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 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
Includes correspondence from and concerning Chris Brasher, sports editor and journalist for the Observer.
Other correspondents include: Tristan Jones, Fred Tomlinson, John Pringle, KP Obank, WH Smart, David Astor, Michael Davie, Peter Gibbings, Clifford Makins, Bagenal Harvey (Brasher's agent), Roger Harrison, Donald Trelford, Brian Nicholson, Jess Watts.
Subjects covered include: Brasher's terms and conditions of employment; matters concerning the sports pages including advertisements, space, and production issues; the NUJ and non-journalist sports writers; the racing correspondent; a Loch Ness monster project; the Singlehanded Transatlantic race; reporting from sporting events including the Tokyo Olympics; orienteering; a Mount Everest expedition; Brasher's work for the BBC; the London Marathon; 'The Runner' magazine; copy taking.
Also includes: invitation to Brasher's wedding; details of collection for his wedding present; Denys W Tucker's comments on Loch Ness story; 'The Runner' feasibility study by Watts.
Creator: The Observer Limited; Editor's Office; Donald Trelford
Includes correspondence from and concerning Legum.
Other correspondents include: David Astor; Anthony Sampson; Michael Davie; Richard Findlater; William Millinship; Gritta Weil; Donald Trelford; Shlomo Hillel (Israeli Minister of Police); Roger Harrison.
Subjects covered include: Legum's application to join The Observer; his work as Commonwealth correspondent; Michael Scott; Drum newspaper; affairs concerning various countries including Sudan, South Africa, Ghana, Kenya, China, Nigeria, Israel, Spain, Uganda, and the United States; the Suez Crisis; an application to the English-Speaking Union of the Commonwealth for a grant by Legum; Dr [Benjamin] Spock; suggested articles on children's issues; Henry Kissinger and other senior US officials; Lonrho's takeover of The Observer.
Also includes: cuttings on South African affairs; 'confidential non-attributable talk with George Brown', September 1966; 'Reasons for Israel's decision to go to war', 1967; copy letter from Legum to Paul Foot; copy of Legum article, 'How Africa's Asians helped to create their own peril', 8 August 1972; comments on Arianna Stassinopolous' 'The Female Woman' by Margaret Legum; draft of article on Ghana trial; information on Travellers' Rights International; notice of talk by Legum in New York; draft of 'International Flow of News' by Legum and John Cornwell; copy of cartoon of Legum by Trog.
Creator: The Observer Limited; Editor's Office; Donald Trelford
Donald Trelford's subject file on the Observer Colour Magazine.
Includes a statement of aim, various memoranda and internal discussion papers about the new magazine, correspondence about financial arrangements, readers'and competitors' responses to the new magazine after its publication in September 1964, discussions on features, correspondence on changes to the magazine's content and design over the years and staffing arrangements, on budgets, on advertising versus editorial ratios.
Also contains a sub-file on the Young Observer dummy.
Correspondents include: David Astor, Richard Findlater, Michael Davie, Laurence Scott, Donald Trelford, Roger Harrison, Peter Crookston.
Creator: The Observer Limited; Editor's Office; Donald Trelford
Letters sent to and from Howard regarding his position as Washington Correspondent. Letters discuss basic salary, cost of living allowances, expenses, terms of employment, coverage of items for the newspaper, conditions regarding working 'outside' the newspaper, appreciation from David Astor following his stay with Howard, 'Rent Tribunal', proposals relating to Howard's position to be undertaken following Washington Correspondent.
Key correspondents from the Observer are David Astor, Ken Obank, John Thompson, Patrick O'Donovan and Michael Davie.
The correspondence of Thomas Jones (the father of Tristan Jones) as trustee of The Observer, with senior staff of the paper, and other trustees between 1942-1953. Correspondents include former literary editor John Trewin, the former editors Ivor Brown and David Astor, and also a large collection of correspondence from Lord Waldorf Astor, the former proprietor of The Observer newspaper. In addition, records relating to the Trust and the paper in general are also covered, including Trustees' meeting minutes, newspaper cuttings, and extracts, and a 1951 balance sheet.
Creator: The Observer Limited; Managing Director's Office; Tristan Jones
Includes letters and copy letters between Terry Kilmartin and Tynan on syndication rights, Tynan's reviews and articles, Tynan's work for the New Yorker.
Also includes correspondence with: Ken Obank, Colin Young and Lawrence Hammond of Curtis Brown Limited, David Astor, Hugh Massingham, Elaine Tynan, Penelope Bennett, Peter Gibbings, Michael Davie, and Kathleen Tynan; and Joyce Egginton, Richard Findlater, Truman Capote, Joseph P Jenkins, Roger Machell of Hamish Hamilton Ltd, Leonard Boudine, Arval A Morris, Herb Greer, Aaron R Frosch, Joseph Satten, and Estela D'Accurzio on Tynan's review of Capote's 'In Cold Blood'.
Also includes: photostats of a 'controversy' between Tynan and Eugene Ionescu; cuttings on the Capote controversy; a sworn affidavit by Frosch; copy of Capote's cheque to the Howard League for Penal Reform.
Creator: The Observer Limited; Terry Kilmartin
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).
Includes correspondence from and concerning Edward Crankshaw, Observer special correspondent on Soviet Affairs.
Other correspondents include: David Astor, Tristan Jones, Ken Obank, John Pringle, Hilary Rubenstein, John Thompson, Robert Stephens, Michael Davie, Nigel Hawkes, Donald Trelford, Douglass Cater, Bill Millinship, John Silverlight, Iain Lindsay Smith, Richard Findlater, Robert Maxwell, Anthony Howard, Clare Crankshaw.
Subjects covered include: Crankshaw's terms and conditions; his expenses; foreign news comment and coverage; Soviet affairs; Crankshaw's health; office politics including Crankshaw's relationship with Isaac Deutscher and Mark Frankland; German affairs; the Week; Crankshaw's book on Khrushchev; Crankshaw's travels in Eastern Europe; The Council for Science and Society; Crankshaw's memorial service.
Also includes: 'a note on the Commonwealth argument' and 'Who is Khrushchev?' by Crankshaw; 'Superstar Technologies' report by The Council for Science and Society; memorial service address by Mark Bonham-Carter.
Creator: The Observer Limited; Editor's Office; Donald Trelford
Creator: DS/UK/122