De Courcy (Kenneth Hugh) papers

Imperial Policy Group 1934-1942

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Minutes of National Citizens' Union, and later Imperial Policy Group, committees and sub-committees with related reports and correspondence and other papers.

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Minutes of the National Citizens Union Policy Committee (which was reconstituted in October 1934 as the Imperial Policy Group) and of the Imperial Policy Group Executive Committee and sub-committees on: Empire; foreign policy; House of Lords reform; organization of propaganda; shipping; taxation; and unemployment 1934-1942

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Box 1, Folder 1-2

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Report of Foreign Affairs Mission on Central Europe with a covering letter to Sir Robert Vansittart 1936

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Box 1, Folder 3 (photocopy)

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Miscellaneous correspondence and other papers found in 1 above 1937-1983

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Box 1, Folder 4

Correspondence 1936-1983

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Correspondence of Kenneth De Courcy, arranged alphabetically by correspondent

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Belchem, General David 1978-1981

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Box 1, Folder 5

Subjects include: British military strategy and preparedness; USSR strategy

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Butler, R. A. 1956-1961

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Box 1, Folder 6

Subjects include: British domestic politics; Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland; Field Marshall Bernard Montgomery; Near East; Rhodesia (Zimbabwe); Trade Union leaders' private talks with Conservative Party leaders; USSR foreign policy

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Douglas-Home, sir Alec (Lord Home) 1975-(1983?)

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Box 1, Folder 7

Subjects include: East-West relations; Near East; Rhodesia (Zimbabwe)

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Eden, Sir Anthony 1951-1952

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Box 1, Folder 8

Subjects include: possibility of recruiting opposition leaders to the Conservative Government (Clement Davies and Walter Citrine are named); Persia (Iran)

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Fisher, Nigel 1974-1983

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Box 1, Folder 9

Subjects include: Afghanistan; British defense policy; British domestic politics; Near East; Poland; Rhodesia (Zimbabwe); South Africa; USSR. Also contains correspondence from Colonel R. Butler, "Chief of Staff" to General Walter Walker. (See also box 2 folder 6)

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Foreign Office, Great Britain 1951

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Box 1, Folder 10

Concerns Roy De Groot, former circulation agent for Intelligence Digest in the USA

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Hankey, Lord Maurice 1955-1962

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Box 1, Folder 11

Subjects include: Conservative Party leadership; Eastern Mediterranean; Near East

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Hogg, Quintin, (Lord Hailsham) 1956-1962

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Box 1, Folder 12

Subjects include: Central African Federation; Conservative Party leadership; John F. Kennedy, President of the USA; Near East; Trade Union leaders' private talks with the Conservative Party leaders; USSR foreign policy

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Inskip, Sir Thomas (Lord Caldecote) 1936-1943

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Box 1, Folder 13-14

Subjects include: Czechoslovakia crisis, 1938; France, preparedness for war in late 1930s; Great Britain preparedness for war in late 1930s; Imperial Policy Group overseas propaganda; Kenneth De Courcy's complaints about M.I.5 interference with his mail and telephone; Kenneth De Courcy's attempts to become a conservative party candidate; Kenneth De Courcy's attempts to obtain exemption from "directed employment" under war-time regulations, World War, 1939-1945, possibility of a negotiated peace; World War, 1939-1945, Norway campaign

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Lennox-Boyd, Alan 1956-1958

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Box 2, Folder 1

Subjects include: Central African Federation; conservative Party leadership; Suez crisis

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Londonderry, Lord and Lady 1940-1941

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Box 2, Folder 2

Concerning war-time foreign policy and strategy, particularly in respect of air-power

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Londonderry, Lord and Lady 1946-1953

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Box 2, Folder 3

Subjects include: Conservative Party organization and finance; evangelism as an anti-dote to socialism

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Salisbury, Lord 1951-1952

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Box 2, Folder 4

Concerns infiltration of the Civil Service in Great Britain by Soviet sympathizers

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Vansittart, Lord Robert 1951-1953

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Box 2, Folder 5

Concerns infiltration of the Civil Service in Great Britain by Soviet sympathizers

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Walker, General Walter, and Burnand, P. 1973-1976

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Box 2, Folder 6

Subjects include: Civil Assistance, an organization founded by General Walter to oppose subversion; attempts by the Ministry of Defense to restrict General Walter in the expression of his views on defense policy

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War Office, Great Britain 1946

