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27th March 1965

Dear Henry Kissinger,

This is, first of all, to say how much I enjoyed
our meeting in Cambridge and how happy I was to find you
receptive to a number of ideas we discussed. I would
like to confirm my strongest possible interest in the
book that you are doing with McGraw-Hill under the Council
of Foreign Relations' aegis and I have been in touch with
Ed Kuhn and asked him to give me details of all the elements
of it so that we can come back with a concrete reaction.

This is also to tell you that we would be immensely
grateful if you would agree to the idea of writing a book
on the History of the U.S. Involvement in Europe from, say,
1945 to 1965 which we and Harpers would like to publish.
We would be very happy to acquire British Commonwealth
rights and also to act for you in relation to publication
in various European countries on the basis of a straight
agency commission. We would guarantee an advance of
£1000 against these rights.

We would furthermore like to say that we are most
interested in the Bismarck book which you mentioned to me
and as soon as you are ready to tell us more about this
we would come up with a concrete offer on similar lines.

I hope to see you again shortly either in the United
States or in England and meanwhile remain, with kind regards,

Dictated by Mr. Weidenfeld but typed
after his departure from New York

Mr. Henry Kissinger

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BARLEY ALISON • J.F.C.BRYCE • A.GUIREY (U.S.A.) • HALFDAN LYNNER (Norwegian) • J.C.REYNOLDS • K.A.LILLEY • JOHN CURTIS

Secretary: J. W. BARKLEM F.A.C.C.A.

Henry V. Klaesser

Sincerely yours,

Best regards.

longer chat.
States, we might have a chance for a
to London or on your to the United
I hope that on one of my visits
various proposals.

I will give some thought to your
in Boston too brief as it was.
March 27th. I, too, enjoyed our meeting
Thank you for your letter of

Dear Mr. Weidenfeld:

England
London W 1
20 New Bond Street
Weidenfeld & Nicolaus, Ltd.
Chairman
Mr. George Weidenfeld

April 2, 1962

Secretary
Jeanette Atwood

Sincerely yours,

your letter to his attention.

Upon Mr. Klaasen's return I shall bring

Area Code 617 868-7600, Ext. 5152.
returned at that time. The telephone number is
in Boston to learn whether Mr. Klaasen has
Mr. Thompson telephone this office when he is
However, I would like to suggest that

try until the middle of November.
Mr. Klaasen. At present he is out of the com-
Thank you for your letter of October 13 to

Dear Mr. Weidenfeld:

London W1, Great Britain
20 New Bond Street
Weidenfeld & Nicolaus
Mr. George Weidenfeld

October 12, 1962

GEORGE Weidenfeld & Nicolson

LIMITED

13th October 1965

OCT 1 5 1965

Dear Mr. Kissinger,

I would like to introduce my closest collaborator and great friend, Nicolas Thompson, who is Joint Managing Director of Weidenfeld & Nicolson and has worked with me for twelve years. He is particularly concerned with and deserves much of the credit for our rapidly growing university list and it is in this capacity that he is visiting the United States during October and November. His main purpose will be to learn as much as possible about the latest trends of college textbook publishing and he will be seeing both publishers and authors at American universities.

Nicolas will be visiting Boston during his stay and I have suggested that he might get in touch with you while he is there. I should be much obliged if you could see him and I know that he would find a talk with you most useful.

May I take this opportunity of saying once again how extremely interested I am both in the possibility of your writing a book on the history of U.S. Investment in Europe from about 1945 and in the Bismarck book which you discussed with me in the spring. I should be very glad to hear if you have been able to make further definite plans about either of these and would very much welcome the opportunity of signing a contract with you for British rights on both books.

With kind regards,

Mr. Henry Kissinger

Directors: GEORGE WEIDENFELD (Chairman) • NICOLAS THOMPSON (Managing) • NIGEL NICOLSON
ANTHONY F. MARRECO • BARLEY ALISON • J. F. C. BRYCE • A. GUIREY (U.S.A.) • HALFDAN LYNNER (Norwegian) • J. C. REYNOLDS
K. A. LILLEY • JOHN CURTIS • COLIN HAYCRAFT • Secretary: A. R. MILES A.C.I.S