Where it is obvious from the text who is writing to whom, I have given the date only (where known) of letters and office memos. Where identification is needed, I have used initials wherever possible: these should be self-explanatory, but the most recurrent are ‘AL’ (Allen Lane), ‘EEF’ (Eunice Frost), ‘HPS’ (Hans Schmoller), ‘HEP’ (Harry Paroissien), ‘JEM’ (J. E. ‘Jack’ Morpurgo), ‘NC’ (Noël Carrington), ‘NP’ (Nikolaus Pevsner), ‘RL’ (Richard or ‘Dick’ Lane), ‘TG’ (Tony Godwin), ‘TK’ (Tanya Kent, later Schmoller) and ‘WEW’ (William Emrys Williams). ‘Bristol’ refers to the Penguin files in Bristol University Library, of which Allen Lane’s papers form a part; ‘Bristol: EEF’ to Eunice Frost’s papers in the same library; ‘HRHRC’ to the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin; ‘PRO’ to the Public Record Office; ‘Reading’ to the Reading University Library. Full details of publications mentioned in the notes can be found in the Bibliography on page 442.
p.5 ‘a pleasant ruddy little man…’: Williams, Allen Lane: A Personal Portrait, p.36.
p.6 ‘of the making of money…’: 22 March 1950, Bristol.
p.7 ‘a number of my forebears…’: to HFP, 24 February 1956, Bristol.
p.7 ‘ruthless…’: Williams, Allen Lane: A Personal Portrait, p.36.
p.8 ‘awful compulsion…’: to TK, March 1950, private collection.
p.8 ‘That our upbringing…’: ibid.
p.9 ‘fairly religious family…’: Lane, ‘Reminiscences’, Bristol.
p.10 ‘as dense as could be’: Ducka and Pat Puxley interview with TK, 14 August 1970, Bristol.
p.10 ‘probably rather dull’: interview with John Singleton, 1960.
p.10 ‘which allows me…’: to RL, 5 November 1969, Bristol.
p.11 ‘Allen and I were likened…’: Lane, ‘Reminiscences’, Bristol.
p.11 ‘old Martin who had…’: November 1958, Bristol.
p.12 ‘Father appeared dressed as the Kaiser…’: ibid.
p.13 ‘yanked back to the Grammar School…’: interview with Heather Mansell-Jones, 1968.
p.14 ‘We have a library…’: quoted in Hill, The History of Bristol Grammar School, p.190.
p.14 ‘a shorter, more substantial…’: quoted ibid., p.191.
p.14 ‘real affection…’: Bristol Grammar School Chronicle, December 1952.
p.15 ‘the street lighting…’: quoted in Hill, The History of Bristol Grammar School, p.193.
p.15 ‘I wasn’t very bright…’: interview with Heather Mansell-Jones, 1968.
p.15 ‘an incipient smile…’: 5 July 1970, Bristol.
p.16 ‘offers no crumb…’: Danchev, Oliver Franks, p.9.
p.17 ‘mild affliction…’: Travers, A-Sitting on a Gate, p.39.
p.18 ‘In this parish…’: quoted in Lambert, The Bodley Head, p.6.
p.18 ‘I have always been in doubt…’: Introduction to The Life of Sir Thomas Bodley, BH Christmas book, 1894.
p.19 ‘I bought it at the station…’: quoted in Lambert, The Bodley Head, p.65.
p.21 ‘How doth the little busy Lane…’: quoted ibid., p.67.
p.22 ‘You have covered yourself…’: quoted in May, John Lane and the Nineties, p.166.
p.22 ‘Alert, well-groomed…’: ibid., p.26.
p.22 ‘dim, bottle-glassed…’: quoted in Lambert, The Bodley Head, p.188.
p.22 ‘knowledge of literature…’: May, John Lane and the Nineties, p.226.
p.22 ‘his soft voice…’: Travers, A-Sitting on a Gate, p.39.
p.23 ‘You are such a fraud…’: quoted in Lambert, The Bodley Head, p.59.
p.23 ‘that villain Lane…’: ibid.
p.23 ‘a tubby little pot-bellied bantam…’: ibid., p.123.
p.23 ‘I think that authors…’: Travers, A-Sitting on a Gate, p.40.
p.23 ‘one of the sacrifices…’: quoted in Lambert, The Bodley Head, p.125.
p.25 ‘Will you procure me…’: quoted ibid., p.162.
p.26 ‘his bright, intelligent eyes…’: interview with TK, 3 December 1970, Bristol.
p.26 ‘humorous, well-dressed figure…’: Hiscock, Last Boat to Folly Bridge, p.87.
p.26 ‘It is a far cry…’: to Lawrence Cape, n.d., Bristol.
p.26 ‘flair amounts to anything…’: interview with Heather Mansell-Jones, 1968.
p.28 ‘be affable and keep smiling…’: 12 February 1922, Bristol.
p.28 ‘I like the writer…’: n.d., Bristol.
p.28 ‘rather difficult to get on with…’: interview with Heather Mansell-Jones, 1968.
p.28 ‘as easy a job…’: to John Lane, 30 October 1964, Reading.
p.29 ‘within a week…’: interview with TK, 11 October 1970, Bristol.
p.29 ‘Never lose an opportunity…’: for the source for the quote, see Locke’s The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol.
p.29 ‘when he found them…’: Publishers’ Circular and Booksellers’ Record, 5 January 1929.
p.30 ‘Young man, why waste…’: ibid., 11 May 1929.
p.30 ‘fell on his hands…’: ibid.
p.33 ‘a small man…’: quoted in Lambert, The Bodley Head, p.213.
p.33 ‘an old-fashioned sea captain…’: Spectator, 18 July 1970.
p.33 ‘worth publishing…’: n.d., Reading.
p.33 ‘might have possibilities…’: quoted in Spectator, 18 July 1970.
p.33 ‘Allen, my dear…’: n.d., Reading.
p.33 ‘represented a man…’: Spectator, 18 July 1970.
p.34 ‘never speaks’: n.d., Reading.
p.34 ‘a man of boundless energy…’: Mallowan, Mallowan’s Memoirs, p.288.
p.34 ‘The burden of his seventy years…’: May, John Lane and the Nineties, p.227.
p.34 ‘ancient: small and bearded…’: quoted in Lambert, The Bodley Head, p.212.
p.36 ‘The name on the manuscript…’: 27 August 1926, Bristol.
p.37 ‘Who the dickens is Rodd?…’: John William Dunbar, statement, n.d., private collection.
p.37 ‘give the boy every encouragement…’: quoted in Lambert, The Bodley Head, p.220.
p.38 ‘as an act of good faith…’: deposition of 11 January 1927, private collection.
p.38 ‘If I can tell…’: AL statement in court, 18 December 1926.
p.38 ‘rather puts me in the cart…’: 19 September 1926, Bristol.
p.38 ‘assure the Diarist…’: 29 September 1926, Bristol.
p.39 ‘one of the most talked about…’: 9 November 1926, private collection.
p.39 ‘I was starting to read…’: Hesketh Pearson, deposition, Bristol.
p.40 ‘I do not mind…’: ibid.
p.40 ‘it is no fabrication…: ibid.
p.40 ‘a pal’s flat…’: ibid.
p.41 ‘for the moment satisfied…’: Basil Willett, deposition, Bristol.
p.41 ‘Otherwise we shall have to sue…’: ibid.
p.42 ‘if you will not do…’: Lambert, The Bodley Head, p.225.
p.42 ‘Would you throw us over?’: ibid., p.226.
p.43 ‘Daily Mail Exposure…’: Daily Mail, 22 November 1926.
p.44 ‘The fate of The Whispering Gallery…’: quoted in Ingrams, God’s Apology, p.62.
p.44 ‘Perhaps the unkindest cut…’: ibid.
p.44 ‘under the influence of champagne…’: Pearson. Hesketh Pearson by Himself, p.212.
p.44 ‘appeared to be a reputable…’: quoted in Ingrams, God’s Apology, p.62.
p.44 ‘the youngest partner…’: 26 November 1926, Bristol.
p.44 ‘deep regret that your name…’: 24 November 1926, Bristol.
p.45 ‘I am afraid…’: quoted in Hunter, Nothing to Repent, p.117.
p.45 ‘for no more consideration…’: Pearson, Hesketh Pearson, p.216.
p.45 ‘Pat [Hastings] gravely warned…’: quoted in Hunter, Nothing to Repent, p.117.
p.46 ‘Memoirs are a well-known…’: quoted ibid., p.116.
p.46 ‘the foulest thing…’: quoted in Ingrams, God’s Apology, p.65.
p.46 ‘had to look at…’: ibid.
p.46 ‘dirty little rats…’: ibid.
p.47 ‘I did not say…’: court proceedings, 18 December 1966, Bristol.
p.47 ‘because I could not think…’: Pearson, Hesketh Pearson, p.221.
p.48 ‘you got yourself off…’: ibid.
p.48 ‘consent to pay a farthing…’: quoted in Lambert, The Bodley Head, p.228.
p.48 ‘the spunk of a boiled rabbit…’: quoted in Hunter, Nothing to Repent, p.120.
p.48 ‘John Lane The Badly Had’: Higham, Literary Gent, p.189.
p.48 ‘clever and alert’: quoted in Lambert, The Bodley Head, p.220.
p.48 ‘No artist…’: quoted in Ingrams, God’s Apology, p.56.
p.49 ‘an act of insanity…’: Pearson, Hesketh Pearson, p.211.
p.49 ‘Lord Beaverbrook, you remember…’: 27 October 1926, Bristol.
p.49 ‘there is no question…’: AL to T. S. Blakeney, 19 April 1968, Bristol.
p.51 ‘an incredibly good-looking…’: Mannin, Young in the Twenties, p.81.
p.52 ‘we drank a good deal of gin…’: ibid.
p.52 ‘I am so liable…’: quoted in Lambert, The Bodley Head, p.242.
p.52 ‘he told me…’: Mannin, Confessions and Impressions, p.209.
p.52 ‘This is a very terrible book…’: 18 January 1931, Bristol.
p.54 ‘it is sometimes unnecessary…’: Publishers’ Circular and Booksellers’ Record, 11 May 1929.
p.56 ‘quite a social bird…’: interview with Heather Mansell-Jones, 1968.
p.58 ‘the dirtiest, darkest…’: Lane, ‘Reminiscences’, Bristol.
p.58 ‘There is little to indicate…’: 16 May 1929, Bristol.
