Penguin: Collected Poems (Correspondence, Reviews, Etc.)
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Penguin: Collected Poems (Correspondence, Reviews, Etc.)
Classmark: BC MS 20c Hill/6/PEN/3
Creator(s): Robertson, Robin
Date(s): 13 September 1984 - 5 November
Size and medium: 1
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/17934
Collection group(s): Leeds Poetry | English Literature
Description
42 items of correspondence between Robin Robertson (Penguin), Geoffrey Hill and other correspondents regarding Hill's 'Collected Poems', and other items relating to the publication of and publicity for 'Collected Poems'. The correspondence includes:
- 5 typescript letters and 8 ms letters and postcards from Geoffrey Hill to Robin Robertson, many accompanied by envelopes (13 September 1984 - 5 November 1988), and 8 cc typescript letters from Robinson to Hill (18 January 1985 - 18 September 1985); there are 2 copies of Robinson's letter to Hill of 18 January 1985, held with an ms draft of the letter and Robinson's ms notes on Collected Poems; Hill's undated postcard to Robinson (ca. late February/early March 1985) is held with 4 black and white photographic portraits of Hill by Fay Godwin; Robinson's letter to Hill of 7 March 1985 accompanied by a colour photograph of the front cover for Collected Poems; Robinson's letter to Hill of 17 July 1985 held with typescript lists of recipients for review and complimentary copies of Collected Poems and invitees to the launch event, and Hill's annotated typescript lists of the same; Hill's letter to Robinson of 5 November 1988 is an enclosure accompanying an ms letter from Hill to Chris Sheppard
at Leeds University Library (7 November 1988);
- 3 typescript letters from Caroline Knox at André Deutsch publishers to Robertson (3 January 1985 - 25 March 1985), and 1 cc typescript letter from Robertson to Knox (29 March 1985), and 1 cc typescript letter from Robertson to Jane Lancaster at Deutsch (9 August 1985);
- 3 typescript letters from Sheila Murphy to Robertson (19 February 1985 - 16 July 1985) and 1 cc typescript letter from Robertson to Murphy (15 March 1985);
- permissions correspondence including 1 cc typescript letter from Robertson to Librarie Plon (20 March 1985) and typescript reply (25 March 1985), 1 cc typescript letter from Robertson to Faber and Faber (20 March 1985), and 1 cc typescript letter from Robertson to Editions Gallimard (23 May 1985);
- 3 typescript memos from Robertson to Pauline McGuire at the Penguin Publicity Department (22 March 1985 - 26 June 1985);
- 1 cc typescript letter from Robertson to Derek Brewer (28 June 1985);
- 1 typescript letter from Peter Dale at Agenda magazine to Robertson (n.d.) and 1 cc typescript letter from Robertson to Dale (16 July 1985);
- 1 typescript letter from William Cookson at Agenda magazine to Robertson (10 September 1985), accompanied by a clipping from Private Eye magazine and a copy of Cookson's letter to the Editor of Private Eye (9 September 1985);
- 1 typescript letter from Jonathan Vickers at the National Sound Archive to Robertson (20 September 1985).Interfiled with the correspondence are a Penguin staff circular dated 1 March 1985, a postcard with Hill's ms directions and map (Cambridge), a compliments slip signed by Hill accompanied by a photocopy of David Sexton's review of 'British Poetry Since 1945' ('Financial Times', 6 April 1985) with a section highlighted in ms, and a photocopy of Hill's ms postcard to Robertson of [16 May 1985] with typescript of epigraphs to 'Collected Poems.'Also held in the file are a press release for Hill's 'Collected Poems', invitation cards to a reading and reception to mark the publication of Hill's collected poems, and leaflets for a poetry reading.
Provenance
The contents of this file, other than Geoffrey Hill's letter to Robin Robertson of 5 November 1988 with accompanying letter of 7 November 1988, were acquired by purchase from Gekoski, August 1988.
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The copyright to literary portraits taken by Fay Godwin resides with Network Photographers (32 Paul Street, London, EC2A 4LF).
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