British publishing house. It was co-founded in 1935 by Sir Allen Lane, his brothers Richard and John, as a line of the publishers The Bodley Head, only becoming a separate company the following year. Penguin revolutionised publishing in the 1930s through its inexpensive paperbacks, sold through Woolworths and other high street stores for sixpence, bringing high-quality paperback fiction and non-fiction to the mass market.
Penguin (Firm)
Penguin Books Ltd (Hammondworth, Middlesex)
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Manuscript
Correspondence and papers
Date: [ca 1959-1963]
From: Curnow, Thomas Allen Monro, 1911-2001 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-2402-27
Description: Most correspondents identified but also includes letter from J G [?] Brown, Blockhouse Bay Road, Auckland Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.
Manuscript
Inward correspondence - Various correspondents (photocopies)
Date: 1944-1953
From: Fairburn, Arthur Rex Dugard, 1904-1957 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-1128-064
Description: Identified persons entered under Name. Also includes letters from George W [?] Buxton of Matakana; Joe at Noumea; Eric of Crop Research Division, Christchurch; a letter in code from John, Librarian at the University of Otago; part of holograph limerick; K at the Griffin Press; poems by Christopher Johnson; brochure on the Palestine situation; poem, `Stars in the spring sky'; clippings. Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Manuscript
Correspondence (L-O)
Date: 1975-1976
From: King, Michael (Dr), 1945-2004: Collection
Reference: 85-080-02/01
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Manuscript
Publishers and printers
Date: 1983 - 1988
From: Kirkpatrick, Brownlee Jean, 1919-2007:Papers relating to Katherine Mansfield
Reference: MS-Papers-11923-09
Description: Correspondence regarding research for Katherine Mansfield bibliography with publishers and printers from the period 1983 to 1988. Includes the following correspondents: - Adelphi Edizioni (Milan, Italy) - The Alden Press (Oxford) - Sandra Cox - Allen & Unwin (Wellington) - Bridget Williams - Beacon Press (Boston) - P A Gallo - Butler & Tanner Ltd (Somerset) - Ross Cornish - Jonathan Cape Ltd (London) - Carcanet Press Limited (London) - Robyn L Marsack - Cassell Ltd (London) - Barry Holmes (Marketing Manager) - Century Hutchinson Limited (London) - Kate Moss - includes pages from printed promotional material - Century Hutchinson New Zealand Limited (Auckland) - Chris Price (Editorial Assistant) - Clark Constable (Printers) (London) - K Dickson (Sales Office Supervisor) - Collins Publishers (Glasgow) - Gerald McFadden (Central Business Administration) - Collins Publishers (London) - Gillian R Gibbins - Constable Publishers (London) - Ben Glazebrook (Chairman and Managing Director); Christine Senior - Coward McCann (New York) - Dover Publications (New York) - Monica Berger (Office of the President) - J M Dent & Sons Limited (London) - Judy Tagg (Everyman Editor) - Antaeus - The Ecco Press (New York) - Megan Ratner (Managing Editor) - The Favil Press of Kensington (Worthing, Sussex) - F Chow - Howard Fertig, Incorporated Publisher (New York) - Howard Fertig - Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag (Frankfurt am Main) - Ingrid-Maria Gelhausen (Belletristisches Lektorat) - The Folio Society Limited (London) - Seu Bradbury (Editorial Director) - The Franklin Library (New York) - Diane Shapiro (Rights Director) - Franklin Watts, Incorporated (New York) - Rose Carrano (Editor) - Golden Press Pty Limited (Auckland) - Alan Smith (General Manager); (Drummoyne, New South Wales) - Susan Yell (Editor) - Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Incorporated (Orlando, Florida) - Margaret Mary McQuillan (Senior Vice President and Secretary) - Harrap Limited (London) - D Colley (Contracts Manager) - Hodder