Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Thu 5 August 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 5 August 1982

0830

Hair

0930

Joan Porter and [Nick] Kitchener [engagement card (THCR 1/20/3/43): “Joan Porter & John Kirklees” (added in MT’s hand)]

1000

Sir Laurens van der Post, Peter Bevan and Michael Gill

1100

Alan Walters

1130

Ralph Howell MP

1210

Left for H/C

1215

Sir Robin Cooke - H/C

1255

Returned to Downing Street

1300

Lunch with Private Secretaries

1445

Alfred Sherman

1600-1900

Tricia Murray to up-date her book

1945

Dinner with Sir Ian and Lady Percival +DT - 9 Kings Bench Walk

[on reverse of engagement card (THCR 1/20/3/43):

Boldness is our friend

Ec. - haven’t been told

- heavy overheads

5m - public sector down by 2.5 per cent

Private sector by 8 per cent

3.2 people round each bed

1.2 used to be

Health Service - Pay - need smaller numbers]

MT Engagement Diary