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General cuttings from a number of publications relating to a variety of topics including cricket, British politics, 10,000th Observer edition, contemporaries, Observer crisis, relocation of headquarters to Battersea, book reviews, freedom of the press, Observer redesign, Lord Beaverbrook, Observer relations with Lonrho, freedom of information, Barbican exhibition, and copies of Varsity the student newspaper for which Trelford wrote.
Creator: The Observer Limited; Editor's Office; Donald Trelford

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

Documents relating to cartoonist Osbert Lancaster. Includes original and copies of correspondence to Lancaster from various individuals including Max Beerbohm, Lord Beaverbrook, Harold Macmillan, Kim Philby, Evelyn Waugh, Anthony Powell, John Betjeman, Anne Scott-James, David Cecil, Steven Runciman.

Also includes newspaper cuttings; cards depicting images by Lancaster; notes from various resources; photographs of Lancaster; transcript of an interview with Lady Violet and Anthony Powell; and correspondence to Richard Boston regarding his biography on Lancaster. Correspondents include Anne Scott-James, Posy Simmonds, John Mortimer, Richard Boston, Hugo Dickens, Penelope Betjeman, and Clive James.
Creator: Boston, Richard (1938-2006), journalist

Publications from a varierty of sources relating to the activities of the Observer.

Includes article by Donald Trelford on Lord Beaverbrook in The Listener. Pamphlets entitled 'The Open Secret'. Booklets issues by the National Board for Prices and Incomes relating to the press. 'Libel in Practice' by The Newspapers' Mutual Insurance Society. 'Newspaper Personnel and Data' issued by World's Press News Publishing. 'A short history of the Guild of British Newspaper Editors'. '100 years of Fleet Street' by the Press Club. The Observer Masada Exhibition. The Royal Western and Observer Singlehanded transatlantic race, 1976, catalogue.

Observer publications including special 10,000th edition magazine, Ronald Reagan interview with Kenneth Harris, 'The Great Debate: Britain's Bomb', International Observer 'Ireland: The Chances for Peace', 'The Queen: an Observer profile', 175th birthday issue, reproduction of informal speeches made in 1976, reproduction of the first edition of the paper, Observer Foreign News Service booklet, and marketing posters relating a number of editorial staff including Anthony Holden, Adam Raphael, Katharine Whitehorn, and Conor Cruise O'Brien.

Also includes news releases from Lonrho.
Creator: The Observer Limited; Editor's Office; Donald Trelford

Files kept by the editor of The Observer containing correspondence from individuals and organisations named A-AM.

Correspondents include: Amnesty International, Sir Charles Abrahams, Leo Abse, Sir Richard Acland, Sir John Addis, Larry Adler, Robert Adley, Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, Jonathan Raban (via solicitor Gillon Aitken Ltd) Sir Max Aitken, Field Marshal Earl Alexander of Tunis, Frank Allaun and Julian Amery.

Subjects covered include: support for charitable projects, proposals and research for articles, submitted articles, comments on articles published by the Observer and complaints about article content, and reviews of published work.
Creator: The Observer Limited; Editor's Office; Donald Trelford