p.58 ‘You appear to be…’: n.d., Bristol.
p.59 ‘I cherish always…’: interview with TK, 11 October, 1970, Bristol.
p.59 ‘one of the greatest pleasures…’: Publishers’ Circular and Booksellers’ Record, 5 January 1929.
p.59 ‘we put this remarkable piece…’: Leonard Woolf, Beginning Again, p.178.
p.59 ‘Her table manners…’: ibid., p.179.
p.60 ‘a great deal of unmitigated filth…’: quoted in Travers, Bound and Gagged, p.24.
p.63 ‘Thus one half…’: quoted in Richard Ellmann, James Joyce (New York: Oxford University Press, 1959), p.679.
p.64 ‘a book costing…’: quoted in Travers, Bound and Gagged, p.43.
p.65 ‘Allen and I had fairly similar tastes…’: interview with TK, 20 February 1971, Bristol.
p.66 ‘The trip had aged him…’: Lane, ‘Reminiscences’, Bristol.
p.66 ‘Allen’s last affair…’: 6 July 1933, private collection.
p.66 ‘regarded his two brothers…’: quoted in Rolfe, Sixty Penguin Years Plus Two.
p.67 ‘Candidly the situation…’: Smedley, Rule & Co., 5 October 1932, Bristol.
p.68 ‘was of a very friendly nature…’: 11 November 1933, Reading.
p.68 ‘conscious that there might have been…’: Hiscock, Last Boat to Folly Bridge, p.86.
p.68 ‘We shall have to watch…’: Bulcraig & Davis, 6 December 1929, Bristol.
p.68 ‘It is expecting too much…’: Bulcraig & Davis, 6 May 1936.
p.69 ‘It is astonishing…’: quoted in Lambert, The Bodley Head, p.268.
p.69 ‘thought it an amusing idea…’: Unwin, The Truth about a Publisher, p.244.
p.69 ‘Ultimately it may be possible…’: n.d., Bristol.
p.69 ‘If I had been a little wiser…’: AL to EEF, 10 August 1956, Bristol: EEF.
p.69 ‘that it might be possible…’: 7 April 1952, Bristol.
p.69 ‘a most unpleasant proceeding…’: 8 October 1948, Bristol.
p.70 ‘the long and sentimental association…’: n.d., Bristol.
p.72 ‘as a means of awakening interest…’: Carey, The Intellectuals and the Masses, p.109.
p.73 ‘My aim was to publish…’: J. M. Dent, The Memoirs of J. M. Dent, p.124.
p.74 ‘murderous blow’: Attenborough, A Living Memory, p.124.
p.75 ‘both socially desirable…’: quoted in Hodges, Gollancz, p.50.
p.75 ‘How dare you!…’: quoted in Edwards, Victor Gollancz, p.175.
p.77 ‘that urbane and picturesque international’: Curtis Brown, Contacts (London: Cassell, 1935), p.178.
p.77 ‘personality bordering on that of an adventurer…’: Enoch, Memoirs Written for His Family, p.80.
p.77 ‘somehow gave off a sinister vapour…’: Higham, Literary Gent, p.191.
p.77 ‘creature of grandiose schemes…’: Stanley Morison, p.215.
p.79 ‘as a result of detailed discussions…’: Holroyd-Reece to Ved Mehta, n.d., Bristol.
p.80 ‘This is an age of cheapness…’: quoted in Wilson, First with the News, p.326.
p.82 ‘This particular transaction…’: quoted in Kingsford, The Publishers’ Association, p.147.
p.82 ‘I can do nothing…’: quoted in Mehta, John Is Easy to Please, p.88.
p.83 ‘arterial and by-pass roads…’: Priestley, English Journey, p.401.
p.83 ‘The place to look for…’: Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn, p.67.
p.84 ‘Notice how…’: Priestley, English Journey, p.402.
p.85 ‘a marked and regrettable characteristic…’: Raymond, Publishing and Bookselling, p.48.
p.85 ‘Before the war…’: quoted in Mountain, Foyles, p.93.
p.87 ‘From the moment…’: Penrose Annual, 1938.
p.87 ‘a man who may be poor…’: quoted in Wyatt, Distinguished for Talent, p.85.
p.88 ‘designed primarily…’: Bookseller, 22 May 1935.
p.88 ‘quiet, “gentlemanly” publisher…’: Penrose Annual, 1938.
p.88 ‘to discuss the new reading public…’: letter to E. J. B. Rose, 7 November 1979, Bristol.
p.88 ‘he combined with a handsome appearance…’: Dickson, House of Words, p.151.
p.89 ‘if we can’t make money…’: quoted ibid., p.153.
p.89 ‘a large, rugger-playing sort of figure…’: interview with TK, 13 February 1971, Bristol.
p.89 ‘47 of [the delegates]…’: Blackwell to E. J. B. Rose, 7 November 1979, Bristol.
p.89 ‘flaming mad’: quoted in The Penguin Collector, December 1997.
p.89 ‘I have never been able…’.: n.d., Bristol.
p.90 ‘I have always thought it…’: quoted in Hodges, Gollancz, p.30.
p.90 ‘a consistent and easily recognizable…’: Book Collector, 1952.
p.90 ‘the first serious attempt…’ Penrose Annual, 1938.
p.91 ‘dark little office…’: Book Collector, 1952.
p.91 ‘elderly and benign…’: Peggy Rafferty, Penguin Collector, 1976.
p.91 ‘As to the name…’: ‘The Paperback Revolution’, in Briggs (ed.), Essays in the History of Publishing, p.294.
p.91 ‘a certain dignified flippancy’: interview with John Singleton, 1960.
p.91 ‘in the old days…’: letter to AL, 7 March 1969, Bristol.
p.91 ‘They had a cardboard model…’: Mannin, Young in the Twenties, p.171.
p.92 ‘quick, alert, emphatic…’: Lusty, Bound to be Read, p.67.
p.92 ‘How well I remember…’: letter to AL, 6 January 1952, Bristol.
p.92 ‘by some percentage…’: Elliott Viney to Steve Hare, 16 October 1994.
p.92 ‘In choosing these first ten titles…’ Bookseller, 22 May 1935.
p.92 ‘Your suggestion of the sixpenny series…’: 1 November 1934, Bristol.
p.93 ‘the book trade can afford…’: Raymond, Publishing and Bookselling, p.24.
p.93 ‘It is best for everybody’s sake…’: quoted in St John, William Heinemann, p.282.
p.94 ‘Nobody can live…’: ibid., p.283.
p.94 ‘National Velvet is now dead…’: ibid., p.284.
p.94 ‘splendid value for sixpence…’: New English Review, 5 March 1936.
p.95 ‘I shall be happy…’: quoted in Morpurgo, King Penguin, p.90.
p.96 ‘It is said to be the most successful…’: quoted in Edwards, Victor Gollancz, p.680.
p.96 ‘I refuse to be manacled…’: quoted ibid., p.169.
p.96 ‘Victor exuded a greater dynamism…’: ibid.
p.96 ‘One of the tightest-fisted old bastards…’: quoted in Ziegler, Rupert Hart-Davis, p.88.
p.96 ‘A publisher of outstanding genius…’: ibid.
p.96 ‘I went to see Jonathan…’: interview with Alex Hamilton, The Times, 22 April 1969.
p.98 ‘Who’s ever heard…’: ibid.
p.99 ‘It’s a flop…’: Maddock interview with TK, 3 December 1970, Bristol.
p.99 ‘I don’t know about these…’: interview with Alex Hamilton, The Times, 22 April 1969.
p.101 ‘These Penguin books…’: 22 July 1935, Bristol.
p.101 ‘Let me congratulate you…’: 22 July 1935, Bristol.
p.101 ‘A PUBLISHING TRIUMPH’: 28 July 1935.
p.101 ‘makes literature as fluid…’: Listener, 1 April 1936.
p.102 ‘perfect reading for sixpence…’: Observer, 18 March 1935.
p.102 ‘carried in a man’s pocket…’: Saturday Review, 10 August 1935.
p.102 ‘one of the great…’: Bookseller, 8 August 1935.
p.102 ‘7/6 is too much…’: Daily Express, 16 January 1936.
p.103 ‘though our general feeling is…’: 4 October 1935, Reading.
p.104 ‘Chattos have been rather coy…’: 11 October 1935, Reading.
p.104 ‘one of the interesting features…’: 14 August 1935, Reading.
p.104 ‘it sounds rather a paying proposition…’: 17 August 1935, Reading.
p.104 ‘I cannot see why…’: 11 October 1930, Reading.
p.105 ‘I think it wrong…’: 12 October 1939, Reading.
p.105 ‘as it seems to me…’: 16 October 1939, Reading.
p.105 ‘As a member of the public…’: Times Literary Supplement, 26 November 1938.
p.106 ‘from something that was only suitable…’: for Margaret Cole’s arguments, see Listener, 22 and 29 December 1937, 5 and 12 January 1938.
p.106 ‘if books are to be purchased…’: Times Literary Supplement, 26 November 1938.
p.107 ‘the action of a very few…’: ibid.
p.107 ‘to bring serious…’: Economist, 3 December 1938.
p.108 ‘all among the skeletons…’: Penguin Collector, December 1997.
p.108 ‘they had to have a curtain…’: interview with TK, 10 February 1971, Bristol.
p.109 ‘represented an ideal…’: Muspratt, Fire of Youth, p.171.
p.109 ‘square-jawed, tallish…’: Advertising World, August 1938.
p.109 ‘was in love with all the Lanes…’: Jean McFarlane to EEF, 16 February 1984, Bristol: EEF.
p.110 ‘Of one thing I’m sure…’: interview with Heather Mansell-Jones, 1968.
p.110 ‘there is no fortune…’: Penrose Annual, 1938.
p.111 ‘£10,000 a year…’: Star, 7 October 1937.
p.111 ‘I wouldn’t dream…’: Rover World, August 1937.
p.111 ‘even the King Penguin…’: Bookseller, 6 August 1936.
p.112 ‘Right, how much do you want…’: quoted in Hare, Allen Lane and the Penguin Editors, p.57.
p.112 ‘Prepare for a shock…’: quoted in Holroyd, The Lure of Fantasy, p.373.
p.113 ‘You can’t protect…’: interview with Alex Hamilton, The Times, 22 April 1969.
p.113 ‘some misgivings…’: quoted in Rolfe, Sixty Penguin Years Plus Two.
