Papers and files, created and compiled by Clark Kerr as part of his career as a diplomat, including official correspondence and telegrams, (draft) memoranda, briefing papers and reports. Also includes 'Foreign Office prints', i.e. the Foreign Office's printed circulars and reports, as well as some of Clark Kerr's appointment diaries, material relating to speeches given in a professional capacity, his Foreign Office credentials and other papers relating to his appointments and posts, and…

Correspondence with, but mainly from, Clark Kerr's friends and colleagues, and from prominent Foreign Office and aristocratic figures he was in touch with. Depending on Clark Kerr's relationship to the correspondents, the content is of a more personal or more professional nature.