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- 1959-1985 (Creation)
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Includes correspondence from and concerning Silverlight.
Other correspondents include: William Clark; David Astor; John Pringle; Edward Crankshaw; Rudolf Klein; Hilary Rubenstein; KP Obank; Gritta Weil; Donald Trelford; Bill Millinship; Roger Harrison; Sir Martin Roth; Hermione O'Donovan; Robin Baird-Smith; Liz Balcon; Viscount Macmillan.
Subjects covered include: Silverlight's work for The Observer including for the Observer magazine; Amnesty [International]; Lord Boothby; the Reith lectures; nuclear missiles; Peter Scott; a book of Patrick O'Donovan's writings; the publication of Silverlight's 'Words'.
Also includes: proof of appreciation of Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery by Sir Ian Jacob; obituary of Richard Crossman by Paul Johnson; copy of 'My Father and I' by Silverlight; list of invitees to publication party for 'Words'.
Creator: The Observer Limited; Editor's Office; Donald Trelford
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Copyright: Guardian News & Media
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- 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)
- Silverlight; John (1919-1995); journalist (Subject)
- Clark; William Donaldson (1916-1985); journalist, international civil servant, and author (Subject)
- Pringle; John Martin Douglas (1912-1999); journalist (Subject)
- Crankshaw; Edward (1909-1984); historian and political commentator (Subject)
- Amnesty International UK ([1960s]-); human rights charity (Subject)
- Boothby; Robert John Graham (1900-1986); Baron Boothby; politician (Subject)
- Jacob; Sir; Edward Ian Claud (1899-1993); knight, lieutenant-general (Subject)
- Montgomery; Bernard Law (1887-1976); 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein; field marshal (Subject)
- Klein; Rudolf Ewald (1930-); journalist and academic (Subject)
- Rubenstein; Hilary (1926-); journalist (Subject)
- Crossman; Richard Howard Stafford (1907-1974); journalist, politician, and diarist (Subject)
- Johnson; Paul Bede (1928-2023); author (Subject)
- Obank; Kenneth Pounds (1915-1991); managing editor of the Observer (Subject)
- Weil; Gritta (1924-2009); editorial assistant (Subject)
- Millinship; William Henry George (1929-2010); journalist and managing editor of the Observer (Subject)
- Harrison; Desmond Roger Wingate (1933-); managing director and chief executive of The Observer (Subject)
- Scott; Sir; Peter Markham (1909-1989); knight, naturalist, artist, and explorer (Subject)
- Roth; Sir; Martin (1917-2006); knight, psychiatrist (Subject)
- O'Donovan; Patrick Anthony (1918-1981); journalist (Subject)
- Baird-Smith; Robin Jameson (1946-); publisher (Subject)
- O'Donovan; Hermione (- 2012); wife of Patrick O'Donovan/PA to David Astor (Subject)
- Balcon; Elizabeth; promotion director of the Observer (Subject)
- Macmillan; Alexander Daniel Alan (1943-); 2nd Earl of Stockton; publisher (Subject)