File of papers relating to joint SDP/Liberal Alliance fund including:

• Correspondence/memoranda between John Diamond, David Owen and David Steel concerning the establishment and organisation of the fund, Jun-Jul 1984
• Drafts of appeal letters to industries for the fund with correspondence/memoranda re the letters between David Owen, David Steel, Peter Luff, John Pardoe etc; letters from corporate donors in response to the appeal with copies of David Owen's replies
• Correspondence concerning use of the fund, particularly concerning use of the fund to finance the Oxford Polytechnic news monitoring project, Feb-Oct 1986
• Some correspondence with William Rodgers concerning his chairmanship of the Alliance Fund Committee, decisions of the Committee, progress of the fund etc Mar 1986-Jul 1986

Originally part of reference filing system