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Copy of a letter from WSC to Charles Scribner [Charles Scribner's Sons publishers, New York, United States] about books by WSC which Charles Scribner's Sons published, 5 Apr 1949

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAQ/2/3/91/4

Scope and Contents

Subjects are a new single volume edition of 'The World Crisis' which Scribner had sent to WSC, a planned new edition of 'A Roving Commission' [published as 'My Early Life' in the United Kingdom], WSC's books which Scribner owned the copyright in not doing well in the United States, and WSC asking Scribner to let him know when he was in London.

Dates

  • Creation: 5 Apr 1949

Conditions Governing Access

From the Fonds:

The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers.

This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.

Extent

1 item(s)

External Documents

Custodial History

On cataloguing this item was attached to a piece of paper annotated "4/311" [CHUR 4/311 but wrong reference and more likely from CHUR 4/45].

Related Materials

Related to the Churchill Papers [from CHUR 4/45]. Particularly related to CHUR 4/45/107-118, correspondence with Charles Scribner and documents relating to WSC's royalties, Aug 1947-May 1949.

Bibliography

An extract of this letter is published in 'Winston S. Churchill' volume VIII 'Never Despair' by Martin Gilbert, p.469 and the full letter is published in 'The Churchill Documents' volume 22 'Leader of the Opposition August 1945 to October 1951' by Martin Gilbert and Larry P Arnn, p.1380.

Repository Details

Part of the Churchill Archives Centre Repository

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