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Literary: correspondence on foreign rights and permission to publish WSC's "Secret Session Speeches", mainly through representatives of Pearn, Pollinger and Higham, Limited, authors' agents., Mar 1946 - Mar 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/29

Scope and Contents

Other correspondents include: representatives of Cassell and Company (5); representatives of Fladgate and Company including Anthony Moir [WSC's solicitor] (7); Emery Reves [earlier Imre Revesz]; [Geoffrey] Mason of Lloyds Bank (3); Charles Eade [Editor] of the Sunday Dispatch (2). Also includes notes and copies of correspondence from: secretaries Jo Sturdee ("N S") [later Lady Onslow], Lettice Marston [later Lettice Shillingford], Elizabeth Gilliatt, and Jane Portal [later Lady Williams of Elvel]; [literary assistant] Denis Kelly.Subjects covered by the file include: Japanese, Australian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French, Italian, Belgian, German, Norwegian, Swedish, Spanish and United States publication or language rights; royalty payments; the publication of the speeches in Life magazine; a request to reproduce a page from a secret session speech.Also includes: details of translation sales; memoranda of agreement for various language rights; copies of Ons Vrije Nederland [Dutch magazine]; legal opinions by George Aldous on Italian and Norwegian infringement of copyright; Photostat of page from speech; Pearn publicity leaflet.

Dates

  • Creation: Mar 1946 - Mar 1950

Conditions Governing Access

Open

Extent

1 item(s) (1 file (261 loose folios))

Language of Materials

English