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released, and we should have to call our files back from the Public Record Office to check firstly whether each paper had been selected for permanent preservation and, if so, whether it had been opened to public inspection. If papers have not been preserved, we should have to put them through a sensitivity review which could not, I am afraid, take priority over the work that we have in hand for the annual release of more recent records. You will understand, I am sure, that I would prefer not to have to commit my scarce resources to the considerable effort that would be required of us to clear your 'for information' material.
5. If the preceding paragraphs appear unhelpful, I can at least assure you that they are born of long, and bitter, experience!
Yours ever Par
Miss Patricia M Barnes
Library and Records Department
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