p.113 ‘One of the greatest educationalists…’: H. G. Wells to Beatrice Webb, 5 January 1940, in Smith (ed.), The Correspondence of H. G. Wells, p.263.
p.113 ‘which are to be similar…’: 25 August 1936, Reading.
p.113 ‘Bookish Krishna Menon’s…’: quoted in Hare, Allen Lane and the Penguin Editors, p.51.
p.114 ‘When I first met Allen…’: Williams, Allen Lane: A Personal Portrait, p.49.
p.114 ‘when you and I first discussed…’: 27 April 1943, Bristol.
p.115 ‘an impressive and rather frightening figure…’: Grant Duff, The Parting of Ways, p.102.
p.116 ‘wild-eyed, emaciated…’: Lusty, Bound to be Read, p.66.
p.116 ‘I am dying…’: ibid., p.68.
p.116 ‘defected to education…’: quoted in Rolfe, Sixty Penguin Years Plus Two.
p.117 ‘the emergence of Penguin…’: ibid.
p.117 ‘But Estrid, darling…’: quoted in article on EB by Andro Linklater, Sunday Telegraph Colour Magazine, 23 January 1993.
p.118 ‘heavy cherub’s face’: Hoggart, An Imagined Life, p.89.
p.118 ‘not the man to wear hair shirts…’: Edwards and Hare (eds.), Pelican Books, p.21.
p.118 ‘in a strictly extra-mural capacity…’: Williams, Allen Lane: A Personal Portrait, p.12.
p.119 ‘an infuriating, mercurial colleague…’: ibid., p.31.
p.119 ‘We are a funny pair…’: 20 August 1954, Bristol.
p.119 ‘favourite posture…’: Penguins Progress, 1940.
p.119 ‘Wistfully cynical…’: Weidenfeld, Remembering My Good Friends, p.119.
p.119 ‘the largest and most powerful…’: Lane, ‘Reminiscences’, Bristol.
p.119 ‘with a rod of iron’: Zuckerman, From Apes to Warlords, p.37.
p.121 ‘bottleneck’: George, Krishna Menon, p.151.
p.121 ‘a world which paralyses…’: 30 September 1938, Bristol.
p.121 ‘I shall be most grateful…’: 12 November 1938, Bristol.
p.121 ‘Last time when we met…’: 22 December 1938, Bristol.
p.121 ‘voice seethed with venom…’: Observer, 22 April 1973.
p.121 ‘The reason for our split…’: quoted in Rolfe, Sixty Penguin Years Plus Two.
p.122 ‘a fact of enormous importance…’: Spectator, 22 July 1938.
p.123 ‘plain horrible’: Elizabeth Creak to author.
p.124 ‘They strike me…’: Lovat Dickson, 3 June 1937, Bristol: EEF.
p.125 ‘at the quixotic instigation…’: n.d., Bristol: EEF.
p.125 ‘Deep as her devotion to you is…’: 23 March 1953, Bristol.
p.126 ‘You don’t need me…’: 1 August 1958, Bristol.
p.126 ‘the ultimate…’: Jean McFarlane to EEF, 16 February 1984, Bristol: EEF.
p.126 ‘while Allen was always charming…’: quoted in Rolfe, Sixty Penguin Years Plus Two.
p.126 ‘We were breaking…’: quoted in Wyatt, Distinguished for Talent, p.83.
p.127 ‘plain men, in cars…’: Penguins: A Retrospect, 1935–51, p.6.
p.127 ‘genial gastronome called Carbonnel…’: Williams, Allen Lane: A Personal Portrait, p.65.
p.128 ‘excellent chef: Night and Day, 28 October 1937.
p.128 ‘far more sherries…’: interview with H. L. Beales, 1984, Bristol.
p.128 ‘a time of very high idealism…’: ‘How I Became a Literary Midwife’, 19 May 1993, Bristol.
p.132 ‘help in the terribly urgent struggle…’: New Statesman, 14 January 1939.
p.132 ‘almost incredible circulation…’: ibid., p.231.
p.132 ‘I should explain…’: ibid., p.211.
p.133 ‘slick books of reportage…’: Orwell, ‘Arthur Koestler’, Focus, 1946.
p.133 ‘was diverting high-minded schoolteachers…’: Taylor, English History, p.397.
p.133 ‘worked off their rebelliousness…’: ibid.
p.133 ‘provide the indispensable basis…’: quoted in Hynes, The Auden Generation, p.209.
p.134 ‘It was pretty obvious…’: quoted in Rolfe, Sixty Penguin Years Plus Two.
p.135 ‘a tremendous fire-eater…’: interview with TK, 10 February 1971, Bristol.
p.135 ‘with bitter irony…’: Grant Duff, The Parting of the Ways, p.193.
p.135 ‘Are these Penguin Specials…’: 6 March 1940, Bristol.
p.136 ‘Someone Has Got To Clean Up…’: Daily Mirror, 12 October 1938.
p.136 ‘kindly man with a receding chin…’: quoted in Kershaw, Making Friends with Hitler, p.141.
p.136 ‘dreads war’: ibid., p.193.
p.137 ‘tear it up if you like!’: interview with TK, 15 February 1971, Bristol.
p.137 ‘Have you noticed the titles…’: quoted in Joicey, ‘Paperback Guide to Progress’, p.34.
p.137 ‘To believe all evil…’: ibid.
p.138 ‘Anti-fascists in high life…’: New English Weekly, 21 July 1938.
p.138 ‘The people who read the New Statesman…: ibid.
p.138 ‘perhaps the most interesting…’: interview with Alex Hamilton, The Times, 22 April 1969.
p.138 ‘there is some feeling…’: 14 August 1938, Bristol.
p.138 ‘Your name is associated…’: 16 August 1938, Bristol.
p.139 ‘I’ll be damned…’: quoted in Morpurgo, King Penguin, p.133.
p.139 ‘I shall firmly contradict…’: 18 August 1938, Bristol.
p.139 ‘In the books on Science and Art…’: Left Review, May 1938.
p.139 ‘I never discovered…’: Haskell, Balletomane at Large, p.97.
p.140 ‘flair and judgement…’: Richards, Memoirs of an Unjust Fella, p.133.
p.140 ‘violently hiccupping…’: 15 December 1938, Bristol.
p.140 ‘iron determination…’: McLean, True to Type, p.27.
p.141 ‘Cocky little sparrow…’: NC interview with TK, 23 June 1970, Bristol.
p.141 ‘With the greatest skill…’: 14 September 1960, Bristol.
p.142 ‘exactly the sort…’: Pick, ‘Memoirs’, private collection.
p.143 ‘I was back where I started…’: Julian Maclaren-Ross, Memoirs of the Forties (London: Alan Ross, 1965), p.37.
p.143 ‘I must say, though I says it myself…’: 2 May 1938, Bristol.
p.144 ‘old man van Leer…’: interview with TK, 10 February 1971, Bristol.
p.145 ‘to preach the Gospel…’: 8 March 1939, Bristol: EEF.
p.146 ‘Let’s see the boy…’: quoted in Edwards and Hare (eds.), Twenty-One Years.
p.146 ‘I note that you are at school…’: 25 October 1939, Bristol.
p.146 ‘It is obvious…’: 23 June 1939, Bristol.
p.146 ‘I guarantee you…’: Lane, ‘Reminiscences’, Bristol.
p.147 ‘the reason was not far to see…’: n.d., private collection.
p.147 ‘in connection with a proposal…’: 28 December 1938, Bristol.
p.147 ‘One of the greatest needs…’: 11 August 1939, Bristol.
p.147 ‘this rather serious young man…’: Times of Ceylon, 18 April 1939.
p.149 ‘They were like dynamite…’: interview with Jack Kendle, 1984, Bristol.
p.151 ‘There is really an astonishing lack…’: 1 February 1940, Bristol.
p.151 ‘Only much later…’: Morpurgo, King Penguin, p.156.
p.152 ‘one of our greatest…’: Admiral Sir George Creasey, Foreword to Edward Young, One of Our Submarines (London: Hart-Davis, 1952), p.6.
p.154 ‘Since my return from America…’: 24 November 1941, Bristol.
p.154 ‘If the question of paper…’: 24 November 1942, Bristol.
p.155 ‘the most expensive item…’: Unwin, The Truth about a Publisher, p.272.
p.155 ‘I went to look…’: quoted in Penguin Collector, July 2000.
p.155 ‘The Germans have done…’: ibid.
p.156 ‘a general falling-off…’: quoted in Hewison, Under Siege, p.22.
p.156 ‘The average intellectual level…’: Orwell, ‘Money and Guns’, BBC Indian Service, 20 January 1942.
p.156 ‘the literary indifference…’: quoted in Hewison, Under Siege, p.8.
p.156 ‘progressive decline…’: ibid.
p.156 ‘Young people were buying books…’: Unwin, Publishing in Peace and War, p.21.
p.157 ‘an uneasy mixture…’: Clark, The Other Half p.10.
p.158 ‘the Ministry of Information “suggests”…’: Tribune, 7 July 1944.
p.158 ‘I have a distinct phobia…’: AL to Hermon Ould, 15 December 1937, HRHRC.
p.158 ‘small nucleus…’: Daily Mail, 26 January 1940.
p.159 ‘I can appreciate more than ever…’: n.d., Bristol.
p.159 ‘only a mean-minded sergeant…’: quoted in Edwards and Hare (eds.), Pelican Books, p.41.
p.159 ‘If you were to advertise…’: 25 October 1939, Bristol.
p.160 ‘Here surely is an idea…’: 10 August 1940, Bristol.
p.160 ‘My feeling is…’: 25 September 1939, Bristol.
p.160 ‘The public seemed…’: quoted in Peaker, The Penguin Modern Painters, p.18.
p.161 ‘At no time in the pre-war years…’: quoted in Hewison, Under Siege, p.161.
p.161 ‘more and more Londoners…’: ibid., p.60.
p.162 ‘There had not been…’: quoted in Addison, The Road to 1945, p.148.
p.162 ‘a very vital personality…’: ibid.
p.163 ‘paces his office…’: News Review, 9 January 1941.
p.163 ‘Sooner or later…’: quoted in Hare, Allen Lane and the Penguin Editors, p.110.
p.164 ‘Allen Lane in this matter…’: quoted in Joicey, ‘A Paperback Guide to Progress’, p.41.
p.164 ‘Could you please arrange…’: ibid.
