Maschler, Tom--John Osborne, Doris Lessing, Kenneth Tynan, and others.

a collection of polemical essays edited by Tom Maschler, comprising: 
Doris Lessing, 'On Mislaying One's Humanist Tradition', two versions, both with autograph corrections in blue ink, altogether 66 pages
Colin Wilson, 'Beyond the Outsider', two versions, comprising a preliminary draft extensively revised in blue ink and a final draft with scattered corrections and revisions in blue and black ink, altogether 63 pages
John Osborne, 'They Call it Cricket', extensive revisions in blue ink and pencil, 23 pages, foolscap 
John Wain, 'Along the Tightrope', extensive revisions in blue ink, 33 pages, with a preliminary outline of the essay (1 page) and letter by Tom Maschler to Wain (8 April 1957, 2 pages)
Kenneth Tynan, 'Theatre and Living', corrections in blue ink, 27 pages, with a report on possible libels (1 page) and response by Tynan (1 page)
Bill Hopkins, 'Ways Without a Precedent', three versions, comprising a preliminary draft with corrections and comments in pencil by Tom Maschler, a revised text, with autograph revisions in blue ink, a final revised text, incorporating some of the intermediate revisions and with further revisions in blue ink and a new ending, altogether 95 pages
Lindsay Anderson, 'Get Out and Push', revisions in blue ink and pencil, 38 pages
Stuart Holroyd, 'A Sense of Crisis', scattered corrections in blue ink, 32 pages
File of typescript author biographies, some with autograph revisions or covering letters, altogether 21 pages 
all 4to (except where otherwise stated), 1957, individually housed in a series of nine folders, some creasing, nicks at edges

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"...Now when the techniques of communication are almost boundless, there has never seemed to be so little to say to one another, or so little desire to say it. It could be an exciting, creative time, so let the scribblers scratch, and let England bleed; there will be singing one day..." (John Osborne)

The original typescript of Declaration, a crucial collection of polemical essays from the 1950s, which on publication was seized upon as the manifesto of the "Angry Young Men". The book was commissioned and edited by Tom Maschler, then a young editor at MacGibbon and Kee who was deeply engaged in the radical theatre being produced at the Royal Court, and included contributions by many of the most important British writers who came of age in the 50s. Its commercial and critical success made it an important step in Maschler's career as well as those of his authors, and soon afterwards he moved to Penguin where he edited New English Dramatists.

Tom Maschler
This lot is from the personal archive of Tom Maschler (b.1933), one of the leading figures of modern British publishing and identified by the Bookseller as one of the ten most influential figures in publishing of the twentieth century. As editorial director at Jonathan Cape from 1960, he was responsible for shaping the literary scene through the publication of authors including Joseph Heller, John Fowles, Doris Lessing, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Philip Roth, as well as many of the best English novelists to emerge in the 70s – Amis, Barnes, Chatwin, McEwan, Rushdie. Under his leadership Cape published some 15 Nobel laureates, and his forays into children’s books included bringing together Roald Dahl and Quentin Blake. The ten lots from his collection (lots 188-197) give significant insights into his varied career and literary interests, from Declaration, the collection of essays that made his name, to correspondence with two very different writers with whom he developed a particular rapport – John Fowles and Doris Lessing. They also include a small number of letters by an earlier generation of authors (Raymond Chandler and Malcolm Lowry) that were acquired by Maschler.