Correspondents include: Sir David Lindsay Keir, Master of Balliol College, University of Oxford, on JA's presentation of a portrait [? of Leo Amery] to the college; Edward Beddington-Behrens; R A Butler, Chairman of the Conservative Research Department, on setting up policy committees on agriculture, defence and nationalised industries; Sir Thomas Comyn-Platt on subjects including the Suez Crisis (2); Neil Elles, congratulating JA on his stand over the Suez Crisis; Sir Charles Ponsonby, Chairman of the Royal Empire Society; Lord Euston [later 11th Duke of Grafton]; 2nd Lord Hailsham [earlier Quintin Hogg, later Lord Hailsham of Saint Marylebone]; 1st Lord Hankey on Robert Menzies [Prime Minister of Australia] making a good British Prime Minister; Sidney Holland, Prime Minister of New Zealand; Douglas Jardine, congratulating JA on his stand on the Suez Crisis; Donald Johnson on not being able to support JA over the Suez Crisis; David Llewellyn; Fitzroy Maclean, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for War (2); John Parker; Paul Reynaud; Juliet, Lady Rhys Williams, Secretary of the United Europe Movement (2), also enclosing her letter to the press on Anglo-American relations; 1st Lord Vansittart on showing the United States the strength of feeling over Suez, and the advantages of Europe being less dependent on the Americans; Sir [Sigismund] David Waley; William Yates on the Suez Crisis.

Also includes: copy and draft of JA's speech at the 1955 Party Conference on co-partnership in industry; list of the Suez Group.