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
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
Includes correspondence from and concerning Grigg.
Other correspondents include: David Astor; John Silverlight; Anthony Sampson; Aidan Crawley; Jeremy Hunt; Donald Trelford; Pat Kavanagh; Trevor Grove.
Subjects covered include: work by Grigg for The Observer including the Pendennis column and a piece on Winston Churchill; an interview by David Frost.
Also includes: synopsis of article by Grigg on Edward Heath; text of the Churchill article.
Creator: The Observer Limited; Editor's Office; Donald Trelford
Primarily includes photocopies of telex, typescript and handwritten letters to Margaret Mather, forwarding or writing about letters of appeal and letters from Ian Mather's friends and family, News International Public Limited Company, BBC Television, and Observer readers.
Other letters in the file are addressed to the Argentinean Minister of Justice Lucas Lennon, the President of the Republic of Argentina General Leopoldo Galtieri, Carlos Ortiz de Rosas and Argentine Ambassador in London, Papal Nuncio Bruno Heim.
Also includes a typescript draft asking for help in trying to release Mather; typescript letter from Luis Maria Rizzi, Undersecretary to the Minister of Justice, to Robin Lustig and Trevor Grove of the Observer and typescript press release from Commonwealth Information on support for the journalists at the General Assembly of the International Press Institute.
Majority of material in English, but some material in Spanish.
Mather; Ian (1936-); journalistIncludes correspondence from and concerning Morrell.
Other correspondents include: Donald Trelford, Roger Harrison, Brian Nicholson, Trevor Grove, Jeremy Hunt, John Nuttal-Smith
Subjects covered include: mostly advertising matters including new advertisers, aopproval, placing, size and selection of advertisements in each issue, advertorials on various topics including photography, home technology and Mexico, proposals for recruitment advertising, classified gourmet category and new theme advertising, financial statistics, and figures including departmental revenue from advertising, possibility of joint sales with the Guardian on Chinese issue, availability of the Observer abroad (Barbados, Saudi Arabia), Spycatcher mid-week edition, from 1988 increasingly correspondence on budget issues, staffing, expenses, expenditure, production delays and problems, 7-page dummy and proposed tabloid redesign, merging of Colour Magazine with Monthlys, membership/relations with NPA
Also includes: Minutes of a 'Time Out' Meeting on 25th May 1988, The Independent reports and accounts 1987, paper on 'Channel 3 Television Licence Application'
Creator: The Observer Limited; Editor's Office; Donald Trelford
3 files concerning the development of the Observer colour magazine.
File 1
Covers the period November 1981 to February 1983 and predominantly concerns the development of magazine supplements. It contains correspondence and memorandums regarding: production costs; advertising; content schedules; partworks (particularly European Cookery in 1982); launch of magazine extras; features; TV Guide; competitors; sale of cookery tapes; design; recruitment of staff and Money Observer.
Primary correspondents include: Roger Harrison; John Nuttall Smith; David Bishop; Nichollas Morrell; Peter Crookston and Trevor Grove.
File 2
Covers the period February 1983 to July 1984 and predominantly concerns magazine supplements and advertising. It contains correspondence and memorandum regarding: Extras, advertising features; olympic coverage; wraparound project; partworks (particularly British Cookery in 1983); Junior Observer Magazine; production costs; syndication; colour printing; options to address competition from Sunday Times magazine; Terra Nova children's comic; Insider's guides; regional advertising; editorial/advertising ratio; issue size and layout; content schedules; staff expenses; Scotland campaign; Extras on the cover; Money Extra competitions and model maker fees.
Primary correspondents include: Roger Harrison; John Nuttall Smith; Nichollas Morrell, Donald Trelford and Trevor Grove.
File 3
Covers the period July 1984 to January 1987 and predominantly concerns magazine supplements, features and advertising. It contains correspondence and memorandums regarding: forward planning; issue format; partworks; costs; Royal wedding coverage; travel schedules; Young Observer; content schedules; work to editorial office; typesetting; Taste of India promotional lunch; donations to Mali; distribution of British Airways city series; magazine development ideas; triographics; youth magazines; magazine relaunch; photography award nominations; staff expenses; advertising; Extras; interview with Prince Charles; editorial/advertising ratio; issue size and layout and advertisement features.
Primary correspondents include: Roger Harrison; John Nuttall Smith; Nichollas Morrell, Donald Trelford and Trevor Grove.
Creator: The Observer Limited; Managing Director's Office; Roger Harrison
Includes correspondence from and concerning Harrison. The bulk of the correspondence spans from 1968 to 1986, there is just one letter in 1989 and one in 1992.
Other correspondents include: Kenneth Pounds Obank, Brian Nicholson, William Millinship, John Nuttall-Smith, Tristan Jones, Trevor Grove
Subjects covered include: personnel matters including staffing, recruitment, taxes, contracts and the development of a training structure, commercial management such as the award of contracts, sponsorship and advertising, financial matters including capital expenditure, budgets and expenses (especially for editorial) , recurring debates about the ratio between editorial and advertising space, the sale of the Observer, expenditure, circulation figures and the profitability of the Observer including price increases, special music pages, relationship with trade unions (NUJ, TUC) and industrial actions, legal issues such as press complaints and libel actions, redesign of Observer into 4 sections, use of photocomposition and picture syndication, International Observer, edition times and printing problems, computer part work
Also includes: Letter from Yehudi Menuhin, editorial executive and management structure, staff and contributors lineage costs 1978, company policy on travel and other expenses 1978, readers letters complaining about commercial insert, draft of strategy paper on printing, draft minutes of board meeting 13th September 1982, draft cover price increase and medium-term strategy Feb. 1983, summary of responses to subscriptions marketing (1984), Minutes of the non-newspaper revenue development committee 9th January 1984.
Creator: The Observer Limited; Editor's Office; Donald Trelford