Letter to Dr Steins from D Rochay of Silex Editions, 3 January 1986.

Publishing contract between Martin Steins and Ngal for the work entitled ‘Cesaire 70.’ 3 December 1983.

Receipts and bank correspondence between Martin Steins and Société Générale.

Letter to Steins from Société Générale, 3 April 1986. Summary: suggests he should contact Silex for details of payment.

Receipt from Société Générale, 21 March 1986.

Letter to Steins from D Rochay, Direction Commerciale of Silex, January 3 1986. Summary: payment and publishing details, reminds Steins that Silex was the only one willing to take ‘a risk’ on the manuscript. Pressed between first and second page is a small, unopened white envelope. 

Letter to Silex Editions from Banque Drèze. 17 July 1986.

Contract between Steins and Ngal, Silex Editions, 3 December 1983.

Receipt and check, Silex Editions and Steins. 17 March 1986

Contract between Steins and Ngal, Silex Editions, 15 March 1984.

Letter to Steins from D Rochay, Direction Commerciale, Silex Editions, 21 Juin 1986.

Receipt and rights of author, Silex Editions and Steins, 17 March 1986.

Letter to D Rochay, Editions Silex, 13 January 1986. Summary: dispute over terms and payment.

Letter from D Rochay, Editions Silex, 23 June 1986. Summary: matters of banking.

Duplication of letter to D Rochay, Editions Silex, 13 January 1986.

Letter to P Dakeyo, Editions Silex, December 30, 1985. Summary: on-going dispute about author’s rights and publishing of Steins’s book ‘Césaire 70.’

Small white envelope. Addressed to Martin Steins from Silex Editions. 24 June 1986.

Letter from the lawyer Jean de Beer de Laer, 14 November 1986. Summary: Steins’s outstanding payment from Silex Editions, ongoing dispute with the publishing house.

Publishing contract between Editions Bayardère and Martin Steins for the latter’s work entitled “Entrée en Négritude: Les Premiers Poèms de L.S. Senghor.” No date.

Letter to Editions Bayardère, 8 November, 1986. Summary: follow up questions to contract.

• Dorignon, Camille (conservation et valorisation)
• Barlett, Nick (inventaire)

• Famille Steins
• Bibliothèque des Lettres, ENS-PSL, Paris
  Contact : Camille Dorignon,
  camille.dorignon(@)ens.psl.eu