Correspondence with Longmans Green & Co. Limited, later Longman Group Limited. Principally correspondence relating to anthologies and editions for schools of Lee's works published by Longman.
Correspondence relating to press cutting services, copyrights, public lending right, secretarial services, and notes on earnings, legal disputes, etc. Includes Cathy Lee's agreement relating to copyrights of his works.
Correspondence with Laurence Pollinger Ltd. Lee's literary agents until 1969. The first letter is from David Higham of Pearn, Pollinger & Higham Ltd, seeking to discuss the possibilities of the firm acting as agents for Lee. There are no further letters until 1964 and apart from three roy...
Correspondence and papers relating to honours and awards, invitations to receptions, memorial services, dinners, etc, membership of societies and associations. Includes: correspondence on Lee's award of Membership of the Order of the British Empire; correspondence and programmes of Foyle's lite...
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), ...
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...
Correspondence relating to law suits arising from the publication of Cider with Rosie. 1. Correspondence of Lee's solicitors, Messrs Stephen Harwood & Tatham, with Lee, and with R. G. Bartlett & Co, solicitors to the Stroud Piano Company, with other correspondence from the Hogarth Pre...