DL/A-Z//SPEC - [Correspondence with The Spectator]

Reference code

DL/A-Z//SPEC

Level of description

File

Title

[Correspondence with The Spectator]

Date/s

1991-2004

Quantity & Format

5 Letters (typescript)
3 Postcards

Creator

Spectator, The

Creator

Lessing, Doris May, 1919-2013

Scope and content

8 items, some highlighted. Correspondence between The Spectator and Doris Lessing, regarding the Edinburgh Festival and an accidental publication of Lessing's address.

DL/A-Z//SPEC/002 [from Doris Lessing to The Spectator, 10/09/1991]

Letter, 1 leaf, typed.
Writes that they had recently printed a letter that Lessing wrote to them about the Edinburgh Festival (item 001), and had accidentally published her full address. Writes that it was "pretty careless" and now has "thesis-writers camped outside [her] gate".

DL/A-Z//SPEC/003 [from Doris Lessing to The Spectator, 07/11/2004] ]

Letter, 1 leaf, typed.
Discusses Francis Bennion and some of the "great powers" that "loomed" over her youth, mentioning Hitler's Germany, Mussolini's Italy, The Soviet Union and the British Empire. Discusses her family's involvement with war.

DL - Doris Lessing Archive
- DL/2008 - Doris Lessing Archive 2008 deposit
  - DL/A-Z - [A-Z Correspondence of Doris Lessing]
    - DL/A-Z//SPEC - [Correspondence with The Spectator]

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