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Correspondence relating to Dr Spock's baby and child care by Benjamin Spock 1903-...

Catalogue reference: BH2 46/1

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This record is a file about the Correspondence relating to Dr Spock's baby and child care by Benjamin Spock 1903-... dating from 1983 - 1985.

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Reference

BH2 46/1

Title

Correspondence relating to Dr Spock's baby and child care by Benjamin Spock 1903- and Michael B. Rothenberg 1927-

Date

1983 - 1985

Description

Book published as: Dr Spock's baby and child care / Benjamin Spock and Michael B. Rothenberg (London: W.H. Allen, 1985)
Contents: editorial and other correspondence etc.. Includes: letters from literary agents Blake Friedman (4) and Laurence Pollinger (2); 1 from W.H. Allen, publishers of a UK paperback edition (Star imprint); 1 from Pocket Books, publishers in the United States of America of a paperback edition; and a reader's report by Dr J. Mackinnon.
Holographs, typescripts and carbon typescripts.
From the Bodley Head adult editorial files - 2nd series, 305-310.

Held by
University of Reading: Special Collections
Creator(s)
The Bodley Head Ltd
Physical description

1 folder (37 items)

Access conditions

Prior permission from Random House is required. Please contact University of Reading, Special Collections for further information.

Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/7057c8b4-d2b9-49d8-82ec-d58cfb532b13/

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BH1-3

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Correspondence relating to Dr Spock's baby and child care by Benjamin Spock 1903- and Michael B. Rothenberg 1927-