John Rodker's papers comprise his correspondence, manuscripts, publication files, contracts, financial records and photographs, along with manuscripts and correspondence of his mother in law, the translator Ludmila Savitzky. Series I embraces Rodker's activities as a publisher and agent from the 1920s until, following his death in 1955, his widow Marianne sold their publishing business in the early 1960s. General files relating to contacts with other firms and individuals involved in printing and publishing are included. Some personal and avocational interests are also present in the series. Series II documents Rodker's work in the 1930s as the British representative of the Press and Publisher Literary Service, a Soviet agency promoting the publication of Russian works in the West. Included is an extensive correspondence with the scholar-publicist Dr. Edward J. Byng and with the translator Moura Budberg. Series III, Imago Publishing Company, comprises nearly half of the John Rodker papers and embraces extensive correspondence and publication files documenting the production of the collected works of Sigmund Freud, as well as works of other major figures in psychoanalytic scholarship and practice. Correspondence of Marie Bonaparte, Anna and Ernst Freud, Edward J. Glover, and Theodore Reik, among others, is included. Series IV, John Rodker Personal Papers, contains numerous original Rodker manuscripts, including several for unpublished works, along with manuscripts of his translations from the French. Correspondents found in the series include David Bomberg, Havelock Ellis, and Ezra Pound. Series V, Ludmila Savitzky Personal Papers, is dominated by the manuscript of her French translation of James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Related correspondence, including several letters by Joyce, is also present. Series VI, Miscellaneous Materials, is dominated by a collection of love letters and erotic verse sent to Annie Lou Staveley by E. Powys Mathers between 1932 and 1939. Also to be found are several letters written by James Joyce in 1918 and 1919.
