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Loan MS 129/4/85
- Record Id:
- 040-003372126
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003367166
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100042384869.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Loan MS 129/4/85
- Title:
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Business Letters - Part 2
- Scope & Content:
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Photocopies of correspondence of Little, Brown & Company consisting of 36 letters between Herbert Jenkins, Stuart Rose, Charles B. Blanchard, Alfred McIntyre, Paul R. Reynolds, Paul R. Reynolds Jr., James Montgomery Flagg (illustrator), and P.G. Wodehouse, 12 Dec 1932-22 May 1935.
The letters concern Thank You, Jeeves, Heavy Weather and Brinkley Manor, and deal with sales, title changes, publication dates, contract renewal, and cover illustrations.
The file also includes a letter from Little, Brown to James Heinemann, 26 Aug 1980, giving him permission to send the letters to Frances Donaldson, with handwritten cover note from Heinemann to Frances Donaldson, 29 Aug 1980.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003367166
036-003368535
037-003367353
038-003372122
040-003372126 - Is part of:
- Loan MS 129 : P.G. Wodehouse Archive
Loan MS 129/4 : P.G. Wodehouse Archive: Correspondence
Loan MS 129/4/1-105 : Correspondence to and from P.G. Wodehouse
Loan MS 129/4/84-87 : P.G. Wodehouse Correspondence: Business letters
Loan MS 129/4/85 : Business Letters - Part 2 - Hierarchy:
- 032-003367166[0004]/036-003368535[0003]/037-003367353[0038]/038-003372122[0002]/040-003372126
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Loan MS 129
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 file
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1900
- End Date:
- 1980
- Date Range:
- 1932-1980
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Former External References:
- BL31
OF41 - Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Notes:
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The letters were sent to Frankie Donaldson by James Heinemann, who obtained them from Little, Brown & Co.
- Names:
- Flagg, James Montgomery, American artist and illustrator, 1877-1960
Herbert Jenkins, publisher, 1912-1964
Little, Brown, and Co, booksellers and publishers, USA, Boston, 1837-
Reynolds, Paul Revere, literary agent, 1864-1944
Rose, Stuart, American author and editor, 1899-1975