Correspondents include: Jonathan Aitken, Conservative Philosophy Group; Air Chief Marshal Sir John Barraclough, Editorial Director of NATO’s Fifteen Nations magazine, asking JA to write an article on Soviet Imperialism in Africa (enclosed); Erik Bennett; Vernon Bogdanor on the need for a referendum to validate the new settlement in Rhodesia [later Zimbabwe]; Andrew Bowden, enclosing copies of correspondence on the future of Army pay and record offices in Brighton [Sussex]; Rhodes Boyson; Robert Brown, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence for the Army, on the future of Army pay and record offices in Brighton; 3rd Lord Burton, on attending the Foreign and Commonwealth committee, to hear JA speak on the Horn of Africa; Winston Churchill, writing to an American National Security advisor on his concerns about the policy of the United States towards Somalia; Michel Debré; William Deedes, Editor of the Daily Telegraph, on an article by JA on Rhodesia; 11th Duke of Devonshire [earlier Lord Hartington]; [Albert] Patrick Duffy, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence (Navy); Basil de Ferranti; Eldon Griffiths on subjects including American Democratic views of Rhodesia (2); Merlyn Rees, Home Secretary, on subjects including the barony of Eure (3); 2nd Lord Hankey on his concerns about Soviet policy on Africa and trying to improve the Government's attitude towards Rhodesia (2); Pamela Harriman [earlier Pamela Digby, Pamela Churchill and Pamela Hayward]; Sir [James] Harwood Harrison, Chairman of the Unionist Club; Stephen Hastings (3); Lord Home of the Hirsel [earlier Alexander Douglas-Home and 14th Lord Home] on subjects including the situation in Somalia and the settlement in Rhodesia (3); Peter Hordern on speeches by JA on Rhodesia and in the defence debate (2); Paul Keating, Irish Ambassador to Britain; Bryant Godman Irvine; Charles Irving; King Hussein of Jordan (2); Sir Keith Joseph; Sir John Killick, British Ambassador to NATO on the strengthening American attitude to the Soviet Union, and on events in Somalia; Henry Kissinger; [David] Carol Mather [Opposition Whip]; Colin Mitchell; Anthony Montague Browne; Professor Peter Nailor, Department of History and International Affairs, Royal Naval College, Greenwich; the Sultan of Oman (2); Harry Oppenheimer; Major-General Graham Peddie on discontent among the Armed Forces because of Government policy and on the threat to world sea routes from the Soviet Union (2); Maurice Petherick (2); William Rees-Davies; Julian Ridsdale [Chairman of the British Japanese Parliamentary Group] on subjects including submitting questions for the Japanese Prime Minister (3); 6th Lord Salisbury [earlier Lord Cranborne] on the death of his son Lord Richard Cecil in Rhodesia; John Fraser, Minister of State, Department of Prices and Consumer Protection; Lord Soames on his reasons for accepting a peerage; Michael Stern, Chairman of the Bow Group; [Dudley] Geoffrey Stewart-Smith, Director of Foreign Affairs Publishing Company Limited, on JA writing the foreword to General Sir Walter Walker's book "The Bear at the Back Door"; Peter Tapsell; [Thomas] George Thomas, Speaker of the House of Commons [later 1st Lord Tonypandy]; Sir John Townley; John Horam, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Transport; 2nd Lord Tweedsmuir [earlier John Buchan] on the death of his wife Baroness Tweedsmuir; General Sir Walter Walker [former Commander-in-Chief, Allied Forces Northern Europe] on JA writing the foreword to his book "The Bear at the Back Door" (preface enclosed) and on his forthcoming visit to Rhodesia (2); Kenneth Warren; [Bruce] Bernard Weatherill; Woodrow Wyatt.

Also includes: copy of a letter from Leo Amery to Stanley Bruce [High Commissioner for Australia in Britain] on the success of Richard Casey [Minister of State Resident in the Middle East] and how much of this was owing to Bruce (1942); text of a speech by 4th Lord St Oswald [earlier Rowland Winn] to the European Parliament on Rhodesia; text of JA's tribute to Lord Richard Cecil.