[Brief TLS from Doris Lessing to Mike Shaw (Curtis Brown) turning him down]

[LESSING, Doris]; [SHAW, Mike]

Publication Date: 1979

About this Item

One-page TLS (24th March 1979) on thin, white paper: nine lines in black type, featuring Lessing's Kingscroft Road address, and signed in black biro, "Doris". Folded and heavily creased, a few nicks, unrelated note in black biro to reverse. Good- A brief, but significant, 1979 typed letter, in which Lessing turns down Mike Shaw of Curtis Brown, the literary agency which first represented her: "Well, I can only say and mean most sincerely that I am very sorry but I have decided not to". After a line about the handling of her foreign rights, she closes by noting that she has "started volume three," and once it "is well and truly under weigh" she will invite him for lunch. The "volume three" is likely The Sirian Experiments, the third volume of her five book sci-fi series, Canopus in Argos: Archives, which was published the following year, in 1980. The British agent Jonathan Clowes represented Lessing for most of her writing career.

Seller Inventory # 3244

Bibliographic Details

• Title: [Brief TLS from Doris Lessing to Mike Shaw (Curtis Brown) turning him down]
• Publication Date: 1979
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
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