Correspondents include: Sir Antony Acland, Deputy Under-Secretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office; Air Vice-Marshal Erik Bennett [Commander, Sultan of Oman’s Air Force]; 4th Lord Bethell on his research on Albania for his book ["The Great Betrayal"]; Sir John Biggs-Davison, Chairman of the Pan Europe Club; Sir Bernard Braine; [William] John Biffen, Secretary of State for Trade, on pricing in the air transport industry; Julian Bullard, Deputy Under-Secretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office; 6th Lord Carrington, Foreign Secretary, on subjects including cuts to BBC External Services (3); Nicholas Ridley, Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, on cuts to BBC External Services; Lord Hailsham of Saint Marylebone, Lord Chancellor [earlier Quintin Hogg]; Ian Gilmour, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, on the bombardment of Christian areas of Beirut [Lebanon] by Palestinian forces and the situation in Iran (2); General Sir Timothy Creasey, Deputy Commander-in-Chief and Chief of Defence Staff, Sultan of Oman’s Armed Forces; Brian Crozier (2); David Dobson, Naval and Air Attaché, British Embassy, Athens [Greece] on an appeal for a Special Operations Executive (SOE) memorial in Crete; Geoffrey Drain, General Secretary, National and Local Government Officers Association; [Robert] Anthony Durant, Chairman of the Conservative National Local Government Advisory Committee, on the outcome of the local elections; Ian Gilmour, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, on the bombardment of Christian areas of Beirut [Lebanon] by Palestinian forces; Philip Goodhart, on political life from the backbenches; Ian Gow, Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Prime Minister (5); Sir Joshua Hassan, Chief Minister of Gibraltar, on the pro-Spanish bias of the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee's report on Gibraltar; Stephen Hastings; [Bernard] Barney Hayhoe, Minister of State, Civil Service Department, on arrangements for dealing with the backlog of constituency work following the Civil Service strike; Sir [John] Nicholas Henderson, British Ambassador to the United States; Douglas Hurd, Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, on the human rights situation in Uganda (2); [Cynlais] Kenneth James, British Ambassador to Poland; Anthony Kenny, Master of Balliol College, University of Oxford; Sir [John] Anthony Kershaw [Chairman of the House of Commons Select Committee on Foreign Affairs] on the shelving of an inquiry on Cyprus; John Nott, Secretary of State for Defence, on subjects including the future of the Royal Ordnance Factories (2); Alexander Macmillan, Chairman of Macmillan Publishers Limited [later 2nd Lord Stockton] on opening an operation in Jordan; James Mancham, former President of the Seychelles, on events in the Seychelles since he lost power; [Richard] Anthony Nelson, British Jordanian Parliamentary Group; Harry Oppenheimer; Cecil Parkinson, Chairman of the Conservative Party; 12th Lord Scarbrough [earlier Lord Lumley] (2); Anthony Seldon; Lord Shawcross on the possibility of bringing a case against the organisers of an event at the University of Sussex which JA had spoken at and had been disrupted by protestors (2); William Shelton; Air Chief Marshal Sir [Alexander] Alasdair Steedman, Controller of the Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund; George Terry, Chief Constable of Sussex; Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister, on JA's suggestion that Britain should try to sell Nimrod aircraft to Saudi Arabia in place of American AWACS; Lord Thorneycroft on stepping down as Chairman of the Conservative Party; General Sir Harry Tuzo, Chairman of Marconi Space and Defence Systems Limited, thanking JA for his support in selling their heavyweight torpedo to the Government; Sir Ernest Vasey; Gerard Vaughan, Minister for Health; Sir Denys Wilkinson, Vice-Chancellor, University of Sussex, on the disruption of a student meeting at the university which JA was addressing.

Also includes: diary notes on JA's visit to Invercauld, Aberdeenshire [Scotland] for shooting, Aug 1991; minutes of a meeting of the Northern Ireland Committee on hunger strikes.