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Correspondence and papers re and arising from Granada Television's World in Action (WIA) documentary ‘A small town tragedy’ (1982), investigating the refusal of British company Cape Industries Ltd to pay compensation awarded against them in an American court of law to workers of their North American subsidiary company in Bloomington, Illinois. The transmission of ‘A small town tragedy’ brought Flynn in contact with a number of American tort lawyers.

Includes (in reverse chronological order):

• correspondences with American lawyers, among them Hayden S Dent, and Steven Loble of Oppenheimers, London, 1983-1996
• transcripts of cross-examinations of Anthony John Penna & W R Bernays (14 + 15 March 1988), in Jimmy Wayne Adams et al. v. Cape Industries & Capasco Ltd, High Court of Justice, London
• draft article by Flynn on Cape Industries having found a new and formidable opponent in the US government
• responses to WIA programme 'A small town tragedy' (transmitted 5 July 1982): Granada Television internal notes and memoranda re the legality of the programme, press reaction to the programme, Cape complaint to the Independent Broadcasting Authority
• production documents (Flynn's research notebook, script of the documentary, interview transcripts)

Also includes Flynn's pitch for a programme (or an article on the history of company awareness of the dangers posed by asbestos), c.1981, and correspondence with Charles Patrick and Ron Motley, 1981, both tort lawyers in South Carolina who sued a subsidiary of international asbestos giant Turner & Newall.

No. LI from T.G. Stevenson, 'Edinburgh in the Olden Time' a facsimile edition of a series of 63 drawings by Rev. J. Sime (Edinburgh, 1880).

Article by J.C. Eaton and R. White. Reprinted from International Road Safety and Traffic Revue, Vol. VIII, No. 3, Summer 1960.

Reprinted from Sociological Papers. Vol. III. pp. 197-236. Also includes 'Appendix: Sketch Plan of a Civic Museum for London' by Huntly Carter, pp. 237-240.

Endorsed: '1906' and 'J. Tyrwhitt'.

Prospectus for Summer Meeting, Edinburgh, University Hall, Eighth Session.

Prospectus for Edinburgh Summer Meeting, University Hall.

Prospectus for Summer Meeting, Edinburgh. (Vacation Studies) Sixth Session, University Hall, Edinburgh.

Prospectus for Edinburgh Summer Meeting, University Hall.

Notice for lectures at Summer Meeting, Edinburgh, University Hall.

In A Supplement to the New Age. Vol. III. No. 1.

Photocopy of article mentioning John Logie Baird by Stanley W. Bowler. In 'The British Journal of Photography', 27 December 1968, pp. 1148-1152.