p.164 ‘It seemed to me…’: quoted in Pearson, Penguins March On, p.33.
p.166 ‘short, powerful-looking man…’: quoted in Morpurgo, King Penguin, p.175.
p.167 ‘was the reason…’: 10 August 1956, Bristol: EEF.
p.167 ‘somehow I got the idea…’: ibid.
p.168 ‘Every time a stack of books…’: interview with Jack Kendle, 1984, Bristol.
p.168 ‘I want you to meet…’: Bob Maynard tape, 1984.
p.169 ‘After gazing idly…’: 8 July 1943, private collection.
p.170 ‘loved John better…’: Spectator, 18 July 1970.
p.170 ‘encased himself in a spiritual armour…’: Morpurgo, King Penguin, p.186.
p.170 ‘I have got a little barrier…’: interview with John Singleton, 1960.
p.171 ‘I should love to appear…’: 17 October 1938, Bristol.
p.172 ‘but what I really want…’: 31 July 1941, Bristol.
p.172 ‘I think the Roman Catholic organization…’: 23 February 1943, Smith (ed.), The Correspondence of H. G. Wells, p.372.
p.172 ‘It is delightful to find…’: 16 June 1943, ibid., p.394.
p.173 ‘has interested me…’: 27 November 1942, Bristol.
p.173 ‘These printing johnnies…’: 21 March 1942, Bristol.
p.173 ‘I am afraid Interglossa…’: 12 August 1944, Bristol.
p.174 ‘a spirit, a near-revolutionary mood…’: Lehmann, Thrown to the Woolfs, p.49.
p.175 ‘George Orwell’s story…’: 28 October 1936, Bristol.
p.175 ‘thus giving the lie…’: 14 November 1936, Bristol.
p.176 ‘an extremely harmonious…’: Lehmann, The Penguin New Writing, p.9.
p.176 ‘an authority on the international control…’: 9 August 1940, HRHRC.
p.176 ‘the advantage of backing…’: n.d., HRHRC.
p.177 ‘I have no hesitation…’: 11 October 1940, HRHRC.
p.177 ‘if the sales exceed…’: 7 November 1940, HRHRC.
p.178 ‘It is only fair to tell you…’: 29 March 1941, HRHRC.
p.178 ‘I was rather surprised…’: 2 April 1941, HRHRC.
p.178 ‘it would be absurd…’: 8 April 1941, HRHRC.
p.179 ‘among dockside workers…’: 25 June 1941, HRHRC.
p.179 ‘I hope you won’t think…’: 5 June 1941, HRHRC.
p.179 ‘seemed entirely in contradiction…’: 9 December 1941, HRHRC.
p.179 ‘impressed by your keenness…’: 18 July 1945, HRHRC.
p.180 ‘I think we should…’: 2 August 1945, HRHRC.
p.180 ‘I liked a great deal…’: 31 December 1946, HRHRC.
p.180 ‘a venture that looked…’: 3 January 1947, HRHRC.
p.180 ‘I do hope you will be able…’: 6 March 1947, HRHRC.
p.180 ‘I am devoted to the little magazine…’: 29 December 1949, HRHRC.
p.181 ‘It is the worst loss so far…’: quoted in Lehmann, The Ample Proposition, p.75.
p.182 ‘everybody has had enough…’: quoted in Hare, Allen Lane and the Penguin Editors, p.180.
p.182 ‘somewhat idealistic basis…’: 15 January 1946, Bristol.
p.182 ‘the Baroness stormed in…’: 1 February 1946, Bristol.
p.182 ‘with the present feeling…’: 23 December 1947, Bristol.
p.183 ‘almost as beautiful…’: quoted in David Garnett (ed.), Carrington: Letters and Extracts from Her Diaries (London: Cape, 1970), p.23.
p.183 ‘a fine figure of a man…’: Hale, A Slender Reputation, p.210.
p.185 ‘like a schoolboy…’: NC interview with TK, 23 June 1970, Bristol.
p.185 ‘rather confused…’: quoted in Hare, Allen Lane and the Penguin Editors, p.135.
p.185 ‘But this is absolutely tops!…’: NC in Penguin Collectors’ Society Newsletter, 1979.
p.187 ‘thin little books…’: Times Literary Supplement, 14 April 1946.
p.187 ‘For some time…’: June 1942, quoted in Peaker, The Penguin Modern Painters, p.10.
p.188 ‘I was very much excited…’: 12 June 1942, Bristol.
p.188 ‘instead of carrying…’: 31 January 1941, Bristol: EEF.
p.188 ‘The greater part of the work…’: 30 May 1944, Bristol.
p.189 ‘the firm is now so well known…’: AL to Bernhard Baer, 22 August 1947, Bristol.
p.189 ‘If there are people…’: 20 July 1942, Bristol.
p.189 ‘The old scheme seemed…’: 22 January 1954, Bristol.
p.190 ‘They are an extraordinary example…’: 22 April 1944, Bristol: EEF.
p.190 ‘a great service…’: 18 March 1946, Bristol.
p.191 ‘London certainly seems…’: 24 September 1940, private collection.
p.191 ‘discussing the possibility…’: 1 February 1940, Bristol.
p.192 ‘a powerful solvent…’: Taylor, English History, p.503.
p.192 ‘Progress and reaction…’: Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn, p.95.
p.193 ‘the opportunity should be taken…’: quoted in Barnett, The Audit of War, p.19.
p.193 ‘we should proclaim…’: ibid., p.20.
p.193 ‘consider means of perpetuating…’: ibid.
p.193 ‘was always the New World…’: quoted in Addison, The Road to 1945, p.162.
p.193 ‘the way to victory…’: quoted ibid., p.164.
p.194 ‘A new consciousness…’: Penguin New Writing, No. 4.
p.194 ‘allowed itself to be deprived…’: quoted in Calder, The People’s War, p.509.
p.194 ‘print articles which…’: Partisan Review, July-August 1941.
p.195 ‘the threepenny edition…’: quoted in Calder, The People’s War, p.137.
p.196 ‘a vision of a garden-city society…’: Barnett, The Audit of War, p.11.
p.197 ‘emergence of a new kind of man…’: quoted in Joicey, ‘A Paperback Guide to Progress’, p.37.
p.198 ‘We were anti-They…’; quoted in Addison, The Road to 1945, p.153.
p.199 ‘influence the tastes…’: Daily Herald, 22 November 1950.
p.199 ‘revolution in the spirit of man…’: quoted in Barnett, The Audit of War, p.17.
p.200 ‘Our cost of production…’: quoted in Rolfe, Sixty Penguin Years Plus Two.
p.200 ‘I am more and more suspicious…’: quoted in Addison, The Road to 1945, p.147.
p.201 ‘Will not such discussions…’: quoted ibid.
p.201 ‘did not talk down…’: Hoggart, A Sort of Clowning, p.61.
p.201 ‘voted Labour for the first time…’: quoted in McKibbin, Classes and Cultures, p.453.
p.201 ‘Your bloody Picture Post…’: Hopkinson, Picture Post, p.15.
p.202 ‘After the WEA…’: Morpurgo, King Penguin, p.196.
p.202 ‘able piece of work…’: 26 September 1946, Bristol.
p.202 ‘INTENSELY ANXIOUS…’: 9 September 1946, Bristol.
p.202 ‘I am frantically excited…’: 12 September 1946, Bristol.
p.203 ‘Now that Gollancz’s…’: 1 October 1948, Bristol.
p.203 ‘they will undoubtedly…’: n.d., Bristol.
p.203 ‘much as some of us…’: 9 October 1948, Bristol.
p.204 ‘I am fighting shy…’: quoted in Rolfe, Sixty Penguin Years Plus Two.
p.204 ‘the demand is now…’: quoted in Joicey, ‘A Paperback Guide to Progress’, p.44.
p.204 ‘a twentieth-century Attila…’: 14 July 1949, Bristol.
p.204 ‘lose sales on any book…’: 7 January 1946, Bristol.
p.204 ‘Well, have it your own way…’: 10 January 1946, Bristol.
p.204 ‘genuine independent attraction…’: 18 December 1939, Bristol.
p.204 ‘Topolski’s cover for Pygmalion…’: 30 January 1941, Bristol.
p.205 ‘so individual and masterly…’: 5 March 1947, Bristol.
p.205 ‘The pleasant relations…’: AL to Topolski, 28 November 1947, Bristol.
p.205 ‘provided Willie can do it…’: Elliott Viney to Steve Hare, 16 October 1994.
p.205 ‘No venture which I have undertaken…’: quoted in Holroyd, The Lure of Fantasy, p.374.
p.205 ‘We had sherry on a smooth lawn…’: quoted in Barker, Stanley Morison, p.423.
p.206 ‘The tone of the Festival…’: Sissons (ed.), The Age of Austerity, p.323.
p.210 ‘I think I have come back…’: to Louis Hacker, 5 August 1939, private collection.
p.212 ‘The paper got to be the same colour…’: quoted in Davis, Two-Bit Culture, p.55.
p.213 ‘a quick and decisive “yes”…’: Enoch, Memoirs Written for His Family, p.148.
p.213 ‘polite, serious young gentleman…’: ibid., p.149.
p.214 ‘Kurt, in six months…’: ibid., p.161.
p.215 ‘dovelike and forebearing…’: quoted in Peaker, The Penguin Modern Painters, p.39.
p.215 ‘Penguins will be out of business…’: EEF to AL, 15 July 1945, Bristol.
p.215 ‘the most lugubrious…’: 4 July 1945, Bristol.
p.215 ‘devoid of the taste…’: quoted in Rolfe, Sixty Penguin Years Plus Two.
p.216 ‘a stooge for Lane…’: Weybright, The Making of a Publisher, p.172.
p.216 ‘the tall, apple-cheeked countryman…’: ibid., p.180.
p.216 ‘moved among the workers…’: ibid, p.184.
p.216 ‘put me on my guard…’: Enoch, Memoirs Written for His Family, p.172.
p.216 ‘We will continue…’: 24 January 1947, quoted in Bonn, Heavy Traffic and High Culture, p.9.
p.217 ‘I am convinced more than ever…’: 10 October 1946, quoted in Davis, Twο-Bit Culture, p.114.
p.218 ‘a “little Englishman”…’: Weybright, The Making of a Publisher, p.174.
p.218 ‘Allen was as grim…’: ibid., p.198.
p.218 ‘discharged his responsibilities…’: Williams, Allen Lane: A Personal Portrait, p.70.
