| Description | 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. |