| Description | Portrait photograph of Allen Lane, n.d. [late 1930s]. Photographer: Blackstone Studios, Inc. New York. (1 x black and white photograph).
Portrait photograph of Eric Muspratt [author of 'My South Sea Island' (Penguin no.67)], n.d. [c.1936]. Photographer: Howard Coster. (1 x black and white photograph).
Photographs of a Penguin party at the first independent Penguin Book Exhibition at 117 Piccadilly, London, November 1950. Includes Allen Lane, Lettice Lane, Estrid Bannister, Bill Williams, Eunice Frost, and Hans Schmoller, Tanya Schmoller, Denys Kilham Roberts, J.M. Richards. Photographer: David Gurney. (11 x black and white photographs).
King Penguins general file, 1946-1955. Includes correspondence between Nikolaus Pevsner and Eunice Frost, 8 November 1946-6 May 1954; meeting minutes; list of King Penguin's printed between 1953 and 1955; copy of Feliks Topolski's print 'For Denise who Proposes to Paint her Legs' [Penguin Print no.4]; colour prints of Elizabethan miniatures; and 'Pemex Travel Club Bulletin' 1 August 1949 containing an article entitled 'Rucino Llopis and Bull Fighting'.
Correspondence, 1939, 1949,1957-1966.
General report on the publicity department, n.d. [c.1958].
Correspondence between Allen Lane, Harry Paroissien, Barney Rosset (Grove Press Inc.) and Jason Epstein concerning the future management and expansion of Penguin's American branch, 1958.
Correspondence with John Sundell of Cassell & Co. Ltd., concerning publishing Erle Stanley Gardner's titles, 1959-1960, and publishing Sir Vivian Fuchs and Sir Edmund Hillary's 'The Crossing of Antarctica' [Penguin no.1489], 1959.
Correspondence between Stella Standard and Eunice Frost's secretary, December 1959; with a copy of 'Forum and Demonstration on The Enjoyment of Vegetables', 13, 20 November 1959.
Correspondence and medical appointments for Eunice Frost made between 1959 and 1961.
Personal letters from Allen Lane to Eunice Frost, 1959-1968.
Correspondence and lists relating to books received, books rejected, readers' reports, alterations to the publication list, 1959-1961.
Peter Davies Ltd., Spring List 1960.
Weidenfeld & Nicholson, Spring and Summer List 1960.
Details of twenty-five titles being published to celebrate Penguin's 25th anniversary on 29 September 1960.
'Typographica' 5, June 1962. Includes 'Penguins on the March' by Herbert Spencer.
Letter from Kaye Webb to Eunice Frost, 17 January 1963. Discusses the appeal of Fifteen to all age groups; the problem with Peacocks and that she has "decided the only practical way of dealing with them is to take reputable lightweight adult novels which have either acquired fame because they have been in circulation a long time (like FLIGHT OF THE HERON) or because the authors have an aura around them (like Jeffrey Farnall) or, where I can get them, the slightly more up to date ones which no longer have a certain sale on the Penguin list. I think this will result in getting a sale not only to older children (more of the secondary school class than the grammar school) but also to 'lightweight' adults, especially if we can get the Peacocks into self-services stores, etc. None of the titles we have chosen could be criticized as bad literature. On the other hand they aren't particularly profound either. This is a matter of necessity because really worthwhile titles simply aren't available, or else if they are classics there are so many cheap editions that there is no point in muddling them up." Hopes to visit Eve Garnett in Lewes.
Two informal photographs of an unidentified man and woman on holiday, n.d. Photographer: unknown. (2 x black and white photographs).
Southover Parish Magazine, April 1969.
Report on the editorial situation at Penguin and how it could be improved, with 13-page hand-written memo from Eunice Frost to Allen Lane giving her views on the editorial problems at Penguin, n.d., c.1959/60
Brief notes on the demonstration of invoicing procedure on National Elliott 803 computer, n.d.
Newspaper cuttings. |