BIB_ID
345747
Accession number
MA 8416.1-19
Creator
Scott, Paul, 1920-1978.
Display Date
1956-1978.
Credit line
Man Booker Prize Collection. Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund and the Drue Heinz Fund, 2010.
Description
19 items ; ca. 25.4 cm
Notes
The letters to Leon Drucker (MA 8416.1-10) were acquired by Peter Straus together, as lot 371 in an unidentified catalogue or sale.
Provenance
Booker Prize collection of Peter Straus.
Summary
Collection consists of: ten typed and autograph letters signed (including one postal card) to the bookseller Leon Drucker, remarking on the Booker Prize an other literary topics, dated 6 August 1970 to 12 January 1978 (MA 8416.1-10); one typed letter signed to Anthony Thwaite, concerning the publication of poetry, dated 14 September 1956 (MA 8416.11); four letters, including one letter written on his behalf, to Rosaleen Wheatley, concerning his works and her reviews, dated 30 September 1960 to 23 July 1966 (MA 8416.12-15); one letter and one postal card to Penelope Tanner, concerning his travels and work, dated 6 December 1975 and 12 January 1978 (MA 8416.16-17); one note attesting to signing Sylvia Davidson's copy of a book, dated 17 August 1965 (MA 8416.18); and notes for his review of Barry England's novel Figures in a Landscape, dated 13 May 1968 (MA 8416.19).
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