DL/A-Z//SALM - [Correspondence with Mary Salmon]

DL/A-Z//SALM

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[Correspondence with Mary Salmon]

1987

2 Letters (typescript)

Salmon, Mary
Lessing, Doris May, 1919-2013

2 items, highlighted. Correspondence between Mary Salmon and Doris Lessing regarding Olivia Manning.

DL/A-Z//SALM/001 [from Mary Salmon to Doris Lessing, 25/01/1987]

Letter, 1 leaf, typed.
Writes that she is currently producing a critical biography on Olivia Manning. Asks Lessing if she ever met her, and what she thought of Manning's book Extraordinary Cats that was published the same year that Raleigh Trevelyan commissioned Lessing for a book called Particularly Cats.

DL/A-Z//SALM/002 [from Doris Lessing to Mary Salmon, 07/02/1987]

Letter, 1 leaf, typed.
Writes that she met Manning several times with Margaret Drabble, and that she was "a very armoured person". Mentions R.D. Smith. Writes that she doesn't remember "Olivia's cat book". Discusses the books she did read, and that she thought her "undervalued".