Correspondence with Literary Agents and Publishers

Containers:

Box 2-3

Component identifier:

Series 2

Content Summary:

This series is housed in Folders 12-20.

Much of the early correspondence in this series deals with the publication in the U.S.A. of Brangane (The Aristocrat) and The Montforts (The Madeleene Heritage) and is between Boyd's literary agents (Brandt and Brandt, and later, J.B. Pinker) and his U.S. publishers, the Bobbs-Merrill Company. This correspondence contains references to Dearest Idol and to an unpublished manuscript Bitter Sauces.

There is also a series of letters between Curtis Brown, who succeeded Pinker as Boyd's literary agents, and the New York publishers, Norton, dealing with The Lemon Farm and a novel entitled The Shepherd of Admetus, which apparently was never published. There are also references to a novel called Colour and Skin which may have been an early title for Night of the Party. Other missing Boyd novels, Morag and The Prank of Aphrodite, are mentioned in letters he wrote to J.B. Pinker in the late 1920s. The publication of Outbreak of Love is well documented in the John Murray correspondence. Murray subsequently refused Much Else in Italy and Boyd's troubled relationships with his publishers continued, as can be seen in his later letters to Murray and to Lansdowne Press, as well as those to his agent, Reynolds, regarding the placement of his novel, The Tea-Time of Love.

Also included in this series is some correspondence with Rigby of Adelaide regarding the re-publication of The Montforts in 1964, and summaries of correspondence taken from the files of Constable, Murray, Curtis Brown (London), and A.D. Peters.

Names:

Martin Boyd

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