p.219 ‘The cover of The Tyranny of Sex…’: 23 December 1947, Bristol.
p.219 ‘Whatever comes, we keep absolutely clear…’: 23 February 1949, Bristol.
p.219 ‘that unpleasant couple…’: 18 February 1949, Bristol.
p.219 ‘not quite such a squirt…’: 13 February 1949, Bristol.
p.219 ‘not a bad egg’: 17 February 1949, Bristol.
p.219 ‘after having ladled…’: 15 January 1949, Bristol.
p.221 ‘I’m afraid the pre-war spirit…’: 16 April 1947, Bristol.
p.221 ‘there hasn’t been a definite enough breakaway…’: RL to AL, 5 August 1947, Bristol.
p.222 ‘Then there’s no need…’: R. J. Minney in The Recorder, 3 September 1947.
p.222 ‘although I dislike…’: 5 August 1947, Bristol.
p.223 ‘You write a couple of letters…’: 27 November 1945, Bristol.
p.223 ‘Sometimes I am rather under the impression…’: 25 February 1953, Bristol.
p.224 ‘worked impulsively and restlessly…’: Margaret Clark in Edwards and Hare (eds.), Twenty-One Years, p.37.
p.224 ‘dropped the twinkle…’: Margaret Clark to author, 12 October 2004.
p.224 ‘he was bad at hatchet work…’: Calvocoressi, Threading My Way, p.183.
p.224 ‘gay, volatile, insecure…’: Williams, Allen Lane: A Personal Portrait, p.13.
p.225 ‘was good company…’: ibid., p.20.
p.225 ‘eyebrows raised enquiringly…’: ibid., p.16.
p.225 ‘Some word, some name…’: address at AL’s memorial service, 18 August 1970.
p.225 ‘nothing to cultivate…’: Williams, Allen Lane: A Personal Portrait, p.18.
p.225 ‘an inveterate and diligent quizzer…’: ibid., p.15.
p.226 ‘whether dictated or written…’: ibid., p.37.
p.226 ‘did not appear…’: McLean, True to Type, p.55.
p.226 ‘He had an easy, likeable way…’: quoted in Hare, Lost Causes, p.47.
p.227 ‘I found that Harry…’: 25 May 1950, Bristol.
p.227 ‘I am slow to give…’: 25 February 1956, Bristol.
p.228 ‘nothing fancy…’: AL to HFP, 23 April 1956, Bristol.
p.228 ‘On the other side of the Channel…’: Margaret Clark interview with author.
p.228 ‘The plane trip…’: 11 July 1950, Bristol.
p.229 ‘I want you to go on the road…’: Herbert, ‘Penguin in the Early Fifties’, Signal, January 1993.
p.232 ‘say a dozen gins…’: 7 November 1946, Bristol.
p.232 ‘we can have our own bottle…’: 7 April 1947, Bristol.
p.232 ‘Oh, half and half…’: McLean, True to Type, p.55.
p.232 ‘couldn’t take the drink…’: interview with TK, n.d., Bristol.
p.232 ‘this never kept me long…’: 15 March 1948, Bristol.
p.232 ‘some (serious this time)…’: 7 December 1948, Bristol.
p.234 ‘as likely as not…’: Penguin Collector, December 2002.
p.234 ‘perfectly wicked to start…’: 22 February 1944, Bristol.
p.235 ‘genuinely sorry…’: 1 May 1949, Bristol.
p.236 ‘Each book which goes to press…’: 13 July 1947, Bristol.
p.236 ‘the innate sense of quality’: 17 June 1965, Bristol.
p.236 ‘blemishes…’: 7 September 1949, Bristol.
p.237 ‘dark shirt, heavy tweed jacket…’: Tablet, 22 July 1995.
p.238 ‘Though only twenty-eight…’: The Green Tree and the Dry, p.152.
p.239 ‘the only man I have ever known…’: Morpurgo, Master of None, p.180.
p.239 ‘You say on page 78…’: 3 February 1953, Bristol.
p.239 ‘It was, of course, “Silesian”…’: 4 February 1953, Bristol.
p.239 ‘You say of your hero…’: 12 November 1952, Bristol.
p.239 ‘strike those who are familiar…’: 5 January 1945, Bristol.
p.239 ‘by far the most pleasant…’: letter to Steve Hare, 11 February 1994.
p.240 ‘quizzical, mysterious air…’: Tablet, 22 July 1995.
p.240 ‘be recompensed for their work…’: 5 December 1954, Bristol.
p.240 ‘I do feel more and more…’: 19 July 1949, Bristol.
p.240 ‘that old Buddhist’: Margaret Clark interview with author.
p.241 ‘the typographical care…’: Simon, Printer and Playground, p.106.
p.243 ‘I wanted to design books…’: letter to Steve Hare, 11 February 1994.
p.244 ‘more difficult to design a book…’: quoted in McLean, True to Type, p.34.
p.244 ‘Fine typefaces, bad composition…’: quoted in McLean, Jan Tschichold: Typographer, p.146.
p.244 ‘produced a bland smile…’: ibid., p.12.
p.245 ‘I think he could produce perfection…’: 13 July 1947, Bristol.
p.245 ‘In your letter…’: quoted in McLean, True to Type, p.12.
p.246 ‘squandered… brochures and leaflets…’: Schmoller, Two Titans, p.63.
p.246 ‘had probably done more…’: ibid., p.104.
p.246 ‘No British typographer…’: Bartram, Making Books, p.64.
p.246 ‘My overall hunch…’: 15 July 1949, Bristol.
p.247 ‘I feel far more constructive zeal…’: 8 July 1947, Bristol.
p.247 ‘Bill, I think, feels rather lost…’: July 1947, private collection.
p.248 ‘inner cabinet…’: 14 July 1947, Bristol.
p.248 ‘in the unparalleled position…’: 6 September 1948, Bristol.
p.249 ‘my permanent love…’; 10 September 1948, Bristol.
p.249 ‘We must jointly see…’: 1 May 1949, Bristol.
p.249 ‘sources of infection’: n.d., Bristol.
p.251 ‘bucked as a dog with two tails…’: AL to Victor Weybright, 5 March 1946, Bristol.
p.252 ‘enslaved by the idiom…’: quoted in Radice, The Translator’s Art, p.21.
p.252 ‘I personally am not at all apprehensive…’: 10 September 1947, Bristol.
p.252 ‘without hesitation…’: 24 October 1947, Bristol.
p.252 ‘My dear Allen…’: quoted in Hare, Allen Lane and the Penguin Editors, p.198.
p.253 ‘If I were asked…’: 22 January 1964, Bristol.
p.253 ‘by husbanding our reserves…’: 6 April 1948, HRHRC.
p.253 ‘You have done the King Penguins now…’: NP interview with TK, n.d., Bristol.
p.254 ‘extraordinarily well…’: 12 March 1942, Bristol.
p.255 ‘The journeys are just not human…’: quoted in Cherry, The Buildings of England, p.9.
p.255 ‘Is there such a thing?’: 5 October 1947, Bristol.
p.255 ‘succeeded in making several dents…’: 9 November 1948, Bristol.
p.256 ‘I don’t think he opened up…’: interview with TK, n.d., Bristol.
p.256 ‘No, that’s all right…’: ibid.
p.256 ‘We are departing from our chosen function…’: 3 December 1952, Bristol.
p.257 ‘publish a book of English wild flowers…’: quoted in Hare, Lost Causes, p.36.
p.258 ‘very sweet character…’: Partridge, Everything to Lose, p.85.
p.258 ‘A pocket Napoleon…’: Hare, Lost Causes, p.18.
p.259 ‘Mr Lane was in rather a frivolous mood…’: quoted ibid., p.41.
p.259 ‘smooth, long-nosed Bentley…’: Partridge, Everything to Lose, p.18.
p.259 ‘Really, Lane is the limit…’: 12 March 1946, Bristol.
p.260 ‘enigma…’: Hare, Lost Causes, p.38.
p.260 ‘Throughout Allen behaved impeccably…’: ibid., p.40.
p.260 ‘his innocent air…’: Partridge, Everything to Lose, p.93.
p.260 ‘no negotiation…’: Elizabeth Barber to AL, 26 October 1950, Bristol.
p.261 ‘Allen Lane has decided…’: 20 January 1949, Bristol.
p.261 ‘It sounds as though Allen is practising…’: Williams, Allen Lane: A Personal Portrait, p.14.
p.262 ‘We met in a tiny and untidy room…’: Morpurgo, Master of None, p.176.
p.262 ‘just in time for the first of five gins…’: ibid., p.177.
p.263 ‘but I soon learned…’: ibid., p.179.
p.263 ‘a larger, less mercurial version…’: ibid., p.196.
p.264 ‘I think we’re getting into a rut…’: ibid., p.224.
p.264 ‘and because of you…’: Morpurgo, King Penguin, p.222.
p.264 ‘he’s better out of the team…’: AL to RL, 13 July 1947, Bristol.
p.264 ‘AL thinks you would be even more use…’: Morpurgo, Master of None, p.198.
p.264 ‘I did not mince words…’: 8 July 1947, Bristol.
p.264 ‘You are always nagging us…’: Edwards and Hare (eds.), Pelican Books, p.48.
p.265 ‘During all the period…’: Morpurgo to Steve Hare, 16 February 1995.
p.265 ‘I regard the cheap paper-covered book…’: 18 December 1944, Reading.
p.265 ‘martinis of a strength…’: Lusty, Bound to be Read, p.125.
p.267 ‘indispensable…’: John Gross, A Double Thread (London: Chatto & Windus, 2001), p.176.
p.267 ‘a very simple man…’: BBC European Service, 29 July 1954.
p.267 ‘Very few honours…’: 1 January 1952, Bristol.
p.268 ‘keep a wary eye…’: 28 February 1952, Bristol.
p.268 ‘Some day they’ll knight Allen…’: 1 January 1952, Bristol.
p.268 ‘I bet you never imagined…’: 29 January 1952, Bristol.
p.268 ‘Pride of place…’: 20 February 1952, Bristol.
p.268 ‘Don’t carry self-effacement…’: 31 December 1951, Bristol.
p.269 ‘it might have been called…’: Ayer, More of My Life, p.62.
p.271 ‘a process which, inevitably…’: 4 November 1954, Bristol.
p.271 ‘Britain was about to become…’: WEW to Victor Weybright, 6 March 1946, private collection.
