DL/A-Z//SILVE - [Correspondence with Harry Silverstein]

Reference code

DL/A-Z//SILVE

Level of description

File

Title

[Correspondence with Harry Silverstein]

Date/s

1989-1997

Quantity & Format

12 Letters (typescript)
8 Photographs
3 Greetings cards

Creator

Silverstein, Harry

Creator

Lessing, Doris May, 1919-2013

Scope and content

23 items, some highlighted. Personal correspondence between Harry and Jobeth Silverstein and Doris Lessing, regarding Lessing's operas. Includes 8 photographs (items 016-023) of the Silverstein family.

DL/A-Z//SILVE/004 [from Doris Lessing to Harry Silverstein, 26/03/1990]

Letter, 3 leaves, typed.
Discusses the lives of friends and family. Mentions Philip Glass and Bob Gottlieb. Writes of her operas Marriages and Representative, and the "impetus" behind Representative. Mentions that she wrote a book about Zimbabwe "but it didn't work", as she was "low in energy" and had "complicated feelings about Zimbabwe".

DL/A-Z//SILVE/006 [from Doris Lessing to Harry Silverstein, 16/08/1990]

Letter, 2 leaves, typed.
Discusses her time in Argentina. Mentions Philip Glass and her opera, Marriages, and that Jorge Tebori has been put forward as director.

DL - Doris Lessing Archive
- DL/2008 - Doris Lessing Archive 2008 deposit
  - DL/A-Z - [A-Z Correspondence of Doris Lessing]
    - DL/A-Z//SILVE - [Correspondence with Harry Silverstein]

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