Sir Stanley Unwin Letters, 1888, 1914-1966

The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the collection.

• Description: Aldington, Richard, 1892-1962. Letter, Montpellier, Herault, France, to Sir Stanley Unwin [London] concerning the publication of his poems by another publishing house and praise of the firm George Allen and Unwin, Ltd.

  1 l. typescript signed.
  Dates: June 6 1952
  Container: Box 1, Folder 1
• Description: Belloc, Hilaire, 1870-1953. Letter, Shipley, Horsham, to Sir Stanley Unwin, London, informing him that he has no essays on a subject about which Unwin had previously written him.

  1 l. holograph signed.
  Dates: September 25 1935
  Container: Box 1, Folder 2
• Description: Bennett, Arnold, 1867-1931. Letter [London] to Sir Stanley Unwin, asking for a copy of Union's new translation of "Oblomov.

  1 l. typescript signed.
  Dates: November 5 1929
  Container: Box 1, Folder 3
• Description: Blunden, Edmund Charles, 1896. Letter, Hawstead Nr. Bury St, Edmunds, to Sir Stanley Unwin, concerning correspondence about a second edition of the Home-Reading Union's List of War Rooks.

  1 l. holograph signed.
  Dates: March 14 1930
  Container: Box 1, Folder 4
• Description: Cope-Hennesey, James. Letter [London] to Sir Stanley Unwin [London] making a luncheon appointment with him to discuss Cope-Hennesey's new book.

  1 l. typescript signed.
  Dates: October 30 1959
  Container: Box 1, Folder 5
• Description: de la Mare, Walter, 1873-1956. Letter, Taplow, Buckinghamshire, to George Allen and Unwin, Ltd., London, thanking the firm for the two copies of Miss Eileen Duggan's Poems.

  1 l. typescript signed.
  Dates: December 1 1937
  Container: Box 1, Folder 6
• Description: Dickinson, W N. Postcard, London, to Sir Stanley Unwin, London, thanking him for his assistance.

  1 l. holograph signed.
  Dates: December 2 [1915]
  Container: Box 1, Folder 7
• Description: Dunsany, Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, baron, 1878-1957. Letter, Meath, to Sir Stanley Unwin, London, giving information about George Allen and Unwin, Ltd.'s previous business dealings in the publishing of Lord Dunsany's books.

  1 l. holograph signed.
  Dates: May 3 1946
  Container: Box 1, Folder 8
• Description: Ervine, St. John, 1883. Letter, Seaton, Devonshire, to Sir Stanley Unwin, regarding the manuscript of his play "The First Mrs. Fraser."

  1 l. holograph signed.
  Dates: 1929
  Container: Box 1, Folder 9
• Description: Forster, Edward Morgan, 1879. Letter, West Hackhurst, Dunking?, to George Allen and Unwin, Ltd., London, concerning a quotation which the firm have asked him to identify and which he does not attribute to Dickinson.

  1 l. holograph signed.
  Dates: September 3 1946
  Container: Box 1, Folder 10
• Description: Fry, Roger Elliott, 1866-1934. Postcard, London, to George Allen and Unwin, Ltd., London, thanking the firm for suggestions regarding the publishing of some materials but stating that he has already made such arrangements.

  1 l. holograph signed.
  Dates: December 15 1929
  Container: Box 1, Folder 11
• Description: Galsworthy, John, 1867-1933. Letter, London, to Sir Stanley Unwin, thanking him for a book which he has received.

  1 l. holograph signed.
  Dates: August 16 1925
  Container: Box 1, Folder 12
• Description: Hogben, Lancelot, 1895. Letter, Birmingham, to Sir Stanley Unwin [London] extending New Year's wishes to him.

  1 l. holograph signed.
  Dates: January 1 1951
  Container: Box 1, Folder 13
• Description: Hodgson, Ralph, 1871-1962. Letter, Madison, Wisconsin, to Sir Stanley Unwin, making arrangements to meet with Sir Stanley the next time Hogben travels to London.

