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Business archive of Mainstream Publishing.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13617
Scope and Contents

The archive covers the company`s independent existence from 1978-2005 and includes some earlier related papers. In 2005 the firm entered into a business arrangement with Random House, and the later archive is now with the parent company.

Dates: Circa 1970-2005.

Further papers of Smith Elder and Company, publishers, including letters to members of the Smith family from authors connected with the firm, and a number of literary manuscripts.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13783
Scope and Contents

Further papers of Smith Elder and Company, publishers, c.1840s-1910s, mainly comprising letters to members of the Smith family from authors connected with the firm, including Lady Anne Isabella Ritchie, Harriet Martineau and Mary Augusta Ward, along with a number of literary manuscripts and other papers relating to the publishing business.

Dates: 1840s-1910s

Letters, chiefly addressed to Archibald Constable, publisher, with a few copies of letters written by him.

 File
Identifier: MS.7200
Scope and Contents

The correspondents include Basil Hall, William Hazlitt, Leigh Hunt, Alexander Henderson, David Herd, James Hogg, John Home, Francis Horner, Rowland Hunter and Thomas Hurst. There are some annotations by Thomas Constable, who made use of the material in his ‘Archibald Constable and his literary correspondents’ (Edinburgh, 1873).

Dates: 1801-1827.

Letters from Archibald Constable and Company to Messrs Hurst, Robinson and Company.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.23618-23620
Scope and Contents Includes many letters to Joseph O Robinson from Archibald Constable in person and from Robert Cadell, and a number of other, related, letters and papers. The correspondence concerns business matters, especially the publication and sale of Sir Walter Scott's works, the technicalities connected with their publication, and the financial complications and difficulties which led eventually to the bankruptcy of Archibald Constable. Most of the correspondence was written between January 1819 and...
Dates: 1813-1827.

Papers of Aeneas Mackay.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11252
Scope and Contents

Includes book files and correspondence.

Dates: circa 1929-1945.

Papers of Canongate Press.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11197

Papers of Charles Graves (1899-1971).

 Series
Identifier: MSS.27476-27485
Scope and Contents

Charles Graves, who worked for the ‘Scotsman’, published several collections of poems. He managed the Porpoise Press, the Edinburgh publishing house, from 1927 until 1930 when the business was sold to Faber and Faber.

Dates: 1903-1968, undated.

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