Janus: The Papers of Lord Hailsham

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The Papers of Lord Hailsham

Title	Personal correspondence
Reference	HLSM 8/22
Covering Dates	1977–1980
Extent and Medium	16 files

Content and context

Including many letters about the death of Lady Hailsham [Mary Hogg], about Lord Hailsham's book, "The Dilemma of Democracy", and about Lord Hailsham's letter to The Times on the subject of the marriage of divorced people in church.

Churchill/HLSM 8/22 contains:

Personal correspondence. Including a postcard to Lord Scrymgeour [Alexander Scrymgeour], wishing him luck in the Hamilton By-election, 21 May 1978; a letter from Fred Peart, Baron Peart, about Armed Forces pay, 4 May 1978; and a letter from Lady Stedman [Phyllis Stedman], about compensation for victims of oil pollution, 6 June 1978. With papers about family trust funds, March 1978.
1 file.

December 1977-March 1978

Personal correspondence. Including letters from Godfrey Carter, April 1978 (2); a letter from Tam Dalyell, about the Scotland Bill, 10 April 1978; a letter from Nevil Johnson, about House of Lords reform, 4 April 1978; and a letter from James Cornford, 7 April 1978.
1 file.

March 1978-April 1978

Personal correspondence. Including a letter from Tam Dalyell, 18 April 1978; a letter from James Cornford, about the Scotland Bill, 21 March 1978; letters from Sir Peter Rawlinson, April 1978 (3); a letter from Joseph Godber, 12 April 1978; a letter from Reginald Manningham-Buller, 1st Viscount Dilhorne, 17 April 1978; and a letter from Frederick Elwyn-Jones, Baron Elwyn-Jones, 15 April 1978.
1 file.

March 1978-April 1978

Personal correspondence. Including letters from Kate Hogg, June 1978 (2); a letter from Alan Thompson, about an independent judiciary, 31 May 1978; a letter from Godfrey Carter, undated; a letter from James Hogg, 20 April 1978; and letters from Lady Forester [Priscilla Forester], April 1978 (2).
1 file.

April 1978-June 1978

Personal correspondence. Including a letter from Michael Fraser, Baron Fraser of Kilmorack, enclosing a copy of his lecture "The Tides of Party - British Party Politics 1945-78", 20 April 1978; a letter from Hinch [Victor Montagu], 20 April 1978l; a letter from Godfrey Carter, May-June 1978 (2); a letter from Martin Salmon, 2 June 1978; a letter from Stuart Blanch, Archbishop of York, 26 June 1978; and a letter from Margaret Thatcher, 24 June 1978.
1 file.

April 1978-July 1978

Personal correspondence. Including a letter from Garth Lean, 18 July 1978; a letter from Tom Burns, 18 July 1978; correspondence with Ian Percival, about his enclosed paper "Recommendations on Judicial Supervision of the Exercise and Performance of Administrative Powers and Duties", July 1978 (2); correspondence with Sir David Renton, about the Report of the Committee on the Preparation of Legislation, June 1978 (2); and a letter from Hugo Young, about a BBC radio programme Talking Law, 24 June 1978. With a copy of a report on Freedom of Information published by Justice, 20 June 1978.
1 file.

May 1978-July 1978

Personal correspondence. Including a letter from Jack Simon, Baron Simon of Glaisdale, 2 July 1978; letters from David Owen, about the trial of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, in Pakistan, 20 June 1978 (2); a letter from John Boyd-Carpenter, Baron Boyd-Carpenter, 7 July 1978; a letter from Sir John Colville, 7 July 1978; a letter from Noel Blakiston, 8 July 1978; a letter from Frank Coventry, 7 July 1978; a letter from Bryan Wilson, about nominating John Sparrow for Professor of Poetry at Oxford University, 3 July 1978; a letter from Charles Kennedy, on behalf of Glasgow University Dialectic Society, 20 June 1978; a letter from Garth Lean, 7 July 1978; letters from Lady Prudence Loudon, about the death of Lady Hailsham [Mary Hogg], June-July 1978; and a letter from Lady Forester [Priscilla Forester], 4 July 1978.
1 file.

