Margaret Crosland correspondence, 1955-1970.

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Margaret Crosland correspondence, 1955-1970.

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The collection consists of approximately 250 autograph and typescript letters and postcards from Margaret Crosland to Peter Owen and/or his associates of Peter Owen, Ltd., Publishers. Also included are 265 carbon copy typescript letters from Peter Owen and associates to Crosland and other occasional related typescript correspondence between Peter Owen, Ltd. and other publishers, translators and authors. Many of Crosland's letters bear notations or instructions written in the margins, possibly by Peter Owen. The letters discuss early projects, Crosland's efforts to bring the work of her friend Anais Nin to Owen's notice, her service as a reader of prospective French works under consideration for publication in English, and most extensively her work as translator, editor and sometimes biographer of such figures as Jean Cocteau, Colette, Giorgio De Chirico, Marquis de Sade, Topor, Chagall, Piaf, et. al.

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