Correspondence concerning Nuns and soldiers / by Iris Murdoch (1919-1999) (Chatto & Windus)

CW 550/6

1979

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 Nuns and soldiers / by Jean Iris Murdoch (1980) (ISBN 0701125195) and b) rights in this and other works by Murdoch. Includes: 24 letters and 3 pcs from Murdoch; 5 letters, and a cover for their edition of Bruno's dream / by Murdoch, from Granada Publishing; 5 letters from Penguin Books concerning rights in paperback; 2 letters and a telegram from Viking Penguin, publishers of the book in the United States of America; 6 letters from Book Club Associates concerning their edition of Nuns and soldiers; 2 from the Welsh Arts Council concerning their edition of the opera "Servants" (libretto by IM); 7 from John Fletcher (1937-) concerning his work on a Murdoch bibliography; 1 from Peter Conradi; and others.Holographs, typescripts and carbon typescripts.From Chatto & Windus correspondence 1978-1980: Iris Murdoch.

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