DL/A-Z//SCHW - [Correspondence with Tracy Schwartz]

DL/A-Z//SCHW

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[Correspondence with Tracy Schwartz]

1995-1996

2 Letters (typescript)
1 Article

Schwartz, Tracey
Lessing, Doris May, 1919-2013

3 items, some highlighted. Correspondence between Tracey Schwartz and Doris Lessing, regarding a piece written by Schwartz about parents and viewing the past. Includes a copy of this piece, entitled 'Legacy' (item 002).

DL/A-Z//SCHW/001 [from Tracy Schwartz to Doris Lessing, 30/12/1995]

Letter, 3 leaves, typed.
Discusses Under My Skin, and the question of "why so many of us in this century feel a sense of betrayal, as though we were promised something better and the promise was broken". Writes of the universal feeling that "the future will be better" and encloses a copy of a short story entitled 'Legacy' (item 002), which she hopes explores these ideas of past, present, and future.

DL/A-Z//SCHW/003 [from Doris Lessing to Tracy Schwartz, 11/03/1996]

Letter, 1 leaf, typed.
Discusses the notion that "everything is bound to get better". References Christianity, purgatory, Paradise and Heaven. Writes that "in the Fifties it was taken for granted by everyone that there was nowhere to go but up". Discusses the glamorisation of the past and nostalgia. Writes that she enjoyed Legacy, and that Schwartz should "persevere with it".