DL/WORKS/READING - [Works by Doris Lessing: The Pleasures of Reading]

DL/WORKS/READING

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[Works by Doris Lessing: The Pleasures of Reading]

1990

6 Letters (typescript and MS)
3 Article

Lessing, Doris May, 1919-2013

9 items, some highlighted. Correspondence between Doris Lessing and Bloomsbury Publishing, regarding Lessing contributing to W.H. Smith's bicentenary publication, The Pleasures of Reading. Includes drafts of Lessing's piece (items 007, 008, 009), as well as her finished contribution (item 003).

DL/WORKS.READING/001 [from Antonia Fraser of Bloomsbury Publishing to Doris Lessing, 26/03/1990]

Letter, 1 leaf, typed.
Writes that 1992 marks the bicentenary of W.H. Smith, and they have commissioned Bloomsbury Publishing to create a book on the pleasures of reading. Asks Lessing if she would like to contribute to the project.