| Description | Penguin correspondence, 1955-1990s, including:
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.
Official Penguin Christmas card for 1980 designed by Ronald Searle, and sent by Ron Blass to Eunice Frost, [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.
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 in 1995. 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 offfprint from 'Matrix 5', [1986].
Second draft of 'Sixty Penguin Years' text. |