after the interview itself.
This is an arrangement which seems to have worked well, and there have indeed been a few cases in which it has been thought prudent (in spite of earlier arrangements) to continue to hold material under restriction for some time longer than at first envisaged.
We
I may perhaps also mention that the Foreign and Commonwealth Office Library is aware of our practice in these matters, and their former librarian has indeed inspected our arrangements. try to take a long view of such matters, for we are aware of our responsibilities for the maintenance and development of a body of historical documentation of permanent value, and temporary restrictions are one of the administrative problems we have to
face.
I shall be grateful if you would be so kind as to let me know whether you would agree to be interviewed at your home in Mayfield and make the record of our meeting available at Rhodes House Library in due course. Could I also request you to look into the possibility of making arrangements for keeping some or all of your papers relating to Hong Kong at Rhodes House Library now or in the future?
With best wishes for 1988,
Yours sincerely. Steve Tray.
Steve Tsang (DPhil, Oxon)
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