Correspondence concerning works by Iris Murdoch (1919-1999) (Chatto & Windus)

CW 549/6

1973

The firm that became Chatto & Windus in 1873 originated in the 1850s from the bookselling business of John Camden Hotten. On Hotten’s death, his employee Andrew Chatto acquired the business with a sleeping partner, W.E. Windus. In 1946 it acquired The Hogarth Press, which had been establoished by in 1917 by Virginia and Leonoard Woolf . In 1969 Chatto & Windus merged with Jonathan Cape, with all three imprints being retained, as was The Bodley Head when it joined the firm in 1973. In 1987 the group was purchased by Random House. English and American literature were the strengths of the list. The firm published many celebrated authors – Robert Louis Stevenson, Marcel Proust, Laurie Lee, Christopher Isherwood, Aldous Huxley, Sigmund Freud and Iris Murdoch among them. Cecil Day-Lewis, Poet Laureate, was editorial director in the 1960s. Source: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.co.uk/publishers/vintage/chatto-windus/

Contents: correspondence concerning a) publication of The black prince (ISBN 0701119241) and The three arrows; and, The servants and the snow (0701129662) by Jean Iris Murdoch (both 1973), b) preparation to publish The sacred and profane love machine / by Murdoch (1974) and c) rights in these and other works by Murdoch. Includes: 27 letters and 8 pcs from Murdoch; 5 letters from Christopher Cornford who designs the dust jackets for both 1973 books (jacket proof of Three arrows / on file); 9 letters and 2 telegrams from Viking Press, publishers of the books in the United States of America; 4 letters each from book club operators Book Club Associates and W. & G. Foyle concerning their editions of An accidental man / and The black prince / respectively; 10 from Penguin Books concerning paperback rights; 1 from play agents Margaret Ramsay concerning rights in a dramatization for television of An unofficial rose; 1 letter and a pc from John Sutcliffe, designer of the dust jacket for The sacred and profane love machine; and others.Holographs, typescripts and carbon typescripts.From Chatto & Windus correspondence 1971-1974: Iris Murdoch.

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