Correspondence with The Clarendon Press/Oxford University Press
MS. Opie 236
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Correspondence with The Clarendon Press/Oxford University Press
Shelfmark
MS. Opie 236
Summary
Correspondence of the Opies with The Clarendon Press/Oxford University Press about publishing projects, book production, publicity and sales, royalties, reprints and licences, and administrative, financial and legal matters:
Folder 1: 1958-1962, including Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes, The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren, and a projected nursery rhymes book with Penguin Books. Also includes correspondence with the University of Oxford regarding the conferral of a Master of Arts honoris causa to the Opies, 1962.
Folder 2: 1963-1967, including Oxford Nursery Rhyme Book, Puffin Book of Nursery Rhymes, The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren.
Date
1958-1967
Language
English
Physical extent
1 box (2 folders)
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Collection contents
Archive of Iona and Peter Opie
Professional correspondence
Correspondence with The Clarendon Press/Oxford University Press
