Copies of news cuttings, committee minutes, memoranda, speech transcripts relating to early relationship between the SDP and Liberal Party, collected into the following labelled groups:

• `Shirley Williams' endorsement of Liberal candidates and Steering Committee decisions about not endorsing candidates'
• `How the 50% position was arrived at - was it in the launch briefing or did Bill Rodgers invent it in reply to a question?'
• ` David Steel's pressure about talks'
• `Correspondence in the Times from Richard Rowntree and Ian Wrigglesworth'
• `Steering Committee decision about Shirley Williams going to Llandudno and any other references to Roy Jenkins at Llandudno'