Correspondence concerning The sea, the sea / by Iris Murdoch (1919-1999) (Chatto & Windus)

CW 550/4

1978

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) publication of The sea, the sea / by Jean Iris Murdoch (1978) (ISBN 0701123397) and b) rights in this and other works by Murdoch. Includes: 25 letters and 12 pcs from Murdoch; 1 letter and a telegram from Viking Press, publishers of the book in the United States of America; 2 letters from Booker McConnell concerning award of the Booker Prize to IM; 4 from the Booksellers Association of Great Britain & Ireland who invite IM to speak at their annual conference; 5 from Triad paperbacks, 2 from Granada Publishing and 1 from Penguin Books concerning paperback rights; 7 from John Fletcher; 1 from literary agents Curtis Brown; 3 from play agents Margaret Ramsay and 2 from Oxford University Press concerning a proposed opera with libretto by Murdoch to be entitled The servants; and others.Holographs, typescripts and carbon typescripts.From Chatto & Windus correspondence 1978-1980: Iris Murdoch.

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