About 5,000 items. Mostly intra-office correspondence and memoranda between members of the J. M. Dent editorial department. The material addresses a wide range of editorial matters, including book acceptance and rejection, editorial reports, advice on what titles to include in a series, copyright agreements, sales figures, royalty payments, reprints, and successive editions. Twenty-four editors are represented. The files have been arranged alphabetically by editor name.
Preliminary reader reports evaluating books by German authors.
Correspondence with J. M. Dent concerning scope of educational books published by Dent and marketing educational books. Correspondence from editorial staff to Pollitt, informing Pollitt of Dent's newest titles and significant editorial changes made to older works. W. G. Taylor's director files. 2240-2339 Folder numbers not used.