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Correspondence file relating to Kim Philby and his work as the Observer's Middle East Correspondent.

Includes informal letter of application, draft articles from Franco's Spain, cancelled letter of resignation from 1952, ongoing negotiation of a joint agreement with the Economist in 1956, letters about mail and newspaper censorship, letters about expenses and payment, unused pieces, relationship to fellow correspondent Rawle Knox and the need for journalistic objectivity, contract extension letters, letters about a possible contract with the Indian Express, article suggestions and travel plans by cable, letters about the Dead Sea Scrolls, letter about Tomlinson's retirement, correspondence regarding Gavin Young's journey to the Middle East, last cable from Philby before his disappearance, cables about his supposed bad health, letters about his disappearance.

Correspondents include David Astor, Fred Tomlinson, John Midgley, Donald Trelford, Michael Davie, Mark Arnold-Forster, Paul Ferris, John Thompson, Miss Caton Jones and LJ Cane.

A large body of correspondence sent to Mrs Crozier expressing sympathy on the death of WP Crozier:
Tribute, 2 pages typewritten, by B Bracken on the death of WP Crozier;
Letter from JR Scott to Mrs Crozier attached to the above, 15 May 1944;
Letter, 2 pages, from JE Mossey to Mrs Crozier, "15" [16] April 1944;
Letter from AP Wadsworth to Mrs Crozier, 16 April 1944;
Letter, 2 pages, from CH Hobbs to Mrs Crozier, 16 April 1944;
Letter from RT Clark to Mrs Crozier, 16 April 1944;
Letter from Dorothy Monkhouse, "Sunday Night", to Mrs Crozier, undated but presumed to be from 16 April 1944;
Letter from J Bone to Mrs Crozier, 16 April 1944;
Letter from Gordon Phillips to Mrs Crozier, 16 April 1944;
Letter from JL Hammond to Mrs Crozier, 17 April 1944;
Letter from M Linford to Mrs Crozier, 17 April 1944;
Letter from Lord Stamford to Mrs Crozier, 17 April 1944;
Letter from D Davies to Mrs Crozier, 17 April 1944;
Letter from Gertrude Coulam to Mrs Crozier, 17 April 1944;
Letter from W Eames to Mrs Crozier, 17 April 1944;
Letter from H Wyrill to Mrs Crozier, 17 April 1944;
Letter from John Coatman to Mrs Crozier, 17 April 1944;
Letter from C Balderson to Mrs Crozier, 17 April 1944;
Letter from Charles Powell to Mrs Crozier, 17 April 1944;
Letter from WH Armitt to Mrs Crozier, 17 April 1944;
Letter from H Sacher to Mrs Crozier, 17 April 1944;
Letter from F Sidebotham to Mrs Crozier, 17 April 1944;
Telegram from N Cardus to Mrs Crozier, 17 April 1944;
Letter from FA Voigt to Mrs Crozier, 17 April 1944;
Letter from S Battersby to Mrs Crozier, 17 April 1944;
Letter from Sir Robert Vansittart to Mrs Crozier, 17 April 1944;
Letter from L Hore-Belisha to Mrs Crozier, 17 April 1944;
Letter from A Sinclair to Mrs Crozier, 17 April 1944;
Letter from EJ Philips to Mrs Crozier, 17 April 1944;
Letter from EW Dickes to Mrs Crozier, 17 April 1944;
Letter from Canon Peter Green to Mrs Crozier, 17 April 1944;
Telegram from Juan Negrin, former Prime Minister of Spain, to Mrs Crozier, 17 April 1944;
Letter from Philip I Wigoder to Mrs Crozier, 17 April 1944;
Letter from T Thompson to Mrs Crozier, 17 April 1944;
Letter from CG Boddington, from the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, to Mrs Crozier, 17 April 1944;
Letter from CW Tonge, Guardian Advertisement Manager, to Mrs Crozier, 17 April 1944;
Letter from B Fry to Mrs Crozier, 17 April 1944;
Letter from H Boardman to Mrs Crozier, 18 April 1944;
Letter from Mabel Scott to Mrs Crozier, 18 April 1944;
Letter from Lord Beaverbrook to Mrs Crozier, 18 April 1944;
Telegram from Lloyd George to Mrs Crozier, 18 April 1944;
