Correspondence between Anthony Howard and a number of individuals and organisations including Keith Ord, Canon John Oates, Dr. Conor Cruise O'Brien, Lord Olivier, Lord Oram, Sir David Orr, John Osborne (contributor), David Owen, the Overseas Women's Club, and the Oxford Union Society. Also contains a list of speculative obituaries circa mid 1980s kept in the filing cabinet to the left of Howard's secretary's desk.
Creator: The Observer Limited; Editor's Office; Anthony Howard
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
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
Includes correspondence from and concerning Joyce Egginton, US stringer for the Observer.
Other correspondents include: NS Cursley, David Astor, KP Obank, William Millinship, Donald Trelford, Harold Evans, Conor Cruise O'Brien, Nigel Hawkes, David Bishop.
Subjects covered include: Egginton's credentials; interviewing an astonaut; Egginton's terms and conditions; her coverage of New York; a proposed book on chemical poisoning in Michigan; Egginton's family.
Also includes: cutting on closure of British newspaper offices in New York.
Creator: The Observer Limited; Editor's Office; Donald Trelford
Includes correspondence from and concerning the Kilmartins.
Other correspondents include: Fred Tomlinson; David Astor; Arthur Koestler; Duncan Wilson; Richard Findlater; Philip Larkin; Roger Harrison; Donald Trelford; John Cole; Paul Johnson; John Nuttall-Smith; Nick Morrell; Michael Ratcliffe; Peter Heyworth; John Lucas; Anthony Howard; Brian Nicholson.
Subjects covered include: Terry Kilmartin's time in the Middle East; matters concerning The Observer's literary and arts pages and reviewers; Karl Miller; a 1963 visit to the United States by the Kilmartins; Gavin Young; AJP Taylor; Joanna Kilmartin's suggestions concerning European travel guides; Maurice Richardson; the Arvon Poetry Competition; Russell Davies; Conor Cruise O'Brien leaving The Observer; the Olivier theatre awards; Terry Kilmartin's farewell dinner in 1986.
Also includes: various cuttings from The Bookseller; cutting from The Tatler on Friday literary luncheons.
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
Donald Trelford's annotated set of papers for the meeting held at 8 St Andrew's Hilll, London.
Agenda points include: appointment of Dr Conor Cruise O'Brien as a director; minutes of 5 December meeting and sealing committee meeting (15 December); matters arising (Purnells printing charges, student readership, management - classified advertising); accounts for the year ended 31 December 1977; management report (financial performance, production and labour relations, sales and advertising, promotion plans, other matters); editorial policy; editor's report.
Creator: The Observer Limited; Editor's Office; Donald Trelford
Donald Trelford's annotated set of papers for the meeting held at 8 St Andrew's Hilll, London.
Agenda points include: minutes of 16 October meeting; matters arising (photocomposition, mail order, Post Office Yellow Pages, confirmation of plant leasing arrangements, effect of sales of 800,000 and 900,000 on trading, dates for board meetings in 1979); management report (financial performance, production and labour relations, sales and advertising, promotion, other matters); editor-in-chief's report; editor's report.
Also includes: editor's report (November 1978); memorandum from Conor Cruise O'Brien to Trelford; paper on the non-publication of The Sunday Times; report on increased circulation by Roger Harrison and Brian Nicholson.
Creator: The Observer Limited; Editor's Office; Donald Trelford
Donald Trelford's annotated set of papers for the meeting held at 8 St Andrew's Hilll, London.
Agenda points include: minutes of 4 December meeting; matters arising (photocomposition, mail order, Post Office Yellow Pages, suspension of Times Newspapers; Ruth Clark report; quality Sundays' posture on major issues); management report (financial performance, production and labour relations, sales and advertising, promotion, other matters); editor-in-chief's report; editor's report.
Also includes: Conor Cruise O'Brien's report.
Creator: The Observer Limited; Editor's Office; Donald Trelford