Andrew Malcolm
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Brighton BN2 9UA

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Ian Troupe,
The Registrary,
Cambridge University Offices,
The Old Schools,
Cambridge CB2 1TN

15th August 2007
Recorded delivery

Dear Mr Troupe,

CUP's tax-exemption applications, 1940 & 1975:
Requests under the Freedom of Information Act, 2000

Thank you for your letter of 27th July enclosing the following further documents: letters from Geoffrey Cass to Inland Revenue, 15/11/1976, 16/12/1976 + R68 Form and various paying-in slips; and letters from Inland Revenue to Geoffrey Cass, 28/5/1976, 3/12/1976 (repeat), 20/12/1976 and 26/1/1977.

I note that you did not enclose, nor even mention, the letters I requested to and from CUP's accountants Binder Hamlyn dated 23rd May 1975 and previously. I therefore now reiterate that request.

You repeat, without any explanation, that the University does not hold any documents relating to CUP's failed application in 1940 for charitable status. Given the importance of these papers, which were evidently in Geoffrey Cass's possession in 1975, I find this very hard to believe, unless the University - the natural inference - has since then deliberately destroyed them. I imagine that such a suggestion may have serious implications for the University and will be of great concern to, for example, its History Faculty.

In any event, I have made these 'missing' 1940 papers the subject of a formal complaint to the Information Commissioner (copy enclosed).

Yours sincerely,

Andrew Malcolm