Correspondents include: Jonathan Aitken, Conservative Philosophy Group, also thanking JA for a dinner with the Prime Minister [Margaret Thatcher] (2); Michael Alison, Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Prime Minister (4); Robert Anderson, Global Economic Action Institute; 4th Lord Avebury [earlier Eric Lubbock]; Tony Benn [earlier 2nd Lord Stansgate], complimenting JA on the first volume of [?] Leo Amery's diaries and enclosing a copy of his bill to for democratic and Parliamentary reform; Sir John Biggs-Davison (2); Peter Bottomley; Virginia Bottomley; Andrew Bowden on his motion on initiating multilateral negotiations against international terrorism; Graham Bright [Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Minister of State, Home Office]; Sir [Philip] Antony Buck [Chairman of the Conservative Parliamentary Defence Committee], thanking JA for sending him a paper on the Star Wars defence programme by Professor Reginald Jones (R V Jones); John Browne, enclosing papers on the selection of Mikhail Gorbachev as leader of the Soviet Union; Sir Julian Bullard, British Ambassador to West Germany [later part of Germany], on JA's visit to Bonn; Lord Caradon [earlier Hugh Foot] (2) enclosing articles on the difficulty of negotiations between Israel and Palestine and the need for international mediation; Francisco Orrego-Vicuña, Chilean Ambassador to Britain; Winston Churchill, thanking JA for a dinner with the Prime Minister; Sir Philip Goodhart on a meeting of Le Cercle in Bonn, and (as Chairman of the Sound Broadcasting Committee) on relaying debates in the House of Commons to MPs' offices (2); R V Jones on the meeting of Le Cercle; Gavin Relly on Le Cercle; Alan Clark, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Department of Employment, on JA's writing, also sending him some figures [? on unemployment]; Sir William Clark, commenting on a paper by JA and on a questionnaire from the Global Economic Action Institute (2); Lord Cockfield, Vice-President, Commission of the European Communities, on the dangers of Britain excluding herself from the inner council; Lord Cranborne [later 7th Lord Salisbury]; Michel Debré on JA's memoirs; Ewen Fergusson, Deputy Under-Secretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office; Michael Fidler, National Director of the Conservative Friends of Israel; Martin Gilbert on his biography of Sir Winston Churchill and JA's meeting with him in Egypt, 1943; Sir Eldon Griffiths; [William] Michael Grylls on amendments to the Finance Bill on unitary taxation; Bruno Heim, Apostolic Nuncio to Britain (2); Lord Home of the Hirsel [earlier Alexander Douglas-Home, and 14th Lord Home] on writing to Margaret Thatcher about a "political gap" which he and JA had discussed; Sir Peter Hordern (2); Sir John Hoskyns, Director-General, Institute of Directors (2); Andrew Lownie, Literary Editor of the House magazine, on JA's review of Woodrow Wyatt's memoirs (enclosed) (2); Sir [Richard] Geoffrey Howe, Foreign Secretary, on subjects including aircraft hijacks (2); Christopher Jackson on debates in the European Parliament on Ethiopia; Sir Keith Joseph, Secretary of State for Education and Science, on encouraging new businesses and student union membership (2); 4th Lord Kimberley [earlier Lord Wodehouse]; Major-General James Lunt on his biography of King Hussein of Jordan; 1st Lord Stockton [President of Macmillan Limited, earlier Harold Macmillan] on Lunt's biography; Richard Luce, Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, on meetings about the problems of Sudan and the Horn of Africa; [David] Carol Mather [Government Whip]; Charles Powell, Private Secretary to the Prime Minister, asking JA to join a discussion group on Southern Africa; Nicholas Ridley, Secretary of State for Transport, on an enquiry about competition in the airline industry; [John] Tim Rathbone; Malcolm Rifkind, Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office; Norman Tebbit, Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, agreeing with JA's view that the Government should press ahead with a radical programme; Lord Thomas of Swynnerton on JA's dinner with the Prime Minister; Simon Towneley (2); John Wakeham, Government Chief Whip (2); Peter Walker, Secretary of State for Energy, on subjects including treatment of working miners, sacking of striking miners and a proposed colliery review procedure following the Miners' Strike (2); Sir [Roland] Roy Welensky [former Prime Minister of Rhodesia] on subjects including former Rhodesians having to return to Zimbabwe because of cuts to their pensions (2); Sir Robert Wade-Gery, British High Commissioner to India, on his opinion of the American Ambassador, Harry Barnes; Sir Miles Wingate, Deputy Master of Trinity House.

Also includes: text of a speech by Harry Oppenheimer to the South Africa Club, sent by John Carlisle, on the future of South Africa.