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PDF 74 Mar 14 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (IEA MSS) Conservatism: Ralph Harris record of conversation (visit from Keith Joseph) [plans "a new 'crusade' for private enterprise", acknowledging 'guilt' for Heath Government failings]
PDF 74 Mar 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (IEA MSS) Conservatism: Sir Keith Joseph draft letter to potential donors (work of education on market economy) ["a formidable task ... [has] a realistic plan for carrying it out"]
PDF 74 Mar 21 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (IEA MSS) Conservatism: Sir Keith Joseph note ("The Erhard Foundation") [Fabian Society for Conservatives, Howe among managing trustees]
PDF 74 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (IEA MSS) Conservatism: Ralph Harris letter to Keith Joseph (planning for CPS) [costs & possible donors]
PDF 74 Apr 14 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (IEA MSS) Conservatism: Sir Keith Joseph note ("Questions formulated by KJ after listening and reading") [plus IEA comments on "Major issues omitted" from document]
PDF 74 May 30 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (IEA MSS) Conservatism: Ralph Harris letter to Keith Joseph (donors) [asks for help with 'tiresome' ones]
PDF 74 Jun 7 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (IEA MSS) Conservatism: Sir Keith Joseph draft prospectus ("Centre for Policy Studies Limited") ["denationalisation ... not politically feasible"]
PDF 74 Jun 28 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (IEA MSS) Conservatism: Ralph Harris letter to Keith Joseph (attacks his ruling out denationalization) ["blinkered vision"]
PDF 74 Jul 4 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (IEA MSS) Conservatism: Sir Keith Joseph letter to Ralph Harris (agrees on denationalization) ["strong grounds for your complaints ... strong wish of several subscribers that we should be realistic"]
PDF 74 Jul 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (IEA MSS) Conservatism: Sir Keith Joseph draft prospectus ("Centre for Policy Studies") ["We shall seek to change the climate of opinion ... but we shall be realistic"]
PDF 74 Aug 8 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (IEA MSS) Conservatism: Sir Keith Joseph letter to Ralph Harris (update - CPS in existence but not yet active) ["steeping myself in Hayek"]
PDF 74 Oct 28 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (Hayek MSS) Conservatism: Sir Keith Joseph to Hayek (thanks for praise of Preston speech) ["most grateful for your blessing"]
PDF 75 Feb 28 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (IEA MSS) Conservatism: Sir Keith Joseph letter to Ralph Harris (Ralph Bateman) [meeting arranged with MT]
PDF 75 Mar 25 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (IEA MSS) Conservatism: Sir Keith Joseph letter to Ralph Harris (Governor Bank of England & Hayek) [meetings with both via IEA]
PDF 75 Apr 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (IEA MSS) Conservatism: Centre for Policy Studies prospectus ("Objectives & Style") [countering "Socialistic & dirigiste ideas"]
PDF 75 Apr 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (IEA MSS) Conservatism: Arthur Seldon to Hayek (differences between his approach & Friedman's) [common ground on labour market reform and monetary policy not being enough to fix unemployment]
PDF 75 Apr 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (IEA MSS) Conservatism: Martin Wassell letter to Ralph Harris (thanks for invitation to Political Economy Club dinner) ["I enjoyed Tuesday night but was thoroughly depressed by the prospects we discussed"]
PDF 75 Jun 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (IEA MSS) Conservatism: Ralph Harris letter to Sir Keith Joseph (suggests meeting for dinner) ["Periodic whispers have reached us about uncertainties in your department"]
PDF 75 Jul 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Hayek MSS) Conservatism: Sir Keith Joseph to Hayek (thanks for encouraging letter) ["I am touched that so outstanding a man as you ..."]
PDF 75 Aug 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (IEA MSS) Conservatism: Arthur Seldon to Hayek (role of IEA) [not simplifiers]
PDF 75 Sep 7 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (IEA MSS) Conservatism: Hayek to Arthur Seldon (role of IEA) [IEA doing work "original work of great importance"]
PDF 75 Sep 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (IEA MSS) Conservatism: Sir Keith Joseph minute ("Minute of meeting between KJ, Michael Ivens, AS [Alfred Sherman] on Monday 8th September, 1975") [Hayek observes "domination of University bookshops by left wing paper backs", Joseph suggests "filling gap"]
PDF 76 Feb 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (IEA MSS) Conservatism: Centre for Policy Studies catalogue ("Research and Publications") [publications in hand and proposed, intervention studies, common ground]
PDF 76 Feb 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (IEA MSS) Conservatism: Sir Keith Joseph letter to Ralph Harris (request for publication ideas) [poverty, government expenditure, education, taxation, housing, nationalisation]
PDF 76 Feb 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (IEA MSS) Conservatism: Sir Keith Joseph letter to Ivens (meeting with Routledge, Keegan, Paul regarding re-publication of Hayek) ["This augurs well for the future"]
PDF 76 Mar 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (IEA MSS) Conservatism: Hayek to Arthur Seldon (Keynes) ["I had the condemnation of the inflationism of his most immediate pupils from his own mouth"]
PDF 76 Apr 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (IEA MSS) Conservatism: Arthur Seldon to Hayek (Peter Jay) ["showing a remarkable spontaneous movement to micro-economic thinking"]
PDF 76 Jul 2 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (IEA MSS) Conservatism: Hayek to Arthur Seldon ("Concurrent Currencies") ["I believe the book will make a splash"]
PDF 76 Jul 19 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (IEA MSS) Conservatism: Seldon to Hayek ("Concurrent Currencies") ["general gist ... is revolutionary"]
PDF 76 Oct 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (IEA MSS) Conservatism: Callaghan letter to Sir Keith Joseph (response to Joseph's recommendation of Life Peerage for Hayek) ["I will certainly bear Professor Hayek's name in mind..."]
PDF 76 Oct 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (IEA MSS) Conservatism: Martin Wassell letter to Ralph Harris (agenda for forthcoming CPS/IEA meeting) [publications and projects, common ground, CBI]
PDF 77 Feb 1 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Hayek MSS) Conservatism: Sir Keith Joseph to Hayek (talks for BBC) [will ask their advice]
PDF 77 Feb 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (IEA MSS) Conservatism: Sir Keith Joseph letter to Ralph Harris (invitation to CPS dinner at which Howe paper will be discussed) ["Margaret particularly hopes that you can manage to be present"]
PDF 77 Mar 14 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Hayek MSS) Conservatism: Sir Keith Joseph to Hayek (talks for BBC) [interview problematic "because you are in a class of your own", but better than a talk on such a difficult subject]
PDF 77 Mar 23 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Hayek MSS) Conservatism: Hayek to Sir Keith Joseph(talks for BBC) [thanks, sending draft talk]
PDF 77 Mar 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Hayek MSS) Conservatism: Hayek to The Times (Lib-Lab Pact) ["a party that keeps a socialist government in power clearly has lost all title to the name 'Liberal'"]
Text 77 May 9 Mo Press Major Commentary (The Times) Conservatism: "The liberal teacher who turned his back on old age to lead world" (Seldon profile of Hayek) ["a liberal of the British classical tradition"]
PDF 77 May 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (IEA MSS) Conservatism: Sir Keith Joseph letter to Ralph Harris (comments on Friedman's "Capitalism and the Jews") ["[I] thought it worth publishing but Alfred [disagrees]"]
PDF 77 Jun 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (IEA MSS) Conservatism: Hayek to Arthur Seldon (troubles with the British media) [decides against "a declaration of open war" on 'The Economist']
PDF 77 Jul 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (IEA MSS) Trade unions: Hayek to William Rees-Mogg (revocation of unique union privileges) [on this point MT "might get the mandate without which she can do little"]
Text 77 Jul 21 Th Press Major Commentary (The Times) Trade unions: "Trade union immunity under the law" (Hayek letter) [revoke privileges granted by Trade Disputes Act, 1906]
PDF 77 Jul 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Hayek MSS) Conservatism: Arthur Seldon letter to Hayek (response to Hayek's letters) ["you would be agreeably surprised by the wide range of people who now think well of your work"]
PDF 77 Jul 30 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Hayek MSS) Conservatism: Hayek letter to Arthur Seldon ( Tiger By the Tail , second edition of Denationalisation of Money , newspaper correspondence and BBC broadcasts)
Text 77 Aug 2 Tu Press Major Commentary (The Times) Trade unions: "Trade union privileges" (Hayek letter) ["The trade unions, being politically sacrosanct, have been allowed to destroy the British economy"]
PDF 77 Aug 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Hayek MSS) Conservatism: Arthur Seldon letter to Hayek ( Tiger By the Tail , second edition of Denationalisation of Money , newspaper correspondence and BBC broadcasts)
Text 77 Aug 20 Sa Press Major Commentary (The Times) Trade unions: "Trade union privileges" (Hayek letter) ["The trouble is that British trade unions refuse to accept the law which applies to everybody else"]
PDF 77 Aug 27 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Hayek MSS) Conservatism: Hayek letter to Seldon (addenda to Denationalisation of Money , travel plans, unable to participate in Trade Union Seminar) ["I was rather disappointed by the response to my letters to The Times"]
PDF 77 Sep 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (IEA MSS) Conservatism: Centre for Policy Studies minutes ("Notes for Action: Following Meeting at Centre for Policy Studies on September 20") [initial objective to prepare a report for 'decision makers' in the Conservative party]
PDF 77 Oct 8 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Hayek MSS) Conservatism: Hayek letter to William Rees-Mogg (Trade Unions) ["there is bound to be a division within the Conservative party...and with Mrs. Thatcher on the right side needing support"]
PDF 77 Oct 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (IEA MSS) Conservatism: Sir Keith Joseph letter to Ralph Harris (British Brookings Institute) [Joseph proposes to warn that Conservative Government may not allow Brookings to be publicly funded]

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