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79 Dec 18 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Carter Library) | Cold War: President Carter to Kirk Douglas (thanks for the carols) |
78 Mar 13 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Hailsham MSS) | Enoch Powell: Hailsham diary (Powell makes speeches on a full bladder) ["perversity"] |
88 Nov 20 Su | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Ronnie Millar MSS) | MT: Charles Powell to Ronnie Millar (please help with Forte 80th birthday speech) [shorten & remove one funny story] |
88 Dec 6 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Ronnie Millar MSS) | MT: Paul Gray to Ronnie Millar (please help with Per Cent Club Lecture) [would be warmly welcomed] |
78 Dec 5 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Economy: Sir Keith Joseph to MT (suggests term for Quango members) [“Quangaroos”] |
79 May 21 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (TNA) | G7: Tokyo Summit (MT’s personal security in Tokyo) [Cabinet Secretary sees off karate girls] [declassified 2009] |
79 Dec 17 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | No.10: Home Office letter to No.10 (Maharishi Award from the Government of the Age of Enlightenment) [Home Office so slow MT thinks too late to refuse] [released 2010] |
79 Jan 1 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | MT: Note for MT (“Mayo Clinic Diet”) [“Diet for two weeks only”] [released 2010] |
79 Dec 18 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | US: Note to MT (Foreign Policy Association lunch) [“Would you accept the Republican nomination for President in 1980?”] [released 2010] |
79 Jun 21 Th | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | MT: Lunch menu (Strasbourg European Council) [released 2010] |
79 Oct 16 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | MT: Dinner menu (Lincoln’s Inn) [held in honour of MT] [released 2010] |
79 Dec 17 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | MT: State Dinner invitation & programme (White House) [Berlioz's L’Enfance du Christ] [released 2010] |
79 May 11 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | MT: Notes for move to flat at No.10 (list of items) [released 2010] |
78 Feb 1 We | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | MT: Notes for Desert Island Discs (record selections) [released 2010] |
78 Feb 25 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | MT: MT to Bob Newhart ( Desert Island Discs ) [thanks for letter - “I love the Nutty Walt recording”] [released 2010] |
78 Feb 27 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | MT: MT to Emlyn Hughes (Liverpool defeat of Man Utd) [“I rejoiced with you”] [released 2010] |
79 Oct 4 Th | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Ingham MSS) | Press Office: Bulletin (MT made Honorary Freeman of the Company of Grocers) [released 2010] |
79 Dec 14 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Ingham MSS) | Press Office: Bulletin (Christmas turkey presentation) [released 2010] |
79 Dec 21 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Ingham MSS) | Press Office: Bulletin (Thatcher family Chequers Christmas details) [from “Rudolph the red-nosed press officer”] [released 2010] |
80 Mar 31 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | MT: MT letter to David Trippier (end of state funding for Clowns' Training School) [not the end of clowning in schools] [released 2011] |
81 May 21 Th | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | MT: MT letter to Mr Fowler (gift of cashmere rug) [came "just when I needed a little thoughtfulness & kindness"] [released 2012] |
81 Jun 26 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | MT: MT letter to Stephen Hastings (accepts invitation to Milton Hall) [will tell Denis about the golf course] [released 2012] |
81 Jul 8 We | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | MT: MT letter to Sir James Hanson FRSA (paintings for State Dining Room at No.10) [Nelson & Wellington] [released 2012] |
81 Aug 21 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | MT: MT note (1981 Christmas Card proof) ["after 'Anyone for Denis' this will be seen as a caricature!"] [released 2012] |
81 Nov 12 Th | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | MT: Helen Ghosh to Caroline Stephens (MT to open Hyde Park drinking fountain) ["long agonising between Ministers"] [released 2012] |
79 May 17 Th | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | MT: MT letter to Tommy Sopwith (thanks for roses) [released 2010] |
79 May 18 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | MT: MT letter to Helen Suzman (thanks for letter of congratulations) [released 2010] |
