Mayer, Peter, fl 1976-1993

Variant names

Hide Profile

Epithet: of Penguin Books

British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001039.0x0002cd

Archival Resources
Role Title Holding Repository
creatorOf Correspondence and ephemera relating to Cooke’s address, entitled Getting to know you, to the fortieth anniversary celebration of the Fulbright Program, 26 Nov 1986, printed for private circulation by the Stellar Press for distribution by the Fulbrig..., 1986-1988 British Library
creatorOf Correspondence and papers of Max Reinhardt following the change of name of his firm H.F.L. (Publishers) Limited to Reinhardt Books in 1985. Includes correspondence with John Nigel Newton, of Bloomsbury, on co-publishing Graham Greene’s works, corresp..., 1985-1988 British Library
creatorOf Correspondence and papers of Max Reinhardt following the change of name of his firm H.F.L. (Publishers) Limited to Reinhardt Books in 1985. Includes correspondence with Peter Carson, Peter Mayer, Betty Hartel and Stephen Hall, all of Penguin., 1995-2003 British Library
creatorOf Correspondence and papers relating to the publication of Graham Greene’s works in paperback editions by Penguin Books and associated companies. For related correspondence between Reinhardt and Greene see Add MS 88987/2/34-39. Correspondents include: ..., 1967-1996 British Library
creatorOf Correspondence relating to The Bodley Head. Includes negotiations for the merger of production and publicity with Jonathan Cape, proposals for publishing an English edition of Ilie Nastase's Tie break, also further correspondence on French rights for..., 1985-1987 British Library
creatorOf Correspondence, papers and press cuttings relating to The Bodley Head and Penguin Books. Includes correspondence and papers relating to the acquisition of Penguin by the Longman Group and a possible merger of the two companies in 1969-1970. Correspon..., 1967-1986 British Library
referencedIn Press cuttings relating to other persons in the book trade, i.e. John Lane, John Ryder, Desmond Elliott, Robert McCrum, David Machin, Liz Calder, Mark Barty-King, Michael Schmidt, Tom Rosenthal, A. S. Mehta, Peter Mayer, Tony Godwin and Sir Allen Lan..., 1925-2003 British Library
creatorOf Strachey/Holroyd Papers. Vol. lx (ff. 80). Correspondence and papers relating to other projects involving Michael Holroyd; 1960-1994. Includes: a proposed biography of Sir Desmond MacCarthy; the championing of William Gerhardi’s works; proposals..., 1960-1994 British Library
creatorOf Correspondence, contracts and press cuttings of reviews relating to Mary Wright Connell’s Help is on the way, published by The Bodley Head, 1986. Much of the editorial work was undertaken by Reinhardt’s wife, Joan, and the correspondence includes som..., 1982-1989 British Library
creatorOf General correspondence of Reinhardt and others relating to Graham Greene, 1965-1990. Correspondents include: Henry Frederick Thynne, 6th Marquess of Bath, Nigel Begbie, of Reader’s Digest, Margaret Bluman, of Penguin Books, Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, John..., 1965-1990 British Library
creatorOf Correspondence, etc., 1981-1987. Correspondents include: Reinhardt, Solzhenitsyn, Roger W Straus, Elizabeth Besobraow and Michael di Capua, all of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Claude Durand, of the YMCA Press, from which Solzhenitsyn's works were publi..., 1981-1987 British Library
creatorOf Correspondence, contracts and press cuttings relating to Douglas Day’s Journey of the wolf, first published by Atheneum, 1977, and re-published by Reinhardt Books, 1987. Correspondents include: Reinhardt, Day, Graham Greene (to Reinhardt, recommendin..., 1985-1989 British Library
referencedIn Max Reinhardt papers, 1899-2006 British Library: Western Manuscripts
creatorOf Correspondence between Reinhardt, Peter Mayer and Peter Carson of Penguin Books and Peter Shepherd of Harold Ober Associates relating to a proposed new edition of the works of F. Scott Fitzgerald. , 1988 British Library
creatorOf Correspondence, papers and cuttings relating to Greene's The Tenth man. Correspondents include: Reinhardt, Greene, Elisabeth Dennys, Gerald Pollinger, of Laurence Pollinger Ltd, Anthony Blond, publisher, Jean-Félix Paschoud, of Verdant SA, Amanda Sau..., 1983-1994 British Library
creatorOf Correspondence, contracts and press cuttings relating to Alistair Cooke’s The Patient has the floor, published by The Bodley Head, 1987. 1978-1987. Includes offprint of Cooke’s ‘Hypochondria: the layman’s speciality’, published in Journal of the Roya..., 1978-1987 British Library
creatorOf Correspondence and papers of Max Reinhardt following the change of name of his firm H.F.L. (Publishers) Limited to Reinhardt Books in 1985. Includes correspondence with Peter Carson, Trevor Glover, Clare Harington, Peter Mayer, Nigel Sisson, Christin..., 1989-1994 British Library
creatorOf General correspondence of Graham Greene with various correspondents, much of it copied to Reinhardt. Correspondents include: Judy Adamson (from Greene), Catherine Ardizzone (to Greene), Elizabeth Bowes Lyon (to Greene), John Bray (from Greene), Carme..., 1933-1991 British Library
Role Title Holding Repository
Relation Name
Place Name Admin Code Country
Subject
Occupation
Activity

Person

Active 1976

Death 1993

Related Descriptions
Information

Permalink: http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6xm9052

Ark ID: w6xm9052

SNAC ID: 44466428