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Correspondence between the National Book Council and Chatto & Windus
Catalogue reference: CW 64/18
What’s it about?
This record is a file about the Correspondence between the National Book Council and Chatto & Windus dating from 1936.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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CW 64/18
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Title (The name of the record)
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Correspondence between the National Book Council and Chatto & Windus
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Date (When the record was created)
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1936
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Description (What the record is about)
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Contents: correspondence with the National Book Council (of which Harold Raymond of Chatto is a committee member) concerning matters including a) the film being produced to promote book buying and reading and b) criticism by Hubert Wilson of Alfred Wilson, and David Roy of W.H. Smith & Son and of the Associated Booksellers of Great Britain and Ireland, of the work of the NBC (letters from HW and DR on file). File also includes a) the Eleventh annual report of the NBC b) the Subject index of NBC book lists, dated 31/10/36 and c) the NBC News sheet , number 87 (December 1936).
Holographs, typescripts and carbon typescripts.
From Chatto & Windus correspondence 1936: G-N. -
Held by (Who holds the record)
- University of Reading: Special Collections
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Chatto and Windus Limited
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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1 folder (42 items)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Prior permission from Random House is required. Please contact Special Collections for further information.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/bda9fb6f-e36e-4da4-8c00-33c95097aa62/
Series information
CW
Correspondence files
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Catalogue hierarchy
This record is held at University of Reading: Special Collections
Within the fonds: CW
Records of Chatto & Windus Ltd
Within the series: CW
Correspondence files
Within the sub-series: CW 59-CW 67
Correspondence files for Chatto & Windus, 1936
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Correspondence between the National Book Council and Chatto & Windus