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Leonard Woolf correspondence files for Barbarians at the gate and The intelligent man's way to pervent war : with signed publishing contracts.

Title: Leonard Woolf correspondence files for Barbarians at the gate and The intelligent man's way to pervent war : with signed publishing contracts.
Author: Victor Gollancz Ltd.
Publication: London : 1932-1992.

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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Mixed material	Permit needed	Berg Coll m.b. Woolf, L Als to Gollancz 1932	Schwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320

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134 items in 9 folders, housed in 1 manuscript box; approx. 10x23 - 33x42 cm

Summary

Correspondence for Barbarians At the Gate, between Leonard Woolf and Victor Gollancz, dated Oct. 19, 1938-Dec. 4, 1939; with letter from Victor Gollancz Ltd regarding remainders (and, in reply, typed note, signed, by Leonard Woolf, Oct. 10, 1958), and with correspondence regarding permission to quote exchanged by Victor Gollancz Ltd. and seven writers, dated May 28, 1948-March 23, 1992, and with Leonard Woolf’s typed permission note, signed, May 27, 1948.
Correspondence for The Intelligent Man’s Way to Prevent War, between Leonard Woolf and Victor Gollancz, dated Nov. 21, 1932-Jan. 2, 1933; with related legal correspondence between Victor Gollancz Ltd. and its law firm Rubinstein, Nash & Co., dated July 15-Aug. 25, 1933; and with correspondence regarding permission to quote exchanged by Victor Gollancz Ltd. with two correspondents, dated Oct. 23, 1968-June 23, 1983.
Barbarians At the Gate file: from Leonard Woolf to Victor Gollancz, 12 typed letters, 1 autograph letter, and 1 typed note, all signed; with signed contract dated Nov. 1, 1938, and original, brown envelope.
Barbarians At the Gate file: from Victor Gollancz to Leonard Woolf, 7 typed carbon copy letters, 2 carbon copy notes, unsigned; to John Strachey and Harold Laski, 1 typed carbon copy letter, unsigned; to John Strachey 1typed carbon copy letter, unsigned; to Harold Laski 1 typed carbon copy note, unsigned; from Gollancz’s secretary to Laski, 1 typed carbon copy letter, unsigned; from Gollancz’s secretary to John Strachey, 1 typed carbon copy letter, unsigned; from law firm Rubinstein, Nash & Co. to Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1 typed letter, signed (requesting deletion of reference to G. B. Shaw as admirer of “Hitlerism”).
Dates of Woolf’s letters and notes to Victor Gollancz regarding Barbarians At the Gate: Oct. 23, 27, Nov. 2 (typed note), 1938, Ap. 25, May 9,May 29, June 21, 23, 27, 28, 29, July 1 (autograph letter), July 2, Dec. 4, 1939.
Dates of Victor Gollancz’s letters and notes to Leonard Woolf regarding Barbarians At the Gate: Oct. 19, Nov. 1, 1938, May 10 (note), June 5, June 22 (note), June 22 (first page only), 26, 28, 30, July 3, 21, Nov. 6, Nov. 13, Dec. 1, 1939. 500: Dates of Victor Gollancz’s letters and notes to others: to John Strachey and Harold Laski, June 26, 1939; to John Strachey, June 28, 1939; to Harold Laski, June 30, 1939.
Dates of Victor Gollancz’s secretary’s letters to Harold Laski: July 19, 20, 1939.
Date of Victor Gollancz’s secretary’s letter to John Strachey: July 20, 1939.
Date of Rubinstein, Nash & Co. letter to Victor Gollancz Ltd.: Oct. 23, 1939.
The Intelligent Man’s Way to Prevent War file: from Leonard Woolf to Victor Gollancz, 3 typed letters, signed: Nov. 22, 24, Dec. 21, 1932.
The Intelligent Man’s Way to Prevent War file: from Victor Gollancz to Leonard Woolf: 3 typed carbon copy letters: Nov. 21, 23, 1932, Jan. 2, 1933; with signed contract (with alternate title: The Intelligent Man’s Road to World Peace”), dated Nov. 26, 1932, in original, brown envelope, and with “Agreement” typed on slip of green paper citing October 1949 as date The Intelligent Man’s Guide to War was remaindered.

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Victor Gollancz Ltd. (London) published Leonard Woolf’s Barbarians At the Gate in 1939.
Victor Gollancz Ltd. (London) published the anthology The Intelligent Man’s Way to Prevent War, edited by Leonard Woolf, in 1933.
Correspondence arranged chronologically for each file.
“In January 1936, the publisher, Victor Gollancz, had lunch with Stafford Cripps and John Strachey, where they discussed the possibility of establishing a United Front against fascism. It was during this meeting that Gollancz suggested the idea of creating a Left Book Club. It was also agreed that Harold Laski, the Professor of Political Science at the London School of Economics, would make an excellent partner in this venture. The main aim was to spread socialist ideas and to resist the rise of fascism in Britain. Gollancz announced: ‘The aim of the Left Book Club is a simple one. It is to help in the terribly urgent struggle for world peace and against fascism, by giving, to all who are willing to take part in that struggle, such knowledge as will immensely increase their efficiency.’”—From Spartacus Educational website (http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/TUleftbook.htm)
John Strachey would publish a strongly negative review of Barbarians At the Gate in the journal Left News, criticizing Woolf for not accepting the necessity of Josef Stalin’s dictatorship to defend the Soviet Union and Communism against its enemies.

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Two original folders.

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Restricted access;

Call Number

Berg Coll m.b. Woolf, L Als to Gollancz 1932

OCLC

933762595

Author

Victor Gollancz Ltd.

Title

Leonard Woolf correspondence files for Barbarians at the gate and The intelligent man's way to pervent war : with signed publishing contracts.

Imprint

London : 1932-1992.

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Two original folders.

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Added Author

Laski, Harold J. (Harold Joseph), 1893-1950. Addressee

Strachey, John, 1901-1963. Addressee

Woolf, Leonard, 1880-1969.

Woolf, Leonard, 1880-1969. Editor

Woolf, Leonard, 1880-1969. Addressee

Research Call Number

Berg Coll m.b. Woolf, L Als to Gollancz 1932

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