Correspondence and papers on visits to places and events including: China; the CEDI congress (European Centre of Documentation and Information); a forum on world aviation; Southern Rhodesia [later Zimbabwe] and South Africa; Jordan; Romania; Poland, for the Anglo-Polish Round Table Conference; Oman; Israel; Iran.

Correspondents include: Eldon Griffiths; [Dudley] Geoffrey Stewart-Smith, Director of the Foreign Affairs Research Institute; [David] Evan Luard, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Foreign Office, on oil prospects in Jordan; 6th Lord Carrington (2); Sir [Arthur] Michael Palliser [Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Foreign Office] on JA's visit to Romania and recent visits to Britain by Romanian ministers (2); Patricia, Lady Jellicoe (sending postcards via JA); William Deedes, Editor of the Daily Telegraph; Mark Bonham-Carter on the Anglo-Polish Round Table Conference (3); Stephen Hastings on going on safari to Botswana with JA (2).

Also includes: an extract from JA's diary on his visits to China and Romania, May-June 1976 and article by JA on Romania; notes of JA's talks on Rhodesia with local officials and politicians, September 1975, including members of the ANC [African National Congress] and with Ian Smith [Prime Minister of Rhodesia]; letter from JA to [Leonard] James Callaghan [Foreign Secretary], giving his impressions of the political situation in Oman.