Dossier 39 - Book rights and serialisation

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General file regarding the serialisation of books in the Observer.

Contains correspondence and memorandums concerning: the diaries of Evelyn Waugh; purchase of the letters of Florence Nightingale; 'Nixon's Last 100 Days' by Washington Post reporters Woodward and Bernstein, who exposed the Watergate scandal; the diaries of Josef Goebbels; the memoirs of Cardinal Mindszenty; Piers Paul Read; Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy; Alexander Solzhenitsyn; professional advice from Oswald Hickson, Collier & Co; the autobiography of Yehudi Menmuhin; arrangments with Andre Deutsh; 'The Reality of Monarchy' by Andrew Duncan; draft agreements with publishers; the international distribution of Norman Mailer's material with draft copies of his serialisations.

Primary correspondents include: Roger Harrison; Jeremy Hunt; Patrick Seale; Weidenfeld & Nicolson, publishers.

Creator: The Observer Limited; Managing Director's Office; Roger Harrison