Correspondence concerning The good apprentice / by Iris Murdoch (1919-1999) (Chatto & Windus)

CW 551/5

1985

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 good apprentice / by Jean Iris Murdoch (ISBN 0701130008) and a paperback edition of The three arrows; and The servants and the snow / by Murdoch (0701129662) (both 1985) b) preparation to publish Acastos / by Murdoch (1986) and c) rights in these and other works by Murdoch. Includes: 23 letters and 14 pcs from Murdoch; 13 letters from literary agents Ed Victor; 2 letters from Macmillan and 2 letters and a pc from Peter Conradi concerning his book about IM; 2 letters and a telegram from Viking Penguin, publishers of IM's books in the United States of America; a proof of the dust jacket for The good apprentice; 1 letter from Ward Bowie, solicitors to the executors for the estate of Irene Murdoch (mother of Iris); 3 letters from Penguin Books concerning paperback rights; and other papers.Holographs, typescripts and carbon typescripts.From Chatto & Windus correspondence 1984-1986: Iris Murdoch.

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