Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Fri 11 May 1984

Document type:	Declassified documents
Source:	Thatcher MSS (Churchill Archive Centre): THCR6/1/2/6
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 are now being deposited at TNA in the series PREM32; PREM32/18 is the manuscript version of the diary, PREM32/6 the typed one.
Importance ranking:	Minor
Word count:	1p

Friday 11 May 1984

0800

Hair

0930

Scottish Conference Speech [k/f (keep free) for]

1000

[Rehearsal]

Lunch in flat

1350

Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary [Sir Geoffrey Howe]

1400

Departed No. 10 + DT

1445

Take off from Northolt [Amanda Colvin, Michael Alison, Stephen Sherbourne, Mrs Dibblin, Bob Kingston: see 2/10/34 f100]

1605

Arrived Scone Airport [To be met by: Sir Graham Macmillan: see THCR 2/10/34 f104 and THCR 5/1/5/256 f3]

Drove to Station Hotel Perth

1615

Arrived at Station Hotel [To be met by Sir James Goold, George Younger, John Peach: see 2/10/34 f104 and THCR 5/1/5/256 f3]

Worked on speech

1850

Left Station Hotel [Accompanied by Sir James Goold, George Younger, John Selwyn Gummer: see THCR 2/10/34 f104 and THCR 5/1/5/256 f3]

1855

Arrived Perth Town Hall [Donald Maclean, Alec Douglas-Home: see 2/10/34 f96]

1900

Addressed Rally

1955

Left Town Hall for Station Hotel

2000

Photo call for 8 Scottish Euro-candidates at Station Hotel [Alasdair Hutton, James Provan, John Purvis, David Webster, Iain Henderson, Jacqui Lait, Ross Leckie, Sally Chadd: see 2/10/34 f104 and THCR 5/1/5/256 f3]

[Change] [Unclear if this was to have happened before or after the next meeting]

2030

Lord Home [Alec Douglas-Home]

2100

President's Dinner at Station Hotel [+ Michael Alison, Stephen Sherbourne: see 2/10/34 f96] [Mr Donald Maclean presiding. Dinner jacket. Short informal speech: see THCR 2/10/34 f104 and THCR 5/1/5/256 f3]

2230

Looked in at YC Reception: City Mills Hotel [Chairman: Raymond Robertson: see 2/10/34 f104 and THCR 5/1/5/256 f3]

2245

Looked in at Agents' Ball: Salutation Hotel [Chairman Susan Elliot: see 2/10/34 f104 and THCR 5/1/5/256 f3]

0030

Returned to Station Hotel

MT Engagement Diary