LESLEY BLANCH, December 2003, Some of my papers and letters of interest survived the holocaust of the fire, yet others have been found lately for which I am thankful...
The Literary Executors of the Estate of Lesley Blanch would be grateful to hear from you if you have any letters, drawings, or papers to donate to the Lesley Blanch Archive, eventually to be established at New College, Oxford.
Email: archive@lesleyblanch.com
1959. Lesley Blanch with her husband Romain Gary at home in Hollywood © Lesley Blanch Archive
As Lesley Blanch and Romain Gary moved around the world, their mansucripts accompanied them in a wooden trunk, painted in the Russian folk style by Lesley.
This trunk is now with Lesley Blanch's literary executors and contains the bulk of The Lesley Blanch Archive, which includes: correspondence with the descendants of Imam Shamyl, and various friends (Nancy Mitford, Eden Box, Gerald de Gaury et al). There are also photographs, the originals of Lesley's Christmas Cards to friends, the exercise books in which her entire (pre-fire) library is listed, manuscripts, reviews, interviews and so on.
Figaro Littéraire — Lesley Blanch interviewed by Julie Rouart about her husband Romain Gary and their concurrent literary careers. 27 April, 1992
SHUSHA GUPPY interviews LESLEY BLANCH. First published by Touchstone/Simon & Schuster in 1991 in Looking Back: A Panoramic View of a Literary Age by the Grande Dames of European Letters
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Unauthorised biography of Lesley Blanch by Anne Boston (John Murray, January 2010)