| Description | Folder of typed letters from Ethel Mannin to Christopher Walker, written between July and December 1969. Topics covered include Christopher Mayhew and 'Fats [Basil] Aql' on a Panorama programme, Professor Harold Minor, former US Ambassador to the Lebanon addressing a CAABU meeting, Mannin's work on her new novel 'The Midnight Street', her views on the future of the Arab-Israeli conflict, Christopher Walker's films and slides of his travels in the Middle East,
discussion of the film 'Oh What a Lovely War', Mannin's views on the proposed reissue by the Irish Arab Society of Sister Marie Theresa's diary and correspondence with Marilyn Norstedt on this topic, and a press-cutting from 'The Times' (Saturday 2 August 1969) with a letter from Mannin concerning T.E. Lawrence and the Arabs. |