and Stoughton Limited (Auckland) - Bert Hingley (Publishing Director) - Insel-Verlag Anton Kippenberger (Leipzig, Germany) - Roland Links (Director) - Kenkyusha Limited Publishers (Tokyo, Japan) - Yoshiaki Hamamatsu (Chief of Publications Department) - Gomer Press - J D Lewis & Sons Limited (Dyfed, Wales) - John H Lewis - Lloyd O'Neil Pty Limited (South Yarra, Victoria) - Lloyd O'Neill - Longman Group Limited (Harlow, Essex) - Andrew MacLennan (Publisher) - Macmillan of Canada (Toronto) - Dougas M Gibson (Publisher) - The Macmillan Press Limited (London) - Frances A Arnold (Editor); Jill Swainson - Michael Joseph Limited (London) - Sally Holloway - Penguin Books Limited (London) - Naomi Caplin (Secretary to Peter Carson) - Playmarket - Script Reading Service and Playwright's Agency (Wellington) - Ann Paetz; Nonnita Rees - Price Milburn Publishers & Co Ltd (Petone, Wellington) - Jill Cunningham (Research Officer) - Society of Master Printers of Scotland (Edinburgh) - J B Raeburn (Director) - Stanford University Press (California) - Charlene R Androes (Assistant to Director) - Taplinger Publishing Company (New York) - Unwin Hyman (London) - Doris M Ayres - Virago Press (London) - Rosalind Smith; Lynn Knight - Victoria University of Wellington - Fergus Barrowman (Editor - Victoria University Press) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, holograph, typescript and printed matter
Manuscript
Papers relating to English authors and publishers
Date: 1966-1967
From: Meikle, Phoebe Churchill, 1910-1998 : Papers
Reference: 2007-087-147
Description: Correspondece with authors and publishers while Meikle was doing editorial work in England Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss and typescripts
Manuscript
Curtis Brown - Correspondence
Date: 1995-1996
From: Curnow, Tim, fl 1950-2003 : Papers relating to Allen Curnow
Reference: MS-Papers-7905-14
Description: Correspondence between publishers, journals, newspapers, broadcasters and Tim Curnow of Curtis Brown; also memoranda, telegrams etc and carbon copies of letters Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Other
Posters
Date: 1975-1983
From: Hunt, Samuel Percival Maitland, 1946-: Collection
By: Listener (Periodical); Penguin (Firm)
Reference: MSI-Papers-12070
Description: Collection of seven printed posters relating to Sam Hunt: - "Listener [...] Sam Hunt's Tour", 14 June 1975. - "Sam Hunt - Penguin", undated. Poster of cover design for book by Penguin Books, featuring photograph by Philip Fogle. - "Four New Zealand Poets - Sam Hunt, Alistair Campbell, Jan Kemp, Hone Tuwhare - Winter Tour 1979. New Zealand Students Arts Council". With logo of Radio New Zealand. Features group photograph of the four poets. - "Giving Poetry a good name - Kiwi Poets: Sam Hunt & Gary McCormick. Sam Hunt's Poetry Party with Gary McCormick." Sponsored by the Australia-New Zealand Foundation, New Zealand Literary Fund. [1980]. Poster includes date of birth and photographic portraits of the two poets, and lists selected publications. Printed by Logan Print Ltd, Gisborne. - "Newspapers in Education" poster by NIE re-prints. Postering featuring newspaper articles on Sam Hunt, including photographs and a cartoon. From The Dominion, 3 May 1983. - "Sam Hunt - Turn Left and your're there. Performance Details". No date. - "Barred and Banned Tour - Sam Hunt and the Desert Road Band". No date. Quantity: 1 folder(s) 7 posters. Physical Description: Printed posters.
Other
Collected Poems by Sam Hunt
Date: 1980-1981
From: Hunt, Samuel Percival Maitland, 1946-: Collection
By: Penguin (Firm)
Reference: MS-Papers-12070-367
Description: Volume of poetry published by Penguin Books, 1980, this copy reprint of 1981. This would appear to have been Hunt's personal copy as it includes contact details for various people inscribed inside the back cover. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Printed published volume.
