessing between 1997 and 2000. Includes correspondence between Lessing and Rupert Hodson, Sharon Tolaini-Sage, and Meaghan Dowling after Sage's death in early 2001.

DL/A-Z//SAG/004 [from Lorna Sage to Doris Lessing, 06/07/1998]

Letter, 1 leaf, typed.
Writes to offer her condolences and well wishes to Lessing after her accident. Discusses the imagery of Madonna del Soccorso, a painting in the Church of Santo Spirito in Firenze, Italy.

DL/A-Z//SAG/007 [from Rupert Hodson to Doris Lessing, date undecipherable/01/2001]

Letter, 1 leaf, handwritten.
Writes of the shock of Sage's death, and that he is going to "lose" himself in Italy, the place where Sage "was really happiest".

DL/A-Z//SAG/008 [from Sharon Tolaini-Sage to Doris Lessing, 29/03/2001]

Letter, 1 leaf, handwritten.
Encloses a copy of the invitation to Sage's memorial [011]. Asks Lessing if she would speak at the memorial.

DL/A-Z//SAG/009 [from Doris Lessing to Chris Bigsby, date unknown]

Letter, 1 leaf, typed.
Lessing's speech for Sage's memorial, sent to Chris Bigsby as Lessing couldn't attend due to Peter's illness. Writes of the first time they met at a party at Christopher and Pam's Bigsby's house. Mentions Bad Blood, Sage's reviews and literary criticism and praises her "fine and critical mind".