Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography (142 page)

1
.
Papers relating to the compilation of Lady Thatcher’s memoirs, The Thatcher Papers, Churchill College, Cambridge, THCR 4/4.
2
.
Margaret Thatcher,
The Path to Power
, HarperCollins, 1995, p. 62.
3
.
Letter to Muriel, 17 Nov. 1947.
4
.
Letter to Muriel, 17 Feb. 1948.
5
.
Letter to Muriel, probably early Nov. 1947 (undated).
6
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Letter to Muriel, 21 Oct. 1947.
7
.
Letter to Muriel, probably June 1948 (undated).
8
.
Ibid.
9
.
Letter to Muriel, 3 Mar. 1948.
10
.
Letter to Muriel, 18 Aug. 1948.
11
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Letter to Muriel, 28 Sept. 1947.
12
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Letter to Muriel, probably Oct. 1947 (undated).
13
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Letter to Muriel, 28 Sept. 1947.
14
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Interview with Brian Harrison.
15
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Letter to Muriel, probably Oct. 1947 (undated).
16
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Letter to Muriel, 27 Apr. 1948.
17
.
Ibid.
18
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Letter to Muriel, 17 Nov. 1947.
19
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Letter to Muriel, 11 May 1948.
20
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Letter to Muriel, probably Apr. 1948 (undated).
21
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Letter to Muriel, probably June 1948 (undated).
22
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Letter to Muriel, 17 Feb. 1948.
23
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Interview with Tony Bray.
24
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All above quotations from letter to Muriel, 18 May 1948.
25
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All above quotations from letter to Muriel, early Sept. 1948 (undated).
26
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Letter to Muriel, 8 Dec. 1948.
27
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Letter to Muriel, 4 Jan. 1949.
28
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Letter to Muriel, 16 Feb. 1949.
29
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Interview with Tony Bray.
30
.
Ibid.
31
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Letter to Muriel, 23 Nov. 1948.
32
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Letter to Muriel, 19 Jan. 1949.
33
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Interview with Brian Harrison.
34
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Interview with Tony Bray.
35
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Letter to Muriel, probably Sept. 1948 (undated).
36
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Letter to Muriel, 18 Aug. 1948.
37
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Letter to Muriel, 11 Oct. 1948.
38
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Ibid.
39
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Thatcher,
The Path to Power
, p. 63.
40
.
Ibid.
41
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Interview with Ken Tisdell.
42
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Interview with Shirley and Alan Wells, and June Wood.
43
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TCHR 4/4.
44
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Letter from Beryl Cook to J. P. L. Thomas, Vice-Chairman of the Conservative Party, 1 Feb. 1949, THCR 1/1/1.
45
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Letter from Marjorie Maxse to J. P. L. Thomas, 1 Feb. 1949, THCR 1/1/1.
46
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This, and all ensuing quotations from Margaret Roberts’s references come from the Conservative Central Office files, copies at THCR 1/1/1.
47
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Letter to Muriel, 22 Sept. 1948.
48
.
Ibid.
49
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Letter to Muriel, 14 Nov. 1948.
50
.
Ibid.
51
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Letter to Muriel, 4 Jan. 1949.
52
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Letter to Muriel, 18 Jan. 1949.
53
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Letter to Muriel, 16 Feb. 1949.
54
.
Ibid.
55
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Letter to Muriel, 23 Feb. 1949.
56
.
Ibid.
57
.
Ibid.
58
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Speech at adoption meeting, 28 Feb. 1949, reported in
Erith Observer
, 4 Mar. 1949 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/100821
).
59
.
Ibid.
60
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Letter to Muriel, 17 Mar. 1949.
61
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Interview with Sir Denis Thatcher.
62
.
Ibid.
63
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Letter to Muriel, 17 Mar. 1949.
64
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Letter to Muriel, 13 Mar. 1949.

1
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Interview with Patricia Greenough (née Luker).
2
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Interview with Lady Thatcher.
3
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Interview with Patricia Greenough.
4
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Ibid.
5
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All the above quotations come from conversations with former Dartford Young Conservatives Shirley and Alan Wells, June Wood, Ken Tisdell and Gwen Morgan.
6
.
Ibid.
7
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Interview with Patricia Greenough.
8
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Letter to Muriel, 20 May 1950.
9
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Letter to Muriel, 29 Sept. 1949.
10
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Papers relating to the compilation of Lady Thatcher’s memoirs, The Thatcher Papers, Churchill College, Cambridge, THCR 4/4.
11
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Interview with Lady Thatcher.
