Signed and Inscribed 2 Sided Letter and envelope from Iris Murdoch to Penelope and Ralph Tanner
From a large collection of letters, postcards and cards from Iris Murdoch and John Bayley to Penelope and Ralph Tanner. Includes a few with original Iris Murdoch drawings. 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. Undated C 1980 A general letter hoping she was well after her spell in hospital. Size 200mm x 150mm Condition is very good. Two folding creases. All guaranteed original