Includes constituency correspondence and correspondence as Shadow Foreign Secretary. Correspondents include members of the public, Barbara Castle, Lord Kennet [Wayland Young], Michael Barnes, Frank Judd, Ethel de Keyser, Alec Douglas-Home, Kurt Birrenbach, Paul Bryan, Michael Heseltine, Kevin McNamara, Marcia Williams (on behalf of Harold Wilson), Roy Roebuck and Christopher Chataway, among others.

Subjects include Leeds, the European Economic Community, Rhodesia, Northern Ireland, the Immigration Act 1971, the Julian Press, Pakistan and East Bengal and apartheid.

Also includes some personal correspondence.