DL/A-Z//WEST R - [Correspondence with Dame Rebecca West]

DL/A-Z//WEST R

File

[Correspondence with Dame Rebecca West]

1982-1996

7 Letters (typescript and MS)
1 Article

West, Rebecca, Dame
Lessing, Doris May, 1919-2013

8 items, some highlighted. Correspondence between Dame Rebecca West and Doris Lessing.

Items 001-003. Correspondence between Dame Rebecca West and Lessing, focusing on writing, health ("physical miseries") and invites to tea. Lessing's replies are missing.

Items 004-007. Correspondence between Carl Rollyson and Lessing, focusing on Rollyson's upcoming biography of West, and asking Lessing to write praise for it. Includes a copy of the puff piece that Lessing wrote (item 006).

This file also includes a copy of an article Rollyson wrote on West entitled 'Rebecca West and the God That Failed' (item 008).