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These documents were scanned, collated and catalogued by Ruth Murray, Annabel Harris, Isha Pareek, Eleanor Williams, Antoine Yenk, Harriet Carter, Oliver Nicholls, Kieran Wetherwick, and Cerys Griffiths.

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Letter from John Holmes to John Major on the Hume/Adams initiative

Writing Peace: The National Archives of the UK (TNA)

1996-07-22

A letter from John Holmes, Private Secretary to the Prime Minister, to John Major, British Prime Minister, dated 22 July 1996. Holmes enclosed a draft letter to be sent to John Hume, SDLP [Social Democratic and Labour Party], responding to Sinn Féin's conditions for negotiating an IRA [Irish Republican Army] ceasefire. Holmes also outlined Sinn Féin's likely request for a meeting with British Government officials, and how such a meeting could be defended if it became public knowledge. The last page has a handwritten annotation by Edward Oakden, Private Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Defence, and Northern Ireland, about the proposed letter.

PREM 19/5714

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The National Archives of the UK (TNA), digitzed by the Quill Project at https://quillproject.net/resource_collections/351/.