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PDF 88 Feb 27 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Arts and Amenities: Sir Peter Smithers letter to MT (the Thyssen Collection) [MT keen for UK to bid to acquire Collection] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Arts and Amenities: No.10 letter to Luce PS (the Thyssen Collection) [UK bid to acquire Collection: Luce convenes working group] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Arts and Amenities: Claude Hankes-Drielsma letter to Cabinet Office (the Thyssen Collection) [UK bid to acquire Collection: advises that MT writes to Baron Thyssen and that a meeting with him be arranged] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Arts and Amenities: No.10 minute to MT (the Thyssen Collection) [UK bid to acquire Collection: MT meeting with Baron Thyssen] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Arts and Amenities: Sir Hector Laing letter to MT (the Thyssen Collection) [UK bid to acquire Collection: "I am writing to urge you to become personally involved"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Arts and Amenities: No.10 briefing for MT (the Thyssen Collection) [meeting with Baron Thyssen to discuss UK bid to acquire Collection] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Arts and Amenities: Major minute to MT ("Thyssen Collection") [UK bid to acquire Collection: "the cost may be very high"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Arts and Amenities: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Ridley, Luce, Baron Thyssen-Bornemisza) ["Thyssen Collection": UK bid to acquire Collection] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Arts and Amenities: Charles Powell minute for MT ("Thyssen Collection") [UK bid to acquire Collection: Powell/Ridley/Hankes-Drielsma dinner with Baron Thyssen] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Arts and Amenities: Office of Arts and Libraries record of conversation ("Thyssen Collection") [Luce, Palumbo, Hankes-Drielsma: follow-up to MT meeting with Baron Thyssen: UK bid to acquire Collection] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Arts and Amenities: MT letter to Sir Peter Smithers (the Thyssen Collection) [MT excited by prospect of UK acquisition, and keen to prevent another 'missed opportunity'] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Apr 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Arts and Amenities: Richard Wilding minute to Luce ("Thyssen Collection") ["Our own Ministers... need precise information about the commitment to the Spanish Government before they could decide whether to pursue the matter"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Apr 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Arts and Amenities: Sir Peter Smithers letter to MT (the Thyssen Collection) ["The agreement signed in Madrid, under pressure no doubt from the Baroness and the Spanish Government, is an attempt to pre-empt a British offer"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Apr 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Arts and Amenities: Ridley letter to Luce (the Thyssen Collection) [UK bid: potential sites to house the Collection] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Apr 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Arts and Amenities: Department of the Environment record of conversation (the Thyssen Collection) [Ridley, Luce: UK bid: potential sites to house the Collection] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Apr 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Arts and Amenities: Luce letter to MT ("Thyssen Collection") [UK bid to acquire the Collection] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Apr 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Arts and Amenities: Cabinet Office record of conversation ("Thyssen Collection") [Butler meeting with colleagues from Treasury, Property Services Agency, Office of Arts and Libraries, and No.10: UK bid to acquire the Collection] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Apr 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Arts and Amenities: Butler minute to MT ("Thyssen Collection") [UK bid to acquire the Collection] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 May 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Arts and Amenities: Baron Thyssen-Bornemisza letter to Ridley (the Thyssen Collection) [UK bid to acquire the Collection: "I am most attracted by the proposal of the Spanish Government"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 May 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Arts and Amenities: Office of Arts and Libraries letter to Cabinet Office ("The Thyssen Collection") [UK bid to acquire the Collection] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 May 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Arts and Amenities: Ridley minute to MT ("The Thyssen Collection") [UK bid to acquire the Collection] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 May 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Arts and Amenities: Office of Arts and Libraries letter to Cabinet Office ("The Thyssen Collection") [UK bid to acquire the Collection] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 May 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Arts and Amenities: No.10 minute to MT ("The Thyssen Collection") [UK bid to acquire the Collection: draft proposal] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 May 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Arts and Amenities: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Thyssen Collection") [MT agrees that Thyssen letter to Ridley "appears to close off a bid from the UK"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 May 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Arts and Amenities: Cabinet Office letter to Office of Arts and Libraries ("The Thyssen Collection") [draft proposal] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 May 8 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Arts and Amenities: Baron Thyssen-Bornemisza letter to Claude Hankes-Drielma (Thyssen Collection) [UK bid to acquire the Collection] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 May 8 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Arts and Amenities: MT conversation note (phone call with Sir Peter Smithers re: Thyssen Collection) [Trustees not in favour of Spain] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 May 8 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Arts and Amenities: No.10 record of phone conversation (MT, Sir Peter Smithers) ["Thyssen Collection": UK bid to acquire the Collection] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 May 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Arts and Amenities: Cabinet Office record of conversation ("Thyssen Collection") [Butler, Hankes-Drielma: UK bid to acquire the Collection] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 May 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Arts and Amenities: Cabinet Secretary minute to MT ("Thyssen Collection") [UK bid: draft proposal & background: "a fair chance that the Baron would be persuaded... However, disentangling from the Spanish would clearly be a messy business"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 May 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Arts and Amenities: Ingham minute to MT ("Thyssen - presentation") [UK bid to acquire the Collection: "I have the gravest misgivings"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 May 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Arts and Amenities: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Thyssen - presentation") [UK bid to acquire the Collection: "We are looking straight into the mouth of a gift-horse which may not stay around"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 May 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Arts and Amenities: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Howe, Ridley, Mayhew, Luce, George Guise) [case for, and context of, UK bid to acquire the Collection] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 May 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Arts and Amenities: Price Waterhouse and Partners letter to Cabinet Office ("Thyssen Collection") [UK bid to acquire the Collection] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 May 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Arts and Amenities: Office of Arts and Libraries letter to Department of the Environment ("The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection") [UK bid to acquire Collection: Cabinet Office proposal paper; MT: "excellent"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 May 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Arts and Amenities: No.10 minute to MT ("Thyssen") ["suggest that you take the opportunity next week of meetings with Ministers to tell them of your enthusiasm for acquiring the Thyssen Collection"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 May 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Arts and Amenities: Cabinet Office record of conversation ("Thyssen Collection") [Butler, Hankes-Drielsma] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 May 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Arts and Amenities: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Thyssen") [Robert Alexander QC's views on UK bid to acquire the Collection] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 May 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Arts and Amenities: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection") [UK bid: "a major opportunity to acquire... a priceless Collection at a fraction of its value"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 May 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Arts and Amenities: No.10 record of phone conversation (MT, Sir Peter Smithers) ["The Thyssen Collection"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 May 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Arts and Amenities: Cabinet Office record of conversation ("Thyssen Collection") [Butler meeting with colleagues from Environment, Treasury & Arts to discuss UK bid] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 May 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Arts and Amenities: MT letter to Baron Thyssen-Bornemisza ("Thyssen Collection") [UK proposals for acquisition of Collection] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 May 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Arts and Amenities: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Thyssen") [UK proposals for acquisition of Collection] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 May 22 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Arts and Amenities: Charles Powell minute to Cabinet Office ("Thyssen Collection") [Smithers phone call on Butler visit to Thyssen to discuss UK acquisition of Collection] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 May 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Arts and Amenities: Butler minute to MT ("The Thyssen Collection") [Robin Butler provides detailed report on outcome of his meeting with Baron Thyssen to discuss the UK proposals for purchase: "the initial reception... has clearly been very favourable"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 May 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Arts and Amenities: Baron Thyssen-Bornemisza letter to MT (sale of the Thyssen Collection) [informs MT that he is to decline UK bid for acquisition in favour of Spain] [declassified Dec 2016]
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