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OBS/4/1/1/243
Title
Patrick O'Donovan
Date(s)
- 1962-1982 (Creation)
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1 file
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Correspondence file relating to Patrick O'Donovan and his work as a foreign correspondent for the Observer.
Includes contract and salary increase letters, correspondence concerning outside commissions and offers of work from the New Republic, The Tablet, BBC radio programme the World this Weekend and the Catholic Herald, correspondence concerning visits to Iran, Turkey and Washington, letters about his final illness and death.
Correspondents include KP Obank, Ronald Harker, Gilbert Harrison, Lawrence Marks, David Astor, Donald Trelford, William Millinship, Stephen Pidgeon
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- O'Donovan; Patrick Anthony (1918-1981); journalist (Subject)
- Obank; Kenneth Pounds (1915-1991); managing editor of the Observer (Subject)
- Harker; Ronald E (1909-); journalist (Subject)
- Harrison; Gilbert; journalist and publisher (Subject)
- Marks; Laurence (1928-1996); journalist (Subject)
- Astor; Hon; Francis David Langhorne (1912-2001); editor of The Observer (Subject)
- Trelford; Donald Gilchrist (1937-2023); journalist, broadcaster, and editor of The Observer (Subject)
- Pidgeon; Stephen; personnel manager (Subject)
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