DL/A-Z//WESK/1 - [Correspondence with Arnold Wesker re: personal]

DL/A-Z//WESK/1

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[Correspondence with Arnold Wesker re: personal]

1969-2004

10 Letters (typescript and MS)
1 Article
2 Postcards
1 Greetings cards

Wesker, Arnold
Lessing, Doris May, 1919-2013

14 items, some highlighted. Personal correspondence between Arnold Wesker and Doris Lessing. Includes an article written by Wesker on a performance of The Merchant of Venice, entitled 'A Nasty Piece of Work' (item 007).

DL/A-Z//WESK/1/001 [from Arnold Wesker to Doris Lessing, 16/07/1969]

Letter, 4 leaves recto and verso, handwritten.
Discusses his opinion on Lessing's Four Gated City. Mentions that Lessing was angry at him "last time" because he had "doubted that you invented all those books for The Golden Notebook". Writes that he "can't see" Martha, that her characterisation is like "she has [deletion] her back to us all the time".

DL/A-Z//WESK/1/002 [from Arnold Wesker to Doris Lessing, 20/12/1972]

Letter, 5 leaves, typed.
Discusses his growing up, and mentions that Lessing had accused him "of self-indulgence due to self-admiration". Discusses Lessing's criticisms of him and his writing, writing "I can't help feeling you misjudge me a little". Lessing handwrites on the letter "saw Arnold and Dusty, talked amicably about all this. Boxing Day 72".