p.271 ‘financially impoverished élite…’: Printing Review, autumn 1956.
p.271 ‘wipe out as much as we can…’: quoted in le Mahieu, A Culture for Democracy, p.144.
p.271 ‘giving people what one believes…’: ibid.
p.272 ‘highly intelligent minority audience…’: quoted in Carpenter, The Envy of the World, p.6.
p.273 ‘reverence for knowledge…’: ibid., p.7.
p.273 ‘until we are satisfied…’: ibid., p.9.
p.273 ‘may well become…’: ibid., p.59.
p.273 ‘what is at stake…’: ibid., p.97.
p.273 ‘had left the Philistine speechless…’: quoted in Rolfe, Sixty Penguin Years Plus Two.
p.274 ‘the Third Programme was founded…’: quoted in Carpenter, The Envy of the World, p.14.
p.274 ‘tends to read the Observer…’: Observer, 29 July 1956.
p.274 ‘I bought my first Penguin…’: Penguins Progress, 1935–60.
p.274 ‘back in the 1940s…’: Daily Mail, 18 December 1989.
p.275 ‘They have, in some degree…’: Hoggart, The Uses of Literacy, p.258.
p.275 ‘tend to read bitterly ironic…’: ibid., p.257.
p.275 ‘lean so intensely…’: ibid., p.259.
p.276 ‘as society comes nearer…’: ibid., p.263.
p.276 ‘a majority in any one class…’: ibid., p.281.
p.276 ‘Some years ago…’: 21 February 1955, Bristol.
p.277 ‘Parrot Books…’: 2 March 1955, Bristol.
p.277 ‘The increase of the second-rate…’: 11 November 1954, Bristol.
p.277 ‘America, in Penguin matters…’: WEW to AL, 4 November 1954, Bristol.
p.278 ‘but despite the fact…’: 31 January 1952, Bristol.
p.279 ‘Who has changed the typeface…’: Cinamon, ‘Hans Schmoller’, p.51.
p.279 ‘There were those at Penguin…’: Bartram, Making Books, p.53.
p.279 ‘Penguin’s conscience…’: Cinamon, ‘Hans Schmoller’, p.40.
p.279 ‘I’ve been here twenty years…’: ibid.
p.279 ‘judgement a balance…’: 28 May 1957, private collection.
p.280 ‘feel no great heartbreak…’: 23 March 1953.
p.280 ‘like Anthony Eden…’: 23 November 1956, Bristol.
p.281 ‘Although I know…’: 5 August 1947, Bristol.
p.281 ‘I think we could safely move away…’: 1 May 1949, Bristol: EEF.
p.281 ‘acutely aware…’: n.d., Bristol.
p.281 ‘I think we have…’: HFP to AL, 14 September 1956, Bristol.
p.281 ‘why should we panic…’: n.d., Bristol: EEF.
p.281 ‘one of the last great British poster designers…’: Penguin Collector, December 1996.
p.282 ‘They haven’t a single friend…’: WEW to AL, 25 August 1957, Bristol.
p.282 ‘We have now definitely decided…’: 13 March 1958, Bristol.
p.283 ‘suffering very much…’: EEF to HFP, 27 February 1950, Bristol.
p.283 ‘I know myself better…’: 12 March 1950, private collection.
p.283 ‘Look at poor old Allen Lane…’: quoted in Morgan, Agatha Christie, p.400.
p.285 ‘a piece of mobile furniture…’: author interview with Richard Hoggart.
p.285 ‘over-sweet perfume…’: Margaret Clark to author, 12 October 2004.
p.286 ‘they accepted with alacrity…’: 17 October 1955, Bristol.
p.286 ‘We must remember…’: 9 August 1956, Bristol.
p.286 ‘most disturbing reports…’: 5 May 1957, Bristol.
p.286 ‘Our marriage was not a happy one…’: 10 August 1956, Bristol.
p.287 ‘the rather sticky period…’: 14 May 1957, Bristol.
p.287 ‘Susanne is in Germany…’: 11 February 1958, Bristol.
p.287 ‘I feel very badly about Susanne…’: 1 August 1958, Bristol.
p.287 ‘She wants to come back…’: n.d., private collection.
p.288 ‘cocktails on the house’: diary, private collection.
p.288 ‘determined that it would be a mistake…’: C. Y. Carstairs, Colonial Office memo, 7 September 1951, PRO.
p.288 ‘provided Lane in his zeal…’: Mr MacLaren, Colonial Office memo, 20 September 1951, PRO.
p.289 ‘the old order is changing…’: 7 January 1953, Bristol: EEF.
p.289 ‘a complete absence of vitality…’: diary, private collection.
p.290 ‘to satisfy himself…’: quoted in Dutton, A Rare Bird, p.2.
p.291 ‘I am tired of being kicked around…’: 28 February 1955, Bristol: EEF.
p.291 ‘No, no, no…’: Dutton, A Rare Bird, p.21.
p.291 ‘fearful drinking bout…’: Hill, The Pursuit of Publishing, p.108.
p.291 ‘such a mess’: 15 February 1956, Bristol.
p.292 ‘an unreasonable application…’: 21 November 1956, Bristol.
p.292 ‘If it were not for the ties…’: n.d., Bristol.
p.292 ‘a spot of bother…’: n.d., Bristol.
p.292 ‘very raw deal indeed…’: 5 May 1957, Bristol.
p.292 ‘we are entirely different…’: 14 May 1957, Bristol.
p.293 ‘In a short space of time…’: 29 October 1951, HRHRC.
p.293 ‘There is something about the American character…’: 13 November 1956, Bristol.
p.293 ‘It is really the magnitude…’: 19 May 1954, Bristol.
p.293 ‘My aim is, and has been…’: 2 April 1960, private collection.
p.293 ‘Dorking North station…’: 17 May 1956, Bristol.
p.294 ‘Penguin is the chief topic…’: 8 September 1958, Bristol.
p.294 ‘A modest exhibitionist…’: The Making of a Publisher, p.196.
p.294 ‘quite aware that Morris…’: 7 November 1960, private collection.
p.295 ‘mighty impressive fellow’: n.d., Bristol.
p.295 ‘You will look around…’: 20 March 1959, private collection.
p.295 ‘If I were a director of Penguin England…’: 24 August 1959, private collection.
p.295 ‘If he goes on with all this backwards bending…’: 24 March 1959, Bristol.
p.295 ‘convinced that Pat and Mike…’: 2 April 1960, private collection.
p.296 ‘sitting on the doorstep…’: AL to Ernst, 12 September 1958, Bristol.
p.296 ‘a fine publisher…’: Epstein, Book Business, p.83.
p.296 ‘Lane’s bankers would no more let him sell…’: ibid., p.84.
p.296 ‘I shudder at the idea…’: 26 September 1961, private collection.
p.296 ‘I have never been more interested…’: 30 November 1961, Bristol.
p.296 ‘Like you, I am really enthusiastic…’14 December 1961, Bristol.
p.297 ‘Sorry, I can’t be with you…’: Canfield, Up and Down and Around, p.139.
p.297 ‘I don’t think I have ever been faced…’: 20 December 1961, Bristol.
p.297 ‘as of now, I would be quite content…’: 31 December 1961, Bristol.
p.297 ‘How could I work…’: quoted in Haydn, Words and Faces, p.130.
p.297 ‘would be less than frank…’: 15 December 1961, Bristol.
p.298 ‘though I am not unsympathetic…’: 20 June 1957, Bristol.
p.298 ‘I don’t like the idea…’: 27 June 1957, Bristol.
p.298 ‘As to what happens to the firm…’: 28 May 1957, Bristol.
p.298 ‘on a bright sunny morning…’: n.d., Bristol.
p.298 ‘I am now definitely decided…’: 19 August 1958, Bristol.
p.299 ‘You would not find…’: 12 August 1960, Bristol.
p.300 ‘I haven’t a clue…’: n.d., private collection.
p.301 ‘You and Bill must realize…’: n.d., Bristol.
p.301 ‘During our many years…’: 20 April 1953, Bristol.
p.301 ‘Nothing in my life…’: 20 August 1954, Bristol.
p.301 ‘I don’t think we need any additional chaps…’: 23 March 1953, Bristol.
p.302 ‘curt, big, bluff organizer…’: quoted in Sinclair, Arts and Cultures, p.86.
p.302 ‘a very powerful éminence rouge…’: ibid.
p.302 ‘You are the admiral…’: Hoggart, An Imagined Life, p.229.
p.302 ‘said that his own secretary…’: Clark, The Other Half, p.137.
p.302 ‘There is no question…’: 31 December 1957, Bristol.
p.302 ‘the only permanent officer…’: 1 August 1958, Bristol.
p.302 ‘become increasingly unreliable…’: 7 March 1960, Bristol.
p.303 ‘The trouble is that she has no idea…’: 11 February 1956, Bristol.
p.303 ‘not getting into people’s hair…’: 23 March 1958, Bristol.
p.303 ‘So little credit seems to come…’: n.d., Bristol: EEF.
p.304 ‘I am a fighter…’: n.d., Bristol: EEF.
p.304 ‘personal nightmare…’: n.d., Bristol: EEF.
p.304 ‘prospective mate’: 25 August 1957, Bristol.
p.305 ‘I should have thought…’: 16 September 1957, Bristol: EEF.
p.305 ‘and contents himself…’: n.d., Bristol.
p.305 ‘a very serious matter…’: 16 November 1959, Bristol: EEF.
p.305 ‘current breakdown…’: 18 December 1959, Bristol.
p.305 ‘deep and bitter regret…’: 26 March 1958, Bristol.
p.306 ‘We can spot the chaps…’: 30 April 1954, Bristol.
p.306 ‘I have a hunch…’: 7 May 1937, Bristol.
p.306 ‘I was almost an archetype…’: Penguin Collector, December 1993.
p.306 ‘needed to be in contact…’: Hoggart, An Imagined Life, p.48.
p.308 ‘the most brilliant…’: AL to HFP, 23 July 1958, Bristol.
p.308 ‘I wonder whether you could telephone…’: n.d., Bristol.
p.308 ‘with more ardour than direction…’: 8 August 1958, Bristol.
p.308 ‘You’ve only had it…’: 7 December 1960, Bristol.
p.309 ‘how easily the impact…’: 11 March 1960, Bristol.
p.309 ‘embarrass the publisher enormously…’: 30 March 1960, Bristol.
p.310 ‘Well. What am I going to do?…’: author interview with Tom Maschler.
