Add MS 89209/4/45

Correspondence of Robert Aickman including:

• correspondence regarding his literary works with agents, publishers, journals and magazines, including at London International and London Management (Herbert Van Thal), Kirby McCauley, Fontana Books, Barrie Books, Geoffrey Dibb, Collins Publishers, The New York Review of Books, and Barrie and Rockliff;
• correspondence with L.T.C. Rolt regarding permission to use one of Aickman's stories in a collection of Best Railways Stories;
• correspondence with Peter Underwood regarding the Ghost Club, and leaflets;
• correspondence with Sadler's Wells regarding some tapestry donated to the theatre by Aickman in memory of his great uncle;
• correspondence with the British Theatre Museum regarding a tape recording by Oscar Wilde;
• correspondence with typists regarding the typing of his manuscripts;
• correspondence with the National Library for the Blind regarding the transcription of Aickman's books into braille;
• copy of contract with Barrie Books Ltd. for the inclusion of a story by Aickman in the Fourth Ghost Book;
• letters from Aickman to various authors and their agents or publishers asking for permission to use stories in the Fifth Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories and dealing with payment of rights.