A large collection of letters and cards in the hand of John Bayley from himself and a number from them bothIris Murdich. None are in the hand of Iris Murdoch. From a large collection of letters, postcards and cards from Iris Murdoch and John Bayley to Penelope and Ralph Tanner. There were written circa 1977-1989 with many undated. Most are conversational but a few with philosophical references. The Tanners were close friends and neighbours of Murdoch and Bayley in Steeple Ashton, Oxfordshire (Penelope Tanner was also the biographer of the writer Ethel M. Dell and Dr Ralph Tanner, a social anthropologist who was Evelyn Waugh’s batman in 1942. Includes 14 cards and 10 letters/envelopes. Condition is generally very good. Folding creases to some.