p.311 ‘I feel this was a bit much…’: 7 August 1960, Bristol.
p.311 ‘a bit of a bleat…’: 12 August 1960, Bristol: EEF.
p.312 ‘paperbacks for the literate…’: 25 July 1960, Bristol.
p.312 ‘You know, the best day’s business…’: interview with TK, 26 February 1971, Bristol.
p.312 ‘I am more sure than ever…’: 24 December 1959, Bristol.
p.312 ‘said their pieces like a group of boys…’: 27 June 1960, Bristol.
p.312 ‘the criticism would have been…’: 4 July 1960, Bristol.
p.313 ‘In the circumstances…’: n.d., Bristol.
p.313 ‘I have no comment…’: 15 July 1960, Bristol.
p.313 ‘one of the nicest men…’: n.d., Bristol.
p.313 ‘the governmental type…’: AL to TK, 1963.
p.313 ‘brief and uneasy…’: Woodhouse, Something Ventured, p.148.
p.313 ‘was the sum total…’: ibid.
p.314 ‘was furious, and told me…’: ibid.
p.315 ‘I remember AL looking up…’: quoted in Penguin Collectors Society, Twenty-One Years, p.48.
p.316 ‘there’s a time in a publishing firm…’: interview with Heather Mansell-Jones, 1968.
p.316 ‘My own view has always been…’: 7 March 1960, Bristol.
p.316 ‘I don’t see myself in the role of crusader…’: quoted in Rolfe, Sixty Penguin Years Plus Two.
p.317 ‘that indefatigable scourge…’: quoted in Sutherland, Offensive Literature, p.33.
p.320 ‘as a matter of principle…’: Austin Strutt to Sir Theobald Mathew, 17 June 1960, PRO.
p.321 ‘in the case of an old-timer…’: 13 July 1960, PRO.
p.321 ‘if the remainder of the work…’: 20 August 1960, PRO.
p.321 ‘trashy novelette…’: n.d., PRO.
p.322 ‘up to the standards…’: notes on interview with Holroyd-Reece, 29 September 1960, PRO.
p.323 ‘a most formidable…’: Rubinstein to Glover, 10 March 1960, Bristol.
p.323 ‘an essentially wholesome book’: 9 October 1960, Bristol.
p.323 ‘regard its suppression as deplorable…’: 19 August 1960, Bristol.
p.323 ‘wholly regrettable and misguided…’: 19 August 1960, Bristol.
p.323 ‘one of the most outstanding novelists…’: 17 August 1960, Bristol.
p.323 ‘What really enrages me…’: 26 October 1960, Bristol.
p.323 ‘I find some parts of the book…’: 22 August 1960, Bristol.
p.323 ‘tiresome case…’: 15 August 1960, Bristol.
p.323 ‘dull, absurd in places…’: to Michael Rubinstein, 21 August 1960, Bristol.
p.323 ‘unutterable boredom…’: quoted in Edwards, Victor Gollancz, p.677.
p.324 ‘my husband said NO…’: 20 August 1960, Bristol.
p.325 ‘If a man likes to have his wife…’: 3 October 1960, Bristol.
p.325 ‘the copying process…’: 21 September 1960, PRO.
p.325 ‘offered openly and persuasively…’: Crump to Simpson, 22 September 1960, PRO.
p.326 ‘Normally one would not expect…’: 21 September 1960, PRO.
p.326 ‘the whole place sighed…’: New Yorker, 19 November 1960.
p.326 ‘lean figure in a close grey wig…’: ibid.
p.327 ‘I put my feet up on the desk…’: Hoggart, An Imagined Life, p.53.
p.327 ‘The prosecuting counsel…’: 31 October 1960, Bristol.
p.327 ‘high cheek-bones…’: Esquire, April 1961.
p.327 ‘scrupulously fair’: Hyde, The Lady Chatterley’s Lover Trial, p.16.
p.328 ‘a visible – and risible – effect…’: Rolph, The Trial of Lady Chatterley’s Lover, p.17.
p.328 ‘eminent and elderly…’: Hoggart, An Imagined Life, p.54.
p.328 ‘the most hilariously fatuous dialogue…’: New Statesman, 27 August 1960.
p.329 ‘in singing tones…’: Mollie Panter-Downes, New Yorker, 19 November 1960.
p.329 ‘I’m going to have someone…’: Penguin Collector, December 1993.
p.330 ‘he was manifestly ill-at-ease…’: Williams, Allen Lane: A Personal Portrait, p.24.
p.331 ‘publication was by arrangement…’: 21 June 1960, PRO.
p.331 ‘smiled, a little enigmatically…’: Rolph, The Trial of Lady Chatterley’s Lover, p.250.
p.331 ‘both disappointed and relieved…’: 18 November 1960, Bristol.
p.331 ‘stand was magnificently courageous…’: 15 November 1960, Bristol.
p.331 ‘Michael has avenged…’: 19 November 1960, Bristol.
p.331 ‘because you had the courage…’: 21 November 1960, Bristol.
p.331 ‘all right, but a bit old-fashioned…’: n.d., Bristol.
p.331 ‘I am sorry to tell you…’: Anne Scott-James to AL, 23 November 1960, Bristol.
p.332 ‘see no reason for Sir Allen…’: quoted in Sutherland, Offensive Literature, p.25.
p.332 ‘the portrait of myself…’: 27 March 1961, Bristol.
p.334 ‘He is by nature warm…’: 18 August 1956, Bristol.
p.334 ‘Relishing conviviality, he was terrified…’: New Statesman, 4 May 1973.
p.334 ‘not an easy man…’: Calvocoressi, Threading My Way, p.182.
p.335 ‘a stocky man in a conservative blue business suit…’: Observer, 22 April 1973.
p.335 ‘I want you to go to Aleppo…’: author interview with Raleigh Trevelyan.
p.336 ‘I should hate people to think…’: quoted in de Bellaigue, British Book Publishing as a Business, p.30.
p.336 ‘well versed in the ways of jungle life…’: AL to RL, 19 June 1961, Bristol.
p.336 ‘received a note from the accounts department…’: 28 July 1960, Bristol.
p.337 ‘You may think I feel…’: 28 July 1960, Bristol.
p.337 ‘For the first time…’: 19 June 1961, Bristol.
p.338 ‘That old carp Cape’: WEW to AL, 20 September 1949, Bristol.
p.339 ‘I will not have anything…’: quoted in Pick, memoirs.
p.339 ‘He’s either a publishing genius…’: Pick, National Sound Archives tape.
p.339 ‘it would be a pity to let the Americans…’: Bookseller, 13 January 1962.
p.340 ‘Where does this leave me?’: author interview with Tom Maschler.
p.340 ‘DEADLOCK OVER TOM…’: 7 June 1962, Bristol.
p.340 ‘GREAT REGRETS…’: 8 February 1962, Bristol.
p.342 ‘I realize that…’: Good Friday 1961, Bristol.
p.343 ‘a writer’s publisher…’: London Review of Books, 24 January 1980.
p.343 ‘instinctively rather than analytically…’: Gordon, Aren’t We Due a Royalty Statement?, p.89.
p.343 ‘the best uneducated mind…’: interview with Charles Clark.
p.343 ‘revered, admired, loved…’: New York Times, 3 May 1976.
p.343 ‘the inconspicuous of the trade…’: TG to John Berger, 2 March 1967.
p.344 ‘The author may be illiterate…’: 18 May 1962, Bristol.
p.344 ‘At the moment…’: Times Literary Supplement, 17 June 1965.
p.345 ‘the Penguin fiction policy…’: 30 August 1960.
p.346 ‘a manic jack-in-the-box…’: Gordon, Aren’t We Due a Royalty Statement?, p.87.
p.346 ‘often very prickly…’: Greenfield, Scribblers for Bread, p.86.
p.346 ‘brusque and bullying manner’: Bookseller, 9 February 1996.
p.348 ‘sociology to the level of a religion…’: quoted in Rolfe, Sixty Penguin Years Plus TWO.
p.348 ‘I give you that cliché…’: ibid.
p.348 ‘a book must have been vulgarized…’: Times Literary Supplement, 17 June 1965.
p.350 ‘Rieu blew up on the phone…’: 1 April 1963, Bristol.
p.350 ‘Oh my poor series…’: quoted in Radice, The Translator’s Art, p.17.
p.350 ‘Where, sir, are Penguins going?…’: 11 November 1966, Bristol.
p.351 ‘It was not until the 1960s…’: ‘The Paperback Revolution’, in Briggs (ed.), Essays in the History of Publishing, p.303.
p.351 ‘beyond belief…’: 11 April 1967, Bristol.
p.351 ‘junk…’: Candida Donadio to TG, 12 September 1966, Bristol.
p.351 ‘Mr Powell’s whole attitude…’: Evening Standard, 8 September 1966.
p.352 ‘an extraordinary mixture…’: memo, n.d., Bristol.
p.352 ‘Out would come a scrap of paper…’: Observer, 22 April 1973.
p.352 ‘Allen’s mind seemed to have closed…’: memo, n.d., Bristol.
p.354 ‘I felt it was very fitting…’: 28 September 1965, Bristol.
p.355 ‘complete incomprehension’: memo, n.d., Bristol.
p.355 ‘Sir Allen Lane has returned…’: Guardian, 1 September 1966.
p.356 ‘he paid you the compliment…’: London Review of Books, 24 January 1980.
p.357 ‘a major opportunity for Penguin…’: 30 December 1965, Bristol.
p.357 ‘close to being the most…’: 30 December 1965, Bristol.
p.357 ‘such a gigantic waste…’: 30 December 1965, Bristol.
p.358 ‘difficult and harassing author…’: n.d., Bristol.
p.358 ‘I am, as you know…’: 15 August 1966, private collection.
p.359 ‘his drawings are splendidly funny…’: n.d., Bristol.
p.359 ‘As a hater of pornography…’: 28 September 1966, Bristol.
p.359 ‘very little of the savagery…’: 15 April 1964, Bristol.
p.359 ‘instinctive deference to the Establishment…’: n.d., Bristol.
p.359 ‘I agree with you…’: AL to TK, private collection.
p.360 ‘rather good’: minutes of board meeting, 5 October 1966, Bristol.
p.361 ‘I am confident you will…’: 5 December 1966, Bristol.
p.361 ‘one of the most offensive…’: 30 November 1966, Bristol.
p.361 ‘It seems extraordinary…’: 10 November 1966.
