London: N.p., 1953

4pp. typed legal document, horizontal fold across centre. Some old staining across the lower portion of the document, which is otherwise very well preserved.

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Legal contract dated 1 December 1953, SIGNED BY ENID BLYTON.

The contract is an agreement between Darrell Waters of Darrell Waters Ltd., the company set up by Enid Blyton in 1950 to handle her affairs; a representative of the publishers Latimer House Ltd., and Enid Blyton herself. Under the terms of the contract, Latimer House undertake to pay a royalty of five per cent to Blyton for the publishing rights to My Third Enid Blyton Book, which was eventually published in 1955.

A very scarce piece of signed Blyton ephemera.