| Description | Eunice Frost Papers
Correspondence (mainly personal), bills, invoices, receipts, bank statements and cancelled cheques, art gallery publicity materials and publishers' catalogues.
Invoices include one from Craske, Vaus & Crampton Ltd for a zinco for the 1953 Penguin Christmas card.
Correspondents include:
Henry Miller to Eunice Frost thanking her for the production of The Colossus of Maroussi, 2 October 1950.
Evelyn Waugh to Eunice Frost concerning a photograph of him to be used on a book (presumed from the date to be the Penguin edition of Brideshead Revisited) and his reluctance to write his own blurb, though requesting to see any blurb in advance to check for errors about him, some of which he details. He also sends thanks for the 'exquisite Chaucer Christmas present'; 5 January 1951.
C. Day Lewis postcard to Eunice Frost regarding a Times Literary Supplement piece (presumed from the date to be the Penguin selection of his poetry, D17), 8 March 1951.
Bill (Sir William Emrys) Williams to Eunice Frost, 27 December 1950.
'Don't for a moment forget that Penguins is a madhouse, and must always be so. But don't forget, either, that there is a fundamental vision behind it, and it's upon that that we must keep our eyes. You have had more to do with that than any of us – that's why we cherish and love you so.'
Various letters from Hans Schmoller to Eunice Frost (and one postcard in return), 1965-7.
Three letters from Allen Lane to Eunice Frost: 27 March 1951 from Baghdad; 16 April 1951 from Nimrud, Iraq; and 31 July 1951 from Enugu, Nigeria. There are passing references to booksellers in Lebanon and Iraq, and to the English book market in Nigeria ('We have a wonderful chance here. Education is going like a snowball & there's a craving for anything to read. At the moment the communists are filling the gap with floods of pamphlets ...')
Letter from Allen Lane to Eunice Frost apparently enclosing a copy of an article by Victor Weybright to be published in The Bookseller, requesting her comments, 1 September 1967. Her handwritten notes and a typed version of her comments are also present.
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