File FL0155 - Colbert Agency. 1986-1987

1 file of textual material: 60 Items (91 p.)

• Consists of correspondence between representatives of Colbert Agency, Toronto, Ontario, chiefly David Colbert, and John Metcalf, Ottawa, Ontario
• Letters relating to Colbert Agency's acting as literary agent for John Metcalf, to communication with various publishers about publication and promotion of John Metcalf's work, and to attempts by Colbert Agency to find American and British publishers interested in John Metcalf's work; and discussing John Metcalf's editing the Macmillan Anthology Series, permission fees for publishing short stories in Anthologies and various other related topics. Letters enclose copies of correspondence with various publishers regarding John Metcalf's work and manuscript of John Metcalf's 'A description of the proposed Macmillan Anthology'.
• Handwritten, signed (some photocopy); typescript, signed (some photocopy).
• Includes references to the following: Lieutenant Lukas' cat; What is a Canadian Literature? : Essay; The Lady Who Sold Furniture : Short Stories; The Lady Who Sold Furniture : novella; Adult Entertainment; Selected Stories; Going Down Slow; Girl In Gingham; General Ludd; Travelling Northward; Writers in Aspic; Robert, Standing; Kicking Against the Pricks : Essays; Private Parts : A Memoir; Carry On Bumping; Freedom From Culture : Essay; The Nipples of Venus; The Bumper Book; The Macmillan Anthology 1.

Title based on contents of file.