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AdamsDN/1/2/1/80
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GB 275 AdamsDN/1/2/1/80
Title
Bill Barron. Letter to Adams.
Date(s)
- 5 June 1981 (Creation)
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2 pages; paper
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Apologises for being unable to accept an invitation to meet a few years previously and hopes they might see each other in London sometimes, and congratulates him on the success of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, saying that he expected 'big achievements' from Adams ('not necessarily Don-ish. You are too alive to be merely academic') and that while he does not pick up on all of the significance and satire he is informed by a great-nephew that Adams has written an 'allegory on an allegory -- a modern Pilgrim's Progress'. Manuscript.