Manuscript
Correspondence - Publishing and personal
Date: 1924, [1970-1980]
From: Joseph, Michael Kennedy, 1914-1981 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-8234-07
Description: Inward and outward correspondence relating to publishing; entered in the Name field Also includes photocopy of letter from George F Joseph to nis wife, Ernestine (1924) Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Manuscript
Correspondence relating to the Penguin book of New Zealand verse
Date: 1956-1958
From: Curnow, Thomas Allen Monro, 1911-2001 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-2402-03
Description: Inward and outward correspondence relating to Curnow's editing of `The Penguin book of New Zealand verse' (published 1960) which included controversy over selection and withdrawal of poems by Baxter, Campbell, Johnson and Duggan Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Manuscript
Correspondence regarding Selected Poems 1940-1989
Date: 1989-1990
From: Curnow, Thomas Allen Monro, 1911-2001 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-4650-15
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Manuscript
Types of personalities
Date: 1953
From: New Zealand Council for Educational Research : Papers of Frank Livingstone Combs
Reference: 88-178-19
Description: Notebooks containing notes on types of personalities; letter from NZ Broadcasting Service, May 1953 listing the talks they have recorded; rejection letter from Penguin Books Ltd, Dec 1953; stories by young children, Allan and Oliver Lane (ca 1950s). Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, typescript
Manuscript
Correspondence with publishers
Date: 1942-1943
From: Sutch, William Ball (Dr), 1907-1975 : Papers
Reference: 2002-012-46/04
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Manuscript
Letters
Date: [ca 1949-1972]
From: Campbell, Alistair Te Ariki, 1925-2009: Collection
Reference: 91-046-1/12
Description: Correspondence with Charles Brasch (1949-1966); Allen Curnow (1956-1958); Eunice E Frost (1958); and [?] John, Victoria University of Wellington (1972) Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Manuscript
Correspondence
Date: 1963-1967
From: Curnow, Thomas Allen Monro, 1911-2001 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-7574-80
Description: Identified correspondents entered under name Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss and typescripts
Manuscript
Correspondence
Date: 1990-1992
From: Curnow, Thomas Allen Monro, 1911-2001 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-7574-90
Description: Identified correspondents entered under name Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Manuscript
Correspondence - Miscellaneous (photocopies)
Date: 1947-1950
From: Fairburn, Arthur Rex Dugard, 1904-1957 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-1128-104
Description: Identified persons entered under Name. Also includes letters from R of Avondale; [?] V M R of the Political Science Department, University of Melbourne; Ian of Kerikeri; from Elspeth in Apia (1949); letter written from Karamu St, Ngaio, Wellington, re Sargeson not getting reviewing jobs; Howard [Vincent] of New York; Maud of Mangere East; correspondence re `Inkling'; poems with a letter of Willow Macky; essay on Fairburn; notice of Rita Angus exhibition (with letter). Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Manuscript
Correspondence and reviews relating to Early days yet
Date: 1995-1997
From: Curnow, Thomas Allen Monro, 1911-2001 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-7574-40
Description: Correspondence and reviews relating to `Early days yet : new and collected poems, 1941-1997'; also correspondence with Penguin UK re reproduction of other Curnow poems Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Holographs, mss, typescripts and printed matter
Manuscript
Correspondence with Penguin UK
Date: 1992-1996
From: Curnow, Thomas Allen Monro, 1911-2001 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-6371-02
Description: Inward and outward correspondence with Penguin UK and Tim Curnow of Curtis Brown Australia re Curnow's contribution to New Penguin modern poets. Includes publishers' agreements. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss and typescripts
Manuscript
Copy for the notes for Selected Poems 1940-1989
Date: [ca 1989]
From: Curnow, Thomas Allen Monro, 1911-2001 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-4650-18
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).