Material on JEP's campaign in the Normanton by-election [South Yorkshire] (February 1947), including: correspondence with representatives of the Normanton and Castleford [South Yorkshire] Conservative and Unionist Association, and representatives of Conservative and Unionist Central Office (including Yorkshire Area); campaign posters; reports of JEP's pre-election speeches; lists of staff and expenses; post-election report by JEP; letters of good will and sympathy from individuals including 11th Lord Scarbrough [earlier Lawrence Lumley] (3), R A Butler, Ted Curtis, Andrew Freeth, Kenneth Pickthorn.

Also includes: posters for other by-elections from 1945-7; correspondence with various local Conservative Associations with vacancies for Parliamentary candidates (1947); military notes and papers by JEP, on subjects including the balance of power in Europe following the war, creating a military alliance between Britain and the Indian Ocean countries, results of increasing air-power, Intelligence Organisation in South East Asia Command and India, British war aims in the Far East, the implications of the Burma-Siam [later Myanmar-Thailand] Railway, the Burma [later Myanmar] Front (including enemy supply and reinforcements) and rail communications in the Indo-Malayan Peninsula (1943); notes and papers by JEP on Indian self-government, including the political problems of British withdrawal and population increase, notes on strategy and policy in the Far East and the text of a pamphlet and notes for the Reorganization Committee (India) on Armed Forces in India (1944-45); notes by JEP on post-war organisation of Intelligence in Asia (1943); notes on the Libyan situation, the course of the war in 1942 and observations on war training courses (1942); paper by JEP on the British North Russian Expedition of 1941 and notes and correspondence from JEP's war training course (1941); notes on Yugoslavia [later Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia] and papers by JEP on movement and operations in North Central Africa, the invasion situation, organisation of the 1st Armoured Division, mechanized movement and the chances of victory (1940).