Murdoch (Iris)

Autograph letter signed ('Iris Murdoch'), to Richard, reading in part, "Most writers are influenced by other writers, I have been (or hope to have been) influenced by Homer, Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Dickens, Jane Austen, Emily Bronte, Henry James, Proust, Kafka, and others... I hope that you will read all or many of the above writers, who are really good", two pages, minor creases, oblong 8vo, Steeple Aston, Oxford, 5 December, no year, circa 1980s.