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1960s
OBS/6/1/1/2/2/10/2/1 · File · 1966-1969
Part of Records of The Observer newspaper

Letters to and from Donald Trelford. Mainly personal but also includes letter regarding a book to be written on slavery in the modern world.

Creator: The Observer Limited; Editor's Office; Donald Trelford

Trelford; Donald Gilchrist (1937-2023); journalist, broadcaster, and editor of The Observer
1970s
OBS/6/1/1/2/2/10/2/2 · File · 1970-1979
Part of Records of The Observer newspaper

Letters to and from Donald Trelford covering a range of subjects including invitations; staff redundancies; company car; Observer Colour Magazine; internal memos; public engagements; legal action; and personal matters.

Creator: The Observer Limited; Editor's Office; Donald Trelford

Trelford; Donald Gilchrist (1937-2023); journalist, broadcaster, and editor of The Observer
1980s
OBS/6/1/1/2/2/10/2/3 · File · 1980-1989
Part of Records of The Observer newspaper

Letters to and from Donald Trelford covering a range of subjects including corrections and clarifications; public engagements; invitations; production costs; thank you notes; legal proceedings; club memberships; 10,000th issue of The Observer; internal memos; travelling abroad; biographical information; book reviews; recruitment; fan letters from readers; charitable donations; visit to Moscow; proposal for programme made by Panoptic Productions; and personal matters.

Creator: The Observer Limited; Editor's Office; Donald Trelford

Trelford; Donald Gilchrist (1937-2023); journalist, broadcaster, and editor of The Observer
1990s
OBS/6/1/1/2/2/10/2/4 · File · 1990-1997
Part of Records of The Observer newspaper

Letters to and from Donald Trelford covering a range of subjects including club memberships; invitations; work experience placements; personnel at The Observer; public engagements; pay negotiations; the Press Complaints Commission; appointment to Chief Executive of The Observer; cricket; thank you letters; and personal matters.

Creator: The Observer Limited; Editor's Office; Donald Trelford

Trelford; Donald Gilchrist (1937-2023); journalist, broadcaster, and editor of The Observer
Aitken & Stone
OBS/6/1/1/2/2/7/1 · File · 1990-1992
Part of Records of The Observer newspaper

Donald Treldord's correspondence with Aitken & Stone publishers.

Subjects covered: possibility of the serialisation of an essay by Salman Rushdie,
payment for the republication of Rushdie's leader column in the Observer, dispute over published extracts of a Rushdie interview, publication of reviews and articles by Edward Said and Stephen Glover, offers of publication to the Observer, requests for payments.

Creator: The Observer Limited; Editor's Office; Donald Trelford

Trelford; Donald Gilchrist (1937-2023); journalist, broadcaster, and editor of The Observer
Andre Deutsch
OBS/6/1/1/2/2/7/6 · File · 1987-1992
Part of Records of The Observer newspaper

Donald Trelford's correspondence with Andre Deutsch publishers.

Subjects covered: apologies and correction of a Pendennis column about Deutsch, David Astor's biography, offers of publications from Deutsch to the Observer, libel actions.

Creator: The Observer Limited; Editor's Office; Donald Trelford

Trelford; Donald Gilchrist (1937-2023); journalist, broadcaster, and editor of The Observer
Andrei Gromyko Interview
OBS/6/1/1/2/6/2/19 · File · 1989
Part of Records of The Observer newspaper

Donald Trelford's subject file on his interview with Andrei Gromyko, the Soviet foreign minister.

Includes various transcripts of the interview with Gromyko part of which was broadcasted on Newsnight by the BBC, correspondence regarding the meeting with Gromyko and travel arrangements for Trelford's trip to the Soviet Union.

Creator: The Observer Limited; Editor's Office; Donald Trelford

Trelford; Donald Gilchrist (1937-2023); journalist, broadcaster, and editor of The Observer
Anthony Howard
OBS/6/1/1/1/1/1/11 · File · 1965-1990
Part of Records of The Observer newspaper

Includes correspondence from and concerning Anothony Howard.
Other correspondents include: David Astor; [Patrick] O'Donovan; Walter Lippmann; [Michael] Davie; William Millinship; KP Obank; Donald Trelford; Edward Mace; Paul Levy; Mark Boxer; Roger Harrison; David Mlinaric; Ann Barr; Trevor Grove; Alan Johnstone; Nicolas Morrell.
Subjects covered include: Howard's role as Washington correspondent; Astor's trips to the United States; Howard's journalism following his return from the US including his time on the New Statesman; the NUJ; Howard's editorship of The Listener; Howard's tenure as deputy editor of The Observer including discussion of individual journalists/contributors such as Mary Holland and many matters of policy and newspaper content including the colour magazine; Howard's departure from The Observer.
Also includes: cutting from the Daily Mail on Howard moving from The Listener to The Observer; 'obituary' piece by Roy Hattersley on Howard leaving The Listener; cutting from The Spectator on Howard clearing his Observer desk.

Creator: The Observer Limited; Editor's Office; Donald Trelford

Trelford; Donald Gilchrist (1937-2023); journalist, broadcaster, and editor of The Observer
Anthony Howard memos
OBS/6/1/1/2/2/10/1/1 · File · 1988
Part of Records of The Observer newspaper

Memos primarily between Anthony Howard and Nick Morrell, also letter referring to the Suzy Lamplugh story.

Creator: The Observer Limited; Editor's Office; Donald Trelford

Trelford; Donald Gilchrist (1937-2023); journalist, broadcaster, and editor of The Observer
Anthony Sampson
OBS/6/1/1/1/1/1/20 · File · 1966-1984
Part of Records of The Observer newspaper

Includes correspondence from and concerning Sampson.
Other correspondents include: David Astor; Jeremy Hunt; KP Obank; Bill Millinship; Pat Ferguson; Donald Trelford; Pat Kavanagh; John Cole; Conor Cruise O'Brien; Trevor Grove; Anthony Howard; Kenneth [Harris].
Subjects covered include: Observer rights in and serialisation of Sampson's work; the six-day war; Sampson's coverage of US affairs including Watergate; oil production; The Observer Foreign News Service (Servob); trade unions; arms to South Africa.
Also includes: copy of the Sunday Times magazine (30 October 1979) including article by Sampson; two editions of the Sampson Letter (1984).

Creator: The Observer Limited; Editor's Office; Donald Trelford

Trelford; Donald Gilchrist (1937-2023); journalist, broadcaster, and editor of The Observer