Catalogue description Records of Chatto & Windus Ltd

The collection consists of correspondence files 1915-1990s, out letter books 1873-1990s, author’s accounts 1872-1945, stock books1862-1995, profit and loss ledgers 1920-1947, reader’s reports 1915-1990s, newspaper cutting albums of reviews 1909-1965, newspaper cutting albums of advertisements 1914-1960; 1963-1966, artwork files including some original artwork 1940s-1990s, and author publicity photographs 1940s-1980s. The bulk of early correspondence files were lost when they were sent for salvage in 1915 to help with the war effort.
Some material comes from the subsidiary firms John Camden Hotten, Saunders Otley & Co., Sussex University Press, and Christopher’s.

Chatto and Windus Limited

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