| Description | DM1107/PS46: Muriel Denison, 'Susannah of the Mounties: A Canadian Story of the Nineties' (December 1949)
Includes correspondence regarding text corrections, the blurb, translation rights, and a list of roughs with comments.
0.5cm thick, April 1947-April 1981
DM1107/PS47: R. J. McGregor, 'The Young Detectives' (October 1948)
Includes correspondence regarding contracts (photocopies and slips enclosed), reprint corrections, reader's feedback, translation rights and a possible Hungarian translation by the publishing house Mora Ferenc, reproduction permission, an application for an abridged English Language edition with German annotations, royalties, a radio adaptation for a children's hospital in Malta, printing errors, with the illustrator Trevor Stubley about his delight in the quality of the reproduction of his drawings, the cover design, with the author regarding contracts, a possible Swedish edition, abridged educational editions, an Australian Broadcast for a school programme, fee negotiations, and cover proofs.
2cm thick, November 1944-March 1971
DM1107/PS48: Denis Clark, 'Golden Island' (October 1948)
Includes correspondence regarding translation rights, permission from the author's widow, Mrs. Clarke, for a Schools Broadcast programme of the text, fees, and the death of her husband, with the author about an Australian broadcast, royalties, and examining the script, the rejection of two other texts submitted (Brandit's Bay and Tail and Charlie), corrections, contracts, and a cover proof.
1cm thick, January 1946-April 1953
DM1107/PS49: Elizabeth Janet Gray, 'Young Walter Scott' (October 1948)
1 file, 9 documents. May 1946-January 1962
DM1107/PS50: Captain Marryat, 'The Children of the New Forest' (November 1948)
Includes correspondence with illustrator Jean Hinds regarding the cover design and artwork.
0.5cm thick, January 1948-April 1948
DM1107/PS51: Patricia Lynch, 'The Grey Goose of Kilnevin' (September 1951)
Includes correspondence regarding reversion of rights, royalties, contracts, page proofs, with the author about the cover design, complimentary copies, an abridged edition, cover proof roughs, and photocopies of reviews.
1cm thick, April 1947-January 1982
DM1107/PS52: J. L. C. and W. C. Grimm, 'Grimms' Fairy Tales' (November 1948)
Includes correspondence regarding readers' and the Council of Christian and Jews complaints about the story titled 'The Jew in the Bush', which was changed in post-1972 editions to 'The Miser in the Bush', with Caroline Cruikshank [undetermined relative of George Cruikshank, British caricaturist and book illustrator who illustrated the first English translation of Grimms' Fairy Tales by Edgar Taylor and David Jardine in 1823] about writing the blurb (copies enclosed), reproduction permission for quotes and illustrations, the text being out of copyright, with the illustrator William Grimmond about the back cover design and drawing roughs, cover proofs, photocopies of reivews, and annotated photocopies of the introduction.
1cm thick, January 1947-June 1980
DM1107/PS53: Marjorie Fischer, 'Street Fair' (April 1949)
Includes correspondence regarding broadcasting rights, copyright fees, contracts, with artist Sylvia Dyson about illustrations and cover design.
1cm thick, October 1947-October 1966
DM1107/PS54: Marjorie Lloyd, 'Fell Farm Holiday: A Story for Children' (March 1951)
Includes correspondence regarding reproduction rights, revisions, with the author about the late return of her original drawings, sales figures, rights reversion, cover artwork, contracts, royalty rates, and with the illustrator William Grimmond about the cover design.
1.5cm thick, March 1947-October 1984
DM1107/PS55: Patricia Lynch, 'Strangers at the Fair' (October 1949)
Includes correspondence with the author regarding broadcasting rights and fees, printing errors with the cover design, a biography photograph, contract negotiations, and a cover proof.
1cm thick, February 1944-November 1967
DM1107/PS56: M. R. Harrington, 'Dickon Among the Indians' (October 1949)
Includes correspondence regarding royalties, corrections, contract negotiations, discussions around renaming the title, artwork, and page proofs (examples enclosed).
0.5cm thick, January 1944-March 1961
DM1107/PS57: Jean Hughes, 'Ditta's Tree' (June 1952)
Includes correspondence regarding publication rights, a review in the Times Educational Supplement commending the cover design, illustrations and page proofs, with the author concerning her biography, royalties, the timeline of the reprint to align with the new school year due to the text being included on schools reading lists in Australia, with illustrator Judith Bledscoe about the reprint cover design, artwork, and examples of cover proofs.
2.5cm thick, July 1946-May 1972 |