Correspondents (many sympathising with JA on the death of [Neil] "Billy" McLean and complimenting him on his address at McLean's memorial service) include: David Alton on the Jubilee Campaign for human rights (2); Rifaat al-Assad, Vice-President of Syria; Hugh Astor (4); Anthony Kenny, Master of Balliol College, University of Oxford, on the election of a new university Chancellor, following the death of 1st Lord Stockton [earlier (Maurice) Harold Macmillan]; Sir John Biggs-Davison, on the poor performance of Lord Barber on the Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Committee, also suggesting that JA's speech for the Chamberlain dinner should be published by the Friends of the Union; Roger Birch, Chief Constable, Sussex Police; Lord Blease; Field Marshal Sir Edwin Bramall; John Browne on Harold Macmillan's memorial service; Sir Julian Bullard, British Ambassador to West Germany [later part of Germany]; 3rd Lord Burton; 2nd Lord Caldecote [earlier Thomas Inskip]; [Leonard] James Callaghan; Edward du Cann on his motion to allow overseas civil servants to count war service towards their pensions; Lord Caradon [earlier Hugh Foot]; Winston Churchill on his attempt to repeal part of the Crown Proceedings (Armed Forces) Bill preventing servicemen from suing if hurt while on duty; Patrick Cormack on JA's article for the House Magazine on Macmillan (2); Sir William Deakin on [Neil] "Billy" McLean's death and finding a biographer for him (2); Michael Mayne, Dean of Westminster, on Macmillan's memorial service; Mark Lennox-Boyd, enclosing information to help with JA's entry for the Dictionary of National Biography on 1st Lord Boyd of Merton [earlier Alan Lennox-Boyd] (enclosed) (3); Lord Blake, Joint Editor, Dictionary of National Biography; 2nd Lord Boyd of Merton [earlier Simon Lennox-Boyd]; Christine Nicholls, Joint Editor, Dictionary of National Biography; Sir [Arthur] Douglas Dodds-Parker; Lord Eden of Winton; Louis FitzGibbon, Secretary of the British Horn of Africa Council, on Ethiopian "villagisation", forcing refugees back to Ethiopia from Djibouti (8); Sir Berkeley Gage; Sir Alexander Glen on McLean and his own part in the campaign in Norway, 1941-44; 1st Lord Glendevon [earlier Lord John Hope]; Sir Philip Goodhart, sympathising on the deaths of McLean and Harold Macmillan; Conal Gregory [Vice-Chairman of the Conservative Parliamentary Tourism Committee]; Alan Hare on finding a biographer for McLean (2); [Joseph] Kenneth Hargreaves, Secretary of the Back Bench Home Improvement Sub-Committee; Lord Home of the Hirsel [earlier Alexander Douglas-Home and 14th Lord Home] on the memorial services for Macmillan and McLean; Owen Horwood; Charles Powell, Private Secretary to the Prime Minister; Sir [Richard] Geoffrey Howe, Foreign Secretary, on subjects including relations with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) (4); [Thomas] Michael Jopling, Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, on Britain's successes on the development of the Common Fisheries Policy and reform of the Common Agricultural Policy while President of the European Community (2); King Hussein of Jordan; Prince Hassan of Jordan; 17th Lord Lauderdale [earlier Patrick Maitland]; Patrick Leigh Fermor on not being able to take on McLean's biography; Peter Lilley, Parliamentary Private Secretary to Nigel Lawson [Chancellor of the Exchequer]; Sir John Lovill; Lord Lumley [later 13th Lord Scarbrough]; John Grigg, Obituaries Editor of the Times; Sir [David] Carol Mather; David Mitchell, Minister of State for Transport, on the deregulation of local bus services; James Molyneaux, Leader of the Ulster Unionist Party, enclosing a copy of his letter to the Lord Chancellor, resigning as a Justice of the Peace because of the Anglo-Irish Agreement; Sir Hector Monro; David Nicholson; John Patten, Minister of State for Housing, Urban Affairs and Construction, on the Housing and Planning Act, particularly the right to buy for local authority tenants; Shimon Peres, Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs; [John] Tim Rathbone, enclosing copies of correspondence on the Brighton Health Authority; Nicholas Ridley, Secretary of State for the Environment, on the development of agricultural land and the Rate Support Grant settlement (2); [Roland] "Tiny" Rowland, Chief Executive of Lonrho, enclosing copies of correspondence with [Henry] Paul Channon, Secretary of State for Trade and Industry [later Lord Kelvedon] on the takeover of House of Fraser by Mohamed Al Fayed; Angela Rumbold and Christopher Patten, Ministers of State, Department of Education and Science, on sex education in schools; 10th Duke of Rutland [earlier Lord Granby] (2); Thomas Sackville; 2nd Lord Sandford, Chairman of the Standing Conference of London and South East Regional Planning Authorities [earlier John Edmondson]; 12th Lord Scarbrough [earlier Lord Lumley]; 2nd Lord Stockton [earlier Lord Macmillan of Ovenden] on Macmillan's memorial service; Sir John Riddell, Private Secretary to the Prince and Princess of Wales (2); Sir John Townley (2); George Walden, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Education and Science, on the review of student grants; William Walker on the Winnie Mandela Rectorial Campaign at the University of Glasgow; Sir Patrick Wall [Chairman of the Anglo-South African Group]; Kenneth Warren; Sir [Vincent] Gordon White, Chairman of Hanson Industries, enclosing a Wall Street Journal article on a visit to the United States by Neil Kinnock, Leader of the Labour Party, and on American distrust of Labour's defence policies; Sir Denis Wright [former British Ambassador to Ethiopia]; Lord Wyatt of Weeford; George Young; George Younger, Secretary of State for Defence, on the cancellation of the Nimrod airborne early warning system and the purchase of the Boeing E-3A instead.

Also includes: memorandum by Henry Armitage on the recent political history of Saudi Arabia; synopsis by JA for a biography of [Neil] "Billy" McLean (sent to Patrick Leigh Fermor); notes on Government help for the north east; draft of JA's obituary for McLean; photograph of JA and Lady Catherine Amery, used as a Christmas card.