Bertram Rota, Ltd
Organization
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Additional Papers of John Rolph and the Scorpion Press, approximately 1958-1967
Collection
Identifier: 2007-030
Scope and Contents
The Additional Papers of John Rolph and the Scorpion Press consist of correspondence, business documents, publication notices, financial records, etc relating to the Press.
Dates:
approximately 1958-1967
Eliot Bliss diaries, 1959-1980
Collection
Identifier: 1995-001
Scope and Contents
The Eliot Bliss diaries, housed in five legal-sized document boxes, consist of 19 volumes of daily diaries dating from January 1959 to December 1960, and January 1963 to August 1980. Additional notes, correspondence, poems, photographs, and sales receipts are laid into many of the diaries, all of which have been noted in the inventory. Please refer to "Notes on my Diaries", written by Bliss.
Dates:
1959 - 1980
Elizabeth Jennings manuscripts, 1973-1992
Collection
Identifier: 1986-001
Scope and Contents
The Elizabeth Jennings manuscripts consist of 39 notebooks and loose sheets of handwritten working drafts of approximately 2,225 poems, many with handwritten revisions, written between 1973 and 1992. The poems were said to be unpublished at the time of acquisition and cover a wide range of topics including artists, composers, and writers. They are arranged chronologically by the date provided by Elizabeth Jennings. They are also indexed alphabetically by title. This collection...
Dates:
1973 - 1992
Scorpion Press archive, approximately 1958-1969
Collection
Identifier: 1988-015
Scope and Contents
The Scorpion Press archive contains correspondence concerning the author's work(s) including letters, permissions, publishing agreements, royalties statements, and, in some cases, galley or page proofs. A complete set of books published, or co-published, by the Scorpion Press, totaling 53 volumes, was accessioned with the archive and can be searched by title on the online catalogue. Also included are financial-related papers such as ledgers, stock lists, files of contracts, and 36 small...
Dates:
circa 1958-1969
T. S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot collection
Collection
Identifier: 1978-009
Scope and Contents
The collection is grouped into 4 series:Correspondence dating from 1918-1954 consisting of 23 autograph and typescript letters and 3 signed Christmas cards from Eliot to friends and colleagues including Stuart Latham and John Lehmann; 2 typescript letters from Mrs. S.K. Gussow to Eliot; and a photocopy typescript letter from Valerie Eliot to Garnerstone Press Ltd. in reference to T.S. Eliot: A Memoir, by Robert Sencourt. Writings dating from 1950-1959 consisting of...
Dates:
1918 - 1959
Filtered By
- Subject: Poetry, Modern -- 20th century. X
Additional filters:
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- Poets, British -- 20th century. 2
- Private presses. 2
- Scorpion Press. 2
- Women and literature -- Great Britain 2
- Authors and publishers. 1
- Criticism -- United States. 1
- Drama -- 20th century. 1
- Novelists, English -- 20th century. 1
- Special Collections -- Diaries -- Bliss, Eliot. 1
- Special Collections -- Manuscripts -- Eliot, T. S. 1
- Special Collections -- Manuscripts -- Jennings, Elizabeth. 1
- Special Collections -- Manuscripts -- Rolph, John. 1
- Special Collections -- Manuscripts -- Scorpion Press, The. 1
- Special Collections -- Photographs -- Bliss, Eliot. 1 + ∧ less
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