Add MS 89142/6/2/2

Correspondence as follows:

• British Council - printed email correspondence and 1 fax regarding invitation and arrangements for Swift to attend the House of Literature from 23 to 26 October 2006.
• Letter, schedule and copied press cuting relating to the Walberberg Seminar 1994. Swift notes on his cover sheet that this was a 'controversial' meeting, and the press cutting, discussing the event, dated alludes to this.
• Thomas David, Hamburg - printed email correspondence and a fax regarding interviews, visits to London, and the reception of Swift's novels in Germany, and proposed publication of Tomorrow by German publisher Hanser. Correspondence dated between 2004 and 2012.
• Jack Debney, Bracht - correspondence of a personal nature regarding the reading of each other's work, and Debney's visits to England. Dated 2003 and 2012.
• Harold Fish, and students, Bonn - correspondence regarding Swift's giving of an interview for Bonn Student Magazine in 2004. Also included is a copy of a magazine 'U Name It' in which Swift's interview is included from pages 3 to 7.
• Anoukh Foerg, Agence Hoffman literary agency, Munchen. Letter and note from Foerg to Swift regarding German publication of The Light of Day. Dated 29 April to 7 June 1996.
• Heike Hartung-Bruckner, Berlin - 2 letters from Hartung to Swift dated 1994 and 1995 relating to an interview given by Swift to Hartung in 1994, and request to publish the interview in the German Academic Journal Germanisch-Romanische Monatshefte. A copy of the interview as published is enclosed.
• Suzanne Hobel, translator (based in Lewes, East Sussex, UK, and Hamburg). Correspondence between Swift and Hobel dated March to June 2012 regarding translation matters, and arrangements to meet.
• Joseph S. Rippier, writer. Series of correspondence betwen Swift and Rippier on varous topics, including reviews of and responses to Swift's work by Rippier and others, with cuttings from the press included with letters, and fly fishing.
• Barbara Schindler, formerly of Carl Hanser Verlag publishers. Correspondence between Swift and Schindler dated between 1997 and 2001/2003 (unclear - Swift's comment on an undated letter suggests a date of Christmas 2003, after his visit to Berlin that year).

Correspondence with publishers Carl Hanser Verlag, as follows:

• Michael Kruger, publisher - correspondence dated 1997 to 2007.
• Anna Leube - 2 postcards and a series of fax correspondence from Leube to Swift dated 1996 to 2006 concerning the publication of 'Learning to Swim' by Hanser, and German reviews, translations and distributions of Swift's novels, especially Last Orders and The Light of Day, and the arrangement of visits and promotional tours in Germany.
• Christina Knecht, publicist (took over from Barbara Schindler in 2000) - fax and email correspondence dated 2004 and 2006 regarding recent promotional tour in Germany, German reviews, invitation to literary festival in Bonn in May 2004, and arrangements for promotional matters, including a draft schedule for promotional event in October 2006.
• Susanne John, publicist - 2 letters dated 1996 to 1997 regarding promotional activities in Germany, and the selection of Last Orders for discussion on the German television show 'The Literary Quartet'.