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

CW 549/5

1972

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 established in 1917 by Virginia and Leonard 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) preparation to publish The black prince / and The three arrows; and, The servants and the snow / by Jean Iris Murdoch (both 1973) and b) rights in these and other works by Murdoch. Includes: 23 letters and 5 pcs from Murdoch; 7 letters and a telegram from Viking Press, publishers of the books in the United States of America; 3 letters from Christopher Cornford who designs the dust jackets; 7 from Penguin Books concerning paperback rights; 3 from Book Club Associates concerning their edition of An accidental man / by Murdoch; 4 from play agents Margaret Ramsay; 2 from accountants Baker Rooke; sales figures of Murdoch titles to date; and other papers.Holographs, typescripts and carbon typescripts.From Chatto & Windus correspondence 1970-1974: Iris Murdoch.

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