Includes MT's correspondence with Peter Blaker MP (enclosing a record of his meeting with Alan Reich, Assistant First Secretary US Department of Commerce, 28 July 1977), Winston Churchill MP (attaching a copy of his paper, "Britain's nuclear deterrence", circa June 1977) and Patrick Cosgrave (Special Adviser to MT), attaching a copy of a paper on "U.S. overseas bases: problems of projecting U.S. military power abroad" by Thomas Moorer and Alvin Cottrell), ca. 1977
Also includes detailed briefing notes by the Conservative Research Department for MT's visit to the USA, September 1977; copy of a Government White Paper, "Rhodesia, proposals for a settlement", Cmnd 6919 (September 1977); and copy of a speech on defence issues by Admiral Sir Louis Le Bailly, circa December 1977