Murdoch, Iris, 40 signed letters and 37 signed postcards, from Iris Murdoch, Iris Murdoch & John Bayley, or John Bayley
£2,000
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photography
Auction: 17 May 2017 at 12:00 BST
Description
to Penelope and Ralph Tanner, largely relating to social and personal life but occasionally touching on philosophy "it's not too late to read Plato, much of the stuff is so beautiful. I think I agree with you about God - I cannot credit a personal God. But there is something about the reality & imagination of God which is true... I am a bit of a Manichee! I certainly can't think of religion as just an old superstition as many people I know do! & Eastern forms of religion are wiser than Christianity in many ways I feel", letters undated but c. 1978 - 1989, many from Cedar Lodge, most letters 1 or 2 pages, many with envelopes
Footnote
Note: The letters are addressed to Penelope Tanner (Dell), a poet, artist and biographer of Ethel M. Dell and Dr. Ralph Tanner, a social anthropologist who was Evelyn Waugh's batman in 1942 and appears in the latter's diaries. The Tanners were close friends and neighbours of Iris and John Bayley in Steeple Aston, Oxfordshire.