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Sender: Harsent, David at Enigma Books
Recipient: Robertson, Robin at Penguin Books
Letters: 3 (including one on compliment slip)
Date(s): 27 May 1983; 9 Sep 1983? and undated compliment s
Location: BC MS 20C Firebird Author File 37 David Harsent
Note: Letter of 27 May sends a taster of short stories for Firebird. (in pencil is written "Hold. The Giant Christ on the Road to Marsalform". On the compliment slip is attached a biography which mentions a continuum of stories which includes "The Giant Christ on the Road to Marsalform". The letter of 9 Sep refers to the letter agreement. A copy of the story "The Giant Christ on the Road to Marsalform" is included in the file. ("The Giant Christ on the Road to Marsalform" was published in Firebird 3 Page 105)
Sender: Hunter, Sally at Patrick Seale Books Limited
Recipient: Binding, Tim at Penguin Books
Letters: 1
Date(s): 13 Jan 1982
Location: BC MS 20C Firebird Author File 33 Jack Debney
Note: Requests an advance for the story "At Vassiliou''s" due on signature of contract
Sender: Mulcahy, Patricia at Penguin Books, New York
Recipient: Dover, Michael at Penguin Books
Letters: 1
Date(s): 11 Sep 1981
Location: BC MS 20C Firebird Author File 25 (non-contributing authors)
Note: Gives latest on the Mary Lavin situation : Pat Knopf has indicated that Athenium will publish "Collected Stories of Mary Lavin".
Sender: Dover, Michael at Penguin Books
Recipient: Mulcahy, Pat at Penguin Books, New York
Letters: 1
Date(s): 29 Sep 1981
Location: BC MS 20C Firebird Author File 25 (non-contributing authors)
Note: Notes that Pat Knopf has decided to do the compendium and that he has passed on her letter to Tim Binding.
Sender: Mulcahy, Patricia at Penguin Books (New York)
Recipient: Binding, Tim at Penguin Books
Letters: 1
Date(s): 9 Mar 1982
Location: BC MS 20C Firebird File 3 Firebird 1 Post-Production
Note: Thanks for Firebird and makes some comments.
Sender: Brontë Books
Recipient: Thwaite, Anthony
Letters: 1
Date(s): 17 Aug 1963
Location: Listener
Sender: Mackean, Ian
Recipient: Penguin Books
Letters: 1
Date(s): 29 Apr 1981
Location: BC MS 20C Firebird File 2 Firebird 1 Non-Contributing Authors
Note: Asking whether there are any plans to publish an anthology of short stories.
Sender: Deveson, Richard
Recipient: Penguin Books
Letters: 1
Date(s): 15 Jan 1982
Location: BC MS 20C Firebird File 5 Firebird 2 Non-Contributing Authors
Note: Would like to submit for Firebird strories he has written.
Sender: Baines, Elizabeth
Recipient: Penguin Books
Letters: 1
Date(s): 20 Sep 1983
Location: BC Ms 20C Firebird File 11 Firebird 3 Authors' Proofs
Note: Encloses corrected proofs for "Leaf Memory" in Firebird 3. ( "Leaf Memory" was published in Firebird 3 page 9)
Sender: Penguin Books
Recipient: Hogan, Desmond
Letters: Compliment slip
Date(s): Undated
Location: BC MS 20C Firebird File 11 Firebird 3 Authors' Proofs
Note: Proofs for paragraph changes. ("Alan's Novel" was published in Firebird 3 page 121).
Sender: "Universe Books"
Recipient: Read, Herbert
Letters: 1
Date(s): ?
Location: BC Read C4621 q. Inserted in, "The Museum Age" Germain Bazin, 1967
Sender: Titmus, Jennet
Recipient: Penguin Books Ltd
Letters: 1
Date(s): [18 Oct 1963]
Location: BC Ransome correspondence Box C11; with D. Scott's letter to Evgenia, 29 October 1963