| Description | DM1843/Box 4/1
Contents of large Penguin Books envelope, 1958-1959.
Various examples of Penguin letterheads, memos and other stationery.
Penguin Correspondence (including letters from Allen Lane, H.F. Paroissien to Eunice Frost), editorial memos, correspondence with publishers, including:
Letter from Martha Gellhorn to Eunice Frost regarding signing of a copy of The Honeyed Peace, 27 May ?1958.
Letter from Eleanor Graham regarding The Story of Jesus, envelope dated 8 April 1959.
Handwritten note from A.S.B.Glover to Eunice Frost asking for details of proposed portrait of Allen Lane, 30 June 1959.
Letter from Eleanor Graham to Eunice Frost giving details of progress on various Puffin Story Books, with schedule for 1960 and after, 2 October 1959.
Letter from Eleanor Graham to Eunice Frost with details of a book on A.A. Milne, 12 October 1959.
Memoranda and correspondence with Mike Bessie and others concerning the development of Penguin sales in USA, including on administrative sales arrangements; designs for Penguins in the US market; and projected titles for the US market, November 1959.
Letter from Roger Falk to Eunice Frost regarding his forthcoming Pelican on The Business of Management, 4 November 1959.
Letter from Allen Lane to Harry Frost expressing concern about Eunice Frost's health, 16 November 1959, and another of the same date to Eunice Frost about her health.
Scrap paper to be used by Eunice Frost, originally giving details of an undated Penguin staff dinner/dance.
Personal correspondence.
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Envelope marked 'H.P. Schmoller Esq, The Old Mill House'.
Contains mainly personal correspondence and some Penguin memos (1958-1959) including:
Arrangements for J.I.M. Stewart (Michael Innes) to speak at the Lewes Monday Literary Club, and a card from Stewart to Eunice Frost accepting her invitation, June 1959.
Invitation on Gerald Duckworth postcard from Lord Mervyn Horder, Chairman of Duckworth, to 'a performance of six of my Causley sea songs & the first run-through of my Thurber ballet', 2 September 1959.
Undated pencil notes expressing Eunice Frost's feelings about her position at Penguin and relationship with other staff.
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Papers and correspondence relating to Penguin Books, UK and USA, 1944-1956, including:
Various letters from Allen Lane, while travelling, on holiday or in USA, to Eunice Frost, containing assessments of various Penguin staff; comments on the varying standards of different Penguin series; comments on his working relationship with Eunice Frost; details of titles which have sold well and are needed in USA; reflections on the break-up of his marriage, 29 March 1949; 1 May 1949; 15 March 1950; 7 & 8 May 1950; 8 August 1956.
Note in pencil from Estrid Bannister to Rockwell Kent in USA, stating: 'Alan (sic) Lane is a very dear drunken friend of mine, so look after him for me', undated.
Two long letters from Eunice Frost to Allen Lane from New York concerning Penguin USA, including a proposal for a King Penguin on Audubon's birds, dated 4 July and 15 July [n.y.]
Letter from Geoffrey Grigson to Eunice Frost regarding a book on English painting, 14 March 1947.
Letter from Henry Moore to Eunice Frost regarding his volume in the Penguin Modern Painters series, 24 August 1947.
Letter from Ralph Tubbs regarding an exhibition of Ben Shahn's paintings, undated.
Letter from Bob Maynard regarding Dick Lane's forthcoming engagement, 12 May 1948.
Letter from Douglas Cooper to Eunice Frost regarding excellent proofs (presumably of his book on Paul Klee, PMP16) and asking her to go ahead with 'the Guttuso volume', 4 April [1949.]
Lists of Penguin titles for publication each month from May 1952-March 1953 inclusive, with proposed print runs.
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Personal correspondence to Eunice Frost, 1944-1959 with concentration on her period in USA in 1952.
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Art Gallery notices and theatre programmes, 1944-1954, and newspaper cuttings. |