DSR 11 (Revised Sept 85)
DRAFT: minute/letter/telelettex/despatch/note:
FROM:
Lord Glenarthur
DEPARTMENT:
BUILDING:
SECURITY CLASSIFICATION
TO:
Lord MacLehose
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SUBJECT:
OXFORD COLONIAL ARCHIVES PROJECT, RHODES HOUSE
. Thank you for your letter of 18 April about the
invitation to you to contribute to the Oxford Colonial
Archives Project.
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project and, if you wish to consent to an inverview,
would have no objection in principle.
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The condition we should like to obtain from the project
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would be that release should not be considered earlier
than 30 years from the time of the last event covered
in the tape and that, depending upon the topics
discussed, the FCO might have to ask for it to be
withheld even beyond that period.
. Should any questions of detail crop up, Miss Barnes,
the Head of Library and Records Department (01 211 3215),
would be glad to help you.