Correspondence with William Morrow and Company Inc. Lee's first publisher in the United States of America. Includes ephemera and correspondence relating to Lee's visits in Sept 1960 to publicise 'Edge of day' (the title given to 'Cider with Rosie' in America) and again in April 1961.
Correspondence with Penguin Books Ltd. Mostly correspondence relating to the publication of paperback editions of Lee's works. Some letters carry the letterhead 'Penguin Group', 'Penguin UK' or 'Viking'.
Correspondence with Peters, Fraser & Dunlop. The firm incorporated A. D. Peters & Co. Lee's literary agents from 1969, the correspondence mostly consisting of reports, negotiations and proposals for publishing and other rights, and conducted for the firm by Patricia Kavanagh.
Correspondence and papers relating to setting Lee's poems to music and giving recitals or making recordings of such settings. Correspondents include Samuel Barber, Lennox Berkeley, Johnny Coppin, Donald Swann. Includes: score of 'Girls' song' by Gerald N. Knight for 'Peasants' priest' (1947), ...
Papers and correspondence relating to properties in London and Slad owned or rented by Lee and his wife Katherine Francesca. Includes leases, utility bills and correspondence on insurance, stock, plants, works of art and land transactions.
Papers and correspondence relating the domestic and personal life of Lee and his family. Includes: copies of birth certificates of Lee and his family; Lee's school notebook, including lists of books he has read; cast list for the pantomime 'Cinderella' performed in Slad; programme of entertainm...
Papers for poems prepared for publication in the two larger collections of Lee's poems, 'Poems' and 'Selected poems' mostly taken from the three earlier collections, and text of poems published in periodicals but not collected. Contents: I. 'Laurie Lee', in the 'Pocket Poets' series; [1957]-19...
Papers for 'A Laurie Lee selection'; [1984]. Incomplete printer's copy prepared from photocopies of the selections for the work from 'A Rose for winter' and 'I can't stay long' with two typewritten leaves of notes for discussion, and galley proofs of the whole work.
Correspondence and critical requests and discussion for information on Lee's works, his family and events in his life, also requests for information on other authors, etc., and for comment to publishers on others' works. Includes a questionnaire of 1979 from Alan Brownjohn and correspondence of...