The Papers of Enoch Powell

Correspondents include: Sir David Mitchell on subjects including defamatory material being printed about JEP in a local newspaper (2); Andrew Roberts; Michael Portillo, enclosing the text of his lecture to the Centre for Policy Studies, Oct 1997, and also thanking JEP for his sympathy on losing his seat in the 1997 General Election (2); [Arthur] Wesley Carr, Dean of Westminster; [Winifred] Ann Taylor, President of the Council; Sir Roger Moate, Sir Michael Neubert, Nicholas Budgen, Sir Rhodes Boyson and Iain Sproat, thanking JEP for his sympathy on losing their seats in the 1997 General Election; James Molyneaux, thanking JEP for his congratulations on his peerage; [William] John Biffen on his peerage and the General Election; John Major [leader of the Conservative Party] on the loss of the Election; Peter Hennessy [Professor of Contemporary History, University of London], asking for JEP's advice on constitutional points, and enclosing copies of a selection of JEP's correspondence with [Maurice] Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister [later 1st Lord Stockton] while serving as Minister of Health (3); Alan Clark on JEP being his inspiration, with copy of Clark's memorial service and related cutting; Sir Anthony Wagner, Clarenceux King of Arms, on subjects including recommending JEP for a peerage (2); Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister, (writing to Wagner); Sir Keith Joseph; [Charles] Ian Orr-Ewing (2); Woodrow Wyatt.

Also includes: press cutting on the "little old lady" [mentioned in JEP's Birmingham speech, Apr 1968, "Rivers of Blood"]; photocopy of a group photograph, with JEP, at the Army Staff College, Camberley, Surrey, 1941; copy of JEP's letter to Jane Gow on the death of Ian Gow; recollections by JEP on his time as an officer cadet at Aldershot [Hampshire], 1940; copy of the memorial service for Lord Reigate [earlier John Vaughan-Morgan], including the text of an address by JEP.