  1 l. holograph signed.
  Dates: December 17 1938
  Container: Box 1, Folder 14
• Description: Joad, Cyril Edwin Mitchinson, 1891-1953. Letter [London] to Sir Stanley Unwin, asking if he might invite friends to use Sir Stanley's tennis court.

  1 l. holograph signed.
  Dates: undated
  Container: Box 1, Folder 15
• Description: Laski, Harold Joseph, 1893-1950. Letter, London, to Sir Stanley Unwin, explaining why a pamphlet he had written for the Fabian Society had not been submitted to George Allen and Unwin, Ltd. for publication and Leonard Woolf's role in all of this.

  1 l. holograph signed.
  Dates: August 11 1932
  Container: Box 1, Folder 16
• Description: Lewis, Clive Staples, 1898-1963. Letter, Cambridge, to Mr. Breckman [London] asking that he not put in a word for Lewis' work, as people might think it "mutual backscratching, like Shanks and Squire.

  1 l. holograph signed.
  Dates: November 6 1962
  Container: Box 1, Folder 17
• Description: Macaulay, Dame Rose, 1889?-1958. Postcard, London, to Sir Stanley Unwin, London, thanking him for his letter and accompanying report.

  1 l. holograph signed.
  Dates: July 30 1942
  Container: Box 1, Folder 18
• Description: McCarthy, Desmond. Letter, London, to Sir Stanley Unwin [London] thanking him for the check and asking what he thinks about a new preface.

  1 l. holograph signed.
  Dates: June ? 1941
  Container: Box 1, Folder 19
• Description: MacDonald, George, 1824-1905. Letter, Ewill, to S. Unwin, responding to a request that he lecture on October 6, delineating his fees, and indicating that he would prefer not to lecture in England in October.

  2 l. holograph signed.
  Dates: July 4 1888
  Container: Box 1, Folder 20
• Description: Mackenzie, Compton, 1883. Letter, Berkshire, to Sir Stanley Unwin (London] thanking him for his letter to congratulations.

  1 l. in part typescript and holograph signed.
  Dates: June 9 1952
  Container: Box 1, Folder 21
• Description: Masefield, John, 1878-1967. Letter, Berkshire, to [George Allen and Unwin, Ltd., London] regarding "sacrificing 2000 copies of the American edition of Shakespeare, in the Home University Library.

  1 1. holograph signed.
  Dates: September 20 1914
  Container: Box 1, Folder 22
• Description: Montague, Charles Edward, 1867-1928. Letter, Burford, Oxfordshire, to Sir Stanley Unwin, in which he stresses that he will keep in mind Sir Stanley's offer to publish what he may write.

  1 l. holograph signed.
  Dates: December 30 1925
  Container: Box 1, Folder 23
• Description: Muir, Edwin, 1887-1959. Letter, Dalkeith, Midlothian, to Sir Stanley Unwin, thanking him for his letter of congratulations.

  1 l. holograph signed.
  Dates: June 5 1953
  Container: Box 1, Folder 24
• Description: Murray, Gilbert, 1866-1957. Letter, , to Mr. Beard, indicating what corrections need to be made in the references of Murray's manuscript.

  1 l. holograph signed.
  Dates: September 14 1947
  Container: Box 1, Folder 25
• Description: Nehru, Jawaharlal, 1889-1964. Letter, New Delhi, to Sir Stanley Unwin, London, thanking him for sending a copy of Lord Beveridge's book.

  1 l. typescript signed.
  Dates: April 19 1948
  Container: Box 1, Folder 26
• Description: Nevinson, Henry W. Letter, London, to Sir Stanley Unwin, London, thanking him for his letter which commented favorably on some of Nevinson's writing.

  1 l. holograph signed.
  Dates: January 7 1940
  Container: Box 1, Folder 27
• Description: Nicolson, Harold, 1886-1968. Letter, London, to Sir Stanley Unwin [London] concerning a Mr. Baldwin who had been chastized by Nicolson for not showing an interest in "foreign politics.

  1 l. typescript signed.
  Dates: November 5 1958
  Container: Box 1, Folder 28
• Description: Ollivant, Alfred, 1874-1927. Letter, London, to Sir Stanley Unwin, concerning a scandal, possibly connected with The Athenaeum, with a postscript about a manuscript which he was sending under separate cover.