Letter from W Redfern to Mrs Crozier, 18 April 1944;
Letter from W Worthington to Mrs Crozier, 18 April 1944;
Letter from C Thorne Jones to Mrs Crozier, 18 April 1944;
Letter from Muirhead Bone to Mrs Crozier, 18 April 1944;
Telegram from C Weizmann to Mrs Crozier, 18 April 1944;
Letter from Eleanor Rathbone to J L Hammond, 18 April 1944;
Letter from S Brodetsky to Mrs Crozier, 18 April 1944;
Letter from N Slutzkin to Mrs Crozier, 18 April 1944;
Letter from R Garner to Mrs Crozier, 18 April 1944;
Letter from Douglas Miller, High Master of Manchester Grammar School, to Mrs Crozier, 18 April 1944;
Letter from RW Smith, Guardian Counting House staff, to Mrs Crozier, 18 April 1944;
Letter from Rhys J Davis, MP, to Mrs Crozier, 18 April 1944;
Letter from DR Prosser, Editor of the Western Mail and Echo, Cardiff, to Mrs Crozier, 18 April 1944;
Letter from Richard A Taylor, from the Manchester Teachers' Association, to Mrs Crozier, 18 April 1944;
Letter from CH Reilly to Mrs Crozier, 18 April 1944;
Letter from Cecil Wolfson to Mrs Crozier, 19 April 1944;
Letter from J Unsworth to Mrs Crozier, 19 April 1944;
Letter from WR Davies to Mrs Crozier, 19 April 1944;
Letter from Sir Percy Harris, MP, to Mrs Crozier, 19 April 1944;
Letter from LB Hammond, wife of JL Hammond, to Mrs Crozier, 19 April 1944;
Letter from WH Brindley, Society of Chemical Industry, to Mrs Crozier, 19 April 1944;
Letter from GO MacKenzie, Chairman of the Reform Club, Manchester, to Mrs Crozier, 19 April 1944;
Letter from FS Airey to Mrs Crozier, 19 April 1944;
Letter from Norman M Jacob, from the Zionist Central Council to Mrs Crozier, 19 April 1944;
Letter from David Ayerst to Mrs Crozier, 20 April 1944;
Letter from E Sharp Nevinson to Mrs Crozier, 20 April 1944;
Letter from H Laski to Mrs Crozier, 20 April 1944;
Letter from the Manchester Jewish Forum to Mrs Crozier, 20 April 1944;
Letter from John Midgley to Mrs Crozier, 20 April 1944;
Letter from Joyce Lustgarten to Mrs Crozier, 20 April 1944;
Letter from A Cobham, from the Yorkshire Evening Press, and expressions of esteem and sympathy from Yorkshire morning and evening newspaper editors to Mrs Crozier, 20 April 1944;
Letter from David Freeman, of the Trades Advisory Council to Mrs Crozier, 20 April 1944;
Letter from N Dixon to Mrs Crozier, 21 April 1944
Letter from Arthur Middleton, of The Humane Education Society, to Mrs Crozier, 21 April 1944;
Letter from G Phillips to Mrs Crozier, 23 April 1944;
Letter from Canon Peter Green to Mrs Crozier, written after Canon Peter Green had taken the funeral on 20 April 1944, 23 April 1944;
Telegram (3 sheets) from A Werth to Mrs Crozier, 24 April 1944;
Letter from A Moss, JP, of the Council of Manchester and Salford Jews, to Mrs Crozier, 25 April 1944;
Two letters from CH Reilly to Mrs Crozier, about a proposal to give WP Crozier an honourary degree from Oxford, 25 and 27 April 1944;
Letter from H Massingham to Mrs Crozier, 26 April 1944;
Letter from T Crimes to Mrs Crozier, 26 April 1944;
Letter from Thora Cronce, of the Ministry of Fuel and Power, April 1944;
Letter from Maurice Ashley to Mrs Crozier, April 1944;
Letter from Bernard Chinn, of the Manchester Country Club, to Mrs Crozier, 1 May 1944;
Letter from AP Wadsworth to Mrs Crozier, 1 May 1944;
Letter from KE Innes, of the Women's International League, to Mrs Crozier, 10 May 1944;
Letter from TD Mosconas, Librarian to His Beatitude, Patriarch of Alexandria and all Africa, to Mrs Crozier, 5 June 1944;
Letter from Reginald Smith, of The British Weekly, to Mrs Crozier thanking her for a portrait of WP Crozier, 28 March 1947.
Creator: Crozier, William Percival (1879-1944); newspaper editor

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