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Title
Date(s)
- 1954-1959 (Creation)
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Extent and medium
1 envelope (0.25 cm.).
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
British academic and Labour MP. Born Cardiff, the son of Hilary Marquand MP. Educated at Emanuel School, Battersea, Magdalen and St Antony's Colleges, Oxford, and University of California, Berkeley. Member of Parliament for Ashfield (1966-1977). Chief advisor to Roy Jenkins as President of the European Commission (1977-1978). Social Democratic Party national committee (1981-1988). Founder member of the centre-left pressure group Compass, 2003. (Wikipedia).
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Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Letters from David Marquand to his brother Richard ('Dick'), including from Oxford and USA (Berkeley, Boston and New York), and a postcard from USSR (Odessa). The covering dates are probably inaccurate; most of the letters are dated by day of the week or day of the month only.