Add MS 88987/2/5

Correspondence, contracts and press cuttings relating to the works of Helen Bannerman, 1899-1949. Correspondence (selectively indexed) includes:

• Photocopies of three letters of 1899 from Alice M. E. Bond to Grant Richards, expressing Bannerman’s disappointment with her copyright position. The originals remain with Chatto and Windus.
• Copies of letters from Chatto and Windus to J. A. Shepherd, 1919.
• Letters from Chatto and Windus to Verlag Gerhard Stalling relating to German translations, 1926.
• Letters from Maynard A Dominick of Frederick A. Stokes Company to Harold Raymond of Chatto and Windus relating to French translation rights, 1931.
• Correspondence of Harold Raymond of Chatto and Windus, C. D. Medley of Field, Roscoe and Co, James Nisbet & Co., H. W. Stokes of Frederick A. Stokes Co and Bannerman relating to a possible sequel, published as Sambo and the twins’by Stokes in 1936 and by James Nisbet in 1937, 1936-1937.
• Correspondence of Harold Raymond of Chatto and Windus, H. W. Stokes of Frederick A. Stokes Co, Messrs Kinmont and Maxwell, C. D. Medley of Field, Roscoe and Co,, McKenna & Co, solicitors, and Walt Disney Productions relating to possible film rights to the story. Includes a letter from Victor Gollancz to Harold Raymond confirming that Bannerman, his aunt, is still alive, 1937-1945.
• Copy of the copyright registration of the story made in 1937.
• Copy of letter from Rita H. Lee to Bannerman, 1941, with a transcript of her reply.
• Contract assigning rights of Frederick A. Stokes Co. to J. B. Lippincottt Co. and associated correspondence, 1942-1944.
• Correspondence of Verlag Heinrich Ellerman, Foreign Office, German Education Department, and Chatto and Windus reviving the proposals of a German translation, 1949.
• Correspondence relating to Danish, Swedish and Norwegian translations, 1945-1948.