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General file relating to the Daily Telegraph newspaper.

Contains correspondence, memorandum and reports concerning: printing and advancements in technology; social occasions; joint printing arrangements; meetings between Observer and Telegraph representatives; the Newsprint Committee; printing supplies; ownership of the Telegraph; relations with the trade unions; requests for charitable donations; advertising the Observer in the Daily Telegraph; the Telegraph magazine; colour printing rates; wholesalers; colour supplements; classified advertisements; balance sheets; the launch of the Sunday Telegraph; The Times; Viola Garvin and the papers of JL Garvin; editorial notices; Eve Maxwell-Lyte; official bans on the newspaper.

Also contains facsimile copies of the first edition of the Daily Telegraph.

Primary correspondents include: Roger Harrison; Tristan Jones; John E Berridge; The Daily Telegraph; GP Simon.
Creator: The Observer Limited; Managing Director's Office; Roger Harrison

Dedicated: 'To Baistow from Vicky'. On the back there is a letter to Baistow from Rosemary [?Jay] of the Sunday Telegraph dated 12 January 1974 suggesting it was used by the News Chronicle. Part of Tom Baistow's personal collection.

Three folders, titled 'Publishers Policy, General 1947-64', 'Publishers Policy, Educational Weekly Project 1958' and 'Publishers Policy, Survey of Industry 1951-58'.

Folder titled 'Publishers Policy, General 1947-64' includes correspondence, predominantly with readers, on newspaper policy. Subjects include joint publishing venture proposals with Reynolds News, and Ernest Kay of John O' London's, Literary Periodicals Ltd, amongst others (all rejected), and correspondence with Lord Frederick Burnham on the printing of the Sunday Telegraph, for one day only, at the Guardian's Cross Street premises in Manchester, on 26 March 1961.

Folder titled 'Publishers Policy, Educational Weekly Project 1958', contains correspondence and papers on the proposed publishing of a weekly education paper. Documents include an assessment of current provision (predominately the Times Educational Supplement), and discussion between LP Scott and both Alastair Hetherington and Kenneth Searle, on the same; documents relating to the costing of the project, and projected revenue; a typed memorandum by Scott, commenting on the proposal, dated 21 April 1958; projected revenue figures drawn up by WJ Lascelles, and a letter giving circulation details of the main educational supplements currently published (including Teachers' World), provided by the London Press Exchange Ltd and sent to the same; second report on the project, by Scott, dated 30 April 1958, and appendix added by Searle, in May of that same year; report on survey conducted amongst the Chief Education Officers, on current provision, and their thoughts on the project (undated) and a revised assessment of the project, leading to it's ultimate rejection, dated May 1958.

Folder titled 'Publishers Policy - Survey of Industry 1951-58' contains correspondence and papers relating to the Survey of Industry, published annually, by the Guardian, for these years. Correspondents include Scott, AP Wadsworth, J Anderson, Richard Fry, W MacMillan, HG Milner, W Lascelles, H Roscoe and R Grey, all of the Guardian.
Creator: Manchester Guardian and Evening News Limited; Chairman's Office; Laurence Prestwich Scott

Cuttings of articles, comments, and letters concerning the former Guardian literary editor Richard Gott and the story surrounding his links to the KGB as revealed by Alasdair Palmer in the Spectator using the word of former KGB colonel Oleg Gordievsky as evidence.

Includes the Spectator article by Palmer on the 10 December 1994 titled 'How the KGB ran the Guardian's features editor. Other clippings comment on the story and its impact including the publishing of a list of other public figures who were recruited by the KGB that Peter Preston challenged the Spectator to provide.

Additional clippings show published letters to the Spectator by AR and Richard Gott in 1995 seeking to clarify and refute various claims relating to the scandal and its evidence along with commenting on how other journalists reacted and published the story.

Also included is a copy of a review written by Gott for the book 'Anthony Blunt: His Lives' written by Miranda Carter in a November 2001 edition of the New Statesman.
Creator: Guardian Newspapers Limited; Editor's Office; Alan Rusbridger