Correspondents include: Jonathan Aitken, Conservative Philosophy Group; Jack Aspinwall [? Back Bench Aviation Committee]; Sir John Barton-Townley [earlier Sir John Townley] (2); Sir Terence Beckett, Director General, Confederation of British Industry, on the CBI's view of unemployment policy; Keith Best, on standing for the chairmanship of the Party Organisation Committee; Sir Nicholas Bonsor; Michael Brown, enclosing a copy of his letter to Sir [Richard] Geoffrey Howe, Foreign Secretary, on independence for Namibia [South Africa]; John Browne, enclosing copies of articles on Mikhail Gorbachev, leader of the Soviet Union, and a list of people he and JA wished to see during their visit to South Africa; Sir Adam Butler; John Carlisle, Secretary of the British-South Africa Group, enclosing a report on recent developments in relations between South Africa and Lesotho; [Henry] Paul Channon [later Lord Kelvedon] on his new post as Secretary of State for Trade and Industry; Alan Clark on his new post [as Minister for Trade]; Sir John Clark, Chairman of the Plessey Company plc, on Plessey's rejection of a takeover bid from GEC [the General Electric Company]; Sir John Colville, thanking JA for his praise of Colville's published diaries, agreeing that demanding Germany's unconditional surrender in 1945 was a mistake and that Sir Winston Churchill was right to reach out to the Soviet Union after Stalin's death; Lord Cranborne [later 7th Lord Salisbury] (2); 10th Lord De La Warr [earlier Lord Buckhurst]; Lord Eden of Winton; Sir Bryant Godman Irvine; Alastair Goodlad, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Energy; Sir Eldon Griffiths, Chairman of Special Olympics UK; Lord Harris of High Cross, Centre for Research into Communist Economies; Sir Joshua Hassan, Chief Minister of Gibraltar; Sir Stephen Hastings; Michael Heseltine; Sir John Hoskyns, Director General of the Institute of Directors, on a bill on the right to be self-employed; Sir Geoffrey Howe (3); Douglas Hurd [Home Secretary] on subjects including proposed reforms to the Sunday Trading laws (2); Robert Jackson; Professor Reginald Jones (R V Jones), on useful opinions about Westland Helicopters; Sir Keith Joseph, Secretary of State for Education and Science, on the problems of over-centralisation and finding a settlement in the teachers' strike (3); Lord King of Wartnaby, Chairman of British Airways (2); Lionel Kopelowitz, President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews; Peter Lilley, Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer; Richard Luce; Lord Macmillan of Ovenden [later 2nd Lord Stockton], on the policy journal Catalyst; Sir Patrick Moberly, British Ambassador to South Africa; Harry Oppenheimer; [Thomas] John Parker, Chairman of Harland and Wolff plc, asking for support in bidding for naval contracts; John Patten, Minister of State for Housing, Urban Affairs and Construction, on the Right to Repair Scheme for council tenants; [John] Enoch Powell; [John] Tim Rathbone on subjects including local MPs liaising more closely with the University of Sussex and the Shoreham Port Authority Bill (4); Sir [James] Gordon Reece; Sir Joshua Rowley; 12th Lord Scarbrough [earlier Lord Lumley]; Richard Shepherd on the Crown Immunity Bill to remove NHS hospital kitchens' immunity from prosecution; James Spicer, Chairman of the All-Party Anglo-Turkish Parliamentary Group; 7th Lord Sudeley [earlier Merlin Hanbury-Tracy] on the appointment of bishops; Kenneth Warren; Sir [Roland] Roy Welensky (2); Denis Worrall, South African Ambassador to Britain (2); Sir Patrick Wright [Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office]; Sir Woodrow Wyatt; Lord Young of Graffham [Secretary of State for Employment]; George Young, enclosing a copy of his letter to the Times on troop disengagement in Central Europe.

Also includes: text of an article by JA on South Africa, sent to William Deedes, Editor of the Daily Telegraph; briefings on the Hong Kong community of ethnic Indians.