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Handwritten notes by [Éamonn Downey], excerpting from 'The Narrative' and other material (19 March - 10 April 1993), highlighting events chronologically, including Warrington bomb, meeting 23 March (attending 'Walter', 'Fred', and 'June', 'Star', 'Tax' and 'Mr C[ampbell]', meeting 6 April ('June' and 'Fred'); from 10 to 19 April Brendan Duddy was in Israel.

Typescript statement (1 p) and copy of a statement/ communiqué from [Sinn Féin] for the [British government], challenging the British to act 'during this rare moment of quietness in Ireland', not to plan for another six-county state solution again, but to enter into dialogue 'long and difficult' as the process must be.

Handwritten notes by [Éamonn Downey], excerpting from 'The Narrative' and other material (17-23 April 1993), highlighting events chronologically, including several meetings between Duddy and 'Fred', leading up to their drafting the so-called 'first banking message' (23 April 1993).

File of documents containing and regarding the 'first banking message', so-called by The Observer on 5 December 1993. Including handwritten draft by [Brendan Duddy] and copies of telefaxed message from [British government to Sinn Féin], requesting a meeting in London with 'Mr Brown', seeking reassurance that their 9-paragraph document was received favourably. (Various captions by [Éamonn Downey] contextualising the telefax. Cf. interview with Downey where he identifies the handwritten document as a draft, and supplies that 'Mr Brown' is Brendan Duddy. The British do not now acknowledge sending that telefax. 'Banking message' so-called maybe because one of Duddy's bank manager's actual name Campbell replicates Duddy's code-names for two republicans.)

Handwritten notes by [Éamonn Downey], excerpting from 'The Narrative' and other material (24 -28 April 1993), highlighting events chronologically, including bomb in Bishop's Gate, London, repeated calls by Sinn Féin for another preliminary talk between 'Fred'/ 'James' and 'Campbell and Campbell', and a resulting stalemate.

Photocopy typescript message from 'Mountain Climber' [ ] to 'Walter' [Martin McGuinness], expressing anxiety that the republican movement engages the British in dialogue, thus gaining political advantage - 'the results of the dialogue should be of no concern to the Republican Movement, the objective should be to force the British, using their own tactics, into a position of disadvantage'. Requesting meeting. (Dated by hand by [Éamonn Downey].)

Typescript copies of an 11-paragraph document from Sinn Féin for the British government [in response to their 9- paragraph statement of March](3 pp); welcoming the contact and preliminary meeting but expressing qualms about Britain's perceived support for the unionist agenda; stressing their own commitment to democratic principles, an accommodation based on all-inclusive talks, considering fully the rights of the unionist population. (With captions by [Éamonn Downey] referring to Sinn Féin's Setting the record straight , and pointing to difficulty of dating the composition and delivery of the piece - it postdates a meeting on 26 April, and Brendan Duddy did not see it before 17 July 1993. Downey comments that if it was delivered in the meantime they must have used a different contact.) [cf.POL35/306 making clear it was being withheld.]

Handwritten notes by [Éamonn Downey], excerpting from 'The Narrative' and other material (3-5 May 1993), highlighting events chronologically, namely conversations with 'Fred' and [McGuinness] to resolve the British problem with Sinn Féin's condition of having another 'preliminary' meeting.

Telefax from [British government] to [Sinn Féin] confirming that the main problem had been the order of events. (With caption from [Éamonn Downey] referring to Setting the record straight where the item was dated 6 May.)

Typescript statement (and copy) in three paragraphs from [the British government] for [Sinn Féin], expressing grave reservations about the recent events, but pledging continued commitment to their 9-paragraph document; waiting for assurance that violence has come to an end. (With a caption by [Éamonn Downey] referring to Setting the record straight where subsequent alterations made by the British to the document are discussed.)