Identity area
Reference code
OBS/6/7/1/2/8
Title
'Books of the year' correspondence and draft copy
Date(s)
- 1976 (Creation)
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File
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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 Isaiah Berlin, Margaret Drabble, Arthur Koestler, Philip Larkin, Edna O'Brien, Harold Pinter, John Wain, Professor John Kenyon, Angus Wilson.
Also includes contributions from some of the above and Martin Amis (unsigned manuscript), Russell Davies, Clive James, Roy Jenkins, Naomi Lewis, Mary McCarthy (only 2nd page), George Melly, Lorna Sage, Philip Toynbee, and Christopher Wordsworth.
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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- Kilmartin; Terence Kevin (1922-1991); literary editor (Subject)
- Gross; Miriam Marianna (1939-); Lady Owen; editor and journalist (Subject)
- Amis; Sir; Kingsley (1922-1995); author, knight (Subject)
- Ayer; Sir; Alfred Jules (1910-1989); philosopher (Subject)
- Berlin; Sir; Isaiah (1909-1997); knight, historian and philosopher (Subject)
- Drabble; Margaret (1939-); author (Subject)
- Koestler; Arthur (1905-1983); author and journalist (Subject)
- Larkin; Philip Arthur (1922-1985); poet and novelist (Subject)
- O'Brien; Edna; writer (Subject)
- Pinter; Harold (1930-); actor, playwright and director (Subject)
- Wain; John Barrington (1925-1994); author (Subject)
- Kenyon; John Philipps (1927-1996); historian (Subject)
- Wilson; Sir; Angus Frank Johnstone (1913-1991); knight, author (Subject)
- Amis; Martin Louis (1949-); author (Subject)
- James; Clive Vivian Leopold (1939-2019); writer and broadcaster (Subject)
- Jenkins; Roy Harris (1920-2003); Baron Jenkins of Hillhead; politician (Subject)
- Lewis; Naomi; writer (Subject)
- McCarthy; Mary (1912-1989); writer (Subject)
- Melly; Alan George Heywood (1926-2007); jazz singer, critic and film scriptwriter (Subject)
- Toynbee; Theodore Philip (1916-1981); author and journalist (Subject)
- Wordsworth; Christopher (1914-1998); Observer sports and literary reviewer (Subject)
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