Correspondents include: [Terence] Spike Milligan on his pleasure in meeting AFB; Jasper Ridley on his history of the passive resistance movement; John Grigg [earlier 2nd Lord Altrincham] on establishing the credentials of the Bhavan institute of Indian culture before linking them with the Tilak Memorial Trust (2); Neville Butler, Professor of Child Health, asking if AFB would act as a patron of the International Centre for Child Studies; Dora Russell, enclosing a note "The Soul of Russia and the Body of America" which she had written on her return from Russia in 1920, also commenting on the Warren Beatty film "Reds"; Joan Lestor on having to miss a visit to Kenya, a party for the 85th birthday of F A Ridley and a meeting and film show with David Kerr, "Doctors against the Bomb" (3); Clive Soley, asking AFB to sign some books for auction; Lord Hale on subjects including his health; Lord Houghton of Sowerby, Chairman of the British Parliamentary Group on Population and Development; Barry Newman, Staff Correspondents, Wall Street Journal, on interviewing AFB for an article on the House of Lords; Lord Chitnis, inviting AFB to a meeting on the future of Nicaragua; Julián Gorkin [Julián Gómez García-Ribera] on his writing work; Margaret Glover, asking AFB to speak at a peace march; 6th Lord Carrington, Foreign Secretary, on the draft concluding document presented at the CSCE conference [the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe] in Madrid [Spain]; Brian Walker, Director General of Oxfam, on the detention of Alex Mbatha in South Africa; Margaret Rigal, Secretary of the International Committee for the Release of Anatoly Shcharansky, enclosing an appeal for his release from prison in the Soviet Union; Jonathan Dimbleby, passing on the regards of Julián Gorkin to AFB; 3rd Lord Rea on feeling more in sympathy with AFB than with anyone else in the House of Lords; Bruce George on his research into the Labour Party and defence.

Also includes: issue of the Dawn, on "Jerry Rawlings and the Ghana Crisis", January 1982, on Rawlings's coup in December 1981; list of people met by the British Peace Delegation to the Soviet Union, January 1982 (of which AFB was a member); newsletter of the 300 Group (for women in politics); an open letter from the Libyan People's Bureau in London in response to allegations by Lord Paget on Libya's programme of overseas assassinations and terrorism.