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Marriage, birth, teaching and death certificates etc for JEP’s grandparents and parents.

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Includes JEP's birth and baptismal certificates, and his parents' death certificates and other papers relating to their deaths and settlement of their estates.

Scope and Contents Subjects include: JEP's appointments as Professor of Greek at the University of Sydney and then at Durham; his enlistment in the army and war service in the Middle East and India; his interest in India and the beginning of his political career, 1946; listening to JEP's final campaign speech on the eve of the 1950 General Election and his re-election in 1951; his engagement to [Margaret] Pamela Wilson. Also includes letters from JEP to his parents on his gratitude to them and to his mother...

Scope and Contents Letters to JEP in Australia from his parents, on subjects including: JEP's work at the University of Sydney, Australia [as Professor of Greek]; his publications, including work on the Rendel Harris Papyri, and his poems, Casting Off; the approach of war; JEP's preparations to move to Durham [as Professor of Greek and Classical Literature]; news from Trinity College [Cambridge]; JEP's finances. Also includes letters from others, including Colin Hardie [Tutor in Classics], Magdalen...

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Letters written to JEP in India from his parents, on subjects including: JEP's friend A W J Thomas; JEP's finances; his health; JEP's friend Paul Maas; JEP's resignation from the University of Durham [as future Professor of Greek and Classical Literature]; the progress of the war in the Far East.

Scope and Contents Letters written to JEP in India from his parents, on subjects including: the progress of the war and peace negotiations; JEP's life in India; his promotions; his friends, including Ted Curtis, A W J Thomas and Paul Maas; JEP's finances; his future as a writer; the publication of JEP's book of poems, Dancer's End; JEP's resignation from Durham University [as Professor of Greek and Classical Literature]. Also includes copies of letters from James Duff, Vice-Chancellor of Durham...

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Letters from JEP's father on subjects including: the early childhood of Susan Powell; JEP's resentment at not receiving due acknowledgement [for his work on the book "Biography of a Nation", with Angus Maude]; JEP's success against Aneurin Bevan in the debate [on the second reading of the Housing Subsidies Bill], Nov 1955.

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Correspondence with representatives of Davis and Moughton Limited on mathematical textbooks by JEP's father, Albert Powell.

Also includes: royalty statements; copy of publisher's agreements.

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Correspondents include JEP's parents, friends and political colleagues.

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Frederick Bishop [Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister] on the resignation of the Prime Minister, Anthony Eden [later 1st Lord Avon]; [Maurice] Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister [later 1st Lord Stockton] on JEP's acceptance of the position of Financial Secretary to the Treasury, and the possibility of a future Privy Counsellorship for him; Eden on JEP's new position; the Rev. W W S March on a church memorial to JEP's parents [Albert Powell and Ellen...

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Papers and correspondence on the property, staff, finances and history of the Powell family. Also includes material on JEP's archive, and legal cases concerning him.

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Also includes photographs of JEP’s godmother and a photograph of a felucca in Egypt, presumably taken by JEP, 1943.

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Letters to JEP in [Cairo, Egypt, and Tunisia] from his parents, on subjects including: JEP's promotion prospects; his finances; his concerns for A W J Thomas.