Bertram Rota, Ltd
Organization
Found in 42 Collections and/or Records:
Peter Quennell manuscripts, 1988
Collection
Identifier: 1988-009
Scope and Contents
The Peter Quennell manuscripts consist of handwritten manuscripts, in seven notebooks, of The Pursuit of Happiness. It includes typescript drafts, galley proofs, and corrected page proofs. Also housed with the manuscript material is the Peter Quennel - Dorothea Gould correspondence, 1997.003.
Dates:
1988
Rebecca West collection
Collection
Identifier: 1986-002
Scope and Contents
An artificial collection of materials consisting of correspondence, writings, and other personal papers of the British author, journalist, literary critic and travel writer Rebecca West.
Dates:
Late 1800s-1987
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala manuscripts, 1975-1976
Collection
Identifier: 1980-004
Scope and Contents
Consist of handwritten drafts of the short stories, "Desecration" and "How I Became a Holy Mother," published in How I Became a Holy Mother and Other Stories, 1976; the play, "A Lost Cause," [date unknown]; and the novel, Heat and Dust, (1975), all written in three manuscript notebooks with multiple notes and draft fragments clipped to the pages and notes laid in.
Dates:
1975 - 1976
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
Simon Watson Taylor 'Pataphysical' & Surrealist collection, 1935-1965
Collection
Identifier: 1974-002
Scope and Contents
Consists of publications, posters, manuscripts, correspondence, documents , photographs, and memorabilia by or relating to the College de Pataphysique; texts by and about Alfred Jarry; books and documents by and about Andre Breton and the surrealists; books by and about Jacques Herold; and materials by and about Marcel Duchamp. (Refer also to the inventory from Bertram Rota which accompanied the collection).Administrative/Biographical History: Books and periodicals have been...
Dates:
1934 - 1975
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
Tage La Cour collection of popular fiction
Collection
Identifier: 1979-016
Content Description
In 1979 the Special Collections acquired the "Tage La Cour Collection of Detective Fiction and Entertainments." This, the personal library of Crime Fiction Author Tage La Cour, library is comprised of detective novels, western novels, science fiction, and other works which would be classified as entertainments. The authors represented range from P. G. Wodehouse, Robert Coover, and Arthur Conan Doyle to Agatha Christie, Dashiel Hammett, and Ian Fleming; from Zane Grey, O. Henry, and Mark...
Dates:
1842 - 1986
Timothy O'Keeffe papers, 1948-1982
Collection
Identifier: 1983-017
Scope and Contents
London publisher of Irish (and other) authors. Mainly correspondence between O'Keefe and the writers with whom he worked as director of MacGibbon & Kee Publishers (London) and later as partner in Martin, Brian, & O'Keefe; authors include Brian O'Nolan, Hugh MacDiarmid, and Patrick Kavanaugh.The Timothy O'Keeffe papers consists of correspondence between O'Keeffe and the writers and poets (Brian O'Nolan, Hugh MacDiarmid, John Montague, Patrick Kavanaugh, e.e. cummings, and...
Dates:
1948 - 1982
Vernon Scannell papers, 1948-1971
Collection
Identifier: 1980-005
Scope and Contents
Consists of 9 handwritten letters from Scannell (written while incarcerated in Brixton Prison, London) to Jo Scannell (his wife) dating from March to April, 1967. Also included are handwritten poems, radio scripts and plays, and an autobiographical piece, A Proper Gentlemen written in 11 notebooks and writing tablets, and individual sheets.
Dates:
1948 - 1971
William Trevor corrected typescripts, 2000-2009
Collection
Identifier: 2009-017
Scope and Contents
Original ribbon typescripts on blue paper, heavily re-worked and/or revised in ink and pencil, and signed by the author; including, in some cases, photocopies of the ribbon typescript and/or word processed typescripts, either lightly or heavily revised. Typescripts include: the dramatisation, Sacred Stories; short stories, The Crippled Man, The Children, Cheating at Canasta, Men of Ireland, Faith, An Afternoon, A Perfect Relationship, The Dressmaker's Child, Folie a Deux,...
