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

CW 550/3

1977

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 sea, the sea / by Jean Iris Murdoch (1978) and b) rights in this and other works by Murdoch. Includes: 23 letters and 6 pcs from Murdoch; 8 letters from Triad Paperbacks, 3 from Granada and 2 from Penguin Books concerning paperback rights; 2 from W. & G. Foyle and 1 from Book Club Associates concerning book club rights; 3 from Lythway Press concerning rights in a large print edition of A severed head / by Murdoch; 2 from play agents Margaret Ramsay concerning film rights in The Black Prince; 1 each from Denys Val Baker and Macmillan concerning "Something special" (a short story by Murdoch); a photograph of Murdoch; and other items.Holographs, typescripts and carbon typescripts.From Chatto & Windus correspondence 1975-1977: Iris Murdoch.

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