Group of files containing lists of pro- and anti- merger SDP members and correspondence from pro-and anti- merger members, including:

• File: `pro merger (no list done)': letters to David Owen from supporters of the merger
• File: `pro-merger lists. post conference' name and address list of pro-merger members
• File: `Post-conference lists. Pro-merger': letters to David Owen from supporters of the merger
• File: `merger letters. people who wrote for a 2nd and 3rd who are on lists . . .': letters to David Owen from supporters of the merger; includes file of `Abstention, don't know and ditherers' letters, some with copies of David Owen's replies
• File: `List A. Addresses of SDP Anti merger': name and address lists of anti-merger members
• File: `Post-ballot lists. SDP members anti': name and address lists of anti-merger members
• File: `List B. Addresses of SDP Pro merger': name and address lists of pro-merger members
• File: `Post-ballot lists. SDP pro': name and address lists of pro-merger members
• File: `List C. Public Anti merger': name and address lists of anti-merger members
• File: `Post-ballot lists. Public anti': name and address lists of anti-merger members
• File: `Post-conference lists. Public anti-merger': name and address lists of anti-merger members
• File: `List D. Labels public pro merger': name and address lists of pro-merger members
• File: `Post ballot lists. public pro': name and address lists of pro-merger members
• File: `SDP & private. anti merger':includes name and address list of anti-merger members; copy letter from David Owen to supporters of the continuing SDP; photograph of David Owen visiting unidentified works taken by a supporter; letter enclosing press release on the rejection of the merger by the St Ives constituency SDP, Aug 1987

Originally part of reference filing system.