DL/A-Z//STEW - [Correspondence with research scientist John Stewart]

DL/A-Z//STEW

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[Correspondence with research scientist John Stewart]

1996

2 Letters (typescript and MS)
1 Postcards

Stewart, John F.
Lessing, Doris May, 1919-2013

3 items, some highlighted. Personal correspondence between John Stewart and Doris Lessing, regarding scientific writing.

DL/A-Z//STEW/001 [from John Stewart to Doris Lessing, 17/01/1996]

Letter, 4 leaves, handwritten.
Writes that he was intrigued that Lessing had remarked in her Preface to the Canopus in Argos series that she wanted to be a research scientist. Discusses biology, DNA, and references Richard Dawkins. Discusses physics and Albert Einstein.

DL/A-Z//STEW/002 [from Doris Lessing to John Stewart, 15/03/1996]

Letter, 2 leaves, typed.
Discusses being a writer, and how writing is a "slog, slog, if a satisfying one". Writes of the "brouhaha that surrounds the literary process", describing it as "increasingly wearisome and often humiliating". Mentions that she has recently refused to go to America to "promote" her new book. Writes of scientists as "wonder-workers". Discusses the idea that "every advance humankind has ever made is double-faced".