p.361 ‘horrified’: 2 December 1966, Bristol.
p.361 ‘the person who can think up such muck…’: Cantrell’s bookshop to AL, 24 November 1966, Bristol.
p.361 ‘For the first time in my life…’: 7 November 1966, Bristol.
p.361 ‘This letter is a somewhat difficult one…’: 17 November 1966, Bristol.
p.362 ‘Penguin has frequently published…’: n.d., Bristol.
p.362 ‘When any old family concern…’: Private Eye, 9 December 1966.
p.362 ‘he got someone on the QT…’: TG memo, n.d., Bristol.
p.363 ‘George, that bloody board outvoted me…’: George Nicholls statement to TK, 9 October 1970, Bristol.
p.363 ‘asked to be relieved…’: 13 April 1967, Bristol.
p.363 ‘Tony feels that he has been taking…’: 18 December 1966, private collection.
p.364 ‘an exceptionally tough lawyer…’: TG statement, n.d., Bristol.
p.364 ‘that shit Godwin’: ibid.
p.365 ‘a shoddy business…’: Segal to Steve Hare, 29 September 1994.
p.365 ‘The Godwin sacking farce…’: 10 May 1967. Bristol.
p.365 ‘Sir Allen has long been known…’: Private Eye, 12 May 1967.
p.365 ‘I am an ancient old piece…’: Daily Express, 8 May 1967.
p.365 ‘and not in pubs…’: Daily Telegraph, 8 May 1967.
p.366 ‘I’ve got rid of the buggers…’: author interview with Betty Hartel.
p.366 ‘so much so that we concluded…’: The Times, 8 May 1967.
p.366 ‘in view of the contribution…’: 24 August 1967, Bristol.
p.367 ‘when the chemical bond…’: Bookseller, 27 March 1976.
p.367 ‘the arbitrary use of capitalist power’: author interview with Robert Hutchison.
p.367 ‘a troublesome, unorthodox presence…’: London Review of Books, 24 January 1980.
p.367 ‘wined and dined’: Arthur Crook, Listener, 15 November 1979.
p.368 ‘a large, fat man…’: Dolley statement to Steve Hare, n.d.
p.368 ‘At home, Tony talked freely…’: Guardian, 8 November 1979.
p.369 ‘I have always felt more grateful…’: memo, n.d., Bristol.
p.369 ‘Allen Lane: I truly…’: Morpurgo, King Penguin, p.353.
p.370 ‘Don’t let’s exclude farming talk…’: 17 June 1963, Bristol.
p.370 ‘I’ve often wondered if Susanne…’: 17 May 1961, Bristol: EEF.
p.371 ‘a gem…’: 5 October 1965.
p.371 ‘the most memorable and enjoyable moments…’: 16 August 1964, Bristol.
p.371 ‘mercurial effervescence…’: Lusty to AL, 17 August 1962, Bristol.
p.372 ‘an impossible man…’: Lettice Lane interview with Steve Hare, 8 April 1994.
p.372 ‘What do you mean by “one of my authors”?…’: author interview with Christine and David Teale.
p.372 ‘How shall I dazzle my audience today?…’: ibid.
p.373 ‘was forever to be seen…’: Gordon, Aren’t We Due a Royalty Statement?, p.49.
p.373 ‘I’ve found a little man in Slough…’: author interview with Tony Mott.
p.375 ‘a sort of Minister plenipotentiary…’: 28 January 1961, Bristol.
p.375 ‘a smouldering expression…’: Books, the NBL’s magazine, quoted in Norrie, Sixty Precarious Years.
p.375 ‘human thermometer…’: Morpurgo, Master of None, p.230.
p.375 ‘Jack, you’ve been here long enough…’: ibid., p.233.
p.376 ‘as yet nothing in writing…’: 28 March 1963, Bristol.
p.376 ‘so much twaddle’: Dolley statement to Steve Hare, n.d.
p.376 ‘With the best grace…’: 13 September 1963, Bristol.
p.377 ‘You haven’t a hope in hell…’: Margaret Clark to author, 9 October 2004.
p.377 ‘grimace of distaste’: Margaret Clark to Steve Hare, 1 June 1994.
p.377 ‘He was so beguiling…’: Penguin Collector, December 1999.
p.378 ‘was not devious or dishonest…’: ibid.
p.378 ‘Why don’t you chuck up Middlesex…’: 6 December 1962, Bristol.
p.379 ‘in the best Lane tradition…’: Dutton, Snow on the Saltbush, p.257.
p.379 ‘Get rid of those fucking boomerangs!…’: quoted in Dutton, A Rare Bird, p.52.
p.379 ‘I promised to send you duplicates…’: 12 December 1962, private collection.
p.379 ‘lose our controlling ability…’: memo, n.d., Bristol.
p.380 ‘London Insults Our Best…’: Australian, 10 October 1964.
p.380 ‘far too low a standard…’: TG memo, n.d. (1964), Bristol.
p.381 ‘gruelling time…’: 3 July 1961, private collection.
p.382 ‘Well, I don’t go much on this safari lark…’: et seq., Ron Blass interviewed by Kaye Webb, n.d., Bristol.
p.384 ‘They tell me you have been doing your safari…’: 30 November 1962, Bristol.
p.384 ‘I cannot pretend…’: 25 May 1964, private collection.
p.384 ‘I am very flattered…’: 5 June 1964, private collection.
p.384 ‘Allen’s buoyancy and resilience…’: Williams, Allen Lane: A Personal Portrait, p.89.
p.384 ‘Why should I…’: Dolley to Steve Hare, 22 August 1994.
p.385 ‘very few firms survive…’: author interview with Charles Clark.
p.385 ‘bitterness calcified…’: New Statesman, 4 May 1973.
p.385 ‘I wondered whether…’: n.d., Bristol.
p.385 ‘with considerable diffidence…’: 10 March 1965, Bristol.
p.385 ‘most impressive in a quiet way…’: 15 April 1965, Bristol.
p.386 ‘badly wants it, but is quite unfitted…’: 14 December 1966, Bristol: EEF.
p.386 ‘if he felt he would eventually…’: 12 December 1966, Bristol: EEF.
p.386 ‘What I find so difficult…’: n.d., Bristol: EEF.
p.386 ‘Having so much enjoyed…’: 23 September 1963, Bristol.
p.386 ‘I have heard nothing…’: Lusty, Bound to be Read, p.225.
p.387 ‘terrible contempt…’: statement by TG, n.d., Bristol.
p.387 ‘spiritless, ineffective and supine…’: n.d., Bristol.
p.387 ‘a great disappointment to me…’: 16 December 1966, Bristol.
p.387 ‘stick around’: 11 February 1963, Bristol.
p.387 ‘angry and appalled’: 14 April 1965, Bristol.
p.388 ‘fatter than ever…’: WEW to AL, 20 September 1966, Bristol.
p.388 ‘I know quite a lot about TV…’: WEW to AL, 13 February 1967, Bristol.
p.388 ‘I accept the inevitable twilight…’: 20 April 1965, Bristol.
p.388 ‘You know and I know…’: 14 April 1965, Bristol.
p.389 ‘eyes glazed…’: Blond, The Book Book, p.81.
p.389 ‘a well-stocked cupboard…’: Hoggart, An Imagined Life, p.90.
p.389 ‘You wouldn’t understand…’: author interview with Doug Rust.
p.389 ‘I believe that I was the only person…’: Morpurgo to Steve Hare, 16 February 1995.
p.390 ‘dubious distinction…’: Morpurgo, King Penguin, p.284.
p.390 ‘On the first occasion…’: New Statesman, 4 May 1973.
p.390 ‘a salaried book-trade administrator…’: Morpurgo, King Penguin, p.307.
p.390 ‘To hell with you both…’: Morpurgo, Master of None, p.256.
p.391 ‘about my oldest friend…’: AL to HFP, 10 January 1956, Bristol.
p.391 ‘If you’re going to make changes…’: David Pelham interview, 1984, Bristol.
p.392 ‘he flung his arms round me…’: Hart-Davis to EEF, 6 September 1971, Bristol: EEF.
p.392 ‘with my feet on the desk…’: author interview with Christine and David Teale.
p.392 ‘Why are you so scared…’: 4 January 1966, Bristol.
p.392 ‘In general terms…’: 12 July 1968, Bristol: EEF.
p.392 ‘reticent and unfussy…’: n.d., Bristol.
p.393 ‘Your stamina and your resolution…’: 24 July 1968, Bristol.
p.393 ‘appreciated your visits…’: 28 August 1968.
p.393 ‘looks about half of himself…’: 6 August 1968, Bristol: EEF.
p.393 ‘always been deep in debt…’: Easter 1968, Bristol.
p.394 ‘the benefit of the doubt’: author interview with Robert Hutchison.
p.394 ‘he had his hell here and now…’: Lettice Lane interview with Steve Hare, 8 April 1994.
p.394 ‘As far as I’m concerned…’: 7 August 1968, Bristol: EEF.
p.395 ‘never quite grasped…’: Williams, Allen Lane: A Personal Portrait, p.59.
p.396 ‘You’ve heard what the Chancellor…’: quoted in Rolfe, Sixty Penguin Years Plus Two.
p.396 ‘I feel a deep sense of exhaustion…’: n.d., Bristol: EEF.
p.396 ‘was only biding his time…’: AL to EEF, 6 January 1969, Bristol: EEF.
p.397 ‘You’re welcome!…’: author interview with Gordon Graham.
p.398 ‘darling Allen…’: 16 June 1969, Bristol.
p.398 ‘That’s an incredibly dirty book…’: 19 April 1969, Bristol.
p.398 ‘I always had the feeling…’: 4 August 1966, Bristol.
p.399 ‘Allen Lane is as ardent as I am…’: 14 July 1950, Bristol.
p.399 ‘a pretty tough nut’: AL to WEW, 26 May 1964, Bristol.
p.399 ‘I’m all for lumping the lot…’: 17 December 1968, Bristol.
p.399 ‘hold on life is on a leasehold basis…’: AL to EEF, 4 January 1969, Bristol: EEF.
p.399 ‘Our old pals are popping off…’: 9 December 1969, Bristol.
p.400 ‘I often think that our old and well-weathered friendship…’: 22 June 1969, Bristol.
p.400 ‘I really can’t be of any use…’: 16 May 1969, Bristol: EEF.
p.400 ‘I am still making progress…’: 2 February 1970, Bristol: EEF.