| Description | 'Houghton Mifflin 1961/2':
Correspondence and papers concerning an agreement between Penguin Books Inc., USA, and Houghton Mifflin, over distribution and sales rights for Penguins in the USA, 1961-1962.
Contains: Press clippings regarding the arrangement; memorandum regarding the announcement of the arrangement with Houghton Mifflin's press release; correspondence between Hans Schmoller (Head of Typography and Design at Penguin) and Harry Paroissien (Director of Penguin Books Inc.) regarding a press leak of the arrangement; a sequence of events leading up to the arrangement; memoranda from Harry Paroissien to Allen Lane and Hans Schmoller regarding negotiations with Houghton Mifflin with Allen Lane's reponses and correspondence from both Penguin's and Houghton Mifflin's solicitors; a copy of the agreement between Penguin and Houghton Mifflin labelled obsolete; an accountant's report on Penguin's 1962 balance sheet; minutes from a special meeting of the Penguin Board of Directors 27 September 1962; draft agreement with annotations; notes on extension at Harmondsworth, 1964. |