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DL/A-Z//WAA - [Correspondence with Peter Waage of Dreyers Forlag]

Reference code
DL/A-Z//WAA
Level of description
File
Title
[Correspondence with Peter Waage of Dreyers Forlag]
Date/s
1983-1986
Quantity & Format
6 Letters (typescript)
Creator
Waage, Peter
Creator
Lessing, Doris May, 1919-2013
Scope and content
6 items, some highlighted. Correspondence between Peter Waage of Dreyers Forlag and Doris Lessing, regarding an interview with Lessing and discussions on the Soviet Union. Includes a letter from Jo Vinkenes, discussing Lessing's interview with Waage (item 001).

DL/A-Z//WAA/003 [from Doris Lessing to Peter Waage, 26/01/1984]

Letter, 1 leaf, typed.
Discusses the interview she gave to Waage, and some alterations she wants to make to the translated piece. Writes that she dislikes the "emphasis on bombs" and that she doesn't agree that London lives in fear of bombs, but rather "people feel a sort of irritated boredom". Writes of some "bomb scare" experiences, and that "people were good humoured and making jokes".
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