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- 1969-1976 (Creation)
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General file regarding the serialisation of books in the Observer.
Contains correspondence and memorandums concerning: the diaries of Evelyn Waugh; purchase of the letters of Florence Nightingale; 'Nixon's Last 100 Days' by Washington Post reporters Woodward and Bernstein, who exposed the Watergate scandal; the diaries of Josef Goebbels; the memoirs of Cardinal Mindszenty; Piers Paul Read; Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy; Alexander Solzhenitsyn; professional advice from Oswald Hickson, Collier & Co; the autobiography of Yehudi Menmuhin; arrangments with Andre Deutsh; 'The Reality of Monarchy' by Andrew Duncan; draft agreements with publishers; the international distribution of Norman Mailer's material with draft copies of his serialisations.
Primary correspondents include: Roger Harrison; Jeremy Hunt; Patrick Seale; Weidenfeld & Nicolson, publishers.
Creator: The Observer Limited; Managing Director's Office; Roger Harrison
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- Harrison; Desmond Roger Wingate (1933-); managing director and chief executive of The Observer (Subject)
- Waugh; Evelyn Arthur St John (1903-1966); writer (Subject)
- Hunt; Jeremy; journalist and managing editor of the Observer (Subject)
- Seale; Patrick (1930-2014); Journalist, literary agent and art dealer (Subject)
- Deutsch; Andre (1917-2000); publisher (Subject)