DL/A-Z//VONN - [Correspondence with Kurt Vonnegut]
Reference code
DL/A-Z//VONN
Level of description
File
Title
[Correspondence with Kurt Vonnegut]
Date/s
1972
Quantity & Format
1 Letters (typescript)
Creator
Vonnegut, Kurt
Scope and content
1 item, highlighted. Letter from Kurt Vonnegut to Doris Lessing, regarding Albert Schweitzer and a review Lessing wrote.
DL/A-Z//VONN/001 [from Kurt Vonnegut to Doris Lessing, 15/12/1972]
Letter, 1 leaf, typed.
References a review that Lessing wrote for him, that was "easily the top honor" he had received that year. Mentions Albert Schweitzer's upcoming one-hundredth birthday, and that he is writing an essay about how it should be celebrated. Muses upon Schweitzer's cultural opinions, that he was a "cultural evolutionist, which now turns out to have been an unforgivable thing to be".
DL/A-Z//VONN/001 [from Kurt Vonnegut to Doris Lessing, 15/12/1972]
Letter, 1 leaf, typed.
References a review that Lessing wrote for him, that was "easily the top honor" he had received that year. Mentions Albert Schweitzer's upcoming one-hundredth birthday, and that he is writing an essay about how it should be celebrated. Muses upon Schweitzer's cultural opinions, that he was a "cultural evolutionist, which now turns out to have been an unforgivable thing to be".
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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//VONN - [Correspondence with Kurt Vonnegut]
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DL/A-Z - [A-Z Correspondence of Doris Lessing]
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DL/2008 - Doris Lessing Archive 2008 deposit