12
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Letter to Muriel, 29 Sept. 1949.
13
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See
Dartford Chronicle
, 7 Oct. 1949.
14
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Speech debating with Labour candidate (Norman Dodds), 25 Nov. 1949, reported in
Erith Observer
, 2 Dec. 1949 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/100845
).
15
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Interview with Shirley Wells.
16
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Speech to Belvedere Conservatives, 23 Apr. 1949, reported in
Erith Observer
, 29 Apr. 1949 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/100824
).
17
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Speech to Dartford Young Conservatives, 13 Aug. 1949, reported in
Dartford Chronicle
, 19 Aug. 1949 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/100831
).
18
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Speech to Bexley Conservative Women, 15 Sept. 1949, reported in
Kentish Independent
, 23 Sept. 1949 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/100836
).
19
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Speech to Erith Conservative Women, 9 June 1949, reported in
Kentish Independent
, 17 June 1949 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/100828
).
20
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Speech to Dartford Conservatives, 31 Mar. 1949, reported in
Dartford Chronicle
, 8 Apr. 1949 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/100822
).
21
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Speech to Erith Conservative Women, 9 June 1949, reported in
Kentish Independent
, 17 June 1949 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/100828
).
22
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Article in
Evening Post
, 27 Jan. 1950 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/100855
).
23
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Speech to Dartford Young Conservatives, 13 Aug. 1949, reported in
Dartford Chronicle
, 19 Aug. 1949 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/100831
).
24
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Letter to Muriel, probably early May 1949 (undated).
25
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Speech to Dartford Rotarians, 3 Jan. 1950, reported in
Dartford Chronicle
, 6 Jan. 1950 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/100851
).
26
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Information from Margaret Phillimore (née Pottle).
27
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Letter to Muriel, 13 Mar. 1949.
28
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Ibid.
29
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Letter to Muriel, 23 Mar. 1949.
30
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Ibid.
31
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Letter to Muriel, May 1949 (undated).
32
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Ibid.
33
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Letter to Muriel, 23 May 1949.
34
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Letter to Muriel, probably Apr. 1949 (undated).
35
.
Ibid.
36
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Letter to Muriel, 23 May 1949.
37
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Letter to Muriel, probably June 1949 (undated).
38
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Letter to Muriel, 1949 (undated).
39
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Letter to Muriel, mid-July 1949 (undated).
40
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Letter to Muriel, 21 July 1949.
41
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Ibid.
42
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Letter to Muriel, early July 1949 (undated).
43
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Letter to Muriel, Oct. 1949 (undated).
44
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Ibid.
45
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Letter to Muriel, probably early Jan. 1950 (undated).
46
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Ibid.
47
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Letter to Muriel, probably mid-Jan. 1950 (undated).
48
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Letter to Muriel, 14 Feb. 1950.
49
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Interview with Muriel Cullen.
50
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Letter to Muriel, 10 Mar. 1950.
51
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Ibid.
52
.
Ibid.
53
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Interview with Muriel Cullen.
54
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Interview with Andrew Cullen.
55
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Interview with Muriel Cullen.
56
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Interview with Jane Mayes (née Cullen).
57
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Interview with Josie Henderson.
58
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Interview with Judy, Lady Percival.
59
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Interview with Josie Henderson.
60
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Letter to Muriel, probably early Jan. 1950 (undated).
61
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Letter to Muriel, probably mid-Jan. 1950 (undated).
62
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Letter to Muriel, 14 Feb. 1950.
63
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Letter from Anthony Hancox.
64
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General election address, 3 Feb. 1950 (
http://margaretthatcher.org/document/100858
).
65
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All above quotations from
Gravesend and Dartford Reporter
, 28 Jan. 1950 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/100856
).
66
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The train times are marginally different from those furnished by Mrs Phillimore (see note 26 above).
67
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Dartford Chronicle
, 10 Feb. 1950.
68
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THCR 4/4.
69
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Ibid.
70
.
Ibid.
71
.
Dartford Chronicle
, 3 Mar. 1950 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/100874
). Mick Jagger was a pupil at the school shortly afterwards.
72
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Speech on first anniversary as Conservative candidate for Dartford, 9 Mar. 1950, reported in
Erith Observer
, 17 Mar. 1950 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/100875
).
73
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Letter to Muriel, probably May 1950 (undated).
74
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Interview with Lord Renton.
75
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Letter to Muriel, probably early July 1950 (undated).
76
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Letter to Muriel, probably Sept. 1950 (undated).
