Record

Document Reference	La Mc 2/1/227
Title	Letter from Frieda Lawrence, Port Isabel, Texas to Laurence Pollinger; 20 Feb. 1953
Date	20 February 1953
Extent	1 f
Level	Item/file
Content Description	Is pleased about the Manesse proposition (see La Mc 2/1/226) and thanks him for the catalogue; confirms she has not heard again from [O.] Klement and had understood from him he wanted to buy the rights of 'Lady C'; reports news from Curtis Brown of New York that [Alfred] Knopf does not want to publish 'Pansies' [book of poems by D.H. Lawrence] again, and offers to sell her the plates which she will buy; asks whether either Sir Allen Unwin [Lane] might like them for America, or James Laughlin; enquires whether Pollinger has the Knopf and Viking contracts, although they may be in Taos. The letter has date of receipt stamp 24 Feb 1953; also two dates handwritten; 'Lawrence' added to Frieda's signature in a different hand.
Term	publications, poems, D.H. Lawrence 'Pansies'
Term	films, film rights, D.H. Lawrence
Copyright	The Estate of Frieda Lawrence Ravagli.
ReprodnNote	University of Nottingham.
Physical Description	Written in dark ink on both sides of unlined white paper; dimensions are 279 x 215 mm; date stamp in red; additional notes in pencil; one horizontal and two vertical folds in the paper.

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA74816	Curtis Brown Limited; literary agents
NA74830	Alfred A. Knopf Incorporated; publishers
NA74863	Manesse-Verlag Conzett and Huber, publishers, Zurich ( Switzerland)
NA74861	Klement; O. (fl 1952-1953); -; Hollywood agent	fl 1952-1953
NA5556	Lane; Allen (1902-1970); Sir; publisher of Penguin Books Limited	1902-1970
NA169	Lawrence; Frieda (1879-1956); née von Richthofen; married Ernest Weekley 1899 D.H. Lawrence 1914 Antonio Ravagli 1950	1879-1956
NA3396	Pollinger; Laurence Edward (1898-1976); literary agent	1898-1976