File containing papers relating to aspects of SDP publicity and fund raising during and following the merger of part of the SDP with the Liberal Party, including:

• copies of press releases; includes press releases on speeches/statements of David Owen on national health, alcohol abuse, the London Docklands, the split in the SDP; press releases on SDP statements on merger, proposals for a constitutional coalition, Mar 1989 etc
• copy paper: `External relations programme for the Social Democratic Party'
• samples of direct mailing for the continuing SDP
• SDP press information pack, Mar 1988
• copy letter from Mike Thomas to Sir Geoffrey Wilson concerning the party political broadcast allocation for the continuing SDP and appealing for funds, Apr 1988