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Notes
This paper, now considerably shortened, was presented at the meeting of the Modern Language Association of America, 27 December 1968. I am most grateful for the assistance given me by Mr. Simon Nowell-Smith, whose role in the preparation of this paper has been virtually that of a collaborator.
See for example Richard D. Altick's The English Common Reader: A Social History of the Mass Reading Public, 1800-1900 (1957).
See A Bibliographical Catalogue of Macmillan and Co's Publications from 1843 to 1889 (1891); Richard Bentley II privately printed after his retirement, A Selection of the More Prominent Books Published Each Year in New Burlington Street During the Sixty Years, 1829-88. See also Books Published by James Maclehose from 1838-1881 and by J. Maclehose and Sons, to 1905 (Glasgow, 1905).
Rauri Maclean's synoptic index to his Victorian Book Design and Colour Printing (1963) provides a convenient entree to nineteenth-century publishing. Fredson Bowers treats the technical aspects of nineteenth-century bibliography in the last section of his Principles of Bibliographical Description (1949). Michael Sadleir, John Carter, and Percy Muir have basic studies in the Bibliographia series, Muir on bibliographical Points (two series, 1933, 1934), Carter on Binding Variants (1932), and Sadleir on The Evolution of Publishers' Binding Styles (1930). See also Sadleir's monograph in Studies in Retrospect 1945); and Nineteenth-Century English Books: Some Problems in Bibliography 1952), with essays by Gordon Ray, Carl J. Webber, and John Carter.
The letters of Lewis Carroll and Henry James have been used in several books. For the remaining four authors see especially William E. Buckler, Matthew Arnold's Books: Toward a Publishing Diary (Geneva, 1958); Lona Mosk Packer. The Rossetti-Macmillan Letters (1963); E. G. Mack and W. H. G. Armytage, Thomas Hughes (1952); Rupert Hart-Davis, Hugh Walpole: A Biography (1952).
Thomas Hughes' Memoir of Daniel Macmillan (1882); Letters of Alexander Macmillan (1908); C. L. Grave's Life and Letters of Alexander Macmillan (1910); Charles Morgan's The House of Macmillan (1943); and Simon Nowell-Smith's Letters to Macmillan (1967). All except the second, which was privately printed, were published by Macmillan.
Much of the quoted material in this section is taken from notes provided me by Simon Nowell-Smith. Hereinafter cited as SN-S: Notes.
Several readers' reports which would be of extreme interest are not present, such as those for A Shropshire Lad, but these may, of course, never have existed.
There was no general series of reports between 1912-1930; those after 1930 were retained by Macmillan's.
This index has been used by the Rosenbergs for the Wellesley Index. No correspondence record for the magazine is extant.
Two letters from Tennyson to George Grove and one to Alexander Macmillan (all dated 1868) appear in Nowell-Smith, Letters, pp. 111-116; those to Grove are from the Berg Collection, that to Macmillan (reproduced in facsimile) belongs to W. S. G. Macmillan.
Notes on the Reading Macmillan collection were kindly prepared for me by Mr. Edwards, Archivist in the University Library.
A list of author-packets was prepared in February 1966. The annotated list which was sent me by Mr. Edwards contains over one hundred authors not on the original list, including some important ones such as André Gide which were missed by the sorters. Unfortunately, there is as yet no index to the Reading collection. Mr. Edwards writes, "In order to trace letters from an individual author . . . the inquirer must consult the alphabetical sequence of files relating to the period in which the author is known to have been active. For an author whose writing life covers a very long period, the enquirer may have to examine several alphabetical sequences of files."
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