DL/A-Z//ZUG - [Correspondence with James Zug]

DL/A-Z//ZUG

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[Correspondence with James Zug]

1994

2 Letters (typescript)
1 Postcards

Zug, James
Lessing, Doris May, 1919-2013

3 items, highlighted. Correspondence between American scholar James Zug and Doris Lessing, regarding Lessing's time at the South-African Guardian.

DL/A-Z//ZUG/001 [from James Zug to Doris Lessing, 10/03/1994]

Letter, 1 leaf, typed.
Writes that he is an American scholar writing a book about the history of the (South-African) Guardian when it was published in Cape Town between 1937-1963. Asks Lessing if she knew what happened to Betty and George Sacks, who Zug believes played a vital role in South Africa, who "disappeared from the political scene". Mentions Pauline Podbrey, who claims that Lessing stayed with her.

DL/A-Z//ZUG/002 [from Doris Lessing to James Zug, 29/03/1994]

Letter, 1 leaf, typed.
Writes to Zug and corrects him in that she didn't stay with Pauline Podbrey and was not friends with Betty Sacks. She writes that she stayed with Carina Baldry. Mentions that she saw Betty in London, "many many years later". Writes that when she (Lessing) worked at the Guardian she was "not well-known" and that she was "a scruffy little visitor".

DL/A-Z//ZUG/003 [from James Zug to Doris Lessing, 19/07/1984]

Postcard, handwritten. Image of Cape Town.
Thanks Lessing for her reply. Asks whether she knew about the Guardian when she lived in Rhodesia and where the Baldry's emigrated.