Dates:
2000 - 2009
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- Novelists, English -- 20th century. 7
- Poetry, Modern -- 20th century. 5
- Authors, American -- 20th century 4
- Authors, English -- 20th century -- Correspondence 4
- Poets, British -- 20th century. 4
- Authors, English -- 20th century -- Manuscripts 3
- Women and literature -- Great Britain 3
- Authors and publishers. 2
- Authors, American -- Correspondence -- 20th century 2
- Authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography 2
- English fiction -- 20th century. 2
- English literature -- Irish authors. 2
- Paris (France) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century. 2
- Private presses. 2
- Publishers and publishing. 2
- Radio scripts. 2
- Scorpion Press. 2
- Special Collections -- Manuscripts -- Plante, David. 2
- Special Collections -- Photographs. 2
- Women journalists -- Great Britain 2
- American Literature 1
- American Literature -- 20th century 1
- Arts -- Periodicals 1
- Authors, American -- Correspondence 1
- Authors, English -- 21st century 1
- Authors, English -- Biography 1
- Authors, French -- 20th century -- Posters 1
- Book reviewing. 1
- British -- India -- Fiction. 1
- British -- India -- Social life and customs. 1
- Censorship. 1
- Children's literature, English. 1
- Criticism -- United States. 1
- Dadaism. 1
- Drama -- 20th century. 1
- English drama -- Women authors. 1
- English poetry -- Irish authors. 1
- Experimental drama -- History and criticism. 1
- Family -- England -- London -- Fiction. 1
- Family -- India -- Fiction. 1
- Family -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction. 1
- Feminism and literature -- England -- History -- 20th century. 1
- Film posters. 1
- France -- Intellectual life. 1
- Gurus -- Fiction. 1
- Happiness in literature. 1
- India -- Fiction. 1
- Irish in literature. 1
- Irish literature -- 20th century. 1
- Literary prizes -- Great Britain. 1
- Literature -- History and criticism. 1
- Motion pictures -- Awards. 1
- Novelists, American -- 20th century. 1
- Novelists, English -- 20th century -- Diaries. 1
- Paris (France) -- Intellectual life. 1
- Poetry -- 18th century 1
- Poetry -- 19th century 1
- Poets, English -- Correspondence. 1
- Poets, Irish -- Correspondence. 1
- Salons -- France. 1
- Screenplays. 1
- Screenwriters. 1
- Sexology. 1
- Social advocacy. 1
- Special Collections -- Correspondence -- Barney, Natalie Clifford. 1
- Special Collections -- Correspondence -- Brooks, Romaine. 1
- Special Collections -- Correspondence -- Jameson, Margaret Storm. 1
- Special Collections -- Correspondence -- Joyce, James. 1
- Special Collections -- Correspondence -- Leon, Paul. 1
- Special Collections -- Correspondence -- Milne, Ewart. 1
- Special Collections -- Correspondence -- Quennell, Peter. 1
- Special Collections -- Diaries -- Bliss, Eliot. 1
- Special Collections -- Ephemera -- Leon, Paul and Lucie. 1
- Special Collections -- Manuscripts -- Andre Deutsch Ltd. 1
- Special Collections -- Manuscripts -- Auden, W. H. 1
- Special Collections -- Manuscripts -- Charles, Edward. 1
- Special Collections -- Manuscripts -- Connolly, Cyril. 1
- Special Collections -- Manuscripts -- Drabble, Margaret. 1
- Special Collections -- Manuscripts -- Eliot, T. S. 1
- Special Collections -- Manuscripts -- Hartley, L. P. 1
- Special Collections -- Manuscripts -- Isherwood, Christopher. 1
- Special Collections -- Manuscripts -- Jennings, Elizabeth. 1
- Special Collections -- Manuscripts -- Joyce, James. 1
- Special Collections -- Manuscripts -- Lessing, Doris. 1
- Special Collections -- Manuscripts -- Milne, Ewart. 1
- Special Collections -- Manuscripts -- O'Keeffe, Timothy. 1
- Special Collections -- Manuscripts -- Quennell, Peter. 1
- Special Collections -- Manuscripts -- Rolph, John. 1
- Special Collections -- Manuscripts -- Scannell, Vernon. 1
- Special Collections -- Manuscripts -- Scorpion Press, The. 1
- Special Collections -- Manuscripts -- Scott, Paul. 1
- Special Collections -- Manuscripts -- Secker, Martin. 1
- Special Collections -- Manuscripts -- Spark, Muriel 1
- Special Collections -- Manuscripts -- Taylor, Elizabeth Coles. 1
- Special Collections -- Manuscripts -- Taylor, Simon Watson. 1
- Special Collections -- Manuscripts -- Toklas, Alice B. 1
- Special Collections -- Manuscripts -- Trevor, William. 1
- Special Collections -- Manuscripts -- West, Rebecca. 1
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