Correspondence on JEP's resignations from various honorary posts on joining the Cabinet as Minister of Health, and congratulations on joining the Cabinet. Correspondents include: Archibald Gordon, BBC Current Affairs (Sound) [later 5th Lord Aberdeen and Temair] on subjects including JEP's commentary on the Labour Party Conference (2); [John] Harley Williams, Secretary-General of the Chest and Heart Association (2); Ivy, Duchess of Portland, Chairman of the Chest and Heart Association (2); Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury, asking JEP to sit on the Legislative Commission on the revision of canon law (2); Robert Beloe, Secretary to the Archbishop (2).

Also includes: papers from the Legislative Commission on the revision of canon law.