The history of Faber & Faber in letters

James Joyce to TS Eliot, 18 August 1930

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From Faber and Faber

To see Annie Liffey trip, tumble and caper. In 1953, Faber editor Charles Monteith would have been in the first few weeks of his probation, when, needing something to read on the train down to Oxford, he grabbed the top bundle from the slush pile of unsolicited manuscripts. Charles Monteith [later to become chairman of Faber] to William Golding, 15 October 1953

I am afraid we’ve kept Strangers from Within rather a long time.

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