Personal correspondence, 1983-08-08 - 1989-12-18
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Peter Clarke [former Private Secretary to JEP]; Sir Robin Williams, Honorary Secretary of the British Anti-Common Market Campaign, on co-opting JEP onto their committee (2); Martin Rogers, Chief Master, King Edward's School, Birmingham [Warwickshire], on JEP's endowment of a prize in Hebrew for the school (13); Iain Sproat on his literary work; Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister, thanking JEP for his support for her speech at Strasbourg [France, December 1989]; Michael Strachan (7); Jasper Rootham; Robert Robinson; [Edward] Geoffrey Bill, Librarian of Lambeth Palace Library (2); Eric Deakins; Sir George Godber [former Chief Medical Officer, Department of Health and Social Security] on subjects including JEP's Health and Welfare Plan as Minister of Health (2); Michael Foot; Nigel Lawson, Chancellor of the Exchequer, on his anti-inflation and exchange rate policies (2); Rosamund Silkin; Mark Lennox-Boyd, Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Prime Minister; Sir Ian Gilmour; Professor Edward Ullendorff; Charles Irving; Sir Peter Tapsell (2); Greville Howard [former Private Secretary to JEP]; Richard Gott, Features Editor of the Guardian (2); 10th Lord St Germans [earlier Lord Eliot] (2); Lord Lane, Lord Chief Justice (2); 1st Lord Tonypandy [earlier (Thomas) George Thomas]; Elsie Farrell (3); Count Nikolai Tolstoy; Sir Christopher Staughton; Michael Noakes; Vivien Noakes (2); Pamela, Lady Biggs-Davison, on JEP's tribute to Sir John Biggs-Davison; Sir Bruce Fraser [former 3rd Secretary, Treasury] on the parts played by Roger Makins [1st Lord Sherfield, former Joint Permanent Secretary of the Treasury] and George [Peter] Thorneycroft [former Chancellor of the Exchequer] in the Treasury crisis of 1958 (2); Susan Day [earlier Susan Powell]; Mollie, Lady Butler of Saffron Walden, on political biographies, particularly that of Harold Macmillan [1st Lord Stockton]; Edward Heath on Britain's position in the European Community, and the sacking of JEP from the Shadow Cabinet [in 1968]; Sir John Riddell, Private Secretary to Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, and Princess Diana, Princess of Wales.
Other subjects include: invitations to JEP; charitable appeals; literary requests and enquiries; speeches and broadcasts by JEP; church architecture; JEP's Evolution of the Gospel.
Also includes: typescript of JEP's review for Michael Strachan's biography of Sir Thomas Roe; copy of speech by JEP on inflation (Nottingham [Nottinghamshire], July 1989); photograph of portrait of JEP by Christopher Cole.
Dates
- Creation: 1983-08-08 - 1989-12-18
Conditions Governing Access
The majority of the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Please see individual files for details.
Extent
3 file(s) (3 files (332 folios))
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
Reverse chronological order.
Former / Other Reference
Personal 12
Date information
DateText: The majority of folios date from 1988-1989.
Finding aid date
2002-04-09 16:33:28+00:00
Topical
Repository Details
Part of the Churchill Archives Centre Repository
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