Notes, letters, recollections/interviews, articles, reviews, newspaper cuttings: includes drafts of ideas for Philby, the spy who betrayed a generation (1968)and summary of Knightley's interviews with Philby in Moscow 1988; copies of letters by Ralph Deakin re Philby 1937-38 and of cables by Philby from Madrid April 1939; statement by Otto John given to 'Atticus' 1966; correspondence with H.W. King, B.Bonsey, Robert Cecil and other letters to Knightley regarding Philby, Burgess, Mclean and spies/espionage generally; notes on and recollections of Philby and various associates by David Leitch, Marsans, Kennard-Davis, Mitchell, MacDermott, Lord Egremont, Younger, Robert Mackenzie, Gladwyn, Kirkpatrick, John Whitwell, Henry Kerby, Roberts, Amory, Epstein; proposal for a biography of Philby by Anthony Cave Brown and articles and reviews of other books on Philby, including Philby's own My silent war; correspondence and notes regarding proposed film on Philby ., 1964-88, with some copies of letters and other documents of earlier date

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