In May 2007, with the Charity Commission's 'Public Benefit' consultations underway, and the university presses' tax status likely to be reviewed (see The Bookseller 16/3/07, The Guardian 17/4/07), I made formal applications under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, to a number of bodies for their production of the papers relating to CUP's and OUP's applications for tax-exemption (CUP 1940 refused, OUP 1952 and previously refused, CUP 1975 accepted, OUP 1977 accepted). All the bodies I approached (The Special Commissioners, HM Revenue & Customs, The Charity Commission) have claimed that they are not subject to the 2000 Act, but the universities themselves, being expressly mentioned in it, cannot do so, and have been obliged to cough up the papers from 1975-1978 indexed below. However, of the papers relating to Cambridge's earlier, more orthodox, failed attempt in 1940, C.U. Registrary Officer Ian Troupe states without explanation that, at some unknown time between 1975 and the present, these important papers have been lost by the university, a suggestion which seems to compromise its reputation for academic integrity altogether. In the light of Geoffrey Cass's opening remarks of 21st November 1975, particularly at page 4, readers are invited to decide for themselves whether such a suggestion can conceivably be true. I have therefore added my recent correspondence with Mr Troupe (index following CUP's below). Oxford, likewise, has said that, "despite a careful search" the requested papers from its 1952 (and previous) rejected applications have also gone missing. So much for Oxbridge's History Faculties. - A. M.