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File consists of correspondence relating to the publication and promotion of books.

File consists of correspondence mainly with the publication and promotion of St. Urbain's horseman and shovelling trouble.

• Correspondence between representatives of McClelland and Stewart, Toronto, Ont., and George Ryga, Summerland, B.C.
• Correspondence relating to submission of G. Ryga's manuscripts for possible production, and publication of short story Visit from the pension lady in The newcomers : inhabiting a new land.
• Includes references to the following: Poor people; The wagoner lad; Half-caste; Legacy of the meek; Betrothal; Nellie-boy; Man alive; The 13th disciple; Visit from the pension lady; Sementos.

• Correspondence (1966 September 25-1967 December 6), between Pierre Berton, Editor-in-Chief, Canadian Centennial Library; Leslie F. Hannon, Editor, McClelland and Stewart Limited; Tony Hawke, Director, Advertising and Promotion Dept., McClelland and Stewart Limited; Jack McClelland and Hugh MacLennan.
• Correspondence about Hugh MacLennan's essay and picture captions for The colour of Canada.

• Correspondence between Earle Birney and representatives of McClelland and Stewart Limited, invoices, royalty statements and contract.
• File consists of correspondence regarding royalties on various works by E. Birney; permissions to reprint various works in anthologies; problems relating to the publication of Selected poems 1940-1966; the unauthorized publication of poems by E. Birney in Human Voice Quarterly, v. 2, no. 3, August 1966; and the refusal of McClelland and Stewart Limited to sell E. Birney's books outside of Canada.
• Typescript; typescript (carbon copy); typescript, signed; typescript (photocopy); holograph, signed; typescript, signed (photocopy).

• Correspondence between various representatives of McClelland and Stewart Limited, Toronto, Ontario, and Christie Harris.
• File consists of letters regarding the publication, promotion, sales, foreign language translations and reprints of various Christie Harris works, as well as awards and honours won by Christie Harris.
• Includes extensive discussion of permission to reprint excerpts in various publications as well as dramatization of Christie Harris works, particularly for radio broadcasts.
• Typescript, signed; typescript, signed (carbon copy); holograph, signed.
• Includes references to the following: Keyana; Captain of Camps; By Jasper By Jove; West With the White Chiefs; Once Upon a Totem; You Have to Draw the Line Somewhere; Raven's Cry; Confessions of a Toe-hanger; Forbidden Frontier; Let X Be Excitement; Figleafing Through History; Mule Lib; Secret in The Stlalakum Wild; Once More Upon a Totem; Mouse Woman and the Vanished Princesses; Mouse Woman and The Mischief Makers; Sky Man On The Totem Pole?; Mouse Woman and the Muddleheads; The Princess and The Geese; The Trouble with Princesses; The Trouble with Adventurers; The Rumor.

• Correspondence between representatives of McClelland and Stewart Limited, Toronto, Ont., and John Metcalf; and royalty statements.
• File consists of letters relating to publication, sales and remaindering of Going down slow and publication of New Canadian Library edition of Selected stories; and discussing publishing proposals presented by J. Metcalf and contract with General Publishing Company for paperback edition of Going down slow. Includes newsletters and informational letters from McClelland and Stewart Limited; royalty statements detailing sales of Going down slow (1973-1980) and Selected stories (1983-1986); and contracts with McClelland and Stewart Limited and General Publishing Company for publication of Going down slow. Letters enclose royalty statements from General Publishing for Paperjacks edition of Going down slow.
• Typescript, signed (some photocopy); typescript (carbon copy); typescript (photocopy); holograph, signed (photocopy).
• Includes references to the following: Going down slow; Selected stories; Polly Ongle; Travelling northward.

Signed typed letter announcing publication date for Reflections on a mountain summer and mentioning Canadian gothic (August 15, 1974).

Carbon copy of signed typed letter relating to Canadian and British publication of Reflections on a mountain summer and mentioning radio adaptation of Canadian gothic (August 5, 1974).

• Consists of:
• 03.02.40 Carbon copy of signed typed letter, with holograph annotation, discussing Canadian publication of Reflections on a mountain summer and requesting copies be sent to various reviewers (May 31, 1974).
• 03.02.41 Signed typed letter relating to Canadian publication and promotion of Reflections on a mountain summer (June 3, 1974).
• 03.02.42 Signed typed letter discussing publication of Reflections on a mountain summer and requesting biographical information (June 5,1974).