Mss Eur F594/9/9

General correspondence between the R.A. Skelton, Honorary Secretary of the Hakluyt Society, and A.L. Kingsford, Cambridge University Press, regarding issues relating to publication of volumes. Volumes include: The Prester John of the Indies...being the narrative of the Portuguese Embassy to Ethiopia in 1520, translation of Lord Stanley of Alderley (1881), revised and edited by C.F. Beckingham and G.W.B. Huntingford (Cambridge 1961); The History of the Tahitian Mission, 1799-1830, edited by C.W. Newbury (Cambridge, 1961); The Travels of Ibn Battuta, Volume II, (Cambridge, 1962); The Travels and Controversies of Friar Domingo Navarrete, 1616-1686, edited by J.S. Cummins (Cambridge, 1962); The Cabot Voyages and Bristol Discovery under Henry VII by James A. Williamson (Cambridge, 1962); A Regiment for the Sea, and other Writings on Navigation, by William Bourne of Gravesend, a Gunner, edited by E.G.R. Taylor, (Cambridge, 1963); and Byron's Journal of his Circumnavigation, 1764-1766, edited by Robert E. Gallagher (Cambridge, 1964). Also includes some correspondence with Robert Maclehose & Co relating to printing of certain volumes for Cambridge University Press.