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Depicts members of staff from the Circulation department including; Miss Brady, Miss Lloyd, Mr Evans, Mr Bentley, Mr Lascelles, Mr Charles and Mr W Tonge.
Creator: Manchester Guardian; Picture Desk; Manchester Picture Library

Folder labelled 'Company Publicity' containing copies of correspondence, and meeting minutes with Cross-Courtnay Advertising (1949-1950), The London Press Exchange (1950-1964), and with SH Benson Ltd Advertising (1964-undated).

Contents include, report titled 'The Guardian as a Product', 30 April 1964, by The London Press Exchange, with comments by Kenneth Searle and Alastair Hetherington, and with reference made to newspaper contributors Neville Cardus and Alistair Cooke; 'A Report on the Advertising Covering the Election Period September/ October, 1964'; copies of advertising pulls published in The New Statesman, The Observer, Granta University Magazine, The Evening Standard, The Times Literary Supplement, The Times Educational Supplement and Advertisers Weekly, 5 September- 27 November 1964, with a printed 'Schedule of Advertising' (labelled appendix b), 'Tam Ratings' (appendix c), 'Press Releases' (appendix d) and 'Pamphlet' on From now Until Polling Day (appendix e); letter giving notice of a termination of the advertising arrangement made with The London Press Exchange, 3 July 1964, and letter confirming the services of SH Benson Ltd as a replacement, 16 July 1964; note on 'Guardian Promotion', made by Searle, 18 April 1963 and accompanying correspondence with Rex Hearn; arrangements for printing a 'Guardian Publicity Booklet', July 1964; section of correspondence labelled 'Notes used in discussions for the autumn 1963 campaign'; booklet entitled 'The Guardian 1963/4', concerning promotional plans; memo to the Guardian circulation department on 'Guardian Publicity and Promotion', 20 December 1962; report by The London Press Exchange titled 'Advertising Proposals 1962/1963'; note by WJ Lascelles, indicating that the contract made between the Guardian and The London Press Exchange should be severed, due to increased costs; papers concerning readership surveys, undertaken by Research Services Ltd; note to London Press Exchange on 'What does the Guardian offer of its own to the prospective reader?', by Hetherington, 5 March 1961; printed document titled 'London Printing, Progress Report', 8 March 1961; correspondence with the public, over specific advertising campaigns, 1959; survey on 'Cambridge 'Undergraduates, 1959' by Research Services Ltd; correspondence with The London Press Exchange on a report entitled 'The Mass Media and Social Class in Great Britain', September 1959; correspondence concerned with the advertising arrangement held with ABC television, 1959; general correspondence with The London Press Exchange concerning advertising campaigns and the use of straplines, 1957-1959; report titled 'Manchester Guardian, Advertising Proposals January- April 1955'; correspondence with the public concerning specific campaigns, 1952-1954, and correspondence with Cross-Courtenay Ltd. Advertising Agency, 1949-1950, including a table of press advertising for the Guardian, 19 March 1949- 21 May 1949.

Folder labelled 'Company Public Relations, 1960-65', containing miscellaneous correspondence, concerning company PR fuctions and organisation, and rearrangement of the marketing department, 31 October 1960- 7 January 1965, with some undated.
Creator: Manchester Guardian and Evening News Limited; Chairman's Office; Laurence Prestwich Scott

Miscellaneous letters to and correspondence with LP Scott, from individuals with a surname beginning with, and organisations starting with the letters J, K, L and M.

They include correspondence with Alastair Hetherington on the publication of a contentious article, and on a complaint received (1958); with George Kenyon of WM Kenyon & Sons Ltd on a misunderstanding, and on joining committees (1960); with the Manchester Grammar School on financing a school expedition to the Arctic (1964); correspondence with RA Butler on becoming the vice-president of the Association of Lancastrians in London (1965); with the Winnipeg Free Press on newspaper economies (1968); with Rutherford College, Canterbury, on an interview for the student newspaper, including cutting (1968); letter from Thames Television on a new human rights television series (1968); correspondence with Richard S Malone on Rupert Murdoch and the News of The World (1969); with Harold [Wilson] on reading the Guardian, 'the MG and MEN were the only daily papers admitted to our house till I was fourteen' (1969); correspondence with WJ Lascelles on the Bedside Guardian (1970); with KR (Rupert) Murdoch on attending a party to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Guardian (1971); with Michael Kennedy, northern editor of the Daily Telegraph on the same (1971); with John E Mossey on his time as private secretary to CP Scott (1971); with the Yorkshire Post on printing methods (1972); with Irwin Maier, publisher of the Journal, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on the fortunes of both newspapers (1972); with Viscount Lionel Berry Kemsley on attending a memorial service for his father (1972); with the Newspaper Publishers Association on pension provision (1973); with Donald MacLean, managing director of EMI Broadcast Programmes Ltd on commercial radio (1973); and with the New Statesman and others on the publication of Malcolm Muggeridge's novel, Picture Palace (1973).
Creator: Manchester Guardian and Evening News Limited; Chairman's Office; Laurence Prestwich Scott

1 folder containing correspondence and papers relating to the printing of the Guardian Weekly in both the British Zone and the American Zone (and, from 1948, the French Zone) of Germany.

