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DL/A-Z//STEP - [Correspondence with F.N. Stephens]

Reference code
DL/A-Z//STEP
Level of description
File
Title
[Correspondence with F.N. Stephens]
Date/s
2002
Quantity & Format
1 Letters (typescript)
Creator
Stephens, F. N. (Steve)
Scope and content
1 item, highlighted. Letter from F.N. Stephens, former lover of Doris Lessing. See also letters 040, 041, and 052 in the Whitehorn letters series [DL/WHI].

DL/A-Z//STEP/001 [from F.N. Stephens (Steve) to Doris Lessing, 01/10/2002]

Letter, 2 leaves, typed.
Discusses the memories of their time together at the "RFSU", and their "farewell at Salisbury station" before he was "shot off to the Hell of the real war and the desert". Writes that he was "very much in love" with her, even though she wrote in her biography that they were not in love". Mentions Ella Fitzgerald.
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