DOCUMENTS: Book contracts.
Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt
Book Contracts and Agreements
Roosevelt, Eleanor. Book Contract Archive, 1931-1967.
An archive of original and draft typescript and typescript carbon contracts, agreements, and related correspondence regarding Eleanor Roosevelt’s book projects, including in some cases agreements and contracts for foreign rights. From the files of Nanine Joseph, her agent during her career and the agent for her estate after her death, they are as follows:
Looking Forward
US rights, John Day, 1932, signed by VP of John Day.
English rights, Heinemann, 1933, typescript carbon.
English language, Da Capo, 1971—one signed by Joseph, one signed by publisher.
Copyright renewal, to ER, 1960.
German, Italian, Portuguese, French, Swedish, Dutch, Mexican, and Spanish rights.
Related correspondence from Joseph.
On Our Way.
John Day, 1934. Original contract, signed by two witnesses, two VPs of John Day, and the Director of Faber & Faber.
1934. Typescript carbon letter from A.M. Heath to Faber & Faber re agreement.
French edition, typescript carbon.
Japanese edition, typescript carbon, signed by VPs of John Day and Osaka Ashahi companies.
Polish edition, typescript carbon, signed by two VPs of John Day Company.
Italian edition, typescript carbon.
German edition, typescript carbon.
India and The Awakening East.
Putnam’s, 1941. Xerox contract.
Harper’s, 1952. Original contract with typescript emendations, signed Anna Eleanor Roosevelt and by Cass Canfield.
1952-1953. Related correspondence between publishers, John A. Roosevelt, and ER; nearly two dozen pieces; includes one TNC, Mother, to “Johnny,” 2/3/53: “Dear Johnny: What do you think I should reply? Much love,” forwarding correspondence.
English edition, typescript carbon.
German edition, typescript carbon.
Your Teens and Mine / A Political Primer for Women.
TLS memorandum from Nanine Joseph to ER, 8/5/52, signed Anna Eleanor Roosevelt and by Lorena H. Hickok.
1952. Typescript carbon contract signed by Putnam’s.
TNS, Eleanor Roosevelt, 5/1/53, to Nanine Joseph, instructing her to send the 20% due Tommy to Lorena Hickok.
Your Teens and Mine (with Helen Ferris)
The Windmill Press, 1962. Draft agreement.
Japanese edition, typescript, signed by Nanine Joseph for ER’s estate, and by witnesses and publishing reps.
TLS from Tibbets to Joseph instructing her to send all her proceeds from books with ER to UNICEF.
On Being A Girl (with Helen Ferris Tibbets).
1952. TLS from Cass Canfield to Joseph.
Doubleday, 1960. Original contract with typescript emendations, initialed three times by ER and signed by ER, co-author Helen Ferris Tibbets, agent Joseph, and a representative of Doubleday, and two witnesses.
On My Own
Harper & Brothers, 1957. Typescript carbon for The Crowded Years, early title for On My Own.
Hutchinson, 1958. Typescript carbon for rights to British Commonwealth except Canada.
Dutch rights, original typescript signed by Joseph, signed Eleanor Roosevelt, and by two reps of the publisher.
Norwegian rights, typescript carbon.
You Learn By Living
Hutchinson, 1960. Typescript carbon, initialed in pencil by ER.
What I Have Learned from Experience, Harper & Brothers, 1959, typescript carbon, unsigned.
Typed letter carbon, standing in for contract, signed by Joseph, and also signed Anna Eleanor Roosevelt.
Israeli rights, typescript carbon signed by Joseph and others.
Spanish rights, typescript carbon unsigned.
Japanese rights, typescript carbon signed by Joseph and others.
Argentinean rights, typescript carbon signed by Joseph and others.
Spanish rights, typescript carbon signed by Joseph and others.
Typescript carbon draft.
Indian rights, typescript carbon signed by Joseph and others.
Norwegian rights, typescript signed by publisher.
Thai rights, typescript signed by Joseph and others; another copy signed by USIA rep.
The Book of Common Sense Etiquette
Macmillan,
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