The Papers of Enoch Powell

Copies of letters from JEP to various individuals, including: to Jennifer Powell and Susan Powell [later Jennifer Lavin and Susan Day]; to Jane Gow, on the death of Ian Gow; to Carla, Lady Thorneycroft, on the death of Lord Thorneycroft, and JEP's pride in having worked with him; to Paul Baxter, on his work for JEP; to Catherine Jobling; to Beatrice Carthew, on her gifts to JEP and St Matthew's Gospel; to Roger Scruton, on JEP's sale of his hunting clothes; to Brigid Utley, on the death of T E Utley (Peter Utley); to Mary Westwood on her work for JEP at the Wolverhampton South West Conservative Association; to Ian Beddows, Treasurer of the Wolverhampton South West Conservative Association, thanking him for his work; to Paul Baxter; to the Reverend Giles Hunt, Vicar of St Peter's Church, Eaton Square [London] on subjects including catholicism in the Church of England, the ordination of women deacons and priests, the Falklands War, Ulster [Northern Ireland] ceasing to be part of the United Kingdom, criticism of the New Testament, Christian Aid's attempts to reverse economic trends, reactions to JEP's "rivers of blood" speech [20 April 1968], and JEP's view of the communion service; to Sarah McCallum, thanking her for her help at Wolverhampton; to Michael Alison, on subjects including applying the Divorce Reform Act to Northern Ireland, Alison's letter of sympathy [following JEP's loss of his seat in 1987], Christianity and Conservatism and the New Testament; to [Bruce] Bernard Weatherill, Speaker of the House of Commons, protesting against his censuring an MP for using the word "unpatriotic", with Weatherill's reply; to [James] Gerald Howarth, in sympathy following Howarth's defeat in the 1992 General Election; to James Molyneaux [Leader, Ulster Unionist Party, House of Commons] on subjects including JEP's candidature for a seat in Northern Ireland, Hansard and parliamentary business; to Ralph Harris on immigration, explaining his belief that a country should have the right to bar immigrants, including those coming from the Commonwealth, and on the retrospective removal of the exception made for those belonging to Britain by descent or birth; to Philip Beddows, JEP's godson [with transcripts], on subjects including taking communion, the aims of education, warning him to avoid politics and on hunting; to Betty and Reginald Simmerson on the campaign to bring Britain out of the European Community; to Peter Brooke [Secretary of State for Northern Ireland], sending a copy of his speech to the South Down Unionist Association against the negotiations between the British and Irish Governments, January 1991.

Also includes: extract from an article by Scruton on a conversation with JEP about hunting.

The copies were given to Churchill Archives Centre by Greville Howard in 2003-06.

The original letters are still with the individual correspondents.