Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Thu 7 January 1982

Document type:	Declassified documents
Source:	Thatcher MSS (Churchill Archive Centre): THCR6/1/2/4
Editorial comments:	Taken from a typed version of the appointment diary prepared in the Garden Room following MT's resignation but before 1992. The handwritten original has also been studied and material from that source has sometimes been added in, with explicit notes to that effect. The handwritten volumes will eventually make their way to TNA.
Importance ranking:	Minor
Word count:	1p

Thursday 7 January 1982

1000

Meeting of Ministers on Civil Service pay

Meeting with S/S Education [Sir Keith Joseph], Chancellor [Sir Geoffrey Howe] +IG [Ian Gow]

1300

Lunch in flat

1430

Chancellor of the Exchequer [Sir Geoffrey Howe]

1500

Mr. Allen Adams, MP, and Mr. Alex Fletcher, MP

1530

Alistair McAlpine

1600

Briefing for Spanish talks

1700

Meeting of Ministers re Poland

1830

Drinks for industrialists [also Lord Ralph Harris: see Gow minute to MT, 6 Jan 1982 THCR 2/1/4/54 f129, Harris coming to drinks the following evening at 6.30 “with the signatories of the famous letter”. Likely reference to 26 Nov 1981 letter in The Times, signed by Ronald Halstead, Basil Collins, George Cattell, James Hanson, Arnold Hall, Lord Inchcape, Neville Bowman-Shaw, Malcolm McAlpine, Denis Allport, Ian Weston-Smith, Richard Puttick, James Duncan, Charles Tidbury, Reginald Smith, Philip Dunkeley, Stanley Field, Lord Richard Marsh]

MT Engagement Diary