Holroyd/Shaw Papers. Vol. cxiii-cxl. Correspondence and papers relating to the publicationg, marketing, illustration, and reviewing of Michael Holroyd's Bernard Shaw; 1970-2002, n.d. Twenty-eight volumes.
Holroyd/Shaw Papers. Vols. cxv-cxxxiii. Correspondence and papers relating to tendering, contracts, marketing and publication of the biography; 1987-1996. . After a tendering exercise by the Society of Authors, acting for the Shaw Trustees, the contract to publish Michael Holroyd's biography of Shaw was awarded to Chatto and Windus on 22 Sept. 1987. American and translation rights, as well as those to publish paperback editions were decided over the following years. Much of the correspo...
Holroyd/Shaw Papers. Vols. cxxxiv-cxxxix. Correspondence and papers relating to the selection, ordering and copyright clearances of illustrations to the biography, including correspondence and papers relating to the jackets and blurbs; 1987-1992. The note on the arrangement of the above section also applies to the arrangement of this section. Six volumes.
Holroyd/Shaw Papers. Vols. cxiii, cxiv. Correspondence and papers relating to the selection of Michael Holroyd by the Society of Authors as the authorised biographer of Shaw and other matters relating to the copyrights of Shaw's work; 1969-2002. Michael Holroyd was appointed official biographer in 1970, with an agreement to produce a work to be published by the Bodley Head in 1976. This was subsequently re-negotiated. The collection includes correspondence of the Society of Authors and...