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            <text>&lt;p&gt;911 (38)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align:right;"&gt;PRIVY COUNCIL OFFICE&lt;br /&gt;WHITEHALL, LONDON SW1A 2AT&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align:right;"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align:right;"&gt;8th September 1980&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Miss Malley&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;What next? I had better&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;tell P. Moore, but do&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;we have to trouble&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;the H. O.—or&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;the LC? &lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;JWB 9/9&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt; &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Dear Wilfrid,&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Thank you for your letter of the 4th September about Letters Patent appointing Counsellors of State.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I confirm that the sealed Letters Patent for this purpose which you send us are not issued to anybody but are simply kept in a cupboard here. They are therefore as you say in a class of their own and I entirely support your suggestion that they should in future be produced in a more economical form.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It is quite stimulating to find the extent to which, under current pressures, one can save money by cutting out time-honoured practices for which, on enquiry, there proves to be little or no justification! I have myself already identified several such practices here, notably in regard to the appallingly expensive business of publication in the Gazettes.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align:right;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Yours ever,&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align:right;"&gt;(Sgd.) &lt;em&gt;Neville Leigh&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Sir Wilfrid Bourne, K. C. B.,&lt;br /&gt;Lord Chancellor’s Office,&lt;br /&gt;House of Lords,&lt;br /&gt;London SW1A 0PW&lt;/p&gt;</text>
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