Correspondence
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Correspondence
Classmark: BC MS 20c Crossley-Holland/1/5/1
Creator(s): Crossley-Holland, Kevin
Date(s): 1970-1978
Size and medium: 2 files
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/18081
Collection group(s): Leeds Poetry | English Literature
Description
This file contains the following correspondence, some of which includes letters concerning previous circulations of 'The Rain Giver,' under previous titles:
- 3 letters from Oxford University Press concerning a collection titled A Beach of Stones, dated 14 December 1970 - 18 January 1971
- 1 letter from Victor Gollancz concerning a collection titled Dream and Bone, dated 11 March 1970
- 2 letters from Faber and Faber, dated 3 September - 22 October 1970
- 2 letters from Chatto and Windus, including one letter from Cecil Day-Lewis, dated 23 February- 16 March 1970.
- 1 letter from Derwent May at The Listener, dated 27 August 1971
- 11 letters from Deborah Rogers Ltd literary agency concerning royalties and publication details of The Rain Giver, dated 20 March 1970 to 9 November 1978.
- 14 letters and 1 GPO telegram from publishers André Deutsch, including a photocopy of a letter from Ronald Blythe, dated 18 January 1971-31 January 1975 and a dustjacket.
- 3 letters from the Arts Council of Great Britain concerning a grant, dated 30 March - 12 April 1972
- 1 list of names, possibly a distribution list
- 1 letter from Eavan Boland
- 1 letter from Charles Causley, dated 10 September 1972
- 1 letter from Vicky Cosstick, dated 26 March 1978
- 1 GPO greetings telegram from Ruth Crossley-Holland, dated 6 September 1972
- 1 letter from Martha Dickey, dated 15 January 1973 which includes a ts of a poem titled Amelia's Bee
- 1 letter from J.R. Grant, dated 7 January 1973
- 1 GPO greetings telegram from Caroline and John Hillier, dated 7 September 1972 and 1 letter dated 22 August
- 1 letter from Alasdair Maclean, dated 20 March 1973
- 1 airmail letter from Tom Marshall, dated 17 February 1973
- 1 letter from Sister Mary Agnes, dated 30 May 1973
- 1 letter from Robert Phillips, dated 10 October 1972
- 1 letter to Patsy Wilson at the University of Leeds from Crossley-Holland dated 30 July 1972
- 1 anonymous note concerning the techniques behind The Rain Giver, dated 16 August 1975
- 1 signed letter discussing the theme of fatherhood in The Rain Giver, dated 10 January
- 1 letter from Eavan Boland, dated November 1970.
- 6 letters from miscellaneous correspondents, 18 May - 15 September 1972
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