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Add MS 89209/4/47
- Record Id:
- 040-003354148
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003346004
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100037418635.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 89209/4/47
- Title:
- Robert Aickman Literary Correspondence: 'Literary Matters Correspondence'
- Scope & Content:
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Correspondence of Robert Aickman including:
- correspondence regarding his literary works with agents, publishers, magazines and journals including Fontana Books, Penguin Books, London Management (Bertie Van Thal), Kirby McCauley, Geoffrey Dibb, Collins Publishers, The Waterways Series, Mercury Publications, and Pentagram;
- correspondence with The Ghost Club and Peter Underwood regarding their talks;
- correspondence with Charles W. Traylen regarding rare books;
- correspondence with Richard Dalby regarding Richard Marsh and exchange of his books;
- correspondence with other authors regarding their stories, including Ronald Chetwynd-Hayes and Russel Kirk;
- letters from Aickman to various authors and their agents or publishers asking for permission to use stories in the Sixth Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories and dealing with payment of rights;
- copy of a letter from Gaham Wilson to Kirby McCauley complimenting Aickman's writing;
- correspondence with The True Jacobite magazine about Aickman's opinion on it and the aim of the magazine;
- correspondence with the Voluntary Euthanasia Society;
- correspondence with Igor Vinogradoff regarding valuation of rare objects;
- correspondence with Lady Kennet regarding a campaign to stop the demolition of Sir James Barrie's house in Bayswater;
- correspondence with Harold Soref regarding the Monday Club and the Conservative policy for the arts;
- correspondence with Jiri F. Novak regarding doing an opera based on Aickman's story The Waiting Room;
- correspondence with Lothar Sauer regarding the inclusion of one of Sauer's stories in the Fontana books, a possible translation of Ringing the Changes in German, and opinion on other authors' ghost stories;
- correspondence with The Sadler's Wells regarding some tapestry donated to the theatre by Aickman in memory of his great uncle;
- letter from Monica Stirling suggesting to Aickman names of publishers and agents in the U.S.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003346004
036-003353438
037-003355393
040-003354148 - Is part of:
- Add MS 89209 : The Papers of Robert Aickman
Add MS 89209/4 : Robert Aickman: Correspondence
Add MS 89209/4/28-62 : Robert Aickman Correspondence: Literary
Add MS 89209/4/47 : Robert Aickman Literary Correspondence: 'Literary Matters Correspondence' - Hierarchy:
- 032-003346004[0004]/036-003353438[0027]/037-003355393[0019]/040-003354148
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 89209
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 file
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1970
- End Date:
- 1970
- Date Range:
- 1970
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Former External References:
- Boat museum L96.07 d10
Boat museum L96.07 d8a - Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Dalby, Richard, editor and literary researcher, 1949-2017
Fontana, publisher, 1950s-
Hayes, Ronald, author, 1919-2001
Kirk, Russel Amos, political theorist and historian, 1918-1994
McCauley, Kirby, American literary agent and editor, 1941-2014
Mercury Press, publisher, 1930s-
Novak, Jiri F., Czech composer, 1913-1993
Sauer, Lothar, German author, translator and photographer, b 1930,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000382562922
Soref, Harold Benjamin, politician and journalist, 1916-1993
Thal, Bertie Maurice van, bookseller and publisher, 1904-1983
Underwood, Peter, author, broadcaster and parapsychologist, 1923-2014
William Collins Sons, and Co, publishers, 1819-
Wilson, Gahan, American author, cartoonist and illustrator, b 1930