Hello Seems quite interesting and relevant but I don’t have capacity to deal with it. If anyone is interested then please contact Alex May at OUP directly. Kind regards, Bernardo From: MAY, Alex [mailto:alex.may@oup.com] Sent: 23 February 2010 11:22 To: b.batiz-lazo@leicester.ac.uk Subject: Oxford DNB: Sir Edwin Nixon Dear Dr Batiz-Lazo, As you may know, the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography was published in September 2004 simultaneously in print (in 60 volumes) and online. Since then we have added some 2000 new lives to the dictionary – 1000 covering the recently-deceased (people who died in 2001-5), plus another 1000 or so covering people who died before our original cut-off date of the end of 2000 – as well as various lists, feature essays, teaching materials, etc. Thanks to an agreement with the Museums and Libraries Association the online version of the dictionary is now available in nearly all public libraries in the country (most of which allow ‘remote access’ from home computers), as well as in many university libraries throughout the world. There is more information about the dictionary on our website: http://www.oxforddnb.com. I am writing now to ask whether you might be willing to write the Oxford DNB entry on the late Sir Edwin Nixon, the chief executive of IBM, banker, and pro-chancellor of Leicester. What we would be hoping for is an article of approximately 1200 words to be delivered, if at all possible, by the end of April 2011. The fee we can offer for the article is £100. This is, I realise, no more than an honorarium. Nevertheless, I am confident that if you were to write this article, it would be consulted frequently. I hope, also, that you might enjoy writing it. If you are willing to write this entry, we will send copies of the obituaries in the national broadsheets, GRO certificates, some sample entries, and various other materials. I hope very much that you will feel able to say ‘yes’. With best wishes, Yours sincerely, Alex May --------------------- (Dr) Alex May Research editor, Oxford DNB Tel: 01865-355047 E-mail: alex.may@oup.com http://www.oxforddnb.com/ Oxford University Press (UK) Disclaimer This message is confidential. You should not copy it or disclose its contents to anyone. You may use and apply the information for the intended purpose only. OUP does not accept legal responsibility for the contents of this message. Any views or opinions presented are those of the author only and not of OUP. If this email has come to you in error, please delete it, along with any attachments. Please note that OUP may intercept incoming and outgoing email communications. Oxford University Press (UK) Disclaimer This message is confidential. You should not copy it or disclose its contents to anyone. You may use and apply the information for the intended purpose only. OUP does not accept legal responsibility for the contents of this message. Any views or opinions presented are those of the author only and not of OUP. If this email has come to you in error, please delete it, along with any attachments. Please note that OUP may intercept incoming and outgoing email communications. Oxford University Press (UK) Disclaimer This message is confidential. You should not copy it or disclose its contents to anyone. You may use and apply the information for the intended purpose only. OUP does not accept legal responsibility for the contents of this message. Any views or opinions presented are those of the author only and not of OUP. If this email has come to you in error, please delete it, along with any attachments. Please note that OUP may intercept incoming and outgoing email communications.