Identity area
Reference code
RAB/G/32
Title
General political correspondence
Date(s)
- n.d. and 1957–1958 (Creation)
Level of description
File
Extent and medium
1 file
Context area
Name of creator
Repository
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Labelled Jan-July 1958 by Julia Fish. Made up of personal correspondence, largely political but including re Royal Society of Literature poetry reading attended by Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother; reprint of articles on crime and children from Sunday Times, including one by RAB; speech notes re resignation of Peter Thorneycroft, O.E.E.C.; accounts by RAB of taking charge of the Government on various occasions (June), events of 21 July re Kruschev and timing of General Election; minutes to Prime Minister re events during his absence (Feb and June), penal reform, the Middle East; Time journalist's report of private talk with Anthony Eden (July); press cuttings, programmes