General correspondence of the editors of ‘The Observatory’ magazine, mainly with contributors but also with subscribers, printers and banks. Letters are arranged in chronological order. Editors include Derek Jones, Michael Penston and Jocelyn Bell Burnell. Correspondents include:

Jan.-June 1974: John Gribbin (‘Nature’; with typed submission), Rev. G.G. Claridge (re. rejected note), D.N. Matheson (University of Kent), J.M. Kenchington (University of Bradford), Wayne Osborn (Instituto Venezolano de Astronomia; rejected note), G.A. Gurzadyan (Garny Space Astronomy Lab, Armenian SSR), Jenners Ltd. (printers), Akin Semizoglu (Istanbul), A. Thomas (Marlborough), R. Hide (Meteorological Office, Bracknell), John Gribbon MacRobyn (Brighton; re. a spoof review), Ermanno F. Borra (Hale Observatories, Pasadena), Michael Moutsoulas (University of Athens), Dr Manuel Peimbert (Instituto de Astronomia, Mexico; with typed submission), J.D.R. Bahng (Northwestern University, Illinois; re. rejected note), and various SRC staff.

July-Dec. 1974: Edgar A. Ostrander (New York), RAS, D. Kilkenny (University Observatory, St. Andrews; re. rejected paper), L. Epstein (Louisiana State University; re. rejected note), Lawrence J. Cox (Hatfield Polytechnic Observatory, Hertfordshire; re. rejected article), J.O. Peralta (Venezuela; re. rejected note), S.E. Williams (University of Western Australia; re. rejected article), G.H. Rowland (re. rejected note), M. Friedjung (Institut d’Astrophysique, Paris), Z. Kopal (University of Manchester), Sumfield & Day (printers), I. Brickett (Transvaal), E.A. Mallia (Radcliffe Observatory; re. rejected article), M.M. Woolfson (University of York), Derek Wills (University of Texas at Austin), Zotov and Davidson (New Zealand; criticising a published article), R.K.G. Temple (Leamington Spa), Jack E. Penfold (South African Astronomical Observatory), K.D. Barker (Malmesbury; re. rejected note), Pekka Teerikorpi (University of Helsinki), ‘Sky and Telescope’ magazine, A.N. Black (Science History Publications Ltd.), Patrick Moore (18 Oct. 1974; re a review), W.R. Beardsley (Allegheny Observatory, Pittsburgh; re. rejected article), K.B. Atkinson (UCL), C.A.G. Bearpark (Murcia, Spain), V.A. Firsoff (with typed submission; review letters include one by Jocelyn Bell Burnell, 12 June 1974), C.J. Davy (Australia), P.B. Fellget (University of Reading; re. rejected letter), W. Davidson (University of Otago; re. rejected paper).

Jan.-Apr. 1975: G.A. Gurzadyan (Garny Space Astronomy Lab, USSR), T. McGirr (Edinburgh; re. rejected paper), ‘Harper’s Magazine’, R.J. Bray and R.E. Loughhead (National Measurement Laboratory, Sydney), A.P. Crowley (Dominion Astrophysical Observatory, Victoria), B.M. Lewis (Carter Observatory, Wellington), E.R. Orozco Jr. (WPBT Public Television, North Miami), F.G. Smith (RGO), Edith Sachtschal (ESO), A.D. Thackeray (University of Cape Town), D.H. McIntosh (Edinburgh), A.F. Carter (London), T.B. Austin (University Observatory, Oxford), W.E. Greig (West Virginia University), G.E. Hunt (Meteorological Office, Bracknell), The Royal Society, J.C. Blades (UCL Observatory), E.W. Crew (Broxbourne), E.G. Martin (Battle), Owen Gingerich (Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Massachusetts), J. Baston (Queen Mary College, London), and H.C. Nightingale (Brighton).