Contains agendas, minutes, and papers circulated for discussion at Board meetings, including reports and accounts. Includes minutes of meetings at which the formation, and terms of reference, of the PBS were discussed.
Poetry Book Society annual general meetings and annual reports
Scope & Content:
Contains agendas for, and minutes of, annual general meetings, annual reports and financial statements. For further annual financial papers, see Add MS 88984/3/1.
Contains correspondence relating to third party requests to purchase the PBS mailing list. The requests were chiefly from publishers of new poetry books and magazines hoping to target an established poetry-loving audience.
Contains correspondence and papers relating to PBS office space, chiefly at Barley Mow Passage, Chiswick, to which the PBS relocated in 1992 from 21 Earl’s Court Square.
Papers relating to the Poetry Book Society archive
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and papers, including auction house and booksellers’ reports, on the content and disposition of the PBS archive. Also contains photographs of items in the archive.