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Includes letters and copy letters offering articles for publications, making complaints about previous issues, criticisms of the Guardian's coverage of the Royal Family following the birth of Princess Beatrice of York in August 1988, references to general elections and to the case of civil servant, Sarah Tisdall who leaked Ministry of Defence documents to the Guardian. There is also a series of letters from Tony Benn MP concerning misleading articles and a letter from David Beresford relating to his book on the 1981 Irish hunger strike.
Creator: Guardian Newspapers Limited; Editor's Office; David McKie and Peter Cole

Letters, copy letters and internal communications mostly offering articles for publication and letters of complaint but also referring to the case of Sarah Tisdall who leaked Ministry of Defence documents to the Guardian and the 1983 general election and 1982 by-elections.
Creator: Guardian Newspapers Limited; Editor's Office; David McKie and Peter Cole

Letters and copy letters mostly about articles or books, offered for publication or review, or complaints.

Contains references to a published reply to an open letter possibly containing an implied accusation of anti-Semitism, May 1981; severe printing difficulties on 7-8 November 1982; general election coverage and reflections, May-July 1983; accusation of a breach of a Readers' Digest embargo, September 1983; Sarah Tisdall's case, including the setting up of a fund for her and other victims of executive or political prosecutions, March 1984; an abandoned investigation into election expenses, March-April 1984; the settlement of the Michael Meacher libel case, January 1985; letter from Peter Mandeson about the Labour Party's use of a Guardian Marplan Poll, February 1986 and a statement from The People's Mojahedin of Iran condemning a bomb blast in Tehran, August 1986.

Contains three letters in Spanish.
Creator: Guardian Newspapers Limited; Editor's Office; David McKie and Peter Cole

Letters and copy letters mostly about work offered for publication, or complaints.

Also containing correspondence with John Prescott about publicising a report on regional strategy, August-September 1982; complaints from Webster, often through Ernest Pendrous, about an article on the Hain vs. Webster libel case, November 1982-March 1983; a grant from the Social Science Research Council funding a survey-based study of the 1983 General Election by Oxford academics, June 1983; the Marplan poll on Nuclear Disarmament, October-November 1983; The Sarah Tisdall case and fund, April 1984; and a meeting with James Prior, September-October 1988.
Creator: Guardian Newspapers Limited; Editor's Office; David McKie and Peter Cole

Letter sent to the editor from author David Caute on the case of Sarah Tisdall, who was imprisoned for leaking British government documents to the Guardian newspaper.