Add MS 89209/4/44

Correspondence of Robert Aickman including:

• correspondence regarding his literary works with agents, publishers and editors including London Authors and London International (Bertie van Thal), the Boat World, The Waterways Series, Kirby McCauley, A.D. Peters & Co., Fontana Books, the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Fondation, Geoffrey Dibb, A.P. Watt & Son, Victor Gollancz, and Collins Publishers;
• correspondence with the National Library for the Blind regarding transcription of Aickman's books into braille;
• correspondence with Peter Scott regarding the Inland Waterways Association;
• correspondence with friends and other authors regarding literary matters, including John Betjeman, Alex Hamilton, Alasdair Alpin MacGregor, Vanessa & Eric de Maré, and Sir Rupert Hart-Davis;
• correspondence with Rosalind Hedley Heywood regarding psychic episodes;
• letters to other authors and publishers regarding permission to include stories in the Fourth Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories;
• correspondence with Jean Scott Rogers relating to the British Theatre Museum collection;
• correspondence with the BBC regarding adaptation of Aickman's story Ringing the Changes.

The file also includes papers relating to a Sir James Barrie Recital, introduced by Aickman, 22 October 1967, including scripts, correspondence and handwritten notes.