June 1978-July 1978

Personal correspondence. Including a letter about Kate Hogg's financial affairs, 14 July 1978; a letter from Lady Jessamine Harmsworth, 9 July 1978; a letter from George Thomas, 14 July 1978; a letter from Lady Forester [Priscilla Forester], undated; a letter from Geoffrey Waldegrave, 12th Earl Waldegrave, 7 July 1978; and a letter from Ivan Lawrence, about the Theft Bill, 10 July 1978.
1 file.

June 1978-July 1978

Personal correspondence. Including letters from Sir Hugh Linstead, July-August 1978 (2); a letter from Anthony Wigram, about a meeting of Conservative Action for Electoral Reform, 2 August 1978; a letter from Lady Wilson [Hester Wilson], undated; a letter from Martin Salmon, 30 July 1978; a letter from Garth Lean, 1 August 1978; a letter from Sir Robert McEwen, 23 July 1978; a letter from Anne Asquith, Countess of Oxford and Asquith, about the marriage of her son, Raymond Asquith, 29 July 1978; and a letter to Gerald Ellison, Bishop of London, about divorce and remarraige, 20 July 1978.
1 file.

June 1978-August 1978

Personal correspondence. Including a letter from Gerald Ellison, Bishop of London, 22 July 1978; a letter from Stuart Blanch, Archbishop of York, 21 July 1978; a letter from A. L. Rowse [Alfred Leslie Rowse], 23 July 1978; a letter from Kenneth Rose, about a letter to Winston Churchill, 25 July 1978; a letter from Jack Simon, Baron Simon of Glaisdale, 22 July 1978; a copy of a letter to Ian Percival from Sir Keith Joseph, 25 July 1978; a letter from Mollie Montagu-Douglas-Scott [Mary Montagu-Douglas-Scott], Duchess of Buccleuch, 23 July 1978; a letter from Shan Hackett [General Sir John Winthrop Hackett], 1 August 1978; and a letter from Sir John Kerr, 19 July 1978.
1 file.

July 1978-August 1978

Personal correspondence. Labelled 'Personal and DQ'. Including a letter from Sir Victor Windeyer, 5 December 1978; a letter from Martin Salmon, 10 December 1978; a letter from Lady Prudence Loudon, 9 November 1978; a letter from Alasdair Clayre, about anti-inflationary ideas in the Conservative Party, 30 October 1978; a letter from Frances Hoare [née Frances Hogg], 24 November 1978; letters from Patrick Devlin, Baron Devlin, about his lectures on the jury, November 1978 (2); a letter from Garth Lean, 24 November 1978; a letter from Lady Forester [Priscilla Forester] in Rhodesia [Zimbabwe], 18 September 1978; correspondence with John Boyd-Carpenter, Baron Boyd-Carpenter, about the Scotland Bill, March 1978 (3); letters from Peter Cadogan, October-November 1978 (2); a letter from Lady Wilson [Hester Wilson], 26 October 1978; a letter from Sir Isaiah Berlin, inviting Lord Hailsham to give a series of lectures, 12 June 1978; a letter from Michael Vyvyan, 10 November 1978; a letter from Charles Hope, 3rd Marquess of Linlithgow, about the Rhodesian debate in the House of Lords, 10 November 1978; a letter from Keith Brown, about the Tory Reform Group, 2 September 1978; a letter from Gerald Ellison, Bishop of London, about Lord Hailsham's speech on Rhodesia, 10 November 1978; a letter from Lady Marples [Ruth Marples], about Lord Hailsham's address at her husband Ernest Marples' memorial service, 7 November 1978; a letter from Sir John Foster, enclosing correspondence about John Cordle, 8 November 1978; and a letter from Godfrey Carter, 28 October 1978.
1 file.

