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2 personal letters to Nancy Tait:
-letter from 'Kitty', discussing family matters, 16/12/97
-letter from 'Anne and Ted', discussing family matters, Christmas 1999

Correspondence. Somewhat sketchy.

Correspondence and papers re enquiries resulting from 'Asbestos - killer they all want us to forget', Sunday Mirror, 6 October 1996. Includes:

• copy of the article
• correspondence with inquirers, in alphabetical order
• also correspondence and papers re a projected article (by Tim Kelsey) for The Sunday Times, July 1996

Elliot Porter was a recipient of the Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow's grant scheme and delivered this lecture prior to the lecture by Alan Winfield on 6 February 2018.

• Recording of lecture

• Biography of speaker
• Recording of lecture
• Lecture slides

Papers on World Trade Organization’s upholding of ban of asbestos by France.

Correspondence with John Pickering & Partners LLP, organised by topic:

• shipping
• compensation (including re compensation bill 2005)
• Cape plc (re group action against the company on behalf of South African miners)
• fibre counts
• the Fairchild judgement
• Association of British Insurers (ABI); includes copy of ABI's ‘Guidelines for apportioning and handling employers liability mesothelioma claims’ (2003)
• restructuring of Zurich Insurance Company
• T&N, including correspondence with the administrators of T&N

Overseas correspondence, primarily re asbestos-related diseases. In reverse chronological order.

First year timetables and second and third year timetables for sessions 1980-1981 and 1981-1982.

Correspondence (including telephone memoranda) chiefly between Maureen Ward and Jack Raeburn of the DTLR/DETR, in the earlier years with Mr D Meredith and Mr T Brownlee at the Department of Employment. Covers orders for forms PWC1, PWC2, etc., discussions on the ‘Pneumoconiosis etc (Workers’ Compensation) Act 1979’, the ‘Pneumoconiosis etc (Workers’ Compensation) (Payment of Claims) (Amendment) Regulations 1991’ and ‘… 1996’, ‘Draft code of practice on tracing employers’ liability insurers: consultative document’ (1999), information on how to calculate mesothelioma payments, etc.

Also a little correspondence and (few) papers re compensation claims from Department of Employment.

DTLR/ DETR = Department for Transport, Local Government & the Regions/Department of the Environment Transport and the Regions.

Numbered 1-1099, 2000-2099, 3000-3084.

Incomplete

Encloses notes and diagrams on diffusion of gases and copy of Roberts' Graham Lecture to the Philosophical Society of Glasgow delivered 22 January 1879.