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.C 1980 A small letter from Murdoch to Penelope about Iris writing to her publisher with regards to a book Nettie and Sissie. Nettie and Sissie is a biography of Edith Dell written by Penelope. It was published in 1977. I suspect Iris had a large hand in getting the book published for her friend. Size 180mm x 140mm Condition is very good. Letter with a centre folding crease.