June 1978-December 1978

Personal correspondence. Labelled 'Personal and DQ'. Including a letter from Domini Lawrence, enclosing details of her financial settlement, 11 December 1978; a letter from Lady Wilson [Hester Wilson], 18 December 1978; a postcard and a letter from Sarah Hogg, September- December 1978 (2); a letter from John Sparrow, 4 December 1978; a letter from Garth Lean, 20 December 1978; a letter from Donald Coggan, Archbishop of Canterbury, 20 December 1978; letters from Sir Charles Taylor, November-December 1978 (4); a letter from Mervyn Stockwood, Bishop of Southwark, 12 December 1978; and a letter from Godfrey Carter, 12 December 1978.
1 file.

August 1978-December 1978

Personal correspondence. Labelled 'Personal and DQ'. Including letters from Martin Salmon, February-May 1979 (3); a letter from James Hogg, 18 April 1979; a letter from Charles Smyth, 18 April 1979; a letter from Neil Hogg, undated; a postcard from Lady Diana Cooper, undated; a letter from Garth Lean, 18 March 1979; a letter from Kate Hogg, 16 March 1979; letters from Sir Arthur Bryant, February-March 1979 (2); a letter from Lady Wilson [Hester Wilson], 31 January 1979; letters from Lady Prudence Loudon, January 1979 (2); a letter from John Montagu, Viscount Hinchingbrooke, 16 January 1979; a letter from Tim Bergqvist, 10 January 1979; a letter from Maurice Petherick, 9 January 1979; a letter from Ian Gilmour, about Margaret Thatcher's leadership of the Conservative Party and about the election manifesto, 8 January 1979; a letter from Billy Loudon, 30 December 1979.
1 file.

December 1978-May 1979

Personal correspondence. Labelled 'Personal and DQ'. Containing letters of congratulation on the 1979 General Election. Including a letter from Döe Howard, 5 May 1979; an invitation from Richard and Frances Hoare [née Frances Hogg], 22 May 1979; letters from Neil Hogg, undated, 20 March 1979 (2); a letter from Kate Hogg, 12 July 1979; a letter from Domini Lawrence, 15 June 1979; a letter from Tim Bergqvist in Portugal, 15 May 1979; a letter from Charles Smyth, May 1979; a letter from Garth Lean in the United States, 8 May 1979; a letter from Lady Helen Asquith, 7 May 1979; a letter from Mervyn Stockwood, Bishop of Southwark, 7 May 1979; a letter from Sir Ashton Roskill, 8 May 1979; a letter from Lady Prudence Loudon, 3 May 1979; a letter from Lady Townsend [Mary Townsend], 6 May 1979; a letter from Robert MacGill, 5 May 1979; a letter from Sir John Kerr, undated; a letter from Lady Wilson [Hester Wilson], 10 May 1979; a letter from Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford, 8 May 1979; and correspondence with Lady Forester [Priscilla Forester], about Rhodesia [Zimbabwe], June-July 1979 (5).
1 file.

March 1979-July 1979

Personal correspondence. Labelled 'Personal and DQ'. Containing letters of congratulation on the 1979 General Election. Including a letter from Kate Hogg, 30 September 1979; a letter from Garth Lean, 29 September 1980; a letter from Lady Helen Asquith, 27 September 1980; a letter from James Hogg, 18 October 1979; correspondence with Lady Wilson [Hester Wilson], September 1979 (2); a letter from Deirdre Shannon, 10 January 1979; a letter from Michael Vyvyan, 17 November 1979; a letter from Charles Hope, 3rd Marquess of Linlithgow, 30 July 1979; and a letter from Neil Hogg, undated. With a list of Christmas presents, December 1979.
1 file.

1979-September 1980

Personal correspondence. Including letters from Lady Helen Asquith, partly about Evelyn Waugh, August-December 1980 (4); a letter from Mervyn Stockwood, Bishop of Southwark, 11 December 1980; a letter from Edward Boyle, Baron Boyle of Handsworth, about his illness, 30 November 1980; a letter from Lady Prudence Loudon, 26 September [1980]; a letter from Raymond Jolliffe, 5th Baron Hylton, 3 February 1980; a postcard and a letter from Domini Morgan [née Domini Lawrence], undated, January 1980 (2); letters from Tim Marten, February 1980 (2); and a letter from Sir Ian Bowater, 23 February 1980.
1 file.

1980