| Description | Eunice Frost Papers Box 49
Correspondence, personal and related to Penguin Books, and press cuttings, 1950s–1990s, including:
Letter from Judith Russell, daughter of Gertrude Hermes (‘Gerd’), to Eunice Frost regarding Penguin Illustrated Classics and the wood engravings for Compleat Angler [Penguin 238], 14 February 1985.
First report of the Allen Lane Foundation, started in 1966 by Allen Lane independent of Penguin Books, dated May 1975, with letter from David [Teale] concerning the Foundation, 22 November 1975
Letter from Martin Andrews, University of Reading, to Eunice Frost concerning his researches into Robert Gibbings, 29 January 1994
Letter from Andrew Dalby of the Penguin Collectors Society enclosing a set of three microfiches, dated 05/03/1981, of the list of all published Penguin Books
Letter from Steve Hare to Eunice Frost containing a photograph of the ?1938 Penguin staff trip to France, 8 July 1994
Correspondence from Steve Hare to Eunice Frost, mainly concerned with his researches for his forthcoming book, Penguin Portrait, including letter of 14 February 1994 which enclosed copies of letters from various former Penguin employees
Letter from Michelle Bentata to Eunice Forst, 5 February 1994, and reply from Steve Hare, 29 January [?1995], concerning the suggestion that Dr Cecil Roth prepared most of The Jewish Problem [Penguin Special S10] but that Louis Golding had been stated as the author ‘to constitute more effective propaganda’
Letter from Gavin [?Ewart] to Eunice Frost asking if a children’s book he had written could be published as a Puffin, 17 May 1960
Complimentary copy of The Thirty-Nine Steps notebook with letter from Penguin Books regarding other merchandise, 3 December 1993
Copy of ‘A Sort of Dignified Flippancy’ by Sally Wood, signed by the author
Copies of Penguin Collectors Society Newsletters 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18 & 34; Penguin Collector 42; and Penguin Miscellany 9 – Penguin Classics
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