In the 1980s after his official retirement from Public Life Sir Andrew took up novel writing as a more or less full time occupation - this correspondence relates to his various publications and is all from the late 1980s and early 1990s.

4/A Correspondence with Robert Hale re (i) The Russian Professor; (ii) The Watercress File; (iii) The Ultimate Hostage ; (iv) South of Three Pagodas; (v) Malaya [later part of Malaysia]1941; (vi) various rejected ms - see GILC/2; (vii) Did Van Gogh paint his bed?; (viii) Death of an Admiral. 4/B "Correspondence re memoirs - closed". Correspondence mostly with Hutchinson re Bangkok Top Secret. 4/C Correspondence with Collins re "The Scottish Agent". (The Scottish Security Chief) . 4/D With Je1mifer Kavanagh (literary agent) re various ms 1989-90. 4/E With Robert Erigher (literary agent) re Van Gogh book 1989-90.