DL/A-Z//TOMA - [Correspondence with Claire Tomalin & Michael Frayn]
Reference code
DL/A-Z//TOMA
Level of description
File
Title
[Correspondence with Claire Tomalin & Michael Frayn]
Date/s
1994-2001
Quantity & Format
4 Letters (typescript)
5 Postcards
5 Postcards
Creator
Tomalin, Claire & Michael FraynCreator
Lessing, Doris May, 1919-2013
Scope and content
9 items, some highlighted below.
DL/A-Z//TOMA/002 [from Claire Tomalin to Doris Lessing, 06/05/1996]
Letter, 1 leaf, typed.
Asks Lessing if she would be willing to speak at the Royal Society of Literature in the autumn. Mentions Margaret "Maggie" Drabble will be her interlocutor.
DL/A-Z//TOMA/003 [from Doris Lessing to Claire Tomalin, 09/05/1996]
Letter, 1 leaf, typed.
Agrees to speak at the RSL in September. Writes how she is "wrestling" with Volume Two of her autobiography, that "the whole thing gets tidied up just like a novel". Writes that life is actually "rather tedious and mundane".
DL/A-Z//TOMA/005 [from Claire Tomalin to Doris Lessing, 30/10/1997]
Letter, 1 leaf, typed.
Praises Lessing's new book. Mentions motherhood and poverty and her own experience. Mentions Miles Malleson and Naomi M (Mitchison?)
DL/A-Z//TOMA/006 [from Doris Lessing to Claire Tomalin, 01/11/1997]
Letter, 1 leaf, typed.
Writes of Miles Malleson, how she sees him as "the embodiment of the twenties". Mentions Naomi, and the difficulties of motherhood. References Somers Town.
DL/A-Z//TOMA/002 [from Claire Tomalin to Doris Lessing, 06/05/1996]
Letter, 1 leaf, typed.
Asks Lessing if she would be willing to speak at the Royal Society of Literature in the autumn. Mentions Margaret "Maggie" Drabble will be her interlocutor.
DL/A-Z//TOMA/003 [from Doris Lessing to Claire Tomalin, 09/05/1996]
Letter, 1 leaf, typed.
Agrees to speak at the RSL in September. Writes how she is "wrestling" with Volume Two of her autobiography, that "the whole thing gets tidied up just like a novel". Writes that life is actually "rather tedious and mundane".
DL/A-Z//TOMA/005 [from Claire Tomalin to Doris Lessing, 30/10/1997]
Letter, 1 leaf, typed.
Praises Lessing's new book. Mentions motherhood and poverty and her own experience. Mentions Miles Malleson and Naomi M (Mitchison?)
DL/A-Z//TOMA/006 [from Doris Lessing to Claire Tomalin, 01/11/1997]
Letter, 1 leaf, typed.
Writes of Miles Malleson, how she sees him as "the embodiment of the twenties". Mentions Naomi, and the difficulties of motherhood. References Somers Town.
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DL - Doris Lessing Archive
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DL/2008 - Doris Lessing Archive 2008 deposit
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DL/A-Z - [A-Z Correspondence of Doris Lessing]
- DL/A-Z//TOMA - [Correspondence with Claire Tomalin & Michael Frayn]
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DL/A-Z - [A-Z Correspondence of Doris Lessing]
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DL/2008 - Doris Lessing Archive 2008 deposit