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Box 2, Folder 7

Concerns Kenneth De Courcy's complaints regarding obstruction of his activities as a publicist

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War Office, Great Britain 1951

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Box 2, Folder 8

Concerns Kenneth De Courcy's complaints regarding harassment of Intelligence Digest by M.I.5

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Windsor, Duke of (King Edward VIII) and Duchess of (Mrs. Simpson) 1946-1987

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Box 2, Folder 9

Subjects include: abdication crisis; British domestic politics; British foreign policy; relations between the Duke of Windsor and his brother King George VI

Correspondence of F. Roy Cattell 1953-1957

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Correspondence of Rev. F. Roy Cattell, Secretary of the Evangelical Alliance

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Correspondence of F. Roy Cattell as Secretary of the Evangelical Alliance 1953-1957.

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Box 2, Folder 10-11

Subjects include: Billy Graham's 1954 and 1955 British "Crusades"; politically accented reporting of the "Crusades" in Kenneth De Courcy's publications; suspected Communist sympathies of a member of the Evangelical Alliance committee

Subject File (1936?)-1984

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Notes, Correspondence, memoranda, reports and memoirs, arranged alphabetically by subject.

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Abuse of administrative power by civil and military authorities of Great Britain, complained of by Kenneth De Courcy's 1946-1984

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Box 2, Folder 12

Correspondents include Lord Vansittart and Sir Anthony Eden

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Current Affairs 1974

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Box 2, Folder 13

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Current Affairs 1983

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Box 2, Folder 14

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Current Affairs 1984

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Box 2, Folder 15

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De Courcy, Michael 1950-1984

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Box 2, Folder 16

Correspondence and other papers re Michael De Courcy and alleged attempts by M.I.5 to penetrate Intelligence Digest through him

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France, foreign relations and military preparedness in 1938 (1983?)

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Box 3, Folder 1

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Prison memoirs of Kenneth De Courcy relating to Wormwood Scrubs Prison, London, Great Britain (1968?)

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Box 3, Folder 2

Contains reference to the escape of George Blake

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Subversive activities of Soviet sympathizers in the Civil Service of Great Britain 1947-1983

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Box 3, Folder 3

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Windsor, Duke of (King Edward VIII)

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Box 3, Folder 4

aides-memoirs written by Kenneth De Courcy, dated 1936-1949 and apparently re-copied later

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Windsor, Duke of (King Edward VIII), copies of correspondence and various notes 1946-1949, 1979-(1983?)

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Box 3, Folder 5

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Windsor, Duke of (King Edward VIII), correspondence and other papers 1978-1982

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Box 3, Folder 6

Concerns allegations that the Duke considered committing treason by becoming a party to peace negotiations with Nazi Germany

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World Politics 1938-1940,

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Box 3, Folder 7

Concerns many aspects of European and Near Eastern affairs including: Czechoslovakia crisis, 1938; Russo-German relations; World War, 1939-1945, Norway campaign; World War, 1939-1945, possibility of a negotiated pace. Correspondents include: General Brecard (France); H. A. Butler; Sir Eric Geddes; M. Leger (France); H. Lemery (France)

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World Politics 1938-1940

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Box 3, Folder 8

Consists almost entirely of copies of items in Folder 7 above, also contains a detailed report on the equipment and strength of the USSR Air Force, 1939

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World Politics 1939

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Box 3, Folder 9

Intelligence reports concerning the foreign policy and military capacity of Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland and Sweden, prepared by Alastair Campbell on the basis of interviews, written materials, and travel in the countries named

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World War, 1939-1945

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Box 3, Folder 10

diplomatic history, possibility of a negotiated peace, 1939-1940

Trial and Appeals 1946-1984

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Correspondence, memoranda, affidavits, company stock applications, contracts, powers of attorney, trust deeds, and related papers concerning Kenneth De Courcy's 1963-1964 trial and conviction and subsequent attempts to appeal against the conviction and to obtain publicity in respect of the case, also concerning property transitions in Canada and Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), arranged chronologically

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1946-1963

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Box 3, Folder 11

Subversive activities of Soviet sympathizers in Great Britain, Kenneth De Courcy's opposition to subversion, and the circumstance of Kenneth De Courcy's trial

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1956-(1983?)

