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Correspondents include: [William] John Biffen on his decision to stand down as an MP, the future of Northern Ireland and the European debate and Maastricht Treaty (2); Dame Jane Gow; Patrick Cormack; Sir [Stanley] Paul Osmond, Chairman of the General Committee, the Athenaeum; Major-General Cosmo Nevill; Joan Rootham; Francis Noel-Baker; Michael Strachan (3); Michael Portillo on subjects including the Cabinet reshuffle; Hugh Wright, Chief Master of King Edward's School, Birmingham (2); William Weaver, Chaplain of King Edward's School, Birmingham, on JEP's Hebrew prize for the school (3); Lord Joseph; Greville Howard, former Private Secretary to JEP; Stella, Lady Mott-Radclyffe, on the death of Sir Charles Mott-Radclyffe; Nicholas Budgen; Sir [Edwin] Hardy Amies (2); Sir [William] Roger Tomkys, Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge; Peter Ball [Bishop of Gloucester]; Sir Peter Hordern.
Other subjects include: the question of dropping Head of Commonwealth from the royal titles; literary requests and enquiries; the Australian constitution; an obituary programme for Baroness Thatcher.
Also includes: photographs of the boys of King Edward's School, Birmingham, 1928; an appreciation of JEP by Jasper Rootham; JEP's review of Michael Strachan's history of the Ben Line; bibliography of JEP's classical works by Professor Robert Todd, Department of Classics, University of British Columbia.
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