Correspondence between WSC and representatives of Charles Scribner's Sons (including Charles Scribner) on various books including American editions of an abridged version of "The World Crisis", an additional volume of "The World Crisis" entitled "The Eastern Front" and "My Early Life" [published in the United States as "A Roving Commission"]. Includes agreements between WSC and Charles Scribner; financial terms, book sales and royalties due to WSC and discussion of publication dates.

Letters from Charles Scribner (18) on sales of "A Roving Commission" [the American edition of "My Early Life"] and the publication of American editions of an abridged version of "The World Crisis" and "The Unknown War". Includes statements of royalties due to WSC.

Correspondence between WSC and Charles Scribner about the publication of a new edition of "A Roving Commission" [the American edition of "My Early Life"] and an American edition of "Thoughts and Adventures" published as "Amid These Storms". Includes 20 letters from Scribner about publication dates, payment of royalties due to WSC and WSC's health.

Correspondence with representatives of Charles Scribner's Sons, including Charles Scribner himself (15), on the latter's visit to England and the publication of an American edition of Volume 1 of "Marlborough: His Life and Times" including discussion of the date of publication and royalty payments due to WSC.Includes copy of a letter from WSC to Bernard Baruch.

Correspondence with representatives of Curtis Brown Limited on subjects including: the sale of world-wide serial rights to Volume 3 of "The World Crisis" and other publications by WSC; payments from Thornton Butterworths Limited to WSC for royalties for Volume 3 of "The World Crisis"; discussion of WSC's agreement with Butterworths and his objections to their charges; and an advance from Charles Scribner for the American edition of Volume 3 of "The World Crisis".

Letters from Curtis Brown (12), Nancy Pearn (37) and Stella Downie (10) on negotiations concerning articles by WSC. Includes statements of amounts due to WSC for fees, royalties and foreign serial rights.Includes a cutting of an article by Andre Seigfried on "The insular attitude" about Great Britain.

Correspondence with various representatives of Curtis Brown including Raymond Everitt (4) and Nancy Pearn (31) concerning commissions for articles by WSC, sales of serial rights in his work, statements of royalties due to WSC and difficulties caused by WSC's ill health.

Correspondence with representatives of Curtis Brown, including Nancy Pearn (37) and Curtis Brown, about WSC's articles for various publications and the negotiation of fees.Includes statements of payments due to WSC for royalties and sales of serial rights.

Correspondence between WSC and George Harrap on WSC's progress with "Marlborough: His Life and Times" including the dispatch and correction of proofs and costs for the transcription of letters held in the Henry E Huntington Library [United States].Includes 12 letters from Harrap himself and includes material on WSC's poor health and his visits to various battlefields related to the military career of John, 1st Duke of Marlborough, including Malplaquet [France].

The file concerns the commissioning of articles on various subjects written by WSC and includes agreement terms, details of fees due to WSC, his progress with the articles, sale of serial rights.Includes WSC's notes for an article about unemployment and the dole.

Includes correspondence with representatives of Curtis Brown Limited on various subjects including: sales of "My Early Life and royalties due to WSC; commissions and agreements relating to various articles by WSC in John Bull, the Daily Telegraph, Collier's Magazine and the Strand Magazine; and sales of world-wide rights. Includes correspondence with George Lorimer of the Saturday Evening Post about confusion over an agreement with WSC.

Includes correspondence with representatives of Thornton Butterworth Limited including Thornton Butterworth on various subjects including: sales of "My Early Life and "The World Crisis" and royalties due to WSC, production of an abridged version of "The World Crisis" and WSC's intention to write a political history entitled "The Great Free Trade Split".

Subjects include sales figures for Volumes 1-3 of "The World Crisis" and Volume 4, "The Aftermath" and royalties due to WSC; the production of "The Aftermath" including the correction of proofs; serialisation of "The Aftermath" in Canada in the Toronto Star and the possibility of William Bridgeman writing a book.

Letters from H J Bourne (9) and Thornton Butterworth (10) about the correction of proofs for Volume 3 of "The World Crisis"; printing, reprinting and correction costs; royalties; sales figures and the preparation of maps. Also includes correspondence relating to an agreement between WSC and Butterworths to write "the Aftermath" [published as Volume 4 of "The World Crisis"] about post World War I events.

Includes correspondence with representatives of Thornton Butterworth Limited on various subjects including: WSC's intention to write a subsequent volume of "The World Crisis" entitled "The Eastern Front", an abridged version of "The World Crisis", and "My Early Life" and discussion of fees due to WSC and serialisation of his books.

Letters from H J Bourne (16) and Thornton Butterworth (28) on the publication, royalties and sales of a volume of WSC's speeches about India, "Great Contemporaries", "Thoughts and Adventures", "The Eastern Front, Volume 5 of "The World Crisis" and an abridged version of "The World Crisis". Also includes royalty statements and material on the preparation of proofs and maps.

Correspondents include: representatives of Co-operation Press Service, including Imre Revesz [Director, later Emery Reves] (45) on the overseas rights for WSC's articles; Sir Charles Mendl [Press Attache, British Embassy, Paris, France] introducing Revesz; Sir Austen Chamberlain introducing Revesz.Also includes: a list of contributors to Co-operation; a copy of the contract between WSC and Co-operation; publication statements for WSC's articles; part of an article by WSC on divorce.

Correspondence with Emery Reves [earlier Imre Revesz], head of Co-operation (10), on subjects including collaborating with Reves over offers for WSC to publish newspaper and magazine articles, war memoirs, and make radio broadcasts in the United States; and Reves' book on the atomic bomb, "The Anatomy of Peace".

Correspondents include: representatives of Collier's Magazine; representatives of Curtis Brown Limited, International Publishing Bureau; representatives of Charles Scribner's Sons, Publishers.

Correspondents include: representatives of Curtis Brown Limited, international publishing bureau, including Raymond Everitt, Manager, New York Office [United States] (34); William Chenery, Editor of Collier's Magazine (4); Adam Marshall Diston on drafting the articles (5).