David Farrer, 1958
Scope and Contents
A typescript of a report by British publisher David Farrer, director of Secker and Warburg, regarding a trip to Sweden for a lecture tour by novelist Angus Wilson (1913-1991) promoting his new novel “The Middle Age of Mrs. Eliot” (1958). The report is followed by a speech given by Farrer in Stockholm. The contents describe the trip and provide details as to the cooperation between Wilson’s British and Swedish publishers: “...this occasion does seem to me unique. So far as I am aware, it is the first time that two different publishers – normally we are quarrelsome creatures – have joined together to honour one author. It is certainly the first time that first publication of the English edition of an English novel has taken place outside England.” Dated November 1958, with pencil notes by Roger Senhouse (1899-1970), co-owner of the publishing house.
Dates
- 1958
Conditions Governing Access
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Biographical / Historical
David Farrer (b. 1906) was a British publisher, sometime director of the publishing house Secker and Warburg. He was a judge for the inaugural Booker prize for fiction in 1969.
Extent
From the Collection: 30 Cubic Feet (68 boxes)
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
From the Collection: Latin
From the Collection: French
From the Collection: Italian
From the Collection: Welsh
From the Collection: Danish
From the Collection: Swedish
From the Collection: Spanish
From the Collection: German
From the Collection: Norwegian
From the Collection: Persian
From the Collection: Japanese
From the Collection: Russian
From the Collection: Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
Creator
- From the Collection: Scheetz, Nicholas B., 1952-2016 (Person)
Repository Details
Part of the Georgetown University Manuscripts Repository
Lauinger Library, 5th Floor
37th and O Streets, N.W.
Washington DC 20057
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