| Description | File of handwritten drafts and final typescript of letter from 'June' [Brendan Duddy] to 'a chara' [Martin McGuinness]. Praising strength and integrity of actions by Republican movement since the hungerstrikes. Warning against holding on to arms out of principle, when the Good Friday Agreement should spell the end of the war, and enable them to walk away from the trap that decommissioning holds. (With a caption by Éamonn Downey, supplying dates. Four successive handwritten drafts in Downey's and Duddy's hands resulting in final version. See also POL35/568 when this was copied into a telefax on 5 September 1999.) |