Literature
Found in 2141 Collections and/or Records:
Literary: correspondence regarding an offer by the McLure Newspaper Syndicate for WSC's autobiography., 15 Aug 1930 - 16 Dec 1930
Correspondents include Richard Waldo (President, McLure Newspaper Syndicate) (2) Contains references to the United States stock market crash.
Literary: correspondence regarding articles by and about WSC in the "Daily News" and "News Chronicle"., 27 Jun 1930 - 08 Dec 1935
Literary: correspondence regarding gifts of his own books by WSC., 14 Oct 1930 - 23 May 1933
Literary: Correspondence regarding proposal that WSC write a biography of the 1st Lord Inchcape [earlier James Mackay]., 19 Sep 1933 - 24 Feb 1934
Correspondents include: 2nd Lord Inchcape [earlier Lord Glenapp, earlier Kenneth Mackay] (3); Frederick Arthur Hook [trustee of 1st Lord Inchcape's estate] (7).
Literary: correspondence regarding publication of articles in the "Sunday Pictorial"., 18 Jun 1931 - 02 Nov 1936
Correspondents include David Grant (Editor, Sunday Pictorial) (8).
Literary: Correspondence relating to film rights in WSC's book "My Early Life"., 06 Feb 1958 - 15 May 1959
Literary: correspondence relating to film rights in WSC's book "My Early Life"., 31 Jan 1959 - 28 Nov 1960
Literary: correspondence relating to film rights in WSC's book "My Early Life". This file primarily consists of business and legal correspondence relating to a proposed film treatment by Paramount, which was abandoned in 1963. Much of WSC's correspondence is handled by his Private Secretary, Anthony Montague Browne., 17 Jan 1961 - 06 Jul 1964
Literary: correspondence relating to film rights in WSC's books "My Early Life" and "The World Crisis". This file primarily consists of business and legal correspondence relating to an ultimately unsuccessful approach made by William Smith Seay and G R Morrell. Much of WSC's correspondence is handled by his Private Secretary, Anthony Montague Browne., 04 Jan 1959 - 18 May 1961
Correspondents include: William Smith Seay (14), Alan Harvey [HM Consul (Information), Chicago, United States], A Barker (Foreign Office), Anthony Moir [lawyer acting for WSC] (12), Sir David Cunynghame, G R Morrell (Midwest Video Association) (10), Spyros Skouras [President, Twentieth Century Fox], B Finley Vinson (Vice-President, First National Bank, Little Rock, Arkansas [United States]), C H Moses, Senator James Fulbright, Hugh French, J A McCracken, Paul MacNamara, Ronald Grierson.
Literary: correspondence thanking WSC for complimentary copies and congratulating him on volume 1 ("The Gathering Storm") of his war memoirs ("The Second World War"), or requesting that he autograph copies., Feb 1948 - Apr 1949
Literary: correspondence thanking WSC for complimentary copies and congratulating him on volume 2 ("Their Finest Hour") of his war memoirs ("The Second World War")., Mar 1949 - Oct 1949
Literary: correspondence thanking WSC for complimentary copies and congratulating him on volume 3 ("The Grand Alliance") of his war memoirs ("The Second World War")., Apr 1950 - Jul 1950
Literary: correspondence thanking WSC for complimentary copies and congratulating him on volume 4 ("The Hinge of Fate") of his war memoirs ("The Second World War")., Nov 1950 - Aug 1951
Literary: correspondence thanking WSC for complimentary copies and congratulating him on volume 5 ("Closing the Ring") of his war memoirs ("The Second World War")., Dec 1950 - Dec 1953
Literary: Correspondence: War Memoirs ("Valiant Years" and "Finest Hours")., Aug 1958 - Dec 1959
Correspondence between Anthony Montague Browne, Private Secretary to WSC and John (Jack) Le Vien (23) on film and television rights to WSC's War Memoirs File includes correspondence with Anthony Moir, and John McCracken, Fladgate & Co., Solicitors (17), telegram from Edward Murrow, copy of United States entertainment trade publication "Variety", 3 June 1959 giving details of project, letter from Lord Montgomery of Alamein to WSC, agreeing to help Le Vien.
Literary: Correspondence: War Memoirs ("Valiant Years" and "Finest Hours")., Jan 1960 - Nov 1961
Literary: Correspondence: War Memoirs ("Valiant Years" and "Finest Hours")., Sep 1960 - Mar 1963
Literary: Correspondence: War Memoirs ("Valiant Years" and "Finest Hours")., Apr 1963 - Jan 1964
Literary: Correspondence: War Memoirs ("Valiant Years" and "Finest Hours")., Feb 1964 - May 1965
Literary: correspondence with and about Sir Edward Marsh., Oct 1933 - Oct 1954
Literary: correspondence with Butler and Tanner, printers and bookbinders (Selwood Printing Works, Frome [Somerset])., 10 Jan 1931 - 09 Sep 1936
Relates to the printing of various articles and books by WSC, including: "Crucial Crises of the War"; "Short Biographies"; "The Eastern Front"; "Thoughts and Adventures".