Includes reference to the following prisoners: M. Brutus, Y.A. Cachalia, Edward Daniels, Denis Goldberg, Harry Gwala, Isaac Heymann, Baruch Hirson, David Kitson, John Laredo, Hugh Lewin, Nelