Correspondents include: 2nd Lord Barnby [earlier Francis Vernon Willey]; Anthony Berry on JA's decision not to attend a Save Israel campaign meeting in his constituency; Keith Best; John Biggs-Davison, asking JA to become a patron of the Pan-Europe Club; 1st Lord Boyd of Merton [earlier Alan Lennox-Boyd]; Sir Paul Bryan, Chairman of the Unionist Club; Edward du Cann; John Carlisle; 6th Lord Carrington, Foreign Secretary, on the disputed claims of Iran and Iraq to the Iranian province of Khuzestan and Britain's support for Pakistan (2); [Henry] Paul Channon [later Lord Kelvedon] (2); Air Marshal Sir Denis Crowley-Milling, Controller of the RAF Benevolent Fund; Michel Debré; Abba Eban [former Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs], enclosing his article on the Iran-Iraq War; H Neil Marten, Minister for Overseas Development; [Charles] Hugh Faulkner, Director of Help the Aged; [John] Marcus Fox, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of the Environment, on the relaxation of planning controls; George Gardiner on standing for election to the 1922 Committee; Alan Glyn on JA speaking in his constituency (2); Roger de Grey, Principal of the City and Guilds of London Art School; Sir [Alan] Philip Hay, Director of Sotheby's; Michael Heseltine; Terence Higgins; Lord Holderness [earlier Richard Wood]; Sir [Richard] Geoffrey Howe, Chancellor of the Exchequer, on JA's views on economic policy; Gerald Frost, Director of the Institute for European Studies, on a conference on Poland; King Hussein of Jordan; Sir Keith Joseph, Secretary of State for Industry (2); William Whitelaw, Home Secretary; Austen Laing, Director General of the British Fishing Federation Limited, on current Common Fisheries Policy negotiations; Peter Laing, Director of Help the Aged (2); Michael Latham; Sir Trevor Lloyd-Hughes, Namibia Information Service; John MacGregor; Donald MacLeod, British Embassy, Bucharest [Romania]; James Mancham on his forthcoming lecture tour; Brian Fall, Head of Eastern European and Soviet Department, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, enclosing a note of JA's meeting with Janos Nagy, Hungarian Foreign Minister on subjects including the Hungarian economy, energy policy and East-West relations; 4th Lord Strathcona, Minister of State for Defence [earlier Donald Howard]; Sultan Qaboos of Oman; Dawid de Villiers, South African Ambassador to Britain; Guy Hands, President of the Oxford University Conservative Association (2); Cecil Parkinson, Minister for Trade, on trade with Romania; Robert Peliza on Gibraltar's relationship with Britain, enclosing a memorandum on the Gibraltarians' concern about the effect of the White Paper on British Nationality law; Shimon Peres, Chairman of the Israel Labour Party; James Prior, Secretary of State for Employment, on JA's views on economic policy; Francis Pym, Secretary of State for Defence; [Ronald] Timothy Renton; [Aubrey] Geoffrey Rippon; 12th Lord Scarbrough [earlier Lord Lumley] on the Government's unpopularity and the likelihood of a miners' strike; Sir Peter Tennant, Industrial Adviser, Barclays Bank International Limited, on the former British Productivity Council (2); Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister (3); Lord Thorneycroft, Chairman of the Conservative Party (2); Sir John Townley; Peter Walker, Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (2); Ezer Weizman; Sir [Roland] Roy Welensky [former Prime Minister of Rhodesia] on violence in Zimbabwe (2).

Also includes: text of JA's part in a meeting of the Comité d'Etudes Economiques on the economic policies of the Government of Margaret Thatcher; text of a speech by Nicholas Goodison, Chairman of the Stock Exchange, on the Government's economic policy; account of JA's visit to South Africa, sent to Margaret Thatcher, particularly on the activities of SWAPO [The South West Africa People's Organization] and on sanctions; note of JA's meetings with the Romanian Foreign Minister, Stefan Andrej, and with President Nicolae Ceausescu, sent to Thatcher, on Afghanistan, Palestine, the Iran-Iraq War, Zimbabwe [earlier Southern Rhodesia], Poland and relations between Romania and Britain, with papers on the negotiations for a Romanian nuclear power station project.