urn:taro:utexas.hrc.00226 Peter Owen Ltd.: A Preliminary Inventory of an Addition to Its Records at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center Text converted by SPI Content Sciences Inc., July 2003. Finding aid written in English. Peter Owen Ltd. Addition to Records 1957-2002 late 1990s - 2000 32 boxes (13.44 linear feet) Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin Peter Owen Ltd. This addition consists of correspondence and production material, the bulk of which is book production material from the late-1990s to 2000, including corrected drafts and proofs. Acquisition:

Purchase, 2002 (Reg. no. 15019)

 Access:

Open for research

 Processed by:

Kristen Tucker, 2002

 Scope and Contents

This collection of correspondence and production material adds to the Peter Owen Ltd. archive previously received at the Ransom Center.

The bulk of the collection is book production material from the late-1990s to 2000, including corrected drafts and proofs. Authors represented are Tom Ambrose, David Bolt, Paul Bowles, Jared Cade, Adrian Cairns, Hugo Claus, Richard Corson, Margaret Crosland, Peter Haining, Gloria Hargreaves, Paul Harris, Audrey Hawkridge, Anna Kavan, Karoline Leach, M. J. Levy, Guy de Maupassant, Gordon McAlpine, Donald McCrory, Patricia Meehan, Tim Mitchell, Atle Naess, Wendy Perriam, Terence Pettigrew, David Powell, Michael Simmons, Elizabeth Russell Taylor, Peter Vansittart, Noel Virtue, Benjamin Walker, Phyllis Willmott, G. Peter Winnington, and Fakhar Zaman.

The collection is in good physical condition and is open for research.

 Peter Owen Ltd. Records--Folder List I. Correspondence, 1957-2002 1 1 Agee, James 1 2 Allsop, Kenneth 1 3 Ballard, J. G. - Be 1 4 Blechman, Burt - Bo 1 5 Bowles, Paul - Br 1 6 Cade - Catling 1 7 Crichton, Ian - Crosland, Margaret 1 8-9 Dali, Salvador (Captain Peter Moore) 1 10 Dietrich, Marlene - F 1 11 Goudeket, Maurice 2 1 H 2 2 I - L 2 3 Lawner, Lynne 2 4 Lessing, Doris 2 5 M 2 6 N - O 2 7 Pasternak, Boris (about) 2 8 Perriam, Wendy 2 9 Pound, Ezra 2 10 R 2 11 S 2 12 Stuhlmann, Gunther 2 13 Va - Ve 2 14 Virtue, Noel 2 15 W and unidentified II. Works 3 1-5 Ambrose, Tom. Hitler's Loss 4 1-4 Bolt, David. The New Authors' Handbook 4 5-6 Bowles, Paul. The Paul Bowles Reader 5 1-5 The Paul Bowles Reader, cont'd 6 1-3 Cade, Jared. Agatha Christie and the Eleven Missing Days 6 4-5 Cairns, Adrian. The Making of the Professional Actor 7 1 Claus, Hugo. The Swordfish 7 2 Corson, Richard. Fashions in Hair 7 3-8 Crosland, Margaret. Sade's Wife 8 1-2 Haining, Peter. The Ghost Feeler 8 3-9 Hargreaves, Gloria. Your Personality Revealed 9 1 Harris, Paul. The Pantomime Book 9 2-8 Hawkridge, Audrey. Jane and Her Gentlemen 10 1-6 Jane and Her Gentlemen, cont'd 11 1-4 Kavan, Anna. The Parson 11 5 Leach, Karoline. In the Shadow of the Dreamchild 11 6-8 Levy, M. J. The Mistresses of King George IV 12 1 Maupassant, Guy de. Afloat 12 2 McAlpine, Gordon. The Persistence of Memory 12 3-7 McCrory, Donald. No Ordinary Man 13 1-4 No Ordinary Man, cont'd 14 1-5 No Ordinary Man, cont'd 15 1-3 No Ordinary Man, cont'd 15 4-7 Meehan, Patricia. A Strange Enemy People 16 1-5 A Strange Enemy People, cont'd 17 1-3 A Strange Enemy People, cont'd 17 4-5 Mitchell, Tim. There's Something about Jonathan 18 1-4 There's Something about Jonathan, cont'd 18 5-7 Naess, Atle. Doubting Thomas 19 1-2 Doubting Thomas, cont'd 19 3-8 Owen, Peter. Everything is Nice 20 1-4 Everything is Nice, cont'd 20 5-6 Perriam, Wendy. Dreams, Demons and Desire 21 1-5 Dreams, Demons and Desire, cont'd 22 1 Dreams, Demons and Desire, cont'd 22 2-4 Lying 23 1-3 Lying, cont'd 23 4-5 Pettigrew, Terence. Trevor Howard 24 1-7 Trevor Howard, cont'd 25 1-2 Trevor Howard, cont'd 25 3 Powell, David. What's Left? 25 4-5 Simmons, Michael. Getting a Life 26 1 Getting a Life, cont'd 26 2-3 Older People Talking 26 4-8 Taylor, Elizabeth Russell. I Is Another 27 1-6 Vansittart, Peter. Hermes in Pairs 28 1-2 Hermes in Paris, cont'd 28 3-5 Virtue, Noel. The Lady Jean 29 1 The Lady Jean, cont'd 29 2-5 Walker, Benjamin. The Foundations of Islam 30 1-2 The Foundations of Islam, cont'd 30 3-7 Willmott, Phyllis. Joys and Sarrows 31 1-6 Winnington, G. Peter. Vast Alchemies 32 1-5 Vast Alchemies, cont'd 32 6 Zaman, Fakhar. The Prisoner