Correspondents include: Mary Tyler, thanking AFB for his recommendation of her book "My Years in an Indian Prison"; Kenneth Morgan, General Secretary of the National Union of Journalists, thanking AFB for his help in the campaign to revoke the deportation orders against two NUJ members; Richard Clements, Editor of Tribune, on funding for a special 40th anniversary issue; Lord Goronwy-Roberts, Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, on a request from members of the public to attend the next Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting; Kenneth Coates, Director of the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation, on the of imprisonment of the Portuguese presidential election candidate Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho; Alfred Lomas, Political Secretary of the London Co-operative Society; [Anthony] Tony Benn on AFB's attendance at a meeting in Bristol on racism (2); Peter Cadogan, General Secretary of the South Place Ethical Society, thanking AFB for the script of his lecture ["My Memories of the Great Four: Wells, Shaw, Russell and Orwell"]; [Kathleen] Nora Brockway and Phyllis Brockway; Christopher Child, National President of the Bakers' Union, thanking AFB for agreeing to write a pamphlet on the union; [Leonard] James Callaghan, Prime Minister; Claude Bourdet.

Also includes: progress report on the Helsinki Final Act [the declaration signed during the third phase of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe (CSCE), 1975]; draft report from Mary Dines on membership of the War on Want council; reply by AFB to a BBC Panorama programme questionnaire on his view of the House of Lords, November 1976; part of AFB's draft lecture ["My Memories of the Great Four: Wells, Shaw, Russell and Orwell"] on George Bernard Shaw; pamphlet on political prisoners in Zanzibar [Tanzania], published by the Zanzibar Trial Fund.