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Box 3, Folder 12-13

Trial counts 8 and 9: forgery in the form of issuing ante-dated documents. Other subjects include: Nassau anti-Communist conference organized by Kenneth De Courcy, 1962; proposed Art Digest and Bankers' Digest magazines; Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) property dealings

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1957-1972

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Box 4, Folder 1-2

Trial count 4: falsification of Overseas Land Purchasing Trust records. Other subjects include: Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), politics and business, Salisbury, Rhodesia (Harare, Zimbabwe), housing construction

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1957-(1983?)

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Box 4, Folder 3

Trial counts 4 and 13: forgery. Other subject include Salisbury, Rhodesia (Harare, Zimbabwe) housing construction (1 of 2)

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1957-(1983?)

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Box 4, Folder 4

Trial counts 4 and 13: forgery. Other subject include Salisbury, Rhodesia (Harare, Zimbabwe) housing construction (2 of 2)

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1958-1966

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Box 4, Folder 5-6

Stock application in respect of Sarsden Consolidated Properties Ltd. Of Toronto, Canada with related papers

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1958-(1983?)

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Box 5, Folder 1-2

Kenneth De Courcy's campaign to prove the complicity of the Police in a conspiracy to obtain a conviction against him, particularly by means of concealing documentary evidence. Other subjects include Sarsden Consolidated Properties of Toronto, Canada

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1959-1972

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Box 5, Folder 3

Trial count 3: (improper relations between Overseas Land Purchasing Trust and Sarsden Properties Ltd.?)

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1960

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Box 5, Folder 4

Fraud involving Dollar Land Holdings Ltd.

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1960-1971

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Box 5, Folder 5

Trial Count 9: forgery in the form of issuing ante-dating documents, concerns complex relations between Dollar Land Holdings ltd.; Overseas Land Purchasing Trust, Reserved Property Trust, Peter Von Dumreicher and Kenneth De Courcy

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1960-1972

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Box 5, Folder 6

Trial counts 13, 14, and 16: perjury and contempt of court, concerns control of New Townships Ltd.

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1960-1984

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Box 5, Folder 7

Forgery in the form of issuing ante-dated documents in respect of the Reserved Property Trust

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1964-1981

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Box 5, Folder 8

Kenneth De Courcy's attempts to appeal against conviction and to obtain publicity in respect of his case

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1978-1983

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Box 5, Folder 9

Evidence submitted to the Royal Commission on Criminal Procedure by Kenneth De Courcy

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1983

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Box 5, Folder 10

Questions submitted to Kenneth De Courcy by the Archivist of the Hoover Instituion on War, Revolution, and Peace with the former's replies

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1984

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Box 5, Folder 11

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1984

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Box 5, Folder 12

Memorandum by Kenneth De Courcy

Speeches and Writings 1983-1984

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Printed copies of a news-sheet and a booklet by Kenneth De Courcy

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Special Office Brief, nos. 237-247 1983-1984

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Box 5, Folder 13

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A Watcher on the Threshold (Kenneth De Courcy?) The Carolingian Crown of France Kilbrittain Newspapers Ltd., Dublin, Ireland 1984

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Box 5, Folder 14

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Increment, October 1984

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Box 5, Folder 15

Two letters to De Courcy

Increment, May 1985 1980-1984

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Typewritten transcript of an interview of K. H. De Courcy conducted by Charles Palm 1983

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Box 6, Folder 1

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Letters from John Straker to Sir Carl Aarvold, David Parsons, Nicholas Ridley, Margaret Thatcher, Sir Michael Havers 1980-1984

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Box 6, Folder 2

relating to the trial of K. H. De Courcy

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Increment, July 1986 1985-1986

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Box 6, Folder 3

Correspondence between John Straker and the Lord Chancellor's Department, 1985-1986, relating to the trail; the Lord Chancellor's speech of welcome to the American Bar Association in Westminster on July 15, 1985; and a clipping relating to Lord Halisham, 1985

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Increment, September 1986 1981, 1986

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Box 6, Folder 4

Carbon copy of John Straker's letter to the Private Secretary to the Lord Chancellor, dated 19 July 1986; and the 31 May 1986 issue of News of the World containing an article on the Jeremy Thorpe scandal

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Increment, December 1987 1987

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Box 6, Folder 5

Correspondence, 1987, relating to the Duke of Windsor and to various aspects of British politics and society

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Increment, June, 1991 1991

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Box 6, Folder 6

Correspondence and writings, 1991, relating to Kenneth De Courcy's trial in 1963-1964