Identity area
Reference code
OBS/6/7/1/2/6
Title
'Books of the year' correspondence and draft copy
Date(s)
- 1974 (Creation)
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File
Extent and medium
1 file
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Scope and content
Includes correspondence between Terry Kilmartin and Miriam Gross and the following individuals or their representatives: Kingsley Amis, Sir Alfred Ayer, Sir John Betjeman, Arthur Koestler, Philip Larkin, George Melly, Edna O'Brien, Kenneth Tynan, Robert Lowell, Mary McCarthy.
Also includes contributions from some of the above and Maurice Richardson, Clive James, Roy Jenkins, and Hugh Thomas.
Also includes lists of people asked.
Creator: The Observer Limited; Terry Kilmartin
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chronological
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Copyright: Various copyrights
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Open
Closed until
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Name access points
- Kilmartin; Terence Kevin (1922-1991); literary editor (Subject)
- Gross; Miriam Marianna (1939-); Lady Owen; editor and journalist (Subject)
- Ayer; Sir; Alfred Jules (1910-1989); philosopher (Subject)
- Amis; Sir; Kingsley (1922-1995); author, knight (Subject)
- Betjeman; Sir; John (1906-1984); poet, writer on architecture and broadcaster (Subject)
- Koestler; Arthur (1905-1983); author and journalist (Subject)
- Larkin; Philip Arthur (1922-1985); poet and novelist (Subject)
- Melly; Alan George Heywood (1926-2007); jazz singer, critic and film scriptwriter (Subject)
- O'Brien; Edna; writer (Subject)
- Tynan; Kenneth Peacock (1927-1980); theatre critic (Subject)
- Lowell; Robert Traill Spence (1917-1977); poet and playwright (Subject)
- McCarthy; Mary (1912-1989); writer (Subject)
- Richardson; Maurice L (-1978); journalist (Subject)
- James; Clive Vivian Leopold (1939-2019); writer and broadcaster (Subject)
- Jenkins; Roy Harris (1920-2003); Baron Jenkins of Hillhead; politician (Subject)
- Thomas; Hugh (1931-2017); Baron Thomas of Swynnerton; historian (Subject)
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Catalogued