| Level | Item |
| Ref No | OBS/1/2/2/2/39 |
| Title | Book rights and serialisation |
| Date | 1969-1976 |
| Extent | 1 file |
| Creator Name | The Observer Limited; Managing Director's Office; Roger Harrison |
| Description | General file regarding the serialisation of books in the Observer.
Contains correspondence and memorandums concerning: the diaries of Evelyn Waugh; purchase of the letters of Florence Nightingale; 'Nixon's Last 100 Days' by Washington Post reporters Woodward and Bernstein, who exposed the Watergate scandal; the diaries of Josef Goebbels; the memoirs of Cardinal Mindszenty; Piers Paul Read; Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy; Alexander Solzhenitsyn; professional advice from Oswald Hickson, Collier & Co; the autobiography of Yehudi Menmuhin; arrangments with Andre Deutsh; 'The Reality of Monarchy' by Andrew Duncan; draft agreements with publishers; the international distribution of Norman Mailer's material with draft copies of his serialisations.
Primary correspondents include: Roger Harrison; Jeremy Hunt; Patrick Seale; Weidenfeld & Nicolson, publishers. |
| Access Status | Open |
| Format | Manuscript |
| Typescript |
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