Correspondents include: Lord Weatherill; Sir John [Jacob] Astor; Sir [Edwin] Hardy Amies; Sir Robert Fellowes [Private Secretary to Queen Elizabeth II]; 6th Lord Salisbury [earlier Lord Cranborne]; [William] John Biffen on subjects including talking to JEP about European policy (3); David Cannadine, Professor of History, Columbia University, New York [United States]; Bryan Gould; Peter Clarke [former Private Secretary to JEP]; Francis Noel-Baker (2); Greville Howard [former Private Secretary to JEP]; Margaret, Baroness Thatcher, on the difficulty of repealing the 1972 European Communion Act and her view that Britain should not ratify the Maastricht Treaty; Sir Robin Day, on publishing a selection of his interviews, including one with JEP; David Butler [Co-editor of Electoral Studies]; Priscilla, Lady Newton [earlier Priscilla, Lady Wolmer] on the death of 4th Lord Newton; Sir George Godber [former Chief Medical Officer, Department of Health and Social Security] on JEP's time as Minister of Health; Tony Benn [earlier Anthony Wedgwood Benn and 2nd Lord Stansgate] (2); Lord Harris of High Cross [founder President, Institute of Economic Affairs]; Anthony Favell; Lord Cranborne [Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence]; Timothy Janman on losing his seat; [James] Gerald Howarth [former Parliamentary Private Secretary to Margaret Thatcher]; Robert Shepherd; Dorothy, Lady Broxbourne on the death of Lord Broxbourne.

Other subjects include: appeals; invitations; literary enquiries and requests; congratulations on speeches and interviews by JEP; JEP's 80th birthday.

Also includes: copy of speech by Tony Benn in the House of Commons on the Maastricht Debate, with copy of bill presented by Benn on a Commonwealth of Europe; note by Lord Harris of High Cross on the future course of the IEA, with a copy of his reply to the Queen's Speech in the House of Lords, and also a speech by 2nd Lord Gowrie; General Election statement by John Biffen on the European issue.