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Robert A. Heinlein Papers
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- 1945-1972 (Creation)
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2 Boxes
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This collection details some of Heinlein's interactions with Shasta Publishers and with Playboy Enterprises.
The Shasta Publishers' correspondence, primarily from 1945-1958, provides insights to the dealings of Heinlein with an early specialty publisher of science fiction, and to one of the first science-fiction specialty publishers. The Playboy correspondence covers some contractual issues and providing insight on the methodology of creating a "Playboy Interview," including the "caboose," a two-page typescript addendum to the 1969 Playboy interview. The letters reference Heinlein's trip to Chicago, and to the Playboy panel in 1984.
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Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
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- English
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