Word-processed chapters, with manuscript chapter numbers and continuous manuscript pagination. The chapters are entitled: 'First Chapter: Connections', an introduction which is not in the published work '2 Childhood', which became part of chapter 1 '3 Navy and Oxford', which became part of chapter 1 'Chapter 3 Drum', which became chapter 2 …

Word-processed sections on his grandfather, John Sampson, Oxford, Jim Bailey, Nadine Gordimer, white South Africa, journalism, Roy Jenkins, Barbara Wootton, Christine Keeler, Chile, Kay Graham, the SDP, Arthur Schlesinger, Nelson Mandela, and a chapter on Islam which was not included in the published book. The material has been arranged to follow the sequence of the published book.