Add MS 89209/4/53

Correspondence of Robert Aickman including:

• correspondence with agents, publishers and editors including London Management (Bertie Van Thal), Kirby McCauley, Fontana Books, The Harvester Press Ltd., Sphere Books, Victor Gollancz, Collins Publishers, Waterway Production Ltd., Shadow Publishing, Oxford University Press, Contemporary Science Fiction Authors, and Christine Bernard;
• correspondence with friends and other authors regarding literary and personal matters, projects, talks, theatre and psychic episodes, including Elizabeth Jane Howard, Peter Underwood, Canon J. D. Pearce-Higgins, Reginald Pound, Professor James L. Harner, Catherine Jones (his typist), The Musical Museum, Brian J. Frost, Trevor Nunn, Christopher Martin, and John Betjeman;
• correspondence with the British Theatre Museum regarding subscription and its collections;
• correspondence with the World Wildlife Fund and Peter Scott regarding the conservation poetry competition judged by Aickman and Peter Scott;
• correspondence with various organisations and societies asking Aickman to give talks or support;
• correspondence between Aickman, Collins Publishers and Ridley Scott regarding Aickman's stories and the possibility to adapt them for filming, and about Aickman's story The Inner Room;
• letters to various authors announcing that Richard Marsh Ltd. have ceased to trade as literary agency.

The file also includes an autograph manuscript of an article entitled 'The Upper Avon Renewed' and typescript of an article entitled 'The Market Harborough Festival of Boats and Arts 1950'.