MT Engagement Diary

Document type:	Declassified documents
Source:	THCR6/1/2/1
Editorial comments:	Taken from a typed version of the appointment diary prepared in the Garden Room at some point following MT’s resignation. The original remained in the custody of the Cabinet Office. The text differs in places from a second MS text of the diary at THCR 6/1/1/30, which probably derived from MT’s office at the House of Commons: elements from that second document have been added to this online version where they add material of substance (and explicitly noted as such).
Importance ranking:	Minor
Word count:	1p

Thursday 4 October 1979

0830   Hair
0900   Chancellor of the Exchequer [Sir Geoffrey Howe]
0930   Cabinet [Willie Whitelaw, Lord Hailsham, Lord Carrington, Sir Geoffrey Howe, Sir Keith Joseph, Francis Pym,
              Lord Soames, Jim Prior, Sir Ian Gilmour, Peter Walker, Michael Heseltine, George Younger, Nicholas
              Edwards, Humphrey Atkins, Patrick Jenkin, Norman St John-Stevas, John Nott, David Howell, Mark Carlisle,
              John Biffen, Angus Maude, Norman Fowler, Michael Jopling, Sir John Hunt]
1230   Buffet lunch for Cabinet Ministers
1400   Left No. 10 for Northolt
1445   Took off
1730   Landed at Fiumicino Airport. Met by HE the Honourable Signor Francesco Cossiga, Signor Malfatti, HE Sir
              Ronald Arculus
              Drove to Villa Wolkonsky
1815   Arrived Villa Wolkonsky
1845   Left Villa with HM Ambassador [Sir Ronald Arculus] for Palazzo Chigi
1900-2000   Private meeting with Signor Cossiga, plus Mr. Adams as interpreter
2045   Returned to Villa Wolkonsky
2115   Left for Villa Madama
2145   Arrived for dinner given by Signor Cossiga.
              After dinner, scenic drive to places of interest in Rome
2415   Returned to Villa Wolkonsky
              Meeting with British officials

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