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Add MS 88987/1/15
- Record Id:
- 040-002236296
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002225976
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x000037
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 88987/1/15
- Title:
- Scope & Content:
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Correspondence, papers and press cuttings relating to The Bodley Head and Penguin Books. Includes correspondence and papers relating to the acquisition of Penguin by the Longman Group and a possible merger of the two companies in 1969-1970. Correspondents include Max Reinhardt, Graham C. Greene, E. James B. Rose, Quentin Hockliffe, Roger M. Hardisty, Peter Mayer, Eric O. Parrott, Betty Hartel, David Machin, Gillon Aitken and Mathew Prichard (both relating to publication of works of Agatha Christie), Louis Albert Hart, Christopher Dolley, Edward Boyle, Baron Boyle of Handsworth, Sir Hugh Greene, David Eccles, Viscount Eccles, John T. Boon, of Mills and Boon, Peter Calvocoressi and Archibald Somerset Clowes.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002225976
036-002225979
037-002226374
040-002236296 - Is part of:
- Add MS 88987 : Max Reinhardt papers
Add MS 88987/1 : Correspondence and papers of Max Reinhardt relating to his publishing companies
Add MS 88987/1/9-22 : Correspondence and papers relating to The Bodley Head, publishing company acquired, as John Lane The Bodley Head, by…
Add MS 88987/1/15 : Correspondence, papers and press cuttings relating to The Bodley Head and Penguin Books. Includes correspondence and… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002225976[0002]/036-002225979[0003]/037-002226374[0006]/040-002236296
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 88987
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 file
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1967
- End Date:
- 1986
- Date Range:
- 1967-1986
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Boon, John Trevor, of Mills and Boon, publishers, 1916-1996
Boyle, Edward Charles Gurney, Baron Boyle of Handsworth, 1923-1981
Calvocoressi, Peter, historian and writer, 1912-2010
Christie, Agatha, author, 1890-1976
Clowes, Archibald Somerset, stockbroker, 1923-2011
Dolley, Christopher, managing director, Penguin Books, 1931-2004
Eccles, David McAdam, 1st Viscount Eccles, 1904-1999
Greene, Graham Carleton, publisher, 1936-2016
Greene, Hugh Carleton, Knight, journalist and Director-General of the BBC, 1910-1987
Hardisty, Roger Michael, haematologist, 1922-1997
Hart, Louis Albert, of Henry Ansbacher & Co, bankers, 1905-1978
Hartel, Betty, of Penguin Books, fl 1967-1986
Hockliffe, Quentin, 1929-2012
Machin, David, of A P Watt and Son literary agents, b 1934
Mayer, Peter Michael, publisher, 1936-2018
Parrott, Eric Oakley, 1924-1990
Penguin Books, publishers, 1935-
Rose, Eliot Joseph Benn, publisher, of Penguin Books, 1909-1999