Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1964-1982 (Creation)
Level of description
Extent and medium
1 file
Context area
Archival history
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Includes correspondence from and concerning Seale.
Other correspondents include: David Astor; Michael Davie; Donald Trelford; Robert Stephens; William Millinship; Des Wilson; Bob Chesshyre; Jane Blackstock; Jeremy Hunt; Roger Harrison; Andrew Wilson.
Subjects covered include: his Observer Foreign News Service work; Kim Philby; affairs concerning the Lebanon, Israel and other Middle East countries; matters concerning the management of The Observer including book publishing, syndication, Observer Art, and his book 'The Hilton Assignment'; Seale contributing articles to The Observer; Patrick Seale Books Limited.
Also includes: memorandum on Encounter by John Mander.
Creator: The Observer Limited; Editor's Office; Donald Trelford
Accruals
System of arrangement
Chronological
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Some material closed to researchers in line with Data Protection Act
Conditions governing reproduction
Copyright: Guardian News & Media
Language of material
Script of material
Access Status
Open(part)
Closed until
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Related units of description
Notes area
Alternative identifier(s)
Access points
Name access points
- Trelford; Donald Gilchrist (1937-2023); journalist, broadcaster, and editor of The Observer (Subject)
- Astor; Hon; Francis David Langhorne (1912-2001); editor of The Observer (Subject)
- Davie; Michael (1924-2005); journalist and writer (Subject)
- Philby; Harold Adrian Russell (1912-1988); journalist and spy (Subject)
- Seale; Patrick (1930-2014); Journalist, literary agent and art dealer (Subject)
- Mander; John; journalist (Subject)
- Encounter Magazine; magazine (Subject)
- Stephens; Robert (1920-1992); journalist (Subject)
- Millinship; William Henry George (1929-2010); journalist and managing editor of the Observer (Subject)
- Wilson; Des (1941-); journalist, politician and campaigner (Subject)
- Chesshyre; Robert ([1941-]); journalist (Subject)
- Patrick Seale Books Limited; literary agency (Subject)
- Hunt; Jeremy; journalist and managing editor of the Observer (Subject)
- Blackstock; Jane (1947-2008); publishing executive (Subject)
- Harrison; Desmond Roger Wingate (1933-); managing director and chief executive of The Observer (Subject)
- Wilson; Andrew (1923-2020); journalist (Subject)