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- 1964-1966 (Creation)
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Includes correspondence between Terry Kilmartin and David Astor and the following individuals or their representatives: Iris Murdoch, Sir Leon Bagrit, Iain Macleod, Evelyn Waugh, Peter Brook, Richard Crossman, Vera Nabokov (on behalf of Vladimir Nabokov), T Balogh, Benjamin Britten, John Lennon, Laurence Olivier, Jo Grimond, Lord Bowden, Peter Medawar, Sir Hugh Casson, Harold MacMillan, Harold Pinter, the Duke of Edinburgh, EM Forster, Arthur Koestler, Kingsley Amis, Lord Annan, Sir Hugh Carleton Greene, Lord Butler of Saffron Warren, Graham Greene, Harold Wilson, AJ Ayer, WH Auden, Sir Kenneth Clark, Lord Devlin, Professor PMS Blackett, Solly Zuckerman, Edward Boyle, Peter Ustinov, Robert Graves, [Angus Wilson], Muriel Spark, JK Galbraith, Alan Bennett, John Betjeman, John Bird, Sir Maurice Bowra, Truman Capote, Colin Davis, Dame Margot Fonteyn, Christopher Isherwood, Katharine [Whitehorn], JB Priestley, Mary [McCarthy], Edmund Wilson, Sir Isaiah Berlin, Professor Fred Hoyle, Arthur Schlesinger Jr, Penelope Mortimer, John Osborne, Kenneth Tynan, Karl Miller, Malcolm Muggeridge, [Conor] Cruise O'Brien, Dr Alex Comfort.
Also includes lists of people asked.
Creator: The Observer Limited; Terry Kilmartin
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Copyright: Various copyrights
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- Kilmartin; Terence Kevin (1922-1991); literary editor (Subject)
- Astor; Hon; Francis David Langhorne (1912-2001); editor of The Observer (Subject)
- Murdoch; Dame; Jean Iris (1919-1999); novelist and philosopher (Subject)
- Bagrit; Sir; Leon (1902-1979); knight, engineer (Subject)
- Macleod; Iain Norman (1913-1970); politician (Subject)
- Waugh; Evelyn Arthur St John (1903-1966); writer (Subject)
- Brook; Peter Stephen Paul (1925-); theatre producer (Subject)
- Crossman; Richard Howard Stafford (1907-1974); journalist, politician, and diarist (Subject)
- Nabokov; Vera; wife of Vladimir Nabokov (Subject)
- Nabokov; Vladimir (1899-1977); author and lepidopterist (Subject)
- Balogh; Thomas (1905-1985); Baron Balogh; economist (Subject)
- Britten; Edward Benjamin (1913-1976); Baron Britten; composer (Subject)
- Lennon; John Winston (1940-1980); musician and composer of popular music (Subject)
- Olivier; Laurence Kerr (1907-1989); Baron Olivier; actor and director (Subject)
- Grimond; Joseph (1913-1993); Baron Grimond of Firth in the County of Orkney; politician (Subject)
- Bowden; Bertram Vivian (1910-1989); Baron Bowden; technologist (Subject)
- Medawar; Sir; Peter Brian (1915-1987); knight, medical scientist (Subject)
- Casson; Sir; Hugh Maxwell (1910-1999); knight, architect (Subject)
- Macmillan; Maurice Harold (1894-1986); 1st Earl of Stockton; politician (Subject)
- Pinter; Harold (1930-); actor, playwright and director (Subject)
- Philip (1921-2022); Duke of Edinburgh; consort of Queen Elizabeth II (Subject)
- Forster; Edward Morgan (1879-1970); author (Subject)
- Koestler; Arthur (1905-1983); author and journalist (Subject)
- Amis; Sir; Kingsley (1922-1995); author, knight (Subject)
- Annan; Noel Gilroy (1916-2000); Baron Annan; historian (Subject)
- Greene; Sir; Hugh Carleton (1910-1987); knight, director-general of the BBC (Subject)
- Butler; Richard Austen (1902-1982); Baron Butler of Saffron Walden; politician (Subject)
- Greene; Graham (1904-1991); author (Subject)
- Wilson; James Harold (1916-1995); Baron Wilson of Rievaulx; politician (Subject)
- Ayer; Sir; Alfred Jules (1910-1989); philosopher (Subject)
- Auden; Wystan Hugh (1907-1973); poet (Subject)
- Clark; Kenneth Mackenzie (1903-1983); Baron Clark; art historian (Subject)
- Devlin; Patrick Arthur (1905-1992); Baron Devlin; judge (Subject)
- Blackett; Patrick Maynard Stuart (1897-1974); Baron Blackett; physicist (Subject)
- Zuckerman; Solly (1904-1993); Baron Zuckerman; zoologist and educationalist (Subject)
- Boyle; Edward Charles Gurney (1923-1981); Baron Boyle; politician (Subject)
- Ustinov; Sir; Peter Alexander (1921-2004); knight, actor, dramatist, film director (Subject)
- Graves; Robert Ranke (1895-1985); writer (Subject)
- Wilson; Sir; Angus Frank Johnstone (1913-1991); knight, author (Subject)
- Spark; Dame; Muriel Sarah (1918-2006); writer (Subject)
- Galbraith; John Kenneth (1908-2006); economist (Subject)
- Bennett; Alan (1934-); dramatist, actor, author and playwright (Subject)
- Betjeman; Sir; John (1906-1984); poet, writer on architecture and broadcaster (Subject)
- Bird; John (1936-2022); actor and writer (Subject)
- Bowra; Sir; Cecil Maurice (1898-1971); knight, academic (Subject)
- Capote; Truman (1924-1984); author (Subject)
- Arias; Dame; Margot Fonteyn de (1919-1991); ballet dancer (Subject)
- Isherwood; Christopher William Bradshaw- (1904-1986); author (Subject)
- Whitehorn; Katharine Elizabeth (1926-2021); columnist (Subject)
- Davis; Sir; Colin Rex (1927-); knight, conductor (Subject)
- Priestley; John Boynton (1894-1984); author (Subject)
- McCarthy; Mary (1912-1989); writer (Subject)
- Wilson; Edmund (1895-1972); writer (Subject)
- Berlin; Sir; Isaiah (1909-1997); knight, historian and philosopher (Subject)
- Hoyle; Sir; Frederick (1915-2001); knight, astronomer, cosmologist, and writer (Subject)
- Schlesinger; Arthur Meier (1917-2007); writer, educator (Subject)
- Mortimer; Penelope Ruth (1918-1999); writer (Subject)
- Osborne; John James (1929-1994); dramatist and actor (Subject)
- Tynan; Kenneth Peacock (1927-1980); theatre critic (Subject)
- Muggeridge; Thomas Malcolm (1903-1990); journalist (Subject)
- O'Brien; Conor Cruise (1917-2008); historian, politician, diplomat, journalist (Subject)
- Comfort; Alexander (1920-2000); physician, poet and novelist (Subject)
- Miller; Karl Fergus Connor (1931-); literary editor and academic (Subject)