Archives Charles William Daniel Company

Period (1815-) 1906-1992
Total size  5.02 m.
ConsultationNot restricted

History

Founded in 1902, the company was named after its owner, Charles William Daniel, who determined its character to a very large degree; Daniel was born in Islington, London 1871; went to work at thirteen after his father died; held a job in the Walter Scott Publishing Company in the late 1890s, whose publications included the works of Lev Tolstoj, which greatly influenced him; started the C.W. Daniel Company Ltd. with the purpose of further propagating the ideas of the Russian writer; visited Tolstoj at Jasnaja Poljana in 1909; founder and editor of the magazine The Crank in 1904, later renamed The Open Road, a forum for Tolstojans, anarchists, pacifists and health food promoters; married Florence E. Worland in 1905; participated in anti-war propaganda in the First World War; condemned and imprisoned for the publication of pacifist pamphlets; the company published the works of authors like Mary Everest Boole, Michael Fraenkel, Emma Goldman, Stephen and Rosa Hobhouse, Søren A. Kierkegaard, H. Valentine Knaggs, S.S. Koteliansky, D.H. Lawrence, José Ortega y Gasset, W.T. Symons and many others; he also published the periodicals The Healthy Life and Purpose, a literary journal in the 1930s; in 1941 the offices of the publishing house were blasted in an air raid and the firm was evacuated to Ashingdon in Essex, where Charles Daniel died in 1955; the company was continued by Denise Waltham until it was sold in 1971; Daniel was the author of `Instead of Socialism' based on the ideas of P.J. Proudhon and Henry George (c. 1909) and the editor of `An Indictment of War', an anthology from the works of more than two hundred great thinkers (1919).

Content

Correspondence with authors including Michael Fraenkel, 1938-1956, Alfred Haffenden 1932-1938, Stephen and Rosa Hobhouse 1933-1962, Richard Lee 1929-1939, Josiah Oldfield 1928-1936, Joseph P. Swan 1936-1939, Leo Tolstoj 1906-1907, Helen Trevelyan 1934-1936, G.T. Wrench 1938-1954 and many others; minutes book of general meetings 1935-1972; articles of partnership 1922; cash books, ledgers, accounts and other financial documents 1911-1974; authors sales statements 1924-1972; notebooks 1911-1972; manuscripts (typescripts) by Mary Everest Boole, Vladimir G. Čertkov, Hendrik W. Dunnewolt, Petar J. Stankovic and William Watson; typescripts of translations of works by Leo Tolstoj; proofs 1907-1968; a file on court cases against Charles W. Daniels in 1917-1918; clippings. Papers of Denise M. Waltham: correspondence with Ian and Jane Miller 1972-1987 and others 1916-1987; other documents (1815-) 1934-1988; Papers of others: documents of Jeremy Goring and of some other persons (1865-) 1907-1992.

Processing information

Inventory made by Tiny de Boer in 1994 and 2005