  1 l. holograph signed.
  Dates: 1926
  Container: Box 1, Folder 29
• Description: Phillpotts, Eden, 1862-1960. Letter, Broadclyst, Devonshire, to Sir Stanley Unwin [London] thanking Unwin for his letter and deploring the conditions under which young writers have to endure.

  1 l. holograph signed.
  Dates: January 13 1951
  Container: Box 1, Folder 30
• Description: Priestley, John Boynton, 1894. Letter, Stratford-on-Avon, to Sir Stanley Unwin, London, thanking him for his letter and the book On Crowing Old by Dr. Vischer.

  1 l. typescript signed.
  Dates: August 27 1966
  Container: Box 1, Folder 31
• Description: Rajagopalachari, Chakravarti, 1879. Letter, Madras, to George Allen and Unwin, Ltd., London, acknowledging receipt of the book Sermon on the Mount by Swami Prabhavananda.

  1 l. typescript signed.
  Dates: December 30 1964
  Container: Box 1, Folder 32
• Description: Sitwell, Dame Edith, 1887-1964. Letter, Renishaw, Nr. Sheffield, Derbyshire, to George Allen and Unwin, Ltd., London, asking permission to quote from Ernest Boyd's translation of Jean Cocteau's Opium in her book A Poet's Notebook.

  1 l. holograph signed.
  Dates: December 1 1942
  Container: Box 1, Folder 33
• Description: Squire, Sir John Collings, 1884-1958. Letter, London, to Sir Stanley Unwin, concerning a publishing matter.

  1 l. holograph signed.
  Dates: September 22 1919?
  Container: Box 1, Folder 34
• Description: Stacpoole, H. de Vere. Postcard, Bonchurch, Isle of Wight, to Sir Stanley Unwin [London] thanking him for his previous letter.

  1 l. holograph signed.
  Dates: November 13 1947
  Container: Box 1, Folder 35
• Description: Swinnerton, Frank Arthur, 1884. Letter, Cranleigh, Surrey, to Sir Stanley Unwin, thanking him for his kind remarks and for the book Cuckoo Narrow. He mentions Viola Garvin choosing books for him to review.

  1 l. holograph signed.
  Dates: April 17 1937
  Container: Box 1, Folder 36
• Description: Tagore, Sir Rabindranath, 1861-1941. Letter, Bengal, to Mr. Bhabani Bhattacharyna, London, giving permission to publish the volume of poems which Bhattacharyna translated into English from the original Bengali.

  1 l. in part typescript and holograph signed.
  Dates: December 24 1931
  Container: Box 1, Folder 37
• Description: Toynbee, Arnold Joseph, 1889. Letter, Westmorland, to Sir Stanley Unwin [London] expressing thanks for Sir Stanley's "settling [his] query so promptly ...

  1 l. holograph signed.
  Dates: August 27 1960
  Container: Box 1, Folder 38
• Description: Trevelyan, S M. Letter, Cambridge, to Sir Stanley Unwin [London] apologizing for the "fuss" over the sale, which has turned out to be on most generous terms, of something, possibly a manuscript, belonging to Janet.

  1 l. holograph signed.
  Dates: May 2 1956
  Container: Box 1, Folder 39
• Description: Walpole, Sir Hugh, 1884-1941. Letter, London, to Sir Stanley Unwin, London, in which he politely refuses to do a book on a topic suggested by Sir Stanley because he has certain novels, belles lettres, and criticism in mind to write in the time he has left.

  1 l. holograph signed.
  Dates: November 18 1940
  Container: Box 1, Folder 40
• Description: Woolf, Leonard, 1880. Letter, London, to Sir Stanley Unwin, London, in which he asks that his writings, if possible, not be included in a book which George Allen and Unwin, Ltd. intend to publish.

  1 l. typescript signed.
  Dates: December 12 1931
  Container: Box 1, Folder 41
• Description: Sotheby Sale Catalogue, page 9, containing description of Lot 24.

  1 p. photocopy.
  Dates: July 23 1976
  Container: Box 1, Folder 42