Covering letter handwritten in green:
DEAR MR MALCOLM
HERE ARE THE PAPERS FOR THE GENERAL BOOKS THAT WERE CONSIDERED BY THE DELEGATES ON 23/7/85. I HOPE THEY ARE OF USE TO YOU.
A WELL-WISHER
Enclosed with this letter were Delegates' Notes (exactly like the one for Making Names) for the following titles, the first five of which were headed:
General Books:
Ann Pasternak Slater - Evelyn Waugh - A Critical Biography, note dated 19/7/85
The Southern Review: Essays on T. S. Eliot compiled by Professor James Olney (2 pages), 19/7/85
James Fenton (ed.) The New Oxford Book of Modern Verse, 19/7/85
Making Names (as document B059, without Hardy's handwriting), 16/7/85
Martin Gardner - The Annotated Innocence of Father Brown, 6/6/85 (resubmitted)
Michael Raeburn and Alan Kendall (eds) - Heritage of Music, 15/7/85
Concise Dictionaries of Physics, Chemistry and Biology (all on one Note), 17/7/85
Peter Gammond - The Oxford Companion to Popular Music, 16/7/85
The Works of John Henry Newman General editor Dr. Ian Ker (2 pages), 7/6/85
The Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations, 19/7/85
There was also a 5-page undated list (yes, list) headed EDUCATIONAL DIVISION detailing about 45 titles.
Below is reproduced, by way of a sample, the first of the Delegates' Notes in the package, with its transcription following:
TO ALL DELEGATES
GENERAL BOOKS
Ann Pasternak Slater: Evelyn Waugh - A Critical Biography (provisional) 'Good books on Waugh have been rare', writes Martin Stannard in his Introduction to the Evelyn Waugh Critical Heritage (1984). The best, by F. J. Stopp, was published in 1958 during Waugh's lifetime. It is now out of print and was unable to cover Unconditional Surrender and A Little Learning. This lack, now that Waugh's serious reputation is growing, is keenly felt. The present study is designed to meet the present need.
Waugh has suffered from the pugnacious vitality of his character, both in his lifetime and since his death; public attention is easily deflected from the work to the man. The life is of crucial importance to the work. At the same time, Waugh's novels are outstanding examples of detached, highly controlled craftsmanship. Dr Slater plans to combine a biographical bias, drawing on all available secondary material, with a detailed critical analysis of Waugh's works.
Dr Slater is Lecturer in English at St. Anne's College, Oxford.
The proposal has been read by Dr Roger Lonsdale, Professor John Bayley, and Dr Valentine Cunningham and has their support.
W. P. Sulkin
19 July 1985
Entries at top right:
TOTAL INVESTMENT £4800
FOR FIRST EDITION £4800
LIKELY YEAR OF PUBLICATION 1987
GREEN (RED, AMBER crossed out)
EXTRA INHOUSE TIME blank
FLEXCAT. 2AP English Literature
Proposed print number: 2500
Proposed price: £12.50
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