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The letter is charming, but also somewhat enigmatic. Rawding is a name with some history in Grantham, cited many times in old records, but these specific Rawdings are not referenced in Thatcher’s autobiography, or in the biographies of Moore and Cambell, nor mentioned in the Thatcher Foundation’s substantial archive of material, nor the catalogue of her papers in Churchill College, Cambridge. Such family friends often do not leave much of a mark in the official histories and files, but as the letter shows, can have a lasting impact on a leader, and the-then 68 year-old Thatcher clearly delights in reminiscing about her younger years