Dorothy Needham wrote many letters on behalf of prisoners of conscience, and fragmentary manuscript drafts of some of these survive. These files also include letters to D N from Robert Rhodes James, MP for Cambridge, 1978 and 1979. Five files, as follows:
File 1: Amnesty International literature;
File 2: Ms drafts of D N's letters on behalf of prisoners;
File 3: Correspondence received in reply to the above;
File 4: Papers concerning activities of Amnesty International, chiefly the Cambridge branch;
File 5: Further correspondence re prisoners of conscience and human rights together with ms drafts of D N's letters on behalf of prisoners.