Lapworth's Pocket Dictionary [1947]; I Saw Esau (1947); Ditties for the Nursery [1949], c.1945-1954

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MS. Opie 169

Held in our offsite storage facility

Drafts, correspondence and notes and relating to, the Opies' early publications:

Folder 1: Lapworth's Pocket Dictionary, [1947]. Manuscript [draft] of dictionary entries A-Z; drafts of introduction; correspondence with George Lapworth & Company Ltd.; miscellaneous notes; c.1945-1946.
Folder 2: I Saw Esau: Traditional Rhymes of Youth, 1947. Proof copy with corrections, Oct 1947; correspondence with Williams & Norgate Ltd., including author-publisher agreement, 1947-1948; royalty accounts, 1947-1948 and 1952; advertisement leaflet; reviews; miscellaneous notes.
Folder 3: Papers relating to the registration of a [publishing] company 'Mason & Balfour' by Peter and Iona Opie, including certificate of registration, Jul 1948; correspondence with the Board of Trade, Paper Control, 1948; articles and press cuttings on book production and book trade, 1942-1948 and n.d.
Folder 4: Correspondence relating to a projected book Ditties for the Nursery [which Mason and Balfour was originally set up to publish] with publisher Newman Wolsey Ltd., Tom Todd at Todd Publishing Group Ltd., illustrator Monica Walker, and various printing companies, 1948-1954. Also includes general correspondence with authors and literary agents enquiring about Mason & Balfour, or offering manuscripts, c.1948-1949.