Includes letters, copy letters, telegrams, and submitted work on articles and reviews between Terry Kilmartin (and Jim Rose) and individuals and organisations including: Jean Oberle, Conor Cruise O'Brien, ED O'Brien, Edna O'Brien, Sean O'Casey, Philip O'Connor, Ulick O'Connor, FCV Odle, Sean O'Faolain, Dorothy Old, Roland Oliver, Lady Oranmore and Browne, Charles Osborne, John Osborne, Robert Ottaway, Audrey Overton, Gerald Owen, Peter Owen, Oxford Committee for Famine Relief (Oxfam), Oxford University Press, Leslie M Oyler.
Creator: The Observer Limited; Terry Kilmartin
Includes correspondence between Terry Kilmartin and David Astor and the following individuals or their representatives: Iris Murdoch, Sir Leon Bagrit, Iain Macleod, Evelyn Waugh, Peter Brook, Richard Crossman, Vera Nabokov (on behalf of Vladimir Nabokov), T Balogh, Benjamin Britten, John Lennon, Laurence Olivier, Jo Grimond, Lord Bowden, Peter Medawar, Sir Hugh Casson, Harold MacMillan, Harold Pinter, the Duke of Edinburgh, EM Forster, Arthur Koestler, Kingsley Amis, Lord Annan, Sir Hugh Carleton Greene, Lord Butler of Saffron Warren, Graham Greene, Harold Wilson, AJ Ayer, WH Auden, Sir Kenneth Clark, Lord Devlin, Professor PMS Blackett, Solly Zuckerman, Edward Boyle, Peter Ustinov, Robert Graves, [Angus Wilson], Muriel Spark, JK Galbraith, Alan Bennett, John Betjeman, John Bird, Sir Maurice Bowra, Truman Capote, Colin Davis, Dame Margot Fonteyn, Christopher Isherwood, Katharine [Whitehorn], JB Priestley, Mary [McCarthy], Edmund Wilson, Sir Isaiah Berlin, Professor Fred Hoyle, Arthur Schlesinger Jr, Penelope Mortimer, John Osborne, Kenneth Tynan, Karl Miller, Malcolm Muggeridge, [Conor] Cruise O'Brien, Dr Alex Comfort.
Also includes lists of people asked.
Creator: The Observer Limited; Terry Kilmartin
Includes correspondence between Terry Kilmartin and the following individuals or their representatives: Dr Alex Comfort, AJ Ayer, Graham Greene, Professor Frank Kermode, Mary [McCarthy], Sir Edward Boyle, Iris Murdoch, Professsor Edmund Leach, Kenneth Tynan, William Golding, Henry Moore, [Michael] Davie, Jonathan Miller, Dr Desmond Morris, VS Naipaul, John Osborne, Stephen Spender, Edna O'Brien, Professor EH Gombrich, Lord Annan, Arthur Koestler, Richard Findlater, Lord Goodman, Lord Harewood, Marshall McLuhan, Norman Mailer, Gore Vidal, Roy Fuller, Isaiah Berlin, John Updike, WH Auden, Kingsley Amis, Noel Coward, Sir John Gielgud, Roy Jenkins, 'Alan' [AJP Taylor], Jacquetta Hawkes, Lord Snow, Sir Steven Runciman, Doris Lessing, Angus Wilson.
Also includes lists of people asked and 'books of the year' list, 1963
Creator: The Observer Limited; Terry Kilmartin
Files of negatives of the following individuals:
Box 1:
Oakes, Judy
Oakley, Ann
Oakley, Elizabeth (grave)
Oakley, Vic (set by Tony McGrath)
Oaks, Mrs
Oakeshott, Matthew
Obank, Ken (staff) (including set by Tony McGrath, Jane Bown & Neil Libbert)
Obote, Dr Milton
Obeyesekera, Augustine (set by Tony McGrath)
O'Bradaigh, Rory (set by David Newell Smith)
O'Brien, Conor Cruise (including set by Tony McGrath & David Newell Smith)
O'Brien, Edna
O'Brien, Leslie (set by David Newell Smith)
O'Brien, Murrogh (set by Tony McGrath)
O'Brien, Ossie
O'Brien, Penny
O'Brien, Owen
O'Brien, Stephen
O'Campo, Madame
O'Connor, Donald (set by Tony McGrath)
O'Connor, Sally (set by Tony McGrath)
O'Connor, Sandra Day
Ocean Steamship Company Directors (set by Tony McGrath)
O'Dalaigh, Cearbhall (set by Tony McGrath)
Odell, Jack (set by Neil Libbert)
Odent, Michael
O'Donnell, Mary Geraldine
O'Donovan, Patrick
O'Dwyer, Josie (set by Neil Libbert)
Oduho, Joseph (set by David Newell Smith)
Ogilvy, David Mackenzie (including set by Tony McGrath)
Ohlsson, Garrick (set by Tony McGrath)
Oistrakh, David
Okabe, Hiroaki
Okawa, Ryuho
Okhai Brothers
Okuma, Masataka
Oldenburg, Claes
Oldfield, Fred (set by David Newell Smith)
Oldham, David
Oldham, Gavin (set by Neil Libbert)
Box 2:
Olds, PC Philip
O'Leary, Tim (set by David Newell Smith)
Olins, Wally (including set by Tony McGrath & David Newell Smith)
Oliphant, Doulgas
Oliver, Michael
Oliver, Michel
Oliver, Nicky (set by Neil Libbert)
Oliver, Stephen (set by Tony McGrath)
Oliveira, Joachim de Gomes
Olivier, Jasper
Olivier, Sir Laurence
Olman, Denis
Olmer, Lionel H (set by Neil Libbert)
Olney, David (set by David Newell Smith)
Olney, Nigel
Olsen, Tillie
Olsen-Aktepe, Heike
Omar, Dr (set by Tony McGrath)
O'Mara, Kate (set by Tony McGrath)
O'Neil
O'Neill, Lord (set by Tony McGrath)
Onoue, Nui
Oosterhuis, Peter