Included are a small handwritten diary of LP Scott's visit to Germany in April 1947, including many anecdotal observations and comments on the state of the country, post-war; correspondence with of Ewald Schmidt di Simoni, publisher of Die Ziet newspaper, regarding his company's licence to distribute the Guardian in Germany; correspondence with the Control Office for Germany and Austria, regarding allowing the Guardian access to a bank account in Hamburg, for administering the printing of the paper, and the problems encountered with selling it for 'probably worthless' German marks; letter from the Control Office, praising the Guardian's efforts to 'infuse democratic thought and practice into Germany', despite their monetary loss; correspondence with the chief of the PRISC division of the Control Commission for Germany (British Element), regarding increasing their exportation of newsprint (thereby alleviating the situation in Germany, brought about by paper rationing) and also, printing directly in Hamburg, May 1947; correspondence with the Board of Trade, and the Foreign Office on the same; correspondence with the afore-mentioned Schmidt di Simoni regarding the charges incurred through importing paper into Germany, and the currency reform law of 1948 (from reichsmarks to deutschmarks); document titled 'Third Regulation for the New Military Order, Responsibilities of members of the United Nations (undated); correspondence with Schmidt di Simoni regarding the affect that the Currency Reform Law has had on printing the Guardian in Germany, and the consequent decision to print in England once more, and export copies to Germany, February 1950; correspondence regarding Schmidt di Simoni's discreditation, subsequent to the aforesaid Currency Reform Act, February 1951.
Correspondents from the Manchester Guardian include J Midgley, TCF Prittie, JRL Anderson, W Lascelles and AP Wadsworth.

Some correspondence in German typescript.
Creator: Manchester Guardian and Evening News Limited; Chairman's Office; Laurence Prestwich Scott

Correspondence and papers concerning the [abandoned] proposal to print an edition of The Observer in Manchester. The bulk of the correspondence dates from the years 1959-1960.

File includes correspondence with Francis Mathew of the Times, on print charging; with the Society of Lithographic Artists, Designers, Engravers and Process Workers, the National Union of Press Telegraphists, the National Society of Electrotypers and Stereotypers, The National Society of Operative Printers and Assistants, the National Union of Journalists, and the Typographical Association on the same; with JE Berridge, David Holt, Francis Mathew and Tristan Jones, all of The Observer, on the firming up of specific requirements; copies of cost estimates and summaries, and a quotation.

Also included are copies of minutes, on meetings held amongst Guardian staff, with staff of The Observer, and with trade unions, concerning the proposal. Issues raised include suggested basis of charging for the project, printing capacity at 3 Cross Street, Manchester, and rent charges. Guardian staff consulted include Kenneth Searle, Horace Milner, WJ Lascelles and JH McKelvie.
Creator: Manchester Guardian and Evening News Limited; Chairman's Office; Laurence Prestwich Scott

Three folders, titled 'Publishers Policy, General 1947-64', 'Publishers Policy, Educational Weekly Project 1958' and 'Publishers Policy, Survey of Industry 1951-58'.

Folder titled 'Publishers Policy, General 1947-64' includes correspondence, predominantly with readers, on newspaper policy. Subjects include joint publishing venture proposals with Reynolds News, and Ernest Kay of John O' London's, Literary Periodicals Ltd, amongst others (all rejected), and correspondence with Lord Frederick Burnham on the printing of the Sunday Telegraph, for one day only, at the Guardian's Cross Street premises in Manchester, on 26 March 1961.

Folder titled 'Publishers Policy, Educational Weekly Project 1958', contains correspondence and papers on the proposed publishing of a weekly education paper. Documents include an assessment of current provision (predominately the Times Educational Supplement), and discussion between LP Scott and both Alastair Hetherington and Kenneth Searle, on the same; documents relating to the costing of the project, and projected revenue; a typed memorandum by Scott, commenting on the proposal, dated 21 April 1958; projected revenue figures drawn up by WJ Lascelles, and a letter giving circulation details of the main educational supplements currently published (including Teachers' World), provided by the London Press Exchange Ltd and sent to the same; second report on the project, by Scott, dated 30 April 1958, and appendix added by Searle, in May of that same year; report on survey conducted amongst the Chief Education Officers, on current provision, and their thoughts on the project (undated) and a revised assessment of the project, leading to it's ultimate rejection, dated May 1958.

Folder titled 'Publishers Policy - Survey of Industry 1951-58' contains correspondence and papers relating to the Survey of Industry, published annually, by the Guardian, for these years. Correspondents include Scott, AP Wadsworth, J Anderson, Richard Fry, W MacMillan, HG Milner, W Lascelles, H Roscoe and R Grey, all of the Guardian.
Creator: Manchester Guardian and Evening News Limited; Chairman's Office; Laurence Prestwich Scott