Signed and Inscribed 1 Sided Postcard/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. C1978 A interesting letter discussing her friend Sister Marion who is sad as her particular friend has gone away. Murdoch quotes ' They aren't suppose to have particular friends but of course they do! ' Also discusses Penelope's new book and the journalists likely reaction. Size 150mm x 110mm Condition is very good.