DL/WHI/029 - [Letter, Doris Lessing to Coll Macdonald, 09/06/1945]
Reference code
DL/WHI/029
Level of description
Item
Title
[Letter, Doris Lessing to Coll Macdonald, 09/06/1945]
Date/s
09/06/1945
Quantity & Format
5 leaves, typed on recto and verso. Letters (typescript)
Personal name
Whitehorn, John
Lessing, Doris May, 1919-2013
Lessing, Doris May, 1919-2013
Creator
Lessing, Doris May, 1919-2013
Scope and content
5 lettercards addressed to Coll MacDonald, c/o H.Q., R.A.F., M.E.F.
Thanks Coll for the photo of him with John.
Discusses Smithie’s relationships with Patricia and Graham. Smithie is now a miner.
Mentions Marcel Proust and D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover.
Tells of Simon’s over-reaction to being ill. She describes her Assyrian nursemaid when she was little.
Mentions a former boyfriend Frank Cooper. She asks what Coll will do in Burma and discusses Smithie’s occupation in the mines. She writes of a blitz against the refugees, an anti-semitic move. Doris has applied to get back her British nationality. Describes a night spent with refugees; and a lunatic of a man called Hodson who was convinced of a branch of the British Government who telepathically made rebels impotent (see also letter 022).
Doris thinks her children view her as some kind of elder sister.
Describes her daily routine and relationship with Gottfried; a film called Summer Storm with George Saunders; the finding of a cure for bilharzia; and Flippy’s escapades with an Airforce Squadron Leader.
Discusses the Labour Party in the by-election in Scotland; elections in the Union (of South Africa), Germany and the United States.
Thanks Coll for the photo of him with John.
Discusses Smithie’s relationships with Patricia and Graham. Smithie is now a miner.
Mentions Marcel Proust and D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover.
Tells of Simon’s over-reaction to being ill. She describes her Assyrian nursemaid when she was little.
Mentions a former boyfriend Frank Cooper. She asks what Coll will do in Burma and discusses Smithie’s occupation in the mines. She writes of a blitz against the refugees, an anti-semitic move. Doris has applied to get back her British nationality. Describes a night spent with refugees; and a lunatic of a man called Hodson who was convinced of a branch of the British Government who telepathically made rebels impotent (see also letter 022).
Doris thinks her children view her as some kind of elder sister.
Describes her daily routine and relationship with Gottfried; a film called Summer Storm with George Saunders; the finding of a cure for bilharzia; and Flippy’s escapades with an Airforce Squadron Leader.
Discusses the Labour Party in the by-election in Scotland; elections in the Union (of South Africa), Germany and the United States.
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DL/WHI - [Whitehorn Letters]