{"value"=>"<p>PROFESSIONAL PAPERS. This series consists of <em render=\"italic\">General Correspondence</em>to and from Anthony during his employment (1972-1984) with the National Cultural Council of Trinidad (NCC). Correspondents during this period include Eric Williams, Prime Minister of Trinidad & Tobago, to whom Anthony wrote seeking employment, J.D. Elder, Chairman of the National Cultural Council until 1974, and Carlton Gomes, Minister of Education. Beginning in 1974, the NCC became a division of the Ministry of Education. Much of the correspondence in 1978 regards Anthony's unsuccessful attempts to secure an academic teaching position in the United States.</p> <p>A major subseries of the correspondence is Anthony's <em render=\"italic\">Correspondence with Publishers</em>regarding his writings. By turns intimate, combative and business-like, these letters both originals from publishers and carbon typescripts of Anthony's letters document Anthony's career as a writer and the evolution of the book publishing industry from 1967-1984. As the main publisher of the majority of Anthony's work, the correspondence with Andre Deutsch, Ltd., is particularly important. This includes letters between Anthony, Andre Deutsch, Diana Athill, Anthony's editor, and the Deutsch Ltd. financial department. Much of this correspondence concerns several misunderstandings about subsequent paperback publications of Anthony's work and royalty statements.</p> <p>Folders containing the literary and historical texts, arranged by title in the <em render=\"italic\">Writings</em>subseries, usually contain several working drafts of each title. Typically, it appears that Anthony would first write his stories and novels in notebooks in longhand, then type a working draft, make corrections by hand, retype and recorrect subsequent drafts. The arrangement on receipt was disorganized and there does not always appear to be consistent pagination, both within a single draft and between drafts. In arranging these manuscripts an attempt was made to gather all pages of a manuscript draft and group all drafts under the relevant title heading, however, various unidentified pages of drafts may be among the <em render=\"italic\">Fragments, miscellaneous</em>folder for both Fiction and Nonfiction.</p>"}