Includes correspondence regarding: the functioning of the office, conditions of service, budget, and staffing matters; immigration; federation negotiations and prospects, campaigns, debates, and votes; opposition to federation; the Southern Rhodesian (Zimbabwean) referendum; Federal electioneering; representation of the Federation (Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Malawi) in London; teething troubles of the interim Federal Government; Roy Welensky's plans for constitutional advance; Northern Rhodesian (Zambian) political and constitutional affairs; and British and Rhodesian (Zambian and Zimbabwean) politics.