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Series I: Leonard Alfred Schneider (aka Lenny Bruce) v. People of the State of New York,, 1960-1967
Series II: Attorney General of Massachusetts v. A Book Named Tropic of Cancer, 1947-1964

Ephraim London papers, 1940-1975

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Series IV: Simon and Schuster, 1949-1973

Series IV focuses on London's work for Simon and Schuster. As attorney for the publishing company he both drafted contracts for the business, and handled legal issues arising with individual books and authors.

Subseries IV.1: Contracts and Business, 1949-1973

These files have correspondence and meetings minutes related to the business transactions of the founding executives at Simon and Schuster: Richard L. Simon, M. Lincoln Schuster, and Leon Shimkin. Records include contracts, and drafts of contracts, related to several distribution and sales deals. An internal memo on contracts from the late 1950s maps out the company's grand strategy for the following years.


Box 6 Folder 12 Contracts--General, 1956

Box 6 Folder 13 Contracts--Affiliated, 1956


Box 7 Folder 1 Contracts--Internal, 1957-1959

Box 7 Folder 2 Contracts--Little Golden, 1952-1956

Box 7 Folder 3 Contracts--Pocket Books, 1944-1952

Box 7 Folder 4 Correspondence--1952-1955

Box 7 Folder 5 Correspondence--1956

Box 7 Folder 6 Correspondence--Internal, 1949-1962


Box 8 Folder 1 Correspondence--Pocket Books, 1957-1973

Box 8 Folder 2 Purchase Agreement--Pocket Books, 1951

Box 8 Folder 3 Sales Agreements--Pocket Books, 1960-1965

Box 8 Folder 4 Trident Press, 1959-1962

Box 8 Folder 5 World Publishing Annual Reports, 1953-1957

Subseries IV.2: Authors and Books, 1960-1966

In these slim files, London deals with exigencies arising from the publication of individual books. In most cases, he was employed in vetting manuscripts for possible instances of libel.

Box 8 Folder 6 100 Million Guinea Pigs by Don Congdon,, 1961

Box 8 Folder 7 All the Way Down by Vincent Riccio,, 1961-1962

Box 8 Folder 8 Before My Time by Niccolo Tucci,, 1961

Box 8 Folder 9 The Cipher by Alex Gordon, 1966

Box 8 Folder 10 Easier Ways to Make Better Meals by Campbells Soup, 1961

Box 8 Folder 11 The Eye of Summer by Marjorie Lee,, 1961

Box 8 Folder 12 Fifty Year Decline and Fall of Hollywood by Ezra Goodman, 1961

Box 8 Folder 13 The Goddam White Man by David Lytton,, 1962

Box 8 Folder 14 Let Us Begin by Barbara Ward and others,, 1961

Box 8 Folder 15 Lilith by J.R. Salamanca, 1962-1963

Box 8 Folder 16 Lizzi Borden: The Untold Story , 1961

Box 8 Folder 17 Lovejoy, Clarence E., 1961-1962

Box 8 Folder 18 Marvin Rosenberg v. Simon & Schuster, 1961

Box 8 Folder 19 The Medicine Show by the Consumers Union,, 1961

Box 8 Folder 20 Memoirs of a Maverick Publisher by David Stern, 1961


Box 9 Folder 1 Mobil Travel Guide , 1962

Box 9 Folder 2 The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel by Helene Kazantzakis,, 1960-1961

Box 9 Folder 3 The Prize by Irving Wallace, 1962

Box 9 Folder 4 Release From Nervous Tension by Dr. David Fink,, 1962

Box 9 Folder 5 The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich and The Decline of France by William L. Shirer, 1961-1964

Box 9 Folder 6 A Spy in Rome by Peter Tompkins,, 1962