| Description | Penguin materials including sales conference minutes, books in and out of print, new Penguins, editorial meetings, and internal memos, 1957-59.
Discussion of cookery books, including correspondence with Elizabeth David and mention of 'Plats du Jour' by Patience Gray; Geoffrey Moore, editor of 'Penguin Book of Modern American verse' [Penguin Poetry D22], 1958; Camus' 'The Fall' [Penguin no.1762], and other translated works.
Eunice Frost's income tax, 1940.
File of correspondence and papers concerning the publication by Penguin of D.H. Lawrence's titles and of a court case in the USA concerning the publication of an unexpurgated version of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover', 1954-1959.
Includes:
Copy of a letter from Frieda Lawrence Ravagli to Mr Rosset, 13 April 1954. Frieda compliment's Rosset on trying to publish the unexpurgated 'Lady Chatterley's Lover' and thinks Alfred Knopf holds the copyright to this version.
Penguin memorandum from J.S. to A.S.B. Glover, 23 May 1956. Concerning the copyright in Lawrence's published works.
Letter from Richard Aldington to Eunice Frost, 31 May 1957. Aldington sends his proposal for two volumes of D.H. Lawrence's short stories and long stories or novelettes and hopes they are able to add the Mexican pieces now lost in Phoenix.
Penguin memorandum from P.B.H. to Eunice Frost, 9 March 1959. Mentions sales of Lawrence titles and would prefer to put in new titles rather than reprint 'Lost Girl' and 'White Peacock'. Thinks 'Lady Chatterley' is out of the question because it has just been published in paperback by Ace Books.
Penguin memorandum from J.B. to Eunice Frost, 8 April 1959. Ace Books are publishing 'Women in Love' in Spring 1959.
'News about Signet, Signet Key, Mentor Books' from The New American Library of World Literature, 31 June 1959-10 August 1959. Press releases concerning the publication by The New American Library of the paperbound Signet edition of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover' and claims made by Grove Press that The New American Library had deceived the public by claiming that it was a complete reprint of the authorized American edition and that the text was approved by D.H. Lawrence.
Newspaper cuttings from The New York Times, 22 July 1959 concerning the court ruling on the United States Post Office's mail restriction on 'Lady Chatterley's Lover', which the court ruled illegal and void.
Printed leaflet: A statement to the literary community and the trade about 'Lady Chatterley's Lover' from the New American Library of World Literature, Inc., publishers of Signet and Mentor Books, n.d. [August 1959].
Court papers of the Supreme Court of the State of New York in the case of Grove Press, Inc., plaintiff, against The New American Library of World Literature, Inc., defendant:
Plaintiff's brief in support of motion for preliminary injunction, n.d. [August 1959].
Plaintiff's reply affidavit, 4 August 1959.
Press release from Grove Press, Inc., New York, 6 August 1959. The unexpurgated Grove Press edition of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover' will be reprinted in the Modern Library series under a royalty agreement with Grove.
Statement by Grove Press, Inc. on 'Lady Chatterley's Lover', 6 August 1959.
Memorandum from Barney Rosset, president of Grove Press, Inc., New York, to the literary and publishing community giving a humourous account of the court case brought against them by The New American Library, n.d. [August 1959].
Press release: "New American Library Files $500, 000 damage suit against Grove and Dell in Chatterley Case", 26 August 1959.
Penguin memorandum from A.S.B. Glover to Eunice Frost, 31 August 1959. Glover sends Frost his own copy of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover' and asks "Please be kind to it!" |