Includes constituency correspondence and correspondence as Shadow Foreign Secretary. Correspondents include members of the public, [Mir Mohammad] Rezaul Karim, Marcia Williams (on behalf of Harold Wilson), Michael Heseltine, Ethel de Keyser, Anthony Buzzard, Willaim van Straubenzee, William Hawthorne, Günter Grass, Mario Zagari, Reg Prentice, Brian, Flowers, Margaret Legum, Alice Bacon and Helmut Schmidt, among others.

Subjects include Leeds, Northern Ireland, Rhodesia, the European Common Market, student union financing, Bangladesh, the United Nations and Middle East policy.

Also includes copy of letter from Alec Douglas-Home to Roy Hattersley regarding the Tunb islands, and correspondence regarding broadcasts.