79 May 23 We | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | MT: MT letter to Henry John Heinz II (thanks for letter of congratulations) ["I do indeed recall our bus ride together to Istanbul"] [released 2010] |
79 Jun 7 Th | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | MT: MT letter to Reverend Canon Charles Smyth (recollections of Finchley) [released 2010] |
79 Jun 13 We | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | MT: MT letter to Peter Morrison MP (MT and DT looking forward to holiday on Islay) [released 2010] |
79 Jun 14 Th | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | MT: MT letter to Patrick Hutber (MT enjoyed visit to Glyndebourne and performance of Fidelio ) [released 2010] |
79 Jan 19 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | MT: Patrick Hutber letter to MT (plans for Glyndebourne Festival Opera) ["The public begins to see how right you have consistently been!"] [released 2010] |
79 Jan 22 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | MT: MT letter to Patrick Hutber (plans for Glyndebourne Festival Opera) [MT would like to attend Fidelio] [released 2010] |
79 Mar 27 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | MT: Felicity Hindson letter to MT (Somerville College Centenary Gaudy) ["It really would not be at all to our liking if the College were just to fete the prominent Socialist members"] [released 2010] |
79 May 17 Th | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | MT: Stephens note to MT ("Freedon of Kensington and Chelsea") [MT: "I really don't want to get involved in a big ceremony"] [released 2010] |
79 May 22 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | MT: Stephens note to MT (invitation to Emmanuel Kaye birthday dinner) [MT: "We have to!"] [released 2010] |
79 Jun 13 We | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | MT: Stephens note to MT ("Dinner with Benchers of Lincoln's Inn, 16 October") [MT has to speak] [released 2010] |
79 Jul 6 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | MT: Stephens minute to MT ("Somerville Gaudy") [arrangements] [released 2010] |
79 Jul 12 Th | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | MT: MT letter to Frank Taylor (MT visit to Taylor Woodrow) ["I was particularly interested in the work on "windmills" as well as the nuclear energy research"] [released 2010] |
79 Jul 19 Th | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | MT: James note to MT (MT visits to Nottingham and Birmingham) [arrangements and correspondence] [released 2010] |
79 Jul 26 Th | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | MT: Stephens note to MT ("Royal Tournament") ["You have to wear a hat"] [released 2010] |
79 Aug 26 Su | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | MT: Stephens note to MT (arrangements for Mr and Mrs Cullen to vist to Chequers) [MT's sister] [released 2010] |
79 Aug 31 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | MT: Stephens note to MT ("Service at St. Paul's Cathedral to Commemorate the Great Soldiers of World War II") [MT: "I must go and should like to go"] [released 2010] |
79 Sep 17 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | MT: Stephens note to MT (MT invited to meet winning Cub Scout pack) [MT agrees] [released 2010] |
79 Nov 23 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | MT: Stephens note to MT (dinner with Lord-Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire) [arrangements for Carol and Mark] [released 2010] |
79 Nov 27 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | MT: MT letter to Claus Moser (thanks for visit to opera) [released 2010] |
79 Nov 29 Th | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Conservatism: John Wilkinson letter to MT (thanks for attending Burke Club dinner) ["I thought [members'] views on Rhodesia were a little harsh"] [released 2010] |
79 Dec 3 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Conservatism: Membership list for House of Commons club [released 2010] |
79 Oct 9 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | MT: David Renton letter to Stephens (Lincoln's Inn Dinner) [draft speech] [released 2010] |
80 Oct 8 We | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Conservative Party: Menu for annual dinner of National Society of Conservative and Unionist Agents ('THATCHER' acrostic) [released 2011] |
80 Jul 9 We | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (TNA) | EC: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") ["This is perhaps the shortest brief I shall ever submit to you"] [declassified 2010] |
80 Jan 1 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | MT: MT note to Political Office staff (thanks for gift of radio) ["Now we can all listen to the Today programme and all complain to the B.B.C.!"] [released 2011] |
80 Oct 14 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | MT: MT letter to Francis Allison (thanks for birthday cards and cake) ["We cut the cake at a special party on Monday and almost everyone who was at No 10 had a piece"] [released 2011] |
80 Jul 9 We | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Wales: Secretarial note to MT ("Swansea - Saturday 19 July") [MT on Welsh Conference travel arrangements: "Sandwiches in the car"] [released 2011] |
80 Mar 4 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | MT: Joy Robilliard minute to Sally Dickson (Mrs Zerney invites MT to stay) [Robilliard: "She sounds a nut but I thought you would just check to see if you had heard of her"; DT: "Yes she is a nut"] [released 2011] |
80 Aug 1 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | MT: Stephens minute to Denis Thatcher (would DT ike to accompany MT for opening of Burlinghton House Antique Fair?) [DT: "1. Good grief!! 2. No, one antique fair per day is enough"] [released 2011] |
81 Sep 14 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | MT: MT annotated list of Ministers (Christmas card recipients) [released 2012] |
81 Dec 25 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | MT: MT and Denis Thatcher Christmas Card photograph [released 2012] |
81 Apr 17 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | US: Robert Conquest letter to Gow (comments on members of Reagan's Administration) [comment on resentment within the Administration at British attitudes] [released 2012] |
81 Jun 24 We | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Conservative Party: Britto minute to Derek Howe ("Public Expectations From the Conservative Government") [report of post-election survey] [released 2012] |
81 Aug 25 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Conservative Party: Thorneycroft letter to MT (Thorneycroft resigns as Conservative Party Chairman) ["My advice to you is that you should now appoint a younger man to undertake this task"] [released 2012] |
81 Sep 7 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Conservative Party: MT letter to Thorneycroft (Thorneycroft resigns as Conservative Party Chairman) ["I send to you...my warmest gratitude and that of the whole Party for all that you have done"] [released 2012] |
81 Sep 23 We | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Conservative Party: Dickson note to DT (Blackpool Party Conference) ["The drivers want to know if you would be taking your golf clubs to Blackpool"; DT: "NO"] [released 2012] |
81 Mar 31 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Conservative Party: DT note to Stephens (DT will attend Scottish Party Conference) ["I will be on parade"] [released 2012] |
81 Jun 8 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | DT: Stephens minute to DT (DT to attend Prince Andrew's 21st birthday dance) [DT's plans: "The Rolls is at Chequers so I have transport"] [released 2012] |
81 May 15 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | DT: Stephens minute to Press Office (DT unable to attend 'Anyone for Denis?') [released 2012] |
81 Nov 16 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | MT: MT and DT invitation card to Lord Mayor's Banquet [released 2012] |
81 Dec 4 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | MT: Photo of Children's Drinking Fountain in Hyde Park [released 2012] |
82 May 19 We | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: Press statement by Peter J. Clark, Consultant Astrologer (based on study of birth charts of "responsible persons", Clark recommends blockade rather than invasion of Falklands) [declassified 2012] |
82 Mar 10 We | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Conservative Party: MT notes for speech at the Carlton Club (MT unveils a portrait of herself) [released 2013] |
81 Jan 5 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | US: No.10 letter to the President of Stanford University (MT declines invitation to give the Commencement Address at Stanford University) [released 2013] |
82 May 24 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | G7: No.10 letter to FCO ("Duty Free Requirements - Versailles Economic Summit") [G7 Summit, Versailles] [released 2013] |
82 Oct 21 Th | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Germany: No.10 letter to FCO ("Duty Free Goods - Anglo-German Summit, October, 1982") [duty free requirements of No.10 staff] [released 2013] |
82 Mar 30 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Conservative Party: Gaisman note to Joan Porter ("Christmas Cards - 1981") [cost of MT's official Christmas cards] [released 2013] |
82 Jun 17 Th | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Falklands: Enoch Powell quotations ("The Falklands Crisis") [victory in the Falklands proves that MT consists of "ferrous matter of the highest quality"] [released 2013] |
82 Aug 2 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | No.10: MT and DT photo outside No.10 [released 2013] |
82 Dec 25 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | MT: MT's official Christmas Card, 1982 (front picture) [released 2013] |
82 Jun 17 Th | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Falklands: Terence Lewin cartoon gifted to MT (PoWs in the Falklands) [released 2013] |
82 Apr 17 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | MT: Jonathan Warrender account of lunch at Chequers ["the impressions both the Thatchers made that day remain vivid"] [released 2013] |
82 Apr 22 Th | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | MT: Jonathan Warrender letter to MT (Warrender thanks MT for lunch and for allowing him to paint Chequers) [released 2013] |
82 Sep 15 We | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Falklands: Photographs of MT receiving Falklands coin from Spinks ("Falkland Coin Presented to Prime Minister") [released 2013] |
82 Oct 11 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Falklands: Menu for Falklands Dinner at No.10 ("Dinner To Celebrate the success of the Falklands Campaign") [released 2013] |
82 May 6 Th | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | DT: DT note to Stephens (arrangements for Scottish Conservative Party Conference) ["I would prefer to come South early on the Saturday and go home to Scotney BUT if required I will of course stay with M.H.T."] [released 2013] |
81 Mar 12 Th | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Conservative Party: Guinevere Tilney note to MT (guest list for Federation of Conservative Students Reception) [released 2013] |
81 Sep 9 We | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | MT: Stephens note to Vera Thomas (MT would like Jonathan Warrender to paint Chequers) [released 2013] |
82 Jan 26 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | MT: DT note to Sally of Tours (Grantham cavalcade) [released 2013] |
82 Feb 11 Th | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | MT: Stephens minute to MT/DT (Richardson invites MT and DT to Don Giovanni at Glyndebourne) [Would they like to go?; DT: "I would, like a shot!"] [released 2013] |
82 Jul 2 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | MT: Stephens note to DT ("Glyndebourne, Sunday 11 July") [DT will make his own way to Glyndebourne] [released 2013] |
82 Jul 20 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | MT: Gow note to DT ("The Law Society") [invitation to dinner party; Gow notes: "Is there not no speech?"] [released 2013] |
82 Feb 19 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Prime Minister: MT letter to Master R. Parker (MT sorry to hear that "R" is worried) [MT receives 500 letters a day and cannot read them all] [released 2013] |
82 Feb 27 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | MT: MT letter to Wynford Vaughan-Thomas (thanks for gift of book about Wales) [released 2013] |
83 Jan 26 We | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: MOD invoice (cost of MT's flight to the Falkland Islands) [declassified 2013] |
83 Jan 10 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Falklands: Free From Ammunition & Explosives Certificate (gift of Argentinian anti-personnel mine) [released 2013] |
83 Apr 12 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Trade: Sproat letter to Gow ("Aerial Advertising") [advertising by means of material displayed on balloons] [released 2013] |
83 May 19 Th | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Falklands: Hugh Thomas letter to MT ("further evidence of the dream world in which the Argentines continue to live") [Malvinas 20,000 pesos stamp] [released 2013] |
83 Jun 17 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | DT: Stephens note to DT (DT required to attend Diplomatic Reception) ["Bad News"; "I am so sorry"] [released 2013] |
81 Sep 29 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (TNA) | Commonwealth: Frank Adamik of Postal History Society of Australia letter to MT (request for MT to sign First Day Covers commemorating MT's visit to Australia) [Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, Melbourne] [declassified 2012] |
84 Oct 19 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | MT: Charles Powell to Michael Gorman (the Margaret Thatcher Rose) [MT recalled it "with pleasure"] [released 2014] |
79 Aug 29 We | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | MT: Fl.Lt Sharp note to MT (RAF helicopter flight to South Armagh) [“we expect to arrive at our destination before the bar closes”] [released 2014] |
84 Jul 6 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | MT: MT notes for speech (retirement of No.10 driver, Ken Godbeer) [“Ken’s record is a very unusual one”] [released 2014] |
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