Correspondence and papers from the council (of which JA was president), particularly correspondence with Louis FitzGibbon (council secretary) on general council business and other subjects including FitzGibbon's family history, his wish to stand as Parliamentary candidate for Brighton Pavilion after JA's retirement and his ideas on Anglo-German relations and a memorial to the Katyn Massacre. Other correspondents include: Baroness Chalker, Minister for Overseas Development, on subjects including aid to Ethiopia (3); David Hope, Bishop of London; Sir James Eberle, Director of the Institute of International Affairs; 4th Lord Avebury [earlier Eric Lubbock] on the military situation in Ethiopia and Eritrea (3); Douglas Hurd, Foreign Secretary, on negotiations between Ethiopia and Eritrea.

Also includes: report by FitzGibbon on his mission of information to Libya, 1991; notes of meetings with the TPLF [Tigray People's Liberation Front] and EPDA [Ethiopian Peoples' Democratic Alliance]; report on FitzGibbon's fact-finding mission to the Sudan, 1984.