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This study provides a general view of Dvořák's relations with the Novello publishing house, its representative Alfred Littleton, and British music festivals - including some new observations - then presents diplomatic transcriptions of six previously-unpublished items of his correspondence with them plus three more pertaining entirely to Dvořák sent by Novello to the composer's principal publisher Fritz Simrock and friend Josef Hlávka, also published here for the first time. The letters are placed in the context of Dvořák's other known correspondence and additional relevant knowledge about his life and work. They provide new insights into negotiations, often complicated, concerning 1) publication of his Requiem, Eighth Symphony, and Mass in D major, 2) the initial impetus for him to compose the first of those pieces, 3) his tense relations with Simrock, and 4) other aspects of his life and work. Reference is also made to relevant passages in additional newly-discovered letters sent to Dvořák by Simrock, to be published on another occasion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]