Leo Amery had written and published the first three volumes of his autobiography, "My Political Life", in the 1950s, covering the period up to 1940, and in 1955 produced ten draft chapters of a fourth volume. However, his death in 1955 meant that this final volume was never completed. JA intended to finish his father's work himself, following the completion of his own memoirs ["Approach March"] but other work intervened. At about the same time, David Nicholson was working on the edited version of Leo Amery's diaries, and it was decided that he should finish the volume, but unfortunately this plan doesn't appear to have ever got beyond the draft stage. The papers include original source material, particularly some of Amery's wartime correspondence and speeches, drafts (almost all Nicholson's, rather than Leo Amery's) and Nicholson's rough notes.