| Description | Penguin Correspondence and memos including:
Letter from Allen Lane to Eunice Frost regarding a new seven year contract for Hans Schmoller, 27 February 1961
Letters from Hans Schmoller to Eunice Frost regarding the forthcoming biography of Allen Lane by Jack Morpurgo, 1973
Letter from Linda Lloyd Jones to Eunice Frost forwarding a request from Robin Woolven for information on W.E. Williams as part of an M.Phil degree, 28 November 1985
Letter from Linda Lloyd Jones to Eunice Frost in response to a letter of complaint from Frost about the 50th anniversary exhibition of 1985, 18 February 1986
Three lettes from W.E. (Bill) Williams to Eunice Frost, including one mourning the death of Allen Lane ('For me the Penguin planet has plunged off on a remote orbit and I shall never see it again. It's the worse grief I have ever known'), 16 August 1965, 22 October 1970, 15 February 1973
Press cuttings, mainly reviews of 'Allen Lane: a Personal Portrait' by W.E. Williams, with a copy of the book, 1973
Penguin publicity leaflets for Penguin Guides (1939), Puffin Story Books (1941) and Penguin Bookcases (1940s)
'Penguins progress', a Christmas card from Allen, Richard and John Lane, ?1938
'The Minority of Penguins', catalogue No. 1 of secondhand Penguin Books from Ken Swift
Penguin publicity materials and stocklists, mainly 1984-1986
Various Penguin related photographs, many of Penguin USA personnel; people identified include: Allen Lane, Richard Lane, Eunice Frost, Victor Weybright, Kurt Enoch, Bill Rapley, Denys Kilham Roberts, Edmund Seagrrave, Peter Mayer and Lettice Lane
Letter from Clare Morpurgo, nee Lane, to Eunice Frost referring to her husband Michael Morpurgo's first book, 29 January no year
Details of the sale of The Nethercott House Estate, 19 July 1974, purchased by Clare Morpurgo, with accompanying letter from Christine Teale, nee Lane
Letter from David Teale to Eunice Frost regarding the educational and particularly schoolbooks market with references to Penguin Education and the Penguin Primary Project, 17 December 1973, and other referring to (Peter) Calvocoressi asking Teale to consider going back to Penguins, 14 March 1973
Personal correspondence and press cuttings, including letters from Victor Gollancz to Eunice Frost saying that there was no possibility of employment for her at Gollancz, 1936
Also photographs of Eunice Frost, Lettice Lane, Lotta (daughter of Christine Teale), Tanya Schmoller, Hans Schmoller, 1980s
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