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Eunice Frost (1914-1998) papers
Rough box list
Papers donated to the University of Bristol in October 1998 by the executors of the late Eunice Frost.
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Personal papers:
Manuscripts and typescripts of poetry and prose written by Eunice Frost,
1930s.
1930s1950s
Biographical notes made by Eunice Frost, n.d. [1930s/1940s?].
Eunice Frost’s address book. The notebook was formerly used by
Margaret Frost and also contains information about Departments of State.
Eunice Frost’s season ticket for The Leicester Galleries, London, 19471948.
Eunice Frost’s membership card for The Pheasantry Club, London, 19471948.
Complimentary ticket for the Paul Nash exhibition and concert at the Tate
Gallery on 15 March [1948].
Book plate signed by Enid Blyton.
Photographs:
Portrait photograph of Eunice Frost, n.d. [c.1935?]. Photographer:
unknown. (1 x black and white photograph).
Photograph of Eunice Frost [with her father?], n.d. [c.1940?].
Photographer: unknown. (1 x black and white photograph).
Passport-style photograph of Eunice Frost, certified and signed on the back
by H.F. Rubinstein, 12 March 1945. Photographer: unknown. (1 x black
and white photograph).
Portrait photograph of Eunice Frost, n.d. [c.1960s?]. Photographer: Lotte
Meitner-Graf. (1 x black and white photograph).
Portrait photograph of Allen Lane, 27 July 1961. Signed ‘To Frostie from
Allen with love. 23rd April 1969’. Photographer: Rex Coleman, Baron
Studios. (1 x black and white photograph).
Articles and newspaper cuttings:
‘A concentrated potted Penguin history in 700 words’: article to mark
Penguin’s 15th anniversary, 1950. Annotated typescript.
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‘Why a Penguin Book exhibition?’: article to mark Penguin’s 15th
anniversary, 1950. Annotated typescript.
Oliver Moore, ‘Man of the Month: Sir Allen Lane’, Scope Magazine for
Industry, August 1954.
Sebastian Haffner, ‘Profile: King Penguin, Sir Allen Lane’, The Observer,
1 August 1954.
Bruce Bain, ‘Watch out, Penguins!’, Tribune, 8 July 1955. With typescript
copy.
Obituary for Oliver Simon, O.B.E., chairman of the Curwen Press, The
Times, n.d. [1955].
Penguin Books Ltd.:
Letter from Margaret Stanley-Wrench, Somerville College, Oxford, to
Eunice Frost, 15 May 1938. Stanley-Wrench advises Frost on how to find
papers taking verse, with particular reference to those that like ‘modern
stuff’. She hopes the Penguin Party goes well and says they enjoyed Allen
Lane’s visit to Oxford and that ‘people keep talking about it, and I expect
they will all buy Penguin Classics, I’ve been talking about them, and lots
of my friends will’. She thanks Frost for offering to send her copies of
Penguin books and asks for a copy of the modern anthology when it comes
out and says that she has been asked to supply more poems to Penguin
Parade. Snakehips Johnson and his West Indians will be performing at the
Commemoration Ball at Balliol.
Copy letter from Eunice Frost, Penguin Books Ltd., to Stefan Lorant,
Picture Post, 4 April 1939. Frost suggests that the Picture Post might like
to run articles on beer and the improvement and cheap facilities for leisure
and education.
Copy letter from Eunice Frost, Penguin Books Ltd., to Mary Adams,
Director of Television, Alexandria Palace [BBC], 4 April 1939. Frost
suggests a range of ideas for programmes about Penguin books.
Letter from Barnett Freedman to Eunice Frost, 22 November 1952.
Freedman regrets that he does not see more of Frost because she is so busy
at work. Claudia [Freedman] was pleased Frost liked her drawings and
enjoyed the commission. Freedman is now recovering from his illness and
invites Frost to lunch – ‘you as you & not as part of Penguin Books who
now never invite me to any sort of party – altho’ I know that plenty of
other bad artists are asked!’
Letter from Allen Lane, Penguin Books Ltd., to Eunice Frost, 24
November 1952. Lane is extremely worried about Frost’s state of health
and for this reason he suggested she took some time away from the office
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to visit the USA and also went into hospital ‘for an overhaul’. He proposes
that as from the New Year she should be relieved of the strain of working a
full day at the office and instead organizes her work so that she can work
from home. Lane adds ‘Your two greatest assets to my mind are your
editorial judgement and your ability as a co-ordinator with such editors as
Eleanor Graham, Carrington, Pevsner, Ayer, Lehmann, Hayward, etc, and I
think that it would make sense for you to concentrate on these functions.’
Letter from Allen Lane, aboard the S.S. Strathnaver, 7 January 1953. Lane
reports that ‘their show’ in Ceylon was a great success and the sales mostly
of Pelicans, Classics, Scores and some Puffins were in the 3000 mark.
Does not think much of Stevens as an agent who Lane suggests should be
ignoring the European population and concentrating on the Ceylonese.
Most of the reports in the Ceylon press were pure invention and wonders
whether the Australian press will behave in the same way.
Letter from Allen Lane, Avalon, New South Wales, to Eunice Frost, 17
February 1953. Lane is in Australia on business, but is spending a few
days with Nora. Is disappointed by Maynard’s lack of salesmanship and
that he is not doing enough to meet the academics and the Educational
authorities. Lane suggests adding some Australian titles to the list, such as
Professor Kathleen Fitzpatrick’s A History of Australia, An Anthology of
Australian Verse edited by Alex King or Professor Hope, and An
Australian Eleven. Mentions the Percival Marshall and the Boy Scout
schemes. Tells Frost that Puffin Picture Books and Puffin Story Books are
better displayed in Australia than in the UK. Likes Frost’s proposals for
new Pelicans on Indian Art, The Spaniards, The Dictionary of Art, Musical
Instruments, A History of Music and Flower Decoration, adding that they
will ‘help to allay my ever present fears that we will run out of books to
publish.’ Lane has met O’Sullivan, the Minister for Customs, and they
both agreed that Woman of Rome should not have been banned and that the
only result of this will be ‘vastly inflated sales when the ban was lifted’.
Letter from Canon C.B. Mortlock to Eunice Frost, 6 July 1953. Mentions
the play at the New Lindsey Theatre and expects that the editor of the
Church Times will send a reporter.
Letter from [Olga?] to Eunice Frost, 10 July 1953. Was disappointed by
the play at the New Lindsey Theatre.
Letter from [C?], Hill House, Hampton Lucy, Warwick, to Eunice Frost,
18 September 1953. Is trying to find a job in publishing and wonders
whether Frost knows of any positions.
Penguin memorandum from M.S.C., B.S., J.P., E.A.K., A.E.L., P.M.W. to
Eunice Frost, 27 November 1953. Concerning the ‘shameful state’ of the
ladies’ cloakroom. Signed by the female employees at Penguin Books.
Letter from ‘The Firkies’ to Eunice Frost, Christmas 1953. Sending
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Christmas greetings.
Invitation from John Lehmann to Eunice Frost to celebrate the birth of The
London Magazine on 13 January 1954 at 31 Egerton Crescent.
Letter from Ralph Tubbs to Eunice Frost, 20 July [1954]. Tubbs thanks
Frost for her kind words.
Invitation from Sir Allen and Lady Lane to Eunice Frost to celebrate the
publication of the 1000th Penguin at a party at Silverbeck on 30 July 1954.
Letter from Eleanor Graham to Eunice Frost, 20 October 1954. Graham is
sorry to hear that Frost is unwell. Graham mentions having given a talk on
children’s literature at a meeting of the representative bodies of
newsagents, librarians, and parent-teacher organizations. Does not think
Haggard is a suitable author for Puffins, mentions the illustrations for
Children in Barn, likes the artwork of W. Randell, Mrs Colville does not
want ‘PHRA’ to be published by Puffin.
Memorandum by Allen Lane and Harry Paroissien on their return from
their trip across Canada and the United States, 29 October 1954.
Reply to memorandum of Allen Lane and Harry Paroissien of 29 October
1954, 5 November 1954.
Copy letter from Hans Schmoller to Allen Lane, Jamaica, 8 November
1954. Schmoller sends the cover designs which E. Fabian has prepared.
Notes on staff arrangements, 30 November 1954 and 5 December 1954.
Concerning attempt to replace Miss Swann and the need to make
improvements to the working conditions and pay of the editorial and
secretarial staff. With a comparison chart showing the hours and holidays
of staff working for O.U.P, Routledge, Faber and Faber, Collins, Chatto,
Hart-Davies, and Cassell.
Letter from David Hughes, The London Magazine, to Eunice Frost, 4
February 1955. Hughes conveys John Lehmann’s thanks for Frost’s notes
and says he is convalescing from an operation. He will bear Miss Quiglys’
book in mind.
Penguin memorandum from Allen Lane to Eunice Frost, 22 February 1955.
Lane hopes Frost will attend the cocktail party at the Leicester Galleries on
10 March ‘so that we can see what the Editorial Committee in real life
looks against itself in oils’ [referring to Rodrigo Moynihan’s painting
‘After the Conference’].
Letter from Bob [Maynard], Penguin Books Pty. Ltd., Australia, to Eunice
Frost, 28 February 1955. Maynard asks to meet Frost away from the
office, adding ‘I am tired of being kicked around and I am coming home
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for a showdown’.
Copy letter form Robert Weaver, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, to
the Manager, Penguin Books Ltd., Quebec, 26 May 1955. Weaver sends
copies of an article about pocket books [missing].
Notes made by Eunice Frost of changes needed to the editorial board at
Penguin Books. Frost no longer feels she has a role on the Pelican editorial
board because, since her return from America, Glover, Messer and
Morpurgo have taken over all her duties. Frost would also like recognition
for her role as proof-reader and initiator of many books in the Pelican
(mentions Meaning of Art, Landscape into Art, Herbert Read’s Modern
Art, Quennell’s Everyday Things in England, Silver, Porcelain, English
Furniture Style), Puffin and Handbooks series (mentions Elizabeth David’s
Mediterranean Food, Chess, Flower Decoration).
Letter from Oliver [Simon?] to Eunice Frost, 20 July 1955. Thanks Frost
for the evening at the opera.
Invoice from Curry & Paxton Ltd., dispensing opticians, to Eunice Frost,
for honey brown pastella spectacle frames, 21 September 1955.
Letter from Douglas Grant to Eunice Frost, 23 March 1956. Thanks Frost
for telling him about Oliver Simon [died 1955] and Dennis Brass. He adds
that Northrop Frye has written one of the best books on Blake. He will be
in London in May/June to correct the proofs of a biography of Hart-Davis
he is bringing out. Penguin books are selling well in Canada.
Letter from W.B. Stevenson, Borough Librarian, Hornsey Public Libraries,
to Eunice Frost, 11 April 1956. Stevenson encloses the copy of D.H.
Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover that Frost requested.
Letter from Allen Lane, Penguin Books Ltd., to Eunice Frost, 3 July 1956.
Lane thinks the fiction list for 1957 is a strong one, but wants to keep down
the slower selling titles to the minimum. Lists ‘doubtful starters’ in the
1957 list (Alfred Duggan’s Knight with Armour, Peter Mayne’s Alleys of
Marakesh, J.D. Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye, and Randall Jarrell’s
Pictures from an Institution.
Letter from Ivon Hitchens to Eunice Frost, 16 July 1956. Arranging to
meet.
Letter from Nikolaus Pevsner, Penguin Books Ltd., to Eunice Frost, 8
August 1956. Pevsner thanks Frost for John Walker’s letter. He has
already received some letters from America.
Letter from W.E. Williams, Paris, to Eunice Frost, n.d. Williams sends
supplementary reflections to his cable. Williams states that ‘(1) if we
allow the focus of Penguins to be shifted to American needs or fashions,
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we shall court, invite & meet – disaster. The American operation was
never intended to be more than an auxiliary of the British [brain-ware?]; if
it becomes a determinant of our policy we shall be on the slippery slope
down which the Gadarene swine slid to their doom. Our existing product
is right (& how right!) for Britain; it is building up support year by year; &
we would be fools to tinker with the confidence we have won. (2) I can
see, of course, that American values may be different. I am all in favour of
any discount concessions which the traffic will bear; but I find it hard to
believe that we can give such concessions and – at the same time- provide
different covers, or jackets, for the Americans & Canadians. Whether it
can be done is a matter for Dickson & Co., but I would have thought it was
impossible. (3) All HFP’s reports, so far, had led me to believe that altho’
we cannot compete with the vulgar sort of paper-back, 7 altho’ we are not
acceptable to the drug-store outlets, yet nevertheless, we were catching on
at the campus bookshop & such like places. We were, I was given to
understand, a prestige-job - & I have had that view from many other
sources. Why should we panic in face of a competition we never intended
to appease or imitate? (4) Allen’s sending for an immediate reply need not
be taken too seriously. The thing to do is to refuse to be stampeded, & to
discuss the whole thing when he gets back. Let him see, meanwhile, that
we don’t want Penguins to be colonized by America.’
Letter from Naomi [Lewis] to Eunice Frost, n.d. Lewis apologises for her
father having repaired the broken spout and handle of Frost’s [teapot?]
without asking her permission.
Letter from Richard and Marjorie, 81 Foyle Road, Blackheath, London, to
Eunice Frost, n.d. Sending Christmas greetings.
Draft notes of net profits before and after taxation 1940-1950.
Draft notes of the monthly salaries paid to Professor Pevsner’s research
staff (Dr G. Boudi, Mrs Michaelson, Miss Littlemore, Michael Butler,
Rosa Schafive).
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Anthology of Canadian Poetry:
Typescript: An Anthology of Canadian Poetry, ed. Ralph Gustafson,
[Pelican A97, published April 1942].
1942-1958
Tennessee Williams:
Correspondence between Eunice Frost, D. Farrer and Fred Warburg
(Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd.), and E. Martin Brown (The British Drama
League), 5 April-17 May 1956. Concerning discussions about Penguin
publishing editions of Tennessee Williams’ plays, with particular reference
to Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, A Streetcar named Desire, and The Rose Tattoo.
Copy of the Signet edition of Tennessee Williams’ The Rose Tattoo (Signet
Book, February 1956).
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Typescript of film script for Tennessee Williams’ play, Baby Doll. With a
handwritten note ‘Fred Warburg. First to be published in this form. [?],
5/1/56’.
Penguin correspondence and memorandums:
File of correspondence with publishers concerning possible titles for
inclusion in Penguin’s book list, 1957-1958.
Includes reference to Rex Hazlewood’s Camping Handbook; list of
illustrations for Leonardo da Vinci; list of books sent to [Eunice Frost] in
Lewes; and lists of books sent and returned by the Arts Council.
Pelican sales figures:
Sales figures for Pelican books, December 1951-June 1957. Lists sales
figures for Stuart Hampshire, Spinoza (A253), Austin Duncan-Jones,
Butler’s Moral Philosophy (A244), W.B. Gallie, Peirce and Pragmatism
(A254), D.J. O’Connor, John Locke (A267), Karl Britton, John Stuart Mill
(A274), T.D. Weldon, The Vocabulary of Politics (A278), G.J. Warnock,
Berkeley (A286), P.H. Nowell-Smith, Ethics (A293), Ruth Lydia Saw,
Leibniz (A305), S. Körner, Kant (A338), F.C. Copleston, Aquinas (A349),
R.S. Peters, Hobbes (A367), A.J. Ayer, The Problem of Knowledge
(A377).
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G.H. Vallins, The Pattern of English:
Typescript: G.H. Vallins, The Pattern of English [Pelican A398, published
September 1957].
1955-1958
Penguin Plays:
Eunice Frost’s correspondence and papers concerning a new series of
Penguin Plays edited by E. Martin Browne, 25 February 1955-13 March
1958.
Correspondents include B. Ashmore (Amersham Repertory Players),
Elizabeth Barber (The Society of Authors), E. Martin Browne, Dr William
Chapman, Sonia K. Chapter (Curtis Brown Ltd.), Mary Garnham
(librarian, The British Drama League), A.S.B. Glover (Penguin Books
Ltd.), Ronald Gow, C. Hogg (Samuel French Ltd.), Dr Jan Van Loewen,
Samuel Marshak, H.F. Paroissien (Penguin Books Inc., USA), Hilary
Rubinstien (Victor Gollancz Ltd.), Rene Mavor, Max Reinhardt, Anne
Robbins (Penguin Books Ltd.), Martha Smith (Constable and Co. Ltd.),
and Ella Winter.
Concerning permissions and rights for Four Modern Verse Plays (PL37),
Three European Plays (PL36), a schools anthology (published as PL31),
G. Bernard Shaw’s Selected One-Act Plays (PL51, PL52), Three Irish
Plays (PL35), two volumes of Luigi Pirandello’s plays (PL30, PL34) and
Three Soviet Plays (PL62).
Includes a photocopy of Samuel Marshak’s Twelve Months.
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Stocklists:
ARCO Publications Ltd. spring book list, 1957.
Oxford Books, autumn book list, 1957.
The Publishers Association:
Members’ circular, vol. 33, no.5, May 1957.
The Bookseller:
No.2715, 4 January 1958. Includes an article about new developments in
paperbacks and an advertisement for a trainee representative for Penguin
Books in the north of England.
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Correspondence (Penguin and personal), 1940s-50s.
Includes letter from Allen Lane to Harry Kemp, worried about Eunice
Frost’s health, November 1959.
1940s-50s
Correspondence, editorial memos, correspondence with publishers.
Theatre programmes and art gallery publicity materials.
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Minutes of meetings of the Penguin Management Committee and Board of
Directors, 1963.
1962-63
Penguin accounts, 1962.
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Minutes of meetings of the Penguin Management Committee, 1962.
1958-62
Daily sales figures, 1962.
Books considered for publication, 1961-1962.
General Penguin correspondence and memos, including with Douglas
Cooper concerning a proposed Penguin Modern Painters volume on
Picasso, 1962.
Eunice Frost income tax 1958 and expenses 1959.
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Typescript: ‘God and Social Progress’ by John Hadnam [Penguin Special
S141].
1958 – 60
Typescript and materials: ‘The Amateur’s Workshop’ by Ian Bradley.
Correspondence with publishers concerning book rights, and books seen,
with potential books for reprint, 1958-59, 1960.
Board and Group Editors Meetings, minutes, 1959.
Reader’s reports by W.B. Stevenson, for crime fiction, late 1950s.
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Correspondence:
Correspondents include: Margery Allingham, Michael Ayrton, Peggie
Beaton, William Byrne, Noel Carrington, John Carter, Hugh Casson,
Apsley Cherry-Garrard, Richard Chopping, Kenneth Clark [re. Penguin
Modern Painters], Cyril Connolly, Christian Darnton, Clifford Dyment,
Ernestine Evans, E.M. Forster, Barnett Freedman, Victor Gollancz Ltd.,
Jan Gordon, Eleanor Graham, Graham Greene, Tony Guthrie, James
Harley, Derry Heir, Allen Lane [including a letter concerning Richard
Hoggart’s Uses of Literacy, 7 March 1957], Lettice Lane [inviting Eunice
to Clare Lane’s christening, 22 June 1942], John Lehmann, Naomi Lewis,
Cecily Mackworth, Ruari Maclean, R.W. (Bob) Maynard, Lotte MeitnerGraf, Henry Moore, [J.R. Muirhead?], Barry Neame, Mrs Henry W.
Nevinson (Evelyn Sharp), Ben Nicholson, Richard Pares, Ronald Penrose,
Harriet F. Pilpel (Greenbaum, Wolff & Ernst), Harold Raymond, Dorothy
L. Sayers, Laurence Scarfe, Georges Simenon, Denise Simenon, Edith
Sitwell, Dr. William J. L. Sladen, Margaret Stanley-Wrench, John
Summerson, Katherine Sutherland, A.J.A. Symons, Ralph Tubbs, Conrad
Hal Waddington, John Wain, Josiah C. Wedgwood, William Emrys
Williams, Edward Young.
1938-1958
Letters of congratulation sent to Eunice Frost following her receipt of an
OBE in 1957 and on being appointed a director at Penguin in 1958.
Penguin Books Ltd. correspondence, 1944-1958. Including
correspondence concerning a dispute between Penguin Books and
Professor A.J. Ayer’s following his granting rights to publish a clothbound edition to Messrs. Macmillan and Co. Ltd. in 1957.
Printed material:
List of the first 534 Armed Services Editions published for American
Armed Forces Overseas, 1943-1945.
Stock order list of Penguin titles available in June 1943.
E. Westphal’s ration books, 1951-1952, 1952-1953.
Booking details of Eunice Frost’s booking as a first class passenger on
board the S.S. Parthia sailing from Liverpool to New York on 3 May 1952.
Scoring cards for Lord’s cricket ground, 1953.
‘The Bookseller’, 28 July 1956. The cover features an advertisement for
Penguin’s 21st anniversary.
Extract from ‘The People’, 11 November 1956.
‘Printing Press & Publishing News’, 3 January 1957. Includes a reference
to Eunice Frost being awarded an O.B.E.
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‘The Bookseller’, 5 January 1957. Includes a reference to Eunice Frost
being awarded an O.B.E.
James Laver, ‘The Cradle of Venus’: an offprint from ‘The Scallop’, 1957.
Instructions for using the Hanovia Home Sun Lamp, n.d. Typed on a
Penguin Books Ltd. postcard.
Invitations:
Admission ticket to the Queen Victoria Memorial Garden Stands on 12
May 1937 for the coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth.
Invitation to view an exhibition at Redfern Gallery of paintings by Edward
Wolfe, original etching by Edouard Manet and drawings by D. de
Segonzac, June 1944.
Invitation from the president and trustees of the Museum of Modern Art,
New York, to the private opening of a retrospective exhibition of Marc
Chagall on 9 April 1946.
Invitation from the publishers and editors of King Penguin Books to attend
a party on 23 June 1949 to celebrate the publication of the fiftieth King
Penguin.
Literary manuscripts:
Typescripts of two poems submitted by Eunice Frost to the Week-End
Competition no.1,026, n.d.
Typescript account of a meeting of the Society of Writers for Intellectual
Liberty. The chairman, John Brophy, is described as ‘laborious’, Philip
Guedalla as ‘sincere’, Compton Mackenzie ‘got everyone flaming against
anti-Semetism’, Sylvia Townsend Warner was the only woman who wasn’t
futile, Rosamond Lehmann ‘looked lovely and pleaded for Our Children’,
Desmond Macarthy made ‘perhaps the most reasoned and intelligent
speech’, Cecil Day Lewis appealed for a ‘Peace front of intelligent thinking
people’, Rose Macaulay ‘was futile’. The meeting concluded with
‘everyone united in agreeing that Fascism was a complete dead-end as far
as intellectual freedom and initiative was concerned’.
Typed reference for Eunice Frost [from the organizer of the Chelsea Arts
Ball].
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Correspondence (mainly personal), including bills, receipts, cancelled
cheque books, bank statements, and art gallery publicity materials.
Correspondents include Bill Williams, Henry Miller 1950, and Hans
Schmoller.
1940s1960s
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Correspondence concerning Penguin and personal matters.
1958-
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1990s
Specification for a computer for Penguin 1958.
Correspondence with Ivon Hitchens concerning Penguin Modern Painters.
Penguin stock lists 1990s.
Penguin Collectors’ Society 1990s.
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Correspondence (personal and Penguin), concerning the death of Ron
Blass 1984, Betty Radice 1985, obituaries, and with Harry Paroissien.
1980s1990s
Pearson group accounts 1980s.
Theatre and opera programmes.
Press cuttings.
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Personal correspondence and press cuttings.
1980s1990s
Puffin calendar 1992.
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Materials relating to Penguin, 1960s.
1960s,
1985
Celebrations for 50 Penguin years, 1985 including four copies of Fifty
Penguin Years.
Correspondence with Tanya Schmoller and others.
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1947-1984
Typescript: ‘A Report on Penguin World’ by Mass Observation, November
1947. Includes the following chapters:
Section A, Context to Penguins: The Non-Readers (of newspapers,
magazines and books), Why People Don’t’ Read Books, The Readers
(Who reads what? How much do people read? Reading as a leisure
interest. Reading and the formation of opinion), Why People Read Books
(Reading as a relaxation, reading to acquire knowledge, motives in fiction
reading).
Section B, Penguin World: The Penguin Public (Who are the Penguin
Public?, The Penguin reader votes, his choice of newspaper, his choice of
magazines, membership of organizations, his religion, how he uses his
leisure), The Penguin Public Speaks (Penguin awareness, opinions about
paper-covered books, book-buying, ownership of paper-covered books),
Taste and Selection in Book Buying (Tastes in book reading, tastes in
book-buying, selecting books, where people buy their books), Penguins at
Home (working-class households, middle-class households), The Penguin
Fan (Subscribers to Penguin’s Progress and New Writing), Spotlight on
Penguins (Bestsellers, Letters to Penguin), A Brood of Puffins, From
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Printer to Public (Printer, Wholesaler, Retailer, Librarians).
Section C, Penguin Factory: General Attitudes, Departmental Organisation,
Action Points.
Appendix: Cumulative Sales Figures (Chart showing number of new titles
published by Penguin Books During 12 Year Period 1935-1946; Graph
showing total number of Penguin Books Published in Millions during 12
Year Period 1935-1946).
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Typescript: ‘When Armageddon Came’ by Wilfrid Ewart (5th edition,
revised with a new foreward and five new chapters, 1938). With letter
from Eunice Frost (Penguin Books Ltd.) to Gilbert Wright Ltd., 7 June
1955, asking whether she can return the manuscript of ‘When Armageddon
Came’.
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Typescript: ‘A Wandering Student: the Story of a Purpose’ by Bernard
Pares, n.d. With compliments slip from Bip Pares to Miss Eunice Frost, 18
February 1947.
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Typescript: ‘I’m a Fool and other Stories’ by Sherwood Anderson, n.d.
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Two postcards from Marcus Cunliffe to Eunice Frost, 10 and 21 April
1953. Cunliffe gives Frost progress reports on his book [The Literature of
the United States, A289, published by Penguin in March 1954]. With copy
of the order of service for the service of thanksgiving for the life of Marcus
Falkner Cunliffe (1922-1990) at The Chapel of Oriel College, Oxford, n.d.
[1990].
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Postcard of Lechlade from Myfanwy [Piper] to Allen Lane, n.d. Myfanwy
invites Lane to lunch on 26th.
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Letter from Eunice Frost, Penguin Books Ltd., to Miss Dorothy Woodman,
7 June 1955. Frost asks Woodman whether she would like her manuscript
of ‘An A.B.C. of the Pacific’ returned to her.
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Letter from Ruari McLean to Eunice Frost, 13 February 1984. McLean
mentions his memories of Jan and Edith Tschichold and sends Frost copies
of his hand-drawn Christmas cards for the years 1981, 1982 and 1983
illustrating his life on the Isle of Mull.
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Correspondence and press cuttings, including requests for information on
Penguin.
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Rodrigo Moynihan obituary 1990s.
Penguin stock lists 1989-90.
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Minutes of Penguin Board of Directors meetings 1965.
1962-1965
Penguin accounts 1965.
Account of visit to USA 1965.
Correspondence and memoranda including mention of named individuals
1965.
Warehouse and distribution.
Letters from Allen Lane, 1962.
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Penguin correspondence, 1955-1990s. Including:
19551990s
Material relating to Nikolaus Pevsner, including letters and Christmas
cards; obituaries; and materials relating to his memorial service on 6
December 1983 at the University Church of Christ the King, London.
Christmas card from Claude Houghton.
Christmas card from Ronald Searle, [1980].
Newspaper cuttings of obituaries for Kaye Webb, January 1996.
Letters from J.M. Richards to Eunice Frost, 1982-1984. Regrets that he
doesn’t know why a book about Eric Ravilious wasn’t produced as a
Penguin Modern Painter but suggests it may have been because Ravilious
was killed in 1942 or that Kenneth Clark didn’t want to include him. He
adds that Ravilious was the closest male friend he had and that he still
misses him. Also mentions Nikolaus Pevsner’s death and Stephen Games’
book about Pevsner.
Photographs, including old photographs of Eunice Frost’s family; Eunice
Frost aged 11; Eunice Frost on a visit to Cork in June 1955 and Ireland in
1963; visit by Penguin staff and Allen Lane to New York; passport
photographs of Eunice Frost; Clare and Christine Lane as a toddlers; Bill
Williams on holiday; Gavin Ewart in 1993
Personal correspondence 1970s-80s.
Information on Gavin Ewart, died 1995.
Notes by Eunice Frost: ‘How did I become a literary midwife?’, 19 May
1993.
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Transcripts of radio interviews with Allen Lane by George Scott, Margaret
Lane and Walter Allen, and by Jack Singleton.
Transcripts of interviews with Richard Hoggart and Christine Teale for an
HTV documentary about Sir Allen Lane, entitled ‘What about a Penguin’.
The documentary was written and narrated by A.C.H. Smith, produced and
directed by Derek Clark, and broadcast in1995. Also included are letters
from Derek Clark to Eunice Frost arranging an appointment for her to be
interviewed for the documentary, 1993.
‘The King Penguin Series: an Historical Survey’ by Jane Harley, an offprint from ‘Matrix 5’, [1986].
Second draft of ‘Sixty Penguin Years’ text.
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Correspondence (Penguin and personal) including with Bill Williams, Ivor
Hitchens, Martha Gellhorn, and Allen Lane, with mention of Eunice
Frost’s marriage to Harry Kemp, 1957-58.
19541962,
1983
Diary 1954, 1955.
Penguin stock lists 1959-62.
Blank Penguin stationery.
Articles on Nikolaus Pevsner 1983.
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Correspondence (mainly personal) 1957.
1957-1965
Penguin stock lists and publicity materials 1959-60s.
Penguin sales statistics 1964-65.
Allen Lane to Bill [Williams?], December 1961.
Blank Penguin stationery.
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Typescripts of short stories by Captain R Hill-Murray, 1939 [Includes
‘Tomorrow’, ‘The Scribe’, ‘Candles at MuQuaam’, ‘Mickey’, ‘Bhool’,
‘Dhaka-Khaun’, ‘Haap-orr-Khis’, ‘O.H.M.S’, ‘The Sign Manifest’, ‘A
Woman on the Klong Dong Lui’, ‘Mid Pleasures and Palaces’, ‘Sikander’,
‘Who’ll Dig His Grave?’].
1939-1964
Annotated typescript: ‘Le Retour de la Sainte’ by Louis Auppegard,
December 1941 [Editions Penguin V6].
Typescript: ‘French Architecture, part III’ by Pierre Lavedan, translated by
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May McCann [Pelican A329] [see also Boxes 33, 34].
Typescript: ‘Capriccio Italiano’ by B.V.I. Toams, translated by Molly
Mackenzie.
Correspondence with W.B. Stevenson and Robert Collinson, readers’
reports for crime and western fiction, 1949-54.
Daily sales figures, 1964.
Jonathan Cape Jackdaw History packs, 1960s.
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Personal correspondence and press cuttings.
1980s
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Personal correspondence, press cuttings, opera, theatre and exhibition
programmes.
1980s
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Letter from Victor Gollancz to Eunice Frost concerning employment
opportunities, 1936.
19361980s
Penguin publicity material, 1960s.
Photographs, 1950s.
Material for 50th Penguin anniversary, 1985.
Correspondence, 1970s-80, including with Jack Morpurgo concerning his
book on Allen Lane; Allen Lane: a Personal Portrait by Bill Williams
(WEW).
1980s press cuttings.
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Correspondence 1960s-70s.
1960s1970s
Publishers’ catalogues 1960s.
Penguin publications July 1960.
Postcards from Eunice Frost to Allen Lane, 1969.
Notice of thanksgiving for Allen Lane, 18 Aug. 1970.
Penguin Collectors’ Society 1997.
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Penguin Book News and other publicity material 1960s.
1960s
Other publisher’s catalogues 1960s.
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Letters from Steve Hare of the Penguin Collectors’ Society concerning
Penguin history 1997.
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Penguin materials including correspondence with other publishers, memos,
and readers reports
1957-1961
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Penguin materials including sales conference minutes, books in and out of
print, new Penguins, editorial meetings, and internal memos, 1957-59.
1940,
1957-1959
Discussion of cookery books, including correspondence with Elizabeth
David; Geoffrey Moore, editor of Penguin Book of Modern American verse
[Penguin Poetry D22], 1958; Camus’ The Fall [Penguin no.1762], and
other translated works.
Eunice Frost’s income tax, 1940.
File of correspondence and papers concerning the publication by Penguin
of D.H. Lawrence’s titles and of a court case in the USA concerning the
publication of an unexpurgated version of Lady Chatterley’s Lover, 19541959.
Includes:
Copy of a letter from Frieda Lawrence Ravagli to Mr Rosset, 13 April
1954. Frieda compliment’s Rosset on trying to publish the unexpurgated
Lady Chatterley’s Lover and thinks Alfred Knopf holds the copyright to
this version.
Penguin memorandum from J.S. to A.S.B. Glover, 23 May 1956.
Concerning the copyright in Lawrence’s published works.
Letter from Richard Aldington to Eunice Frost, 31 May 1957. Aldington
sends his proposal for two volumes of D.H. Lawrence’s short stories and
long stories or novelettes and hopes they are able to add the Mexican
pieces now lost in Phoenix.
Penguin memorandum from P.B.H. to Eunice Frost, 9 March 1959.
Mentions sales of Lawrence titles and would prefer to put in new titles
rather than reprint Lost Girl and White Peacock. Thinks Lady Chatterley is
out of the question because it has just been published in paperback by Ace
Books.
Penguin memorandum from J.B. to Eunice Frost, 8 April 1959. Ace Books
are publishing Women in Love in Spring 1959.
‘News about Signet, Signet Key, Mentor Books’ from The New American
Library of World Literature, 31 June 1959-10 August 1959. Press releases
concerning the publication by The New American Library of the
paperbound Signet edition of Lady Chatterley’s Lover and claims made by
Grove Press that The New American Library had deceived the public by
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claiming that it was a complete reprint of the authorized American edition
and that the text was approved by D.H. Lawrence.
Newspaper cuttings from The New York Times, 22 July 1959 concerning
the court ruling on the United States Post Office’s mail restriction on Lady
Chatterley’s Lover, which the court ruled illegal and void.
Printed leaflet: A statement to the literary community and the trade about
Lady Chatterley’s Lover from the New American Library of World
Literature, Inc., publishers of Signet and Mentor Books, n.d. [August
1959].
Court papers of the Supreme Court of the State of New York in the case of
Grove Press, Inc., plaintiff, against The New American Library of World
Literature, Inc., defendant:
Plaintiff’s brief in support of motion for preliminary injunction, n.d.
[August 1959].
Plaintiff’s reply affidavit, 4 August 1959.
Press release from Grove Press, Inc., New York, 6 August 1959. The
unexpurgated Grove Press edition of Lady Chatterley’s Lover will be
reprinted in the Modern Library series under a royalty agreement with
Grove.
Statement by Grove Press, Inc. on Lady Chatterley’s Lover, 6 August
1959.
Memorandum from Barney Rosset, president of Grove Press, Inc., New
York, to the literary and publishing community giving a humorous account
of the court case brought against them by The New American Library, n.d.
[August 1959].
Press release: “New American Library Files $500, 000 damage suit against
Grove and Dell in Chatterley Case”, 26 August 1959.
Penguin memorandum from A.S.B. Glover to Eunice Frost, 31 August
1959. Glover sends Frost his own copy of Lady Chatterley’s Lover and
asks “Please be kind to it!”
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Editorial file: Penguin Book of Knitting by James Norbury,1953-1957
[Penguin Handbook PH33].
1953-1960
Correspondence, including Penguin memos, discussion of titles, staffing,
gardening books, cover design, and blurbs, 1958-59.
Penguin correspondence, 1960.
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Editorial file: Penguin book of New Zealand Verse, edited by Allen
Curnow, 1955-1960 [Penguin Poetry D45].
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Editorial file: Masterpieces from the National Gallery by Eric Newton,
1953-1956 [proposed book in the Pelican series].
Penguin correspondence and memos including press cuttings, publication
lists, and Allen Lane, 1955-1960.
Personal correspondence, including Eunice Frost’s health, 1955.
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Portrait photograph of Allen Lane, n.d. [late 1930s]. Photographer:
Blackstone Studios, Inc. New York. (1 x black and white photograph).
1930s1960s
Portrait photograph of Eric Muspratt [author of My South Sea Island
(Penguin no.67)], n.d. [c.1936]. Photographer: Howard Coster. (1 x black
and white photograph).
Photographs of a Penguin party at the first independent Penguin Book
Exhibition at 117 Piccadilly, London, November 1950. Includes Allen
Lane, Lettice Lane, Estrid Bannister, Bill Williams, Eunice Frost, and Hans
Schmoller, Tanya Schmoller, Denys Kilham Roberts, J.M. Richards.
Photographer: David Gurney. (11 x black and white photographs).
King Penguins general file, 1946-1955. Includes correspondence between
Nikolaus Pevsner and Eunice Frost, 8 November 1946-6 May 1954;
meeting minutes; list of King Penguin’s printed between 1953 and 1955;
copy of Feliks Topolski’s print ‘For Denise who Proposes to Paint her
Legs’ [Penguin Print no.4]; colour prints of Elizabethan miniatures; and
‘Pemex Travel Club Bulletin’ 1 August 1949 containing an article entitled
‘Rucino Llopis and Bull Fighting’.
Correspondence, 1939, 1949,1957-1966.
General report on the publicity department, n.d. [c.1958].
Correspondence between Allen Lane, Harry Paroissien, Barney Rosset
(Grove Press Inc.) and Jason Epstein concerning the future management
and expansion of Penguin’s American branch, 1958.
Correspondence with John Sundell of Cassell & Co. Ltd., concerning
publishing Erle Stanley Gardner’s titles, 1959-1960, and publishing Sir
Vivian Fuchs and Sir Edmund Hillary’s The Crossing of Antarctica
[Penguin no.1489], 1959.
Correspondence between Stella Standard and Eunice Frost’s secretary,
December 1959; with a copy of Forum and Demonstration on The
Enjoyment of Vegetables, 13, 20 November 1959.
Correspondence and medical appointments for Eunice Frost made between
1959 and 1961.
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Personal letters from Allen Lane to Eunice Frost, 1959-1968.
Correspondence and lists relating to books received, books rejected,
readers’ reports, alterations to the publication list, 1959-1961.
Peter Davies Ltd., Spring List 1960.
Weidenfeld & Nicholson, Spring and Summer List 1960.
Details of twenty-five titles being published to celebrate Penguin’s 25th
anniversary on 29 September 1960.
Typographica 5, June 1962. Includes ‘Penguins on the March’ by Herbert
Spencer.
Letter from Kaye Webb to Eunice Frost, 17 January 1963. Discusses the
appeal of Fifteen to all age groups; the problem with Peacocks and that she
has “decided the only practical way of dealing with them is to take
reputable lightweight adult novels which have either acquired fame
because they have been in circulation a long time (like FLIGHT OF THE
HERON) or because the authors have an aura around them (like Jeffrey
Farnall) or, where I can get them, the slightly more up to date ones which
no longer have a certain sale on the Penguin list. I think this will result in
getting a sale not only to older children (more of the secondary school class
than the grammar school) but also to ‘lightweight’ adults, especially if we
can get the Peacocks into self-services stores, etc. None of the titles we
have chosen could be criticized as bad literature. On the other hand they
aren’t particularly profound either. This is a matter of necessity because
really worthwhile titles simply aren’t available, or else if they are classics
there are so many cheap editions that there is no point in muddling them
up.” Hopes to visit Eve Garnett in Lewes.
Two informal photographs of an unidentified man and woman on holiday,
n.d. Photographer: unknown. (2 x black and white photographs).
Southover Parish Magazine, April 1969.
Report on the editorial situation at Penguin and how it could be improved,
n.d.
Brief notes on the demonstration of invoicing procedure on National Elliott
803 computer, n.d.
Newspaper cuttings.
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Poetry magazines and typescripts, by Eunice Frost, c. 1936.
Personal correspondence, 1949, 1960s.
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1950s1960s
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Prediction magazines, 1950s-60s.
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Penguin Management Committee minutes, 1964-66.
1964-1966
Publication lists 1966.
Press cuttings.
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Penguin papers and memos, blank Penguin stationery.
1950s1960s
Typescript: on religious architecture [see also Boxes 20, 34]
DM1843/34
Correspondence 1957-58, including discussion of the Penguin Modern
Painters series and Georges Braque [MP20].
19571960s
Penguin materials, 1960s, including Puffins, photographs of Allen Lane
and Nikolaus Pevsner; and dinner in honor of Pevsner’s 65th birthday,
February1967.
Typescript: ‘French Architecture’ by Pierre Lavedan [Pelican A329] [see
also Boxes 20, 33].
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Letter from Virginia Woolf to Allen Lane, 30 July 1939. Woolf thanks
Lane for offering to include her book The Common Reader [Pelican A36]
in his American list, but is afraid she cannot agree to it.
19391960s
Correspondence 1956.
Portrait photographs of Eunice Frost.
Photographs of Allen Lane and Lettice Orr’s wedding day at St Mary’s
church, Harmondsworth on 28 June 1941. Photographs include Lettice Orr
arriving at the church with her father, Sir Charles Orr; Sir Charles Orr and
Lady Dorothy Orr leaving the church after the wedding; an unidentified
minister [possibly the Rev. C.B. Mortlock or Rev. R. Ross]; Allen Lane
and Lettice Lane leaving the church through a penguin guard of honour,
with Eunice Frost in the background; Allen Lane and Lettice Lane after the
wedding (copyright: London News Agency Photos Ltd.). (5 black and
white photographs).
Photographs of Eunice Frost on board the RMS Parthia on her trip to the
USA, May 1952.
Portrait photograph of L.E.O Charlton holding the Penguin edition of his
book Charlton [Penguin no.163], n.d. [c.1938]. Photographer: Howard
Coster.
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Ruari McLean original artwork.
Penguin publicity material 1960s.
Sir Allen Lane’s Children’s Trust, 1967.
Postcards from Eunice Frost to Allen Lane 1967-68.
Four antiquarian prints of mining equipment and Lewes Castle.
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Penguin sales reports, accounts, memos, and minutes 1955-1961.
1955-1961
Correspondence with W.B. Stevenson, readers reports for crime fiction,
1959.
Memo concerning the proposed retirement of Eunice Frost in 1960, and
A.S.B. Glover.
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Penguin accounts, sales figures, daily memos, books to be published, and
sales meetings.
1958-1960
DM1843/38
Penguin publicity material and stationery, including 1990s stock lists.
Mainly personal affairs and press cuttings.
1990s
DM1843/39
Correspondence 1958-60; Penguin stock lists, 1950s-60s; memos
concerning The Bedside Esquire, 1957; copies of The Penguin Story.
1950s1960s
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Typescript: ‘Food for the Duke’ by Peggie Rafferty.
19631980s
Letter from Harry Paroissien concerning Allen Lane’s Children’s Trust,
1963; letter from Ron Blass 1976.
Correspondence 1977, including with J.E. Morpurgo concerning Penguin
history.
Press cuttings, including materials relating to the Salman Rushdie affair,
1980s.
DM1843/41
Personal correspondence and press cuttings, with some mention of 50th
Penguin anniversary, 1985.
1980s
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Photographs of Eunice Frost and others, 1930s-80s.
1930s1980s
Personal and family correspondence, 1930s-80s.
Personal correspondence and press cuttings, with some mention of
Penguin, pension information, 1970s-80s
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Penguin and personal correspondence, publicity materials, 1950s-60s.
50th Penguin anniversary celebrations, 1985.
1950s1960s,
1985
Materials relating to Betty Radice, 1912-1985.
Two versions of the Penguin Modern Painters’ book Graham Sutherland
by Edward Sackville-West [MP2], November 1945 reprint and 1955
revised edition.
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Correspondence, including Penguin and personal, with Allen Lane, 19561960.
19561960,
1985
Christmas cards, 1985.
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Press cuttings and obituaries, stock lists, 1980s-1990s.
1980s1990s
50th Penguin Anniversary, 1985.
Information about Hans Schmoller and typography.
HTV programme about Penguin books, 1993.
Obituary for Henry Vincent Kemp (11 December 1911-2 September 1994),
poet and teacher, 1994.
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Materials relating to Ruari McLean, including a letter from Edwin
Bawden, 1940s.
1940s,
1980s1990s
Correspondence, press cuttings, and obituaries, 1980s-90s.
80th birthday cards.
Penguin Collectors’ Society and Steve Hare materials.
2 videos of HTV’s ‘Great Westerners: Sir Allen Lane’ programme, 1993.
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Typescript: ‘Christian Beliefs’ [Pelican A766?].
Correspondence, press cuttings etc., 1958, 1980s, 1994.
1958,
1980s1990s
Penguin Collectors’ Society and Steve Hare materials, 1990s.
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Personal correspondence and exhibition gallery materials.
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Correspondence and press cuttings 1950s-1990s.
1960s,
1990s
1950s1990s
Penguin Collectors’ Society, Steve Hare, and Penguin dealers catalogues,
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1990s.
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Personal correspondence, 1950s-1990s.
1950s1990s
Correspondence from Allen Lane 1961.
The Englishman Builds by Ralph Tubbs [Planning, Design and Art Books
E32], with letter from Ralph Tubbs, 1990.
Draft Chairman’s report annotated by Eunice Frost, 1964.
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Correspondence, 1940s.
1940s1990s
Privately printed tribute to Allen Lane.
Proof copy of George Orwell’s Road to Wigan Pier [Penguin no.1700].
Allen Lane Christmas Book and card: For Such as of Riper Years.
Materials concerning Jan Tschichold and typography, 1982.
Fifty years of Puffin Books celebrations, 1991.
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Editorial file concerning a G.K. Chesterton’s Essays and Poems [Penguin
no.1068], 1957-1958.
1950s1980s
Miscellaneous Penguin correspondence, 1950s-1960s, includes discussion
of the Penguin Plays series [PL/048] 1957-1958 with mention of
Tennessee Williams.
Correspondence, 1980s.
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Penguin correspondence and papers, 1957-1960. Includes sales/export
figures; reorganization of the sales department; Penguin Composition
Rules, 1956 edition; report of a visit to Moscow; titles for publication, with
quantities, 1957-1958; Penguin Books order form, August 1957; draft list
in Eunice Frost’s handwriting [of suggestions of people to be asked to
appear in Penguin’s defence at the trial of Lady Chatterley], n.d. [c.1960];
series turnover year ended 31 December 1957; recent reviews; editorial
meeting minutes, 31 July 1957-17 June 1958 (includes a reference on 7
August 1957 to an agreement to experiment with five titles with full
picture covers).
1950s1960s
Personal correspondence, 1960s.
DM1843/54
Penguin correspondence and papers, 1957-1961. Includes sales figures for 1957-1991
the philosophy series, 1958; draft minutes of board meeting of directors, 11
November 1959; report of a visit to Australia 8-28 June 1959; report of
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visits to India, Pakistan and Malaya, 14 August 1959; sales manager’s
report, August 1959; minutes of a sales meeting, 7-8 May 1959; titles for
publication, with quantities, 1961; daily sales figures, March-June 1961.
Material relating to the fiftieth anniversary of Puffin Books, 1991.
Including two copies of ‘The Story of Puffin Books’ by Sally Gritten; draft
copy of ‘The History of Puffin Books’ by Sally Gritten; copy of ‘The
Bookseller’ dated 24 May 1991 featuring fifty Puffin years on the cover; a
fifty Puffin years Christmas card featuring Raymond Briggs’ cartoon of
Father Christmas and the text ‘Blooming Puffins Everywhere!’.
Personal correspondence, 1980s.
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Personal correspondence and materials relating to opera.
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Correspondence concerning the Modern Painters series [MP/0706], 2
September 1942-25 January 1950. Includes correspondence with Denis
Argent, Mrs G.W. Armitage (Miss Margaret H. Bulley), Albert Bettex,
Kenneth Clark, John Fisher (British Council), Christine Foyle, Philip
James (CEMA), Walter Herdeg, Hunt, Barnard & Co. Ltd., James
Kenward, Cecil Day Lewis (Ministry of Information), Nora Lloyd
(Ministry of Information), Lona M. Mont-Clar (Ministry of Information),
Henry Moore, John Rothenstein, Edward Sackville-West, W.F. Sedgwick
Ltd., Graham Sutherland, Lilah Sykes, John Swain & Son Ltd., R.G.
Townsend. With proofs of illustrations for a volume about Edward
Ardizzone that was never published; Graham Sutherland by Edward
Sackville-West (MP2); Duncan Grant by Raymond Mortimer (MP3); Paul
Nash by Herbert Read (MP4); Matthew Smith by Philip Hendy (MP5);
John Piper by John Betjeman (MP6); Edward Burra by John Rothenstein
(MP7); Victor Pasmore by Clive Bell (MP8); Edward Bawden by J.M.
Richards (MP9); Stanley Spencer by Eric Newton (MP10); William
Nicholson by Robert Nichols (MP12); Edward Hopper by Lloyd Goodrich
(MP19); and jacket and page mock-ups.
1980s1990s
1938-1993
Signal, no.70, January 1993. Edition edited by Margaret Clark and
including the following articles: ‘A Catholic reader of the thirties’ by
Isabel Quigley; ‘Pick up a Penguin’ by Aidan Chambers; ‘Penguin in the
early fifties: a personal memory’ by David Herbert; ‘A Puffin illustrator of
the forties’ by Sheila Jackson; ‘A children’s book publisher of the fifties’
by Robin Denniston; ‘Whatever happened to Little Oleg? Brockhampton
Press in the sixties’ by Anthony Kamm.
A leaflet promoting Penguin Books as a guaranteed advertising media, n.d.
[c.1938]. The leaflet was loaned by Eunice Frost to the Fifty Penguin
Years exhibition in 1985.
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Correspondence between Eunice Frost and John Walker concerning
Paintings from America [Planning, Design and Art series, E39], 1946-
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1954, with page, cover and illustration proofs.
Correspondence concerning a series on Mexican painters, including
correspondence from Eunice Frost while she was visiting the USA, 19461951.
Correspondence concerning Australian painters, including a proposed book
on William Dobell, 1946-1951.
Correspondence concerning Latin American painters [Jean Charlot for
Orozco, Lincoln Kirstein for Siquieros, Walter Pach for Rivera], Inez
Amor, V.W. and Alfred Barr, of the Museum of Modern Art, New York,
1946-1947.
Correspondence with Alfred Barr concerning general art topics, 19451948.
Correspondence and proofs relating to Penguin Modern Painters, including
a potential one on Eugene Berman, 1947-49.
Original artwork, possibly roundels for Penguin Classics or Penguin
Illustrated Classics.
Correspondence concerning Dr Guy Perez Cisneros’ volume on Cuban
painters, 1946.
Correspondence with Douglas Cooper concerning a proposed book on the
Brazilian painter Candido Portinari, including proofs of Portinari’s
artwork, 1946-47.
Exposición de Pintura Cubana Moderna, Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico,
1946.
Correspondence concerning the Uruguayan painter Pedro Figari.
Letters from Nevill Coghill, Exeter College, Oxford to Eunice Frost
concerning the introduction to The Canterbury Tales, 1951 [Penguin
Classics L22].
Correspondence with W.S. Rusk concerning his study of American
architecture in its human environment, 1946.
Penguins Progress: original artwork by Patricia Morriss (Patricia
Stapenhorst), David Knight, and George A. Oliver, 1948/1949. Mock-up
of cover design for Penguins Progress no.5 with a drawing of Scrooge by
George Cruikshank; letter from R.B. Fishenden to Eunice Frost informing
her that Penguins Progress no.13 is editorially the best of a fine series, 3
May 1951; proof of Penguins Progress no.14.
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Correspondence concerning a proposed Penguin Modern Painters volume
by David Sylvester entitled Drawings for Paintings, 1953-54.
‘A British Film Studio at Work’ by Roger Manvell. Reprinted from
Britain To-day, no.115, November 1945.
Typescript: ‘Pedro Figaqri’ by Giselda Zani.
Typescript: ‘Celebrating the Arts’ by W.E. Williams.
Typescript: ‘The English Scene’ by Geoffrey Grigson.
Manuscript: ‘Festival Art’ by Eric Newton.
Typescript: ‘The Artist at Work’ by Alfred Scharf.
Exhibition catalogue for ‘British Landscapes, portraits and conversation
pieces’ in aid of The Commandos’ Benevolent Fund, December 1945.
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British Wild Flowers:
Correspondence from Eunice Frost, Allen Lane and Noel Carrington with
Richard Chopping and Frances Partridge concerning their work on the
abandoned Penguin Natural History Project series on British Wild Flowers
(also known as Penguin Flora), 26 May 1943-15 March 1953. The
correspondence also includes reference to Chopping’s illustrations for
Picture Puffin and Baby Puffin books and a draft agreement between
Richard Chopping and Mrs R.S. Partridge with Penguin Books Ltd. to
write and illustrate eight volumes entitled ‘Wild Flowers in Britain’, April
1944.
1943-1974
King Penguins:
Mock-up of the cover for Max Beerbohm’s The Poets’ Corner (King
Penguin K12), n.d. [published December 1943].
Penguin Prints:
Order form for nos.1 to 4 in the Penguin Prints series, n.d. [c. December
1948].
Norman Cameron:
The Collected Poems of Norman Cameron, 1905-1953, with an
introduction by Robert Graves (London, The Hogarth Press, 1967).
Examples of inhouse publications produced by other publishers.:
Stocklist of Phoenix House books, Autumn/Winter 1949/1950. Written on
the back in Allen Lane’s handwriting: ‘This is an excellent example of a
selling list.’
Readers News, magazine of Readers Union, vol.12, no.4, October 1949.
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Pelican Philosophy series:
Correspondence from Eunice Frost and A.S.B. Glover with
with Professor A.J. Ayer, Ernest E. Hutten, Professor Raymond Klibanksy,
Professor E.F. O’Doherty, D.E. Pears, Dr V. Naravane, P.C. Chatterji, Dr
J. Bronowaki, Professor S. Kőrner, Professor Rubin Gotesky and Dr
Gabriele Rabel concerning the Pelican Philosophies series, 23 April 1947-4
February 1959. Includes an offprint of E.F.J. Payne’s ‘Schopenhauer in
English’; a list of titles and authors for possible inclusion in the Penguin
Philosophies series; and an agreement between Dr E.H. Hutten and
Penguin Books Ltd. to write ‘Philosophy of Science’, 26 January 1954.
Noel Carrington and Dora Carrington:
Invitation to a private view of ‘Carrington: A Retrospective Exhibition’ at
the Upper Grosvenor Galleries, London on 6 November 1970.
Christmas card from Noel and Catherine Carrington featuring a photograph
of an oil painting of the Mountains at Yegen by Dora Carrington, n.d.
[envelope date stamped 15 December 1970].
Letter from Noel Carrington to Eunice Frost, 5 February 1977. Mentions
Eunice Frost’s gas poisoning, Virginia Woolf’s letters to Dora Carrington,
Dora Carrington’s woodcuts for Two Stories published by the Hogarth
Press, Sue Simon’s proposed book on Ravilious, coaching Raj Thapar on
production at Penguin.
Leaflet and flyer advertising Noel Carrington’s Carrington: Paintings,
Drawings and Decorations, with a foreward by Sir John Rothenstein
(Oxford Polytechnic Press, 1977).
Allen Lane:
Two postcards from Eunice Frost to Sir Allen Lane at the Middlesex
Hospital and the Nuffield Hospital, and a birthday greetings GPO telegram
(illustrated by Edward Ardizzone), July and September 1969.
‘Tributes to Allen Lane at a Service of Thanksgiving for his life and work
1902-1970’ (750 copies privately printed by Will and Sebastian Carter at
the Rampant Lions Press, Cambridge, 1970) (3 copies).
Newspaper cuttings:
Newspaper cuttings concerning the merger of Longman (S. Pearson &
Sons) with Penguin Publishing, July-August 1970.
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Personal correspondence, 1990s.
1948
1990s
Insurance policy, 1948.
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Tribute to Nikolaus Pevsner, by Alec Clifton-Taylor, 1980s.
1980s
Materials by Hans Schmoller on decorated papers.
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Personal correspondence and press cuttings, 1980s.
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50th Penguin Anniversary, including photographs and events, 1985.
1980s
Personal correspondence, 1980s.
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Stephen Spender typescript:
Typescript of an article by Stephen Spender about nervous breakdowns in
wartime [intended for John Lehmann’s Penguin New Writing?], n.d.
Possibly first draft of article with handwritten annotations by Stephen
Spender.
1939-1985
Leaving party for H.L. Beales:
Menu card for a meal held at The Hind’s Head, Bray on 8 March 1939 to
mark H.L. Beales leaving the Pelican editorial team “to preach the gospel
of the true Penguin faith” in the USA. The hand-drawn card is illustrated
on the cover with sketches of a pelican, penguin, St Paul’s cathedral and
the New York skyline. The card is signed on the back by W.E. Williams,
[Barry Randle?], Edward Young, H.L. Beales, R.G.W. Lane, and Eunice
Frost.
Penguin Books Ltd. sales:
Penguin Books Ltd. daily sales figures, February 1959-June 1959, January
1960-April 1961. Includes home sales, export sales, number of books
invoiced, daily invoices, consignment stock dispatches to subsidiary
companies in Australia and the USA, and final monthly sales figures. The
final monthly sales figures for November 1960, December 1960 and
January 1961includes sales figures for Lady Chatterley’s Lover. The
figures were compiled by Miss J. Belcher.
Sales manager’s report, January/February 1959.
Memorandum from J.B.C. concerning the monthly list, 3 April 1959.
Provisional list for April 1959.
Minutes of a joint meeting between the board and group editors, 23 April
1959.
Report covering the first twelve months’ operation of the new organization
for coverage of the Home Trade, from 1 March 1958-28 February 1959.
Includes a comparison of production and sales by series 1957-1959,
representatives’ area results 1958-1959, and representatives’ earnings and
costs.
Agenda for a sales meeting on 7-8 May 1959.
Details of titles for publication on 24 September 1959.
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Memorandum for R.S.N. to Eunice Frost, 21 October 1959. Concerning
Uys Krige, South African Verse, The Way Out, a proposed volume of
Afrikaans and English stories.
First reprint list for April-June 1961.
50th anniversary of Penguin Books Ltd., 1985:
Letters to Eunice Frost from Penguin Books Ltd concerning Penguin’s 50th
anniversary, August-September 1985.
Loan form of material loaned by Eunice Frost to the Penguin Books Ltd.
for the 50th anniversary of Penguin Books, 10 September 1985.
Brochure: ‘The Penguin 50th Anniversary Promotion’. (4 copies)
Flyer: ’Fifty Penguin Years: an exhibition celebrating 50 years of Penguin
Books’, Royal Festival Hall, South Bank, London, 21 September-27
October 1985. (3 copies)
1985 calendar of anniversary events.
Newspaper cuttings about Penguin Books Ltd., 1985.
Nine black and white photographs loaned by Eunice Frost to Penguin
Books Ltd. for their 50th anniversary, with covering letter from Linda
Lloyd Jones, 50th anniversary co-ordinator, 9 August 1985. Includes
photographs of a Penguin staff party at the Arts Council Offices, featuring
Allen Lane, Eleanor Graham, E.V. Rieu, M.L. Johnson, Mace, A.S.B.
Glover, E.F. Hazlett, Michael Abercrombie, Nikolaus Pevsner, Bill
Williams, R.B. Fishenden, Noel Carrington, J.E. Morpurgo, Eunice Frost;
photograph of Moynihan’s painting of the Penguin editorial staff.
Personal correspondence:
Letters from Harry and Eileen to Eunice Frost, 1978, 1885-1986.
Two postcards from Jane Aiken Hodge to Eunice Frost, n.d. [1985?].
Letter from William to Eunice Frost, 9 December 1985.
Two letters from Mrs. J. Dyson Taylor to Eunice Frost, April , August
1985.
Letter from Vera to Eunice Frost, 23 October 1985.
Letter from [Isobel?] to Eunice Frost, 5 January 1984.
Letters from Elizabeth David to Eunice Frost, March 1985, September
1985.
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Personal correspondence, 1930s-1980s.
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Correspondence (personal and Penguin), 1940s-1970s.
Correspondents include Allen Lane, Hans Schmoller, Harry Paroissien,
Dilys Powell, and John Walker of the Washington DC National Art
(Bureau Box 1)
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Gallery.
Photographic portraits of Eunice Frost, Allen Lane and others.
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Correspondence (mainly personal), press cuttings, invitations to
exhibitions, and Penguin publicity.
Correspondents include John Walker, Storm Jameson 1937, and Douglas
Cooper 1955.
1937,
1950s1970s
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Penguin administrative papers, 1958.
19581990s
(Bureau Box 3)
Correspondence with Allen Lane, Bill Williams, John Walker (E39
Paintings from America), publishers, Sir Hugh Casson, and concerning Sir
Allen Lane’s Children’s Trust 1960s-1978.
(Bureau Box 2)
Photographs used in Fifty Penguin Years.
Eunice Frost: life assurance, investments, income tax, 1960s-1970s.
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(Bureau Box 4)
Correspondence (personal and Penguin).
Correspondents include Ethel Manin 1942, Chiang Yee 1942, Donald
Sinden and Adrian Bell 1942.
1942-1948,
1960s1970s
Penguin publicity material and manuscripts 1960s-1970s, and original
artwork for Penguin.
Article by Stephen Spender for John Lehmann’s Penguin New Writing
[possibly manuscript]; copies of Encounter; and correspondence
concerning Penguin Prints 1948.
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(Bureau Box 5)
Correspondence (Penguin, 1950s-1960s); volume of books read by Eunice
Frost 1930s; art gallery publicity materials 1970s.
Correspondents include Nikolaus Pevsner 1972, Kaye Webb 1970, and
Norman St John Stevas.
19381970s
Winston Churchill and T.S. Eliot memorial services.
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Personal correspondence, 1960s.
(Bureau Box 6)
Laura Ashley appointment’s diary, 1981.
1941-1984
Exhibition invitations and catalogues, 1960s.
Order of service for the memorial service for Henry George Rushbury at
Saint James’s Church, Piccadilly on 23 July 1968. With obituary.
Invitation to the marriage of Cicely Caroline Whitefield to FlightLieutenant E. R. Bitmead at Twickenham Church on 18 May [n.y.]
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Photographs of Ben Baldwin and family, Chicago, U.S.A, c.1946.,
wrapped inside a card announcing the birth of Thomas John Kempinski on
24 March 1938.
Card announcing the birth of Margaret Tager on 6 May 1939.
Design Research Unit
Christmas card from the Design Research Unit featuring a reproduction of
a sketch by Victor Pasmore and signed by ‘Milner’, ‘Misha’, and ‘Marcus
Brumwell (1984 was good)’.
Penguin Books
Letter from Alan Hill, Heinemann Educational Books Ltd., to James
Reeves, 21 July 1965. Hill informs Reeves that he has received a letter
from Penguin saying that Mr Godwin has decided not to make an offer fro
Reeves’ Understanding Poetry and will return the proof copy.
‘News from Penguin’ press release: ‘The Minister of Housing Allows
Penguin Books Planning Appeal’, 20 December 1965. Concerning
Penguin’s appeal against Middlesex County Council’s decision not to
allow them to develop part of a 7½ acre site adjoining their head office on
the Bath Road, Harmondsworth.
Puffin Books
Letter from Eleanor Graham to Eunice Frost, n.d. [April 1966]. Graham is
sorry to hear that Frost is ill again and that she won’t see her at the Puffin
party. Graham had thought that she would be unable to attend the party
because it fell in Holy Week, but had decided to attend when Kaye Webb
told her that Frost would also be there. Graham wonders whether she has
Frost to thank for Penguin’s second thoughts about the pension, adding “I
hope Allen felt it to be right. It was very generous.” Graham offers Frost
advice on gaining spiritual peace.
Puffin’s 26th Birthday competition entry form, 1966.
Newspaper cutting of an article about The Puffin Club, The Bookseller, 11
March 1967. The article mentions claims that the Puffin Club’s publicity
material had to be withdrawn due to the word ‘psychedelic’ being used in
it.
Invitation from The Directors of The Bodley Head and Penguin Books to
Eunice Frost to join them at the Members’ Restaurant, Zoological
Gardens, Regent’s Park, London, on 24 October 1968 to celebrate the
publication of the first six Picture Puffins and to meet Norman Hunter.
Harry Kemp
Harry Kemp, Poems as of Now (1969).
Letters from Harry Kemp to Eunice Frost, 1959.
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Allen Lane
Letter from Allen Lane to Eunice Frost, 12 July 1967. Lane writes from
on board a flight to a two day sales meeting in Baltimore. Lane informs
Frost that “the last conspirator”, Tony Walker, will be leaving Penguin
next week. Lane mentions that he has just read the Harold Nicolson
[diaries?]. Lane plans to announce in December his planned retirement as
managing director in June, but that he will continue as chairman, adding
that “I’m afraid that Harry [Paroissien?] just isn’t good enough to fill the
bill although it will be a bit of a shock to him when I tell him at the end of
the year. The present set-up is doing welll although one has to do a bit of
spine stiffening from time to time.” Christine Lane and David [Teale]
have both graduated and intend to get married. Lane may go to Australia
in the New Year as he intends to end Stevens’ contract at the end of 1968
and to put John Powers and Michie jointly in charge. Edward Boyle has
taken over the Vigo Street operation and is now vice-chairman, though
Lane doubts whether he has the staying power. The new warehouse is
nearing completion and there may be a quiet opening party on 4th August,
which will be thirty years to the day since Lane’s father laid the foundation
stone. Nora’s daughter, Philippa, is currently staying at West Drayton but
will return to Australia in October, her brother John has been working in
South Africa and Richard is now a fully-fledged geologist.
Letter from Allen Lane to Eunice Frost, 22 February 1968. Lane suggests
that rather than sending Frost a copy of everything Penguin publishes that
from now on he sends her a copy of the monthly list on which she should
mark the books she is interested in seeing.
Letter from Lettice Lane and Allen Lane to Eunice Frost, 19 October
1968. Lettice hopes Frost has settled into her new house and informs her
that Allen had a bad night and will not risk leaving him again, adding that
“the combination of Kaye [Webb] and red wine exhausted him!” Mrs
Traill was overcome by the money Frost sent her. Lettice hopes Frost
enjoyed the party with William Gaunt. Allen suggests that Frost visits on
Guy Fawkes day [Frost’s birthday].
John Lehmann
Letter from John Lehmann to Eunice Frost, 3 March 1941 [written on
Penguin New Writing headed notepaper]. Lehmann thanks Frost for
offering to help with the manuscripts which he promises to send to her if
his workload gets too much, however, his sister [Rosamond Lehmann] is
now helping him. He will let Frost know about the Gavin Ewart story and
informs her that two of his original manuscripts have been lost in the post.
J.M. Richards
Letter from Jim Richards to Eunice Frost, 22 November 1965. Richards
tells Frost to let him know when she is next in London so that they can
meet for a drink.
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Hans Schmoller
Letter from Hans Schmoller to Eunice Frost, 8 October 1967. Schmoller
would like Frost to keep the Stanbrook Abbey Press items, suggests places
where she could buy some attractive books and thanks her for sending him
the Scientific Americans.
Note from Hans Schmoller to Eunice Frost, n.d [1972]. Schmoller informs
Frost that Richard Kennedy’s book [A Boy at the Hogarth Press] will
appear in a trade edition from Heinemann, in addition to the limited
edition published by an ex-student of the London College of Printing.
With a flyer advertising an exhibition of drawings by Richard Kennedy at
the Gallery Edward Harvane, London, 19 January-19 February 1972.
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Correspondence, mainly personal.
[Contents of a concertina file]
1960s1980s
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Eunice Frost, OBE:
1957
Grant of the dignity of an Ordinary Officer of the Civil Division of the
Order of the British Empire to Miss Eunice Ellen Frost, 1 January 1957.
With statutes of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, 1954.
Photocopies of the New Year’s honours list from The Times and The Daily
Telegraph, 1 January 1957.
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Selected Bab Ballads by W.S. Gilbert (1955), with a Christmas Card from
Allen Lane for Christmas 1955. With cardboard book post cover.
Catalogue of Penguin Books to 1956 (Penguin Collectors’ Society, 1977)
The Trial of Lady Chatterley edited by C.H. Rolph (Privately printed,
1961). Copy no. 1 of 2000 copies printed.
Sculpture in Britain 1530-1830 by Margaret Whinney (Pelican History of
Art Z23, 1964) with cardboard slip-cover.
Penguin Books Author/Title/Title/Author Index, March 1969.
The Author, Vol.90, No.4, Winter 1979. Includes an article ‘The King
Penguin’ by Dieter Pevsner.
Penguin Books: The Pictorial Cover 1960-1980 by Evelyne Green
(Manchester Polytechnic Library, 1981).
Penguin Portrait edited by Steve Hare (Penguin Books, 1995). Inscribed
to Eunice Frost from Steve Hare.
A Rare Bird: Penguin Books in Australia 1946-96 by Geoffrey Dutton
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(Penguin Books, 1996).
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The Penguin Atlas edited by J.S. Keates (Q16, 1956)
About Maps by Peter Hood (Puffin Picture Book 67, 1958 reprint)
Pond Life by Paxton Chadwick and Jean Gorvett (Puffin Picture Book 93,
1958 reprint)
Better Handwriting by George L. Thomson (Puffin Picture Book 96, 1958
reprint)
Everest is Climbed by Wilfrid Noyce and Richard Taylor (Puffin Picture
Book 100, 1954)
The Human Body by Cyril Bibby and Ian T. Morison (Puffin Picture Book
102, 1959)
A Christmas Manger by John Harwood (Puffin Picture Book 103, 1959
reprint)
Wild Animals in Britain by Paxton Chadwick (Puffin Picture Book 105,
1958)
Bird Study in a Garden by E.A.R. Enninon (Puffin Picture Book 106,
1958) (2 copies)
A Counting Book by Grace Gabler (Puffin Picture Book 110, 1957)
The Production of Lady Chatterley’s Lover by Cox and Wyman Ltd.
(Privately printed, 1961).
‘Regina v. Penguin Books Ltd. An undisclosed element in the case’ by
John Sparrow, Encounter – A8.
Selected Poems by Robert Frost, with an introduction by C. Day Lewis
(Penguin Poets D27). Proof copy. Date stamped 18 September 1961.
Concerning Architecture. Essays on Architectural Writers and Writing
presented to Nikolaus Pevsner, edited by John Summerson (Allen Lane
The Penguin Press, 1968).
‘Roundel Trouble’ by Tanya Schmoller. Off-print from Matrix 14.
Master of None by J.E. Morpurgo (Carcanet Press Ltd., 1990).
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