Editing Doris Lessing (section)

==Archives==
Lessing's literary archive is held by the [[Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center]], at the [[University of Texas at Austin]]. The 76 archival boxes of Lessing's materials at the Ransom Center contain nearly all of her extant manuscripts and typescripts up to 2008. Original material for Lessing's early books is assumed not to exist because she kept none of her early manuscripts.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/press/releases/2007/lessing.html|title=Harry Ransom Center Holds Archive of Nobel Laureate Doris Lessing|access-date=17 March 2008|publisher=hrc.utexas.edu|archive-date=11 October 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011203333/http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/press/releases/2007/lessing.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> The [[Robert M. McFarlin|McFarlin]] Library at the [[University of Tulsa]] holds a smaller collection.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://utulsa.as.atlas-sys.com/repositories/2/resources/260|title=Doris Lessing manuscripts|access-date=17 October 2007|publisher= lib.utulsa.edu}}</ref>

The [[University of East Anglia]]'s British Archive for Contemporary Writing holds Doris Lessing's personal archive: a vast collection of professional and personal correspondence, including the Whitehorn letters, a collection of love letters from the 1940s, written when Lessing was still living in Zimbabwe (then Southern Rhodesia). The collection also includes forty years of personal diaries. Some of the archive remains embargoed during the writing of Lessing's official [[biography]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.uea.ac.uk/bacw/lessing|title=Doris Lessing Archive|access-date=5 July 2016|publisher=University of Tulsa}}</ref>