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Letters and copy letters mostly offering articles for publication or making complaints

Subjects covered include correspondence with David Owen requesting contributions to the paper, January 1982-June 1987; clarification of the source of a Guardian quotation used in a yellow pages advert, September-October 1982 and the possibility of advertising in the Tribune, March 1984.
Creator: Guardian Newspapers Limited; Editor's Office; David McKie and Peter Cole

Correspondence between Anthony Howard and a number of individuals and organisations including Keith Ord, Canon John Oates, Dr. Conor Cruise O'Brien, Lord Olivier, Lord Oram, Sir David Orr, John Osborne (contributor), David Owen, the Overseas Women's Club, and the Oxford Union Society. Also contains a list of speculative obituaries circa mid 1980s kept in the filing cabinet to the left of Howard's secretary's desk.
Creator: The Observer Limited; Editor's Office; Anthony Howard

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

Correspondence between Anthony Howard and a number of individuals and organisations including Christopher Price, Sir Anthony Parsons, Cynthia Payne, John Pilger, Harold Pinter, Peter Preston, Alan H. Protheroe (BBC), Ben Pimlott, Sir Anthony Parsons, the Periodical Publishers Association, Punch, the Catherine Pakenham Award, and Private Eye.
Creator: The Observer Limited; Editor's Office; Anthony Howard

Letters and copy letters mostly offering or requesting articles for publication or making complaints.

Also contains corrrespondence relating to: the unreferenced inclusion of an extract from a talk by David McKie in a book about the Britsh Government and the Media, August-September 1982; McKie's contribution to the journal 'Teaching Politics', January-February 1983; analysis of, and suggestions for, public opinion polls pieces, February 1983-February 1988; Andrew Roth, March-June 1984; correspondence with Bill Rodgers about his columns for the paper, April 1983-July 1984; copy submitted by Giles Radice, March 1982-January 1985 and the publication in the Times of extracts from a Fabian Society pamphlet offered to the Guardian, January 1985.
Creator: Guardian Newspapers Limited; Editor's Office; David McKie and Peter Cole

Correspondence between Anthony Howard and a number of individuals and organisations including Alan Ralph (cartoonist), Jonathan Rabar, Abraham Rabinovich (Jerusalem Post), Keith Raffen (MP), David Raine, Tim Raison, James Ramsden, Eleanor Ransome (NCTJ), Adam Raphael (BBC), Vanessa Redgrave, Merlyn Rees (MP), Sir Ralph Richardson, David Roach Pierson, Gwilym Roberts (House of Commons), Dave Robertson (Fabian Society), Alan Rogers (BBC), Lord Rothschild, Ellen Russell, Rotary Club, Readers Digest, and Alan Rusbridger.

Of note are a letter from Adam Raphael (BBC) regarding evidence given at the Jeffrey Archer trial and letters from Alan Rusbridger's early Guardian career.
Creator: The Observer Limited; Editor's Office; Anthony Howard

Letters and copy letters mostly concerning articles requested, suggested or offered for publication or complaints about published pieces.

Also containing reference to: a series about little-known English counties and spa towns by Norman Shrapnel, May 1978-June 1980; correspondence with the head of Marplan about public opinion polls, December 1981-February 1982; an article suggestion from the Guardian Librarian at Manchester University, March 1982; introducing a review column for games, January-December 1982; Norman Shrapnel's week in the Press Gallery of the House of Commons, December 1982-February 1983; a woman invited by an imposter to a non-existant meeting at the Guardian, April 1984; a dog given to McKie by David Steel, July 1984; a minor accusation of censorship from Brian Sedgemore, June 1984; Mary Stott*, [July 1984]; a reader's compensating a blind man whose mugging was reported in the Guardian, August-September 1984; the Queen's tour of the Caribbean, August 1985; an American professor's research into 'news credibility', April 1985-February 1986 and correspondence with Jack Straw and David Blunkett about the paper's political content, February 1986-May 1988.
Creator: Guardian Newspapers Limited; Editor's Office; David McKie and Peter Cole

Correspondence between Anthony Howard and a number of individuals and organisations including Father Austin Smith, Anthony Sampson, Victor Sassie, Charles Self, Patrick Seale, Colin Smith, Charles Self (University of Alabama), Sir Albert Sherman, Robert Silver (New Statesman), W Scobie, Bob Semple (New York Times), Emma Soames, Philip Spender, David Steel (MP), Stewart Steven (The Mail on Sunday), Peter Strafford (The Times), Gavin Strong (MP), Sir William van Straubenzee (MP), Sir Kenneth Stuart, John Sturnock (TLS) and Tom Stoppard.
Creator: The Observer Limited; Editor's Office; Anthony Howard

Correspondents include: Oman Aviation Services Company; Indian and Pakistani prisoners of CID deportation prison, Qatar; Parliamentary Group for World Government, United Kingdom (UK); Agricultural and Rural Development Research Institute, University of Fort Hare, South Africa; Zimbabwe Project; The Ditchley Foundation, UK; Africa Centre, UK; press office of Buckingham Palace, London, UK; Anti-Poverty Limited; The Animal Protection Institution of America, Canada; African Medical and Research Foundation; Canon Limited, UK; Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation, Cyprus and individuals with surnames beginning with A to C, including students, journalists and Gemini readers.

Subjects covered include: requests for further information on Gemini News Service articles; appeals for Gemini to cover specific topics; requests for employment and work experience; interviews with Gemini staff; invitations to events; subscriptions to magazines and newspapers by Gemini; requests for information about Gemini and the payment of invoices.

Correspondents include: Institute for Strategic Studies, London, United Kingdom (UK); Immigration Department of the Home Office, UK; India Development Group (UK) Limited; Institute for International Studies, London, UK; International Fund for Agricultural Development, Italy; India Institute of Management, India; Inner London Education Authority, UK; International Institute of Communications, UK; International Press Institute, UK; Independent Television News (ITN), UK; Israel Features, Israel; Interprom, UK; IPC Newspapers Limited; Indian Journalists' Association; Intercontinental Features, Australia; Institute of Race Relations, UK and individuals with surnames beginning with G to I, including journalists, students, Gemini subscribers and readers.

Subjects covered include: comments and requests for further information on Gemini articles; requests by Gemini for subscriptions or information on Commonwealth publications and organisations; foreign journalists seeking aslym in the United Kingdom; invitations to conferences, events and membership of international organisations; visits to Gemini offices; appeals for Gemini to cover specific topics and ideas for new GeminiScan educational kits.