Openshaw, Nigel
Openheim (Oppenheimer), Sally
O'Raw, Lena (set by Neil Libbert)
Orchard, L (set by Tony McGrath)
O'Reilly, Wilf
Orford, Pam & Joe
Orionova, Galina
Orkin, Harvey
Ormond, John (set by Tony McGrath)
Orr-Ewing, Hamish
Orridge, Genesis P (set by Neil Libbert)
Orszag, Peter
Orwell, George
O'Ryan Roeder, Patrick (set by Neil Libbert)
Osborne, Christopher (set by David Newell Smith)
Osborne, Cril
Osborne, Geoffrey (set by Neil Libbert)
Osborne, John (set by Tony McGrath)
Osborne, June
O'Shaughnessy, Hugh (set by Tony McGrath)
O'Shea, Dr Maire
Oster, Hans
Ostram, Mr
O'Sullevan, Peter
O'Toole, Peter
Oueddei, Goukouni
Ouko
Outlaw, Anne (set by Tony McGrath)
Ovett, Steve
Owen, Sir Alfred
Box 3:
Owen, Alun (set by Neil Libbert)
Owen, Bernard (set by Tony McGrath)
Owen, David
Owen, J
Owen, John
Owen, Lyn
Owen, Peter
Owens, Jesse
Oxley, Charles
Oyston, Owen
Oyite-Ojok Colonel David
Ozal, Turght
Ozawa, Seni (set by Tony McGrath)
Creator: The Observer Limited; Picture Desk; Observer Picture Library
Donald Trelford's correspondence with Faber and Faber publishers.
Subjects covered: serialisation rights for a book by John Osborne and ensuing dispute about payment after a Sunday Times interview with Osborne.
Creator: The Observer Limited; Editor's Office; Donald Trelford
Correspondence with and about David Astor concerning the running of The Observer. Principal correspondents include Kenneth Obank, John Thompson, Michael Davie, Richard Findlater, Les Cane and Kenneth Harris.
Please note there are no details traditionally associated with personnel matters in this file, such as salary and other conditions of employment.
Contents include a copy of notes made 'for the editor's keynote speech', discussing The Observer's circulation, and existing and potential future competitiors (1961); draft of an article, provisionally titled 'The Sunday War: What it's all about, by an employee of The Observer', written by KP Obank (1962); typscript letter, written to Astor, from a correspondent who signs himself K on the future of The Observer (no address, but dated Oct 1961); memos to all editorial staff, emphasising the importance of confidentialily, and of not writing llibellous copy (1962); memo to KP Obank, on the need to reduce staff numbers (1962); a note on the cost of holding 'wine parties' (nd); copy of transcript of an interview of Astor, questioned by Kenneth Harris, and concerning his role as Editor (1963); copy of a report written by Bob Heller, on the organisation of the Sunday Times editorial team (1964); letter to Sir John Hunt on his accepting to be interviewed (1964); correspondence with Captain BH Liddell Hart on an interview,and on publishing extracts from his forthcoming memoirs (1965); correspondence with K Harris on contributors articles (1964-5); correspondence with readers on writing a piece on Sir Winston Churchill (1965); letters to Rt Hon RA Butler on becoming an occassional contributor to The Observer, and on publishing extracts from his forthcoming memoirs (1965); correspondence with Leeds University on recruiting graduates (1965); letter to the Rt Hon George Brown, MP, on an interview (1965); letter to John Osborne, on profiling him in The Observer (1965); letters to Harold Wilson and Edward Heath, proposing interviews (1965); letter to Sir Philip Magnus-Allcroft on writing an obituary for the Duke of Windsor (1965); letter to Rt Hon Christopher Soames on writing an obituary of his mother-in-law (1965); memo on new staff appointments (1965); memo suggesting that the authors of lead articles are always credited in the copy (1966); correspondence with KP Obank on the structure of the newspaper (1966); correspondence with Colonel LG Lohan of the Services, Press and Broadcasting Committee on providing information to The Observer (1966); note from Ken Obank, suggesting that William Millinship is promoted to Assistant News Editor (1966); report by Astor on his attendance at a conference on nuclear proliferation, held in Canada (1966); correspondence with The Press Council on an inquiry into the Moors Murder trial (1966); letter to Sir Eric Roll, on contributing to The Observer (1966); to Jo Grimond, on an interview (1967); correspondence regarding Astor's 21st anniversary as Editor of The Observer, and the presentation to him, of a 19th century hand-printing press as a gift (1969); notice of Astor's intention to retire, and a transcript of an interview held on the same (1975).
Also includes newspaper clippings of articles by Astor (1964-75).