Correspondents include: Jonathan Aitken, Conservative Philosophy Group; Michael Alison, Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Prime Minister (2); Thomas Arnold, Vice-Chairman of the Conservative Party; Leon Brittan, Home Secretary (3); Kenneth Baker on the challenges of his new job as Minister for Local Government; Sir Peter Baldwin, Chairman of the Physically Handicapped and Able Bodied charity; [Thomas] Michael Jopling, Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, on the milk quota; Keith Best; [William] John Biffen, on questions asked by the Times about the Committee of Privileges; Sir John Biggs-Davison (3); John Cockcroft; Roger Birch, Chief Constable, Sussex Police; Sir Peter Blaker, Conservative Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Committee, enclosing a copy of his letter to the Prime Minister on lobbying of the committee by the BBC external services and the British Council; Lord Boothby; [Thomas] Humphrey Brooke on subjects including depression suffered by Sir Winston Churchill and 1st Lord Baldwin's view of war (4); John Browne; John Carlisle, Secretary of the British South African Parliamentary Group; Kenneth Clarke, Minister for Health, on the South East Thames' Regional Secure Unit programme; Michel Debré on his admiration of JA's memoirs and the importance of co-operation between Britain and France; Stephen Dorrell, Parliamentary Private Secretary to Peter Walker; Timothy Eggar [Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Minister for Overseas Development], on a symposium on aid and development in Africa; Roger Gale on his amendment to the Licensing Acts; Sir Philip Goodhart, Chairman of the Select Committee on Sound Broadcasting, on subjects including relaying broadcasts of debates to MPs' offices (2); John Grigg [earlier 2nd Lord Altrincham], thanking JA for his review of Grigg's biography of Lloyd George (enclosed); John Selwyn Gummer, Chairman of the Conservative Party [later Lord Deben] (2); General Sir John Hackett, on JA's article for Encounter on the importance of the Falkland Islands; Lord Hailsham of Saint Marylebone [earlier Quintin Hogg]; [Mostyn] Neil Hamilton on his motion on unitary tax; Roger Hesketh on the death of his brother [Charles] Peter Fleetwood-Hesketh; Lord Home of the Hirsel [earlier Alexander Douglas-Home and 14th Lord Home] on a House of Lords debate on subversion; Sir John Hoskyns, Director-General of the Institute of Directors (2); [Charles] Patrick Jenkin, Secretary of State for the Environment, on controlling spending by local authorities, particularly relating to the money from the sale of council houses (2); Professor Reginald Jones (R V Jones) on his paper commenting on the Star Wars defence programme [not present] (4); Sir Richard King, Global Economic Action Institute, enclosing briefings on Sudan; Ian Lang; Edward Leigh on his motion on the need for secret postal ballots in trade union elections; John Butcher, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Department of Trade and Industry, on further funding for regional IT awareness programmes; Sir Gilbert Longden, Chatham Dining Club (3); Lord Grimond; Ian MacGregor, Chairman of the National Coal Board; Andrew MacKay, Joint Secretary of the Foreign Affairs Committee; Lord Macmillan of Ovenden, Chairman of the National Book Committee Group [later 2nd Lord Stockton] on avoiding the imposition of VAT on books; John Marks, Chairman of the British Medical Association, on their talks with the Department of Health on effective prescribing of drugs; David Mitchell, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Department of Transport, on the effects of the Transport Bill on the bus industry; John McWilliam, Chairman of the computer sub-committee of the Select Committee on House of Commons Services; Rear-Admiral Sir Morgan Morgan-Giles, complimenting JA on his review of the official biography of 1st Lord Mountbatten; Colin Moynihan; [Richard] Anthony Nelson, British-Oman Parliamentary Group (2); 7th Lord Onslow [earlier Lord Cranley]; Robert Peliza [former Chief Minister of Gibraltar], enclosing copies of his correspondence with Baroness Young and [Ronald] Timothy Renton, Minister of State and Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, on the future of Gibraltar (2); Shimon Peres, Prime Minister of Israel, on encouraging signs in the Middle East peace process; 17th Lord Perth [earlier Lord Strathallan] on a speech by Paul Nitze on nuclear defence; Maurice Petherick on his view of the Yalta agreement, 1945; 2nd Lord Trefgarne, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Armed Forces; Francis Pym; Lord Rawlinson of Ewell; 5th Lord St Oswald [earlier Derek Winn]; 12th Lord Scarbrough [earlier Lord Lumley]; Sir Peter Scott [Director of the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust]; Baroness Young on a proposed international finance centre on East Caicos in the Turks and Caicos Islands; Xan Smiley; James Spicer, Chairman of the Anglo-Turkish All-Party Group; Peter Temple-Morris; 1st Lord Tonypandy [earlier George Thomas] thanking JA for his congratulations on his memoirs; Sir John Townley; Peter Walker [Secretary of State for Energy] thanking JA for his support [? during the Miners' Strike]; John Wilkinson on subjects including the Horn of Africa Council.

Also includes: text of JA's review of Philip Ziegler's official biography of 1st Lord Mountbatten for the Financial Times; letters from JA to the Times on giving tackling unemployment priority over bringing down inflation.