'Letters Jan-August 1990'

Scope and Content

Correspondence and papers from a box file labelled by EF 'Letters Jan-August 1990. Includes: Margaret Aliger; Malcolm Williamson; and Emma Tennant'. There is some material which falls outside of the stated date range - with the earliest item dating from 1978. Contains approximately 80 MS and TS letters, 19 postcards, numerous faxes (some of them faded), three photographs, and other papers. Additional correspondents represented include: Joel and Adam Feinstein; Liu Hongbin; Susan [Fromberg Schaeffer?]; Michael Schmidt; and Daniel Weissbort.

Topics of correspondence include: various BBC radio projects; permissions; requests to give or attend readings, workshops, talks and retreats; an invitation to participate in a conference marking the centenary of Marina Tsvetaeva's birth; book reviews by EF; EF's biography of D.H. Lawrence; Thomas Koazo, Central African radio journalist and political prisoner; comments on EF's work, including her novels All You Need and Loving Brecht; contributions to anthologies; and general personal matters.

The file also includes: a review by EF of New and Selected Poetry and Prose of Bella Akhmadulina edited, translated and introduced by F.D. Reeve, faxed to Peter Forbes; two TS pages listing corrections [relating to a work on Brecht]; annotated TS, Writers Under Stalin: Collage Portraits by Vladimir Sulyagin, marked as 'copy from Hilary Spurling'; two pages of MS notes, 'Elaine's qualities'; covering fax with photocopied pages of two stories by EF, 'Other People' and 'The Herringbone Man'; three pages of an annotated faxed article, 'The Centenary of Osip Mandelstam' by EF, an annotated TS headed 'Addenda Mandelstam'; three-page annotated faxed piece by EF, 'An Interview with Vladimir Soloukhin' (1991); eight-page annotated TS by EF, 'Adrift: The Life of Isabelle Eberhardt', with a seven-page annotated faxed copy of the same piece; two TS poems, 'Voice' and 'Rhapsody'; book cover for EF's All You Need, published by Arrow; and four-page outline of a TV drama about Marie Stopes, The Battleground.

Former reference: Box 6.

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