Correspondents include: Ian Aitken; Jonathan Aitken; Jeffrey Archer, Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party; Sir Robert Armstrong; Kenneth Baker, Secretary of State for Education and Science on the introduction of the GCSE exam; [Antony] Tony Baldry on Britain's forthcoming Presidency of the European Community and the establishment of the Presidency Information Unit; Sir Derek Barber, Chairman of the Countryside Commission; Sir John Barton-Townley [earlier Sir John Townley]; [John] Roy Beggs on reforging the links between the Ulster Unionists and Conservatives; Sir John Biggs-Davison on subjects including the change of mood in the party regarding the Anglo-Irish Agreement and working with [John] Enoch Powell and the Unionists (4); Lord Bonham-Carter; John Carlisle [Secretary of the British-South Africa Group] (4); [Henry] Paul Channon [later Lord Kelvedon], Secretary of State for Trade and Industry; John Charmley; Air Chief Marshal Sir David Craig (2); Michael Cummins, Assistant Serjeant at Arms; William Deedes, Editor of the Daily Telegraph; Ian Deslandes, Deputy Director General of the Building Employers’ Confederation, enclosing a motion on local authority contracts, to prevent Labour authorities from imposing unfair conditions; David Dilks, Professor of International History, University of Leeds, on Britain's entry into Europe in 1950-51; Hugh Dykes on forming an All Party Europe Group which could link to the European Movement; Sir Nigel Fisher (2); Louis FitzGibbon on the case for sending more aid to Somalia; John Wilkinson, enclosing copies of his correspondence with Lynda Chalker, Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, on the export of arms to Ethiopia (2); Ian Gow, enclosing a copy of resolutions sent by the Ulster Unionists to Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister on their repudiation of the Anglo-Irish Agreement; [Joseph] Kenneth Hargreaves, Secretary of the Home Improvement Sub-Committee; Sir Stephen Hastings on JA's suggestion that he should write [Neil] "Billy" McLean's biography; Michael Heseltine; Lord Home of the Hirsel [earlier Alexander Douglas-Home and 14th Lord Home]; Sir Peter Hordern; Alistair Horne on Nikolai Tolstoy's book ["The Minister and the Massacres"]; Owen Horwood; [Ronald] Timothy Renton, Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office; Sir [Richard] Geoffrey Howe, Foreign Secretary (3); Robert Jackson; Peter Jenkins; Roy Jenkins; Professor Reginald Jones (R V Jones); Sir [John] Anthony Kershaw on briefings from Afghanistan, and the difficulties of getting firm information (2); James Kilfedder; Lord King of Wartnaby; Sir Ian Lloyd on the collapse of a moderate policy towards South Africa; Austin Mitchell, asking JA to support a motion to televise Select Committees; 2nd Lord Norwich [earlier John Julius Cooper] thanking JA for his sympathy [on the death of his mother, Lady Diana Cooper]; David Owen; Daphne Park, Principal of Somerville College, University of Oxford; [John] Enoch Powell; Sir Julian Ridsdale, asking for JA's support for a bill to expand the port of Harwich [Essex]; [Aubrey] Geoffrey Rippon on the Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms Bill; [Roland] "Tiny" Rowland, Chief Executive of Lonrho, enclosing copies of correspondence with Sir Eldon Griffiths on their argument over the Observer's account of the activities of certain resident foreign businessmen, particularly relating to Harrods; Norman Tebbit, Chairman of the Conservative Party; Neil Thorne on his concerns about the takeover of the Plessey company by GEC [the General Electric Company]; George Walden [Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Education and Science] on a review of student grants; [Alfred] Cecil Walker, enclosing a pamphlet on the Ulster Unionist UK Group for Equal Rights; Peter Walker, Secretary of State for Energy; General Sir Walter Walker on the links between the Soviet Union and the African National Congress in South Africa, enclosing copies of his letters to the South African State Security Council (4); Patrick Wall; Caspar Weinberger, American Secretary of Defense; Tom King, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland; Denis Worrall, South African Ambassador to Britain.

Also includes: a paper by JA on Joseph Chamberlain (enclosed by Joseph Egerton, Research Director of the Hughenden Foundation); review by JA of General Shahid Hamid's book "Disastrous Twilight" for the Financial Times; text of a speech by Enoch Powell to a branch of the South Down Unionist Association on the abolition of the Northern Ireland Assembly; report on relations between Britain and Argentina, prepared by the Centre for South Atlantic Studies.

Includes papers relating to a dinner given for the Ulster Unionists at the Carlton Club by those Conservatives who had voted against the Anglo-Irish Agreement, with letters of acceptance or regret from: Ian Gow (2); [Jane] Ann Winterton; [William] Bill Walker; [George] Barry Porter; 6th Lord Salisbury [earlier Lord Cranborne]; Lord Cranborne [later 7th Lord Salisbury]; Sir John Farr; Michael Brown; Michael Morris [later Lord Naseby]; Ivor Stanbrook; Clifford Forsythe; [Alfred] Cecil Walker; William Ross; [James] Harold McCusker; John Taylor; [William] Martin Smyth; James Molyneaux, Leader of the Ulster Unionists (2); [John] Enoch Powell.