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Letter from E.V. Rieu to [Alan] Glover, 13 April 1950. Rieu sends Glover copies of the letters from two Americans [Stanley Glowacki and Harriet D. Adams] asking him to show them to Thomas and Allen Lane. He suggests that the whole series could be advertised in 'Everybody's'.
Copy letter from Stanley Glowacki to Mr Rieu, 5 April 1950. Glowacki congratulates Rieu on his translations of Virgil's 'Eclogues' and Homer's 'Odyssey': 'Reading neither Greek nor Latin, I was stunned by what is, to me, a new way of experiencing the excitement of the Odyssey and the thing of beauty that is the Eclogues.'
Copy letter from Harriet D. Adams to Mr Rieu, 8 April 1950. Adams congratulates Rieu on his translation of 'The Odyssey': 'Now I have read your Odyssey and have had a real experience. Thank you for opening my eyes to what must have been the essential quality of the minds of those ancient people.'
Penguin memo from A.S.B. Glover to Dr E.V. Rieu, 3 February 1955. Michael Grant has set his proposal for a Latin anthology and has asked to see Mayor's Augustine and Robert Graves' Suetonius or Lucan. Glover encloses a note about the scheme given to him by a Classics teacher and a copy of a comment by Dr Henry Rowell, Professor of Classics at John Hopkins University.
Notes [by a Classics teacher] concerning the teaching of Greek literature in translation in girl's grammar schools and suggesting the need for an anthology of extracts from the lyric writers, historians, orators, Aristole, new comedy, Alexandrians, Plutrach, Lucian, Longus.
A proposal [from Dr Henry Rowell, Professor of Classics at John Hopkins University] that Penguin Books should publish translations of selections of Latin and Greek literature.
Penguin memo from A.S.B. Glover to Dr E.V. Rieu, 4 April 1956. Enclosing a letter [from K.C. Horton] and wondering whether it is worth giving consideration to a possible volume of German short stories in the Classics.
Letter from K.C. Horton to 'Dear Sir', 31 March 1956. Horton sends thanks for the publication of Faust, The Trial, Tonio Kröger and the English-German, German-English dictionary and suggests publishing the works of German short story tellers.
Penguin memo from H.F. Paroissien, Penguin Books Inc., to A.S.B. Glover, 26 March 1958. Paroissien sends an extract from a letter from 'Mother Fiske' of Manhattan College: 'Penguin Books are most valuable in the teaching of the classics. Your translations, especially of the Greek tragedies, are excellent, and the introductions equally so…'
List of Penguin Classics sales figures for the first quarter of 1959.
Memorandum from A.S.B. Glover to E.V.Rieu, 21 February 1959. Glover quotes from a letter he has received from a woman teacher: 'Perhaps this is not the place to do so, but I would like to add my thanks to you for this magnificent series. For anyone like myself whose bitter regret is has long been that Greek is not taught in girls' schools, this series of splendid translations has been more than a godsend..'
Copy letter from Allen Lane to E.V. Rieu, 1 May 1962. Lane asks Rieu whether he would object to his withdrawing his membership of the Athenaeum [Club].
Letter from E.V. Rieu to [Allen] Lane, 7 May 1962. Rieu and others would be sorry if Lane left the [Athenaeum] Club.
Photocopy of a newspaper article concerning the retirement of E.V. Rieu, The Times, 8 January 1964.
Photocopy of a newspaper article concerning the retirement of E.V. Rieu, n.d. [1964].
Photocopy of a note [from Hans Schmoller] to Allen Lane concerning the set of Classics given to E.V. Rieu [on his retirement], n.d. [c.1964].
Obituary for E.V. Rieu by Betty Radice, Proceedings of the Royal Society of Literature, n.d. [c.1972].
Photocopy of a newspaper article in which Betty Radice remembers E.V. Rieu, Times Higher Education Supplement, 19 October 1984.
Photocopy of a letter from Betty Radice to Linda [Lloyd Jones], 7 February 1985. Radice sends her thoughts about Penguin Classics for Penguin's 50th anniversary exhibition, suggesting the first and last six or ten titles, outstanding Oriental titles, important titles and best sellers, adding 'I'm sorry this seems so vague and inadequate, and what I think important because of quality, Penguin's might not because there are other titles which sell better.'
Newspaper cutting of an obituary for Betty Radice, The Times, 20 February 1985. |