General business correspondence of Alan Gradon Thomas
Scope & Content:
Includes correspondence and papers relating to Thomas’s purchase of H. G. Commin's bookshop in Bournemouth in 1936. The 1941 letters include correspondence with publishers and customers relating to the practicalities of Thomas maintaining his business whilst away with the armed forces.
Thomas first met Lawrence Durrell in 1934 when Durrell frequented Commin’s where Thomas was working. They became lifelong friends and Thomas came to be considered part of the family. Over the years Thomas prepared bibliographies of Durrell’s writings, edited Durrell’s Spirit of Place, and acquir...