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- 1966-1968 (Creation)
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File containing correspondence with Gerard Fay, Kenneth Searle and Robert Lutyens, and others, on the commission of a portrait of LP Scott by Lutyens. Papers include the arrangement of sittings, the portrait's progress (with comments by both parties), correspondence regarding where the finished portrait should hang, and a photograph of Scott with the finished portrait (undated).
Also included, is correspondence between Fay and Searle, on the resignation of the former, after 28 years at the Guardian, and the promise that the agreement he had made with Lutyens will not be affected by the financial difficulties that the paper is experiencing, December 1966 - January 1967.
Creator: Manchester Guardian and Evening News Limited; Chairman's Office; Laurence Prestwich Scott
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- Fay; Gerard Francis Arthur (1913-1968); journalist (Subject)
- Searle; Kenneth Arthur; managing director of MGEN (Subject)
- Lutyens; Robert (1901-1972); painter (Subject)
- Scott; Laurence Prestwich (1909-1983); chairman of the Manchester Guardian & Evening News Ltd (Subject)
- Guardian Media Group plc (1907-); newspaper proprietor (Subject)