Correspondents include: George Cunningham; Edith Playel-Barritt; Dorothy Detzer Denny on AFB's health after a fall and a bout of pneumonia and an article about him in the New York Times; Joan Lestor on AFB's health; Lord Noel-Baker [earlier Philip Baker] on AFB's health; Miles Kahler, Visiting Research Fellow, Royal Institute of International Affairs; Julian Filochowski, Catholic Institute for International Relations, on an event with the Guyanese barrister Miles Fitzpatrick, also enclosing information on the International Defence Committee for the Referendum Five [members of the Guyanan opposition who had been arrested by the Government of Guyana] (2); Karl Heinz Kern, East German Ambassador to Britain, on the speech given in Berlin by Leonid Brezhnev, on international detente, October 1979; Mark Bishop, Vice-President of the Cambridge Union Society, asking AFB to oppose the motion "This House would fight for Queen and Country"; John Saville, joint editor of the Dictionary of Labour Biography, asking AFB to contribute to an entry on Mary Sutherland; Frank Allaun, apologising for not being able to speak at an event; Dora Russell on the Labour Party Conference and publicity for the bust of Bertrand Russell [3rd Lord Russell]; Bruce Kent, sending the good wishes of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) annual conference, adding that AFB's motion on the World Disarmament Campaign (WDC) had passed without a vote, also sending his sympathy on AFB's fall (2); [Anthony] Tony Benn, sending his sympathy on AFB's fall; Barbara Castle, thanking AFB for marking her birthday; Brian Clough, Manager of Nottingham Forest Football Club, on signing a letter organised by the World Disarmament Campaign (WDC); Peter Cadogan, General Secretary of the South Place Ethical Society, on arranging a lecture by AFB and an idea from the peace activist Mairéad Corrigan [later Mairéad Maguire] for withdrawing troops from areas of Northern Ireland at the joint request of the Catholics and Protestants living there; Altaf Gauhar, Secretary-General of the Third World Foundation, inviting AFB to the Foundation's inaugural lecture (2); Carmel Budiardjo, Tapol British Campaign for the Release of Indonesian Political Prisoners, on organising a protest against the visit to Britain by General Suharto, President of Indonesia; Elnora Ferguson [joint editor of Reconciliation Quarterly], thanking AFB for his contribution to the magazine; Walter Friedlander on the publication of an English-language edition of the biography of his uncle, the German politician Hugo Haase; Elsie Elliott [earlier Elsie Tu, member of the Urban Council of Hong Kong] on compensation being offered to flat owners by the Hong Kong Government; [Jean] Iris Murdoch on her decision not to sign a letter [organised by the World Disarmament Campaign (WDC)].

Also includes: photograph of AFB with the Algerian Ambassador to Britain, Abdelkrim Ben Mahmoud; briefing papers from the United Kingdom Council for Overseas Student Affairs on the immigration debate and new provisions affecting overseas students; briefing from Sir Bernard Braine, Chairman of the Justice for the Banabans Campaign, on progress in securing compensation payments for the Banabans.