77
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Letter to Muriel, 1950 (undated).
78
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Letter to Muriel, Mar. 1950 (undated).
79
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Letter to Muriel, probably spring 1951 (undated).
80
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Letter to Muriel, 20 May 1950.
81
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Letter to Muriel, probably May 1950 (undated).
82
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Letter to Muriel, 20 June 1950.
83
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Letter to Muriel, late Aug. or early Sept. 1950 (undated).
84
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Letter to Muriel, probably May 1950 (undated).
85
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Letter to Muriel, probably early July 1950 (undated).
86
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Quotations and information from letter to Muriel, 20 June 1950.
87
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Ibid.
88
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Quotations from letter to Muriel, 28 Feb. 1951.
89
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Interview with Lady Thatcher.
90
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Letter to Muriel, May 1951 (undated).
91
.
Ibid.
92
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Letter to Muriel, 28 May 1951.
93
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Letter to Muriel, May 1951 (undated).
94
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Letter to Muriel, 23 May 1951.
95
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Letter to Muriel (undated).
96
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Ibid.
97
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Letter to Muriel, 23 May 1951.
98
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Letter from Alfred Roberts to Muriel, 28 Jan. 1951.
99
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Letter from Alfred Roberts to Muriel, 7 May 1951.
100
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Interview with Muriel Cullen.
101
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Letter from Alfred Roberts to Muriel, 8 Aug. 1951.
102
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Interview with Lady Thatcher.
103
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Interview with Muriel Cullen.
104
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Letter to Muriel, 28 Feb. 1951.
105
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Letter to Muriel, 28 May 1951.
106
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Letter to Muriel, probably May 1951 (undated).
107
.
Letter from Alfred Roberts to Muriel, 25 Sept. 1951.
108
.
Letter to Muriel, probably Oct. 1950 (undated).
109
.
Daily Express
, 11 Oct. 1985.
110
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Interview with Mrs Josie Henderson.
111
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Interview with Muriel Cullen.
112
.
Conversation with Lady Thatcher.
113
.
Letter to Muriel, 20 Jan. 1954.
114
.
Interview with Mrs Josie Henderson.
115
.
Letter to Mrs Josie Henderson from Margaret Thatcher, 20 Mar. 2000.
116
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Interview with Sir Denis Thatcher.
117
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Interview with Lady Thatcher.
118
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Interview with Sir Denis Thatcher.
119
.
Interview with Lady Thatcher.
120
.
See Margaret Thatcher,
The Path to Power
, HarperCollins, 1995, p. 66.
121
.
Ibid.
122
.
Interview with Lady Thatcher.
123
.
Ibid.
124
.
Ibid.
125
.
Quotations from interview with Sir Denis Thatcher.
126
.
Ibid.
127
.
Ibid.
128
.
See Carol Thatcher,
Below the Parapet: The Biography of Denis Thatcher
, HarperCollins, 1996, p. 51.
129
.
Ibid.
130
.
Conversation with Lady Thatcher.
131
.
Interview with Cynthia Crawford.
132
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Speech in Belvedere, 15 Oct. 1951, reported in
Erith Observer
, 19 Oct. 1951 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/100917
).
133
.
Interview with Patricia Greenough.
134
.
THCR 4/4.
135
.
Interview with Sir Clive Bossom.
136
.
Interview with Lord Deedes.
137
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Letter to Muriel, probably Sept. 1950 (undated).
138
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Interview with Sir Clive Bossom.
139
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Letter to Muriel, 23 May 1951.
140
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Letter to Muriel, 20 May 1950.
141
.
Speech to Dartford Conservatives, 10 July 1950, reported in
Dartford Chronicle
, 14 July 1950 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/100885
).
142
.
Speech to Chislehurst Young Conservatives, 25 Sept. 1950, reported in
Dartford Chronicle
, 29 Sept. 1950 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/100890
).
143
.
Dartford Chronicle
, 29 Dec. 1950 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/100896
).
144
.
Speech to Dartford Free Church Council, 30 May 1951, reported in
Dartford Chronicle
, 8 June 1951 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/100905
).
145
.
Speech at adoption meeting, 8 Oct. 1951, reported in
Erith Observer
, 12 Oct. 1951 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/100911
).
146
.
Letter to Muriel, 28 Feb. 1951.
147
.
Thatcher,
The Path to Power
, p. 69.
148
.
THCR 4/4.
149
.
Speech in Crayford, 22 Oct. 1951, reported in
Dartford Chronicle
, 26 Oct. 1951 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/100924
).