Correspondents include: Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, on her memories of her visit to France in 1938 with King George VI; Sir Robert Armstrong, thanking CS for congratulations on his KCB; 2nd Lord Elton on a comic verse about CS.

Also includes: the text of a poem by Sir John Betjeman and Mary, Lady Wilson, on CS's life peerage; press cuttings on his becoming a director of National Westminster Bank Limited; text of CS's speech at the Financial Times conference in Madrid [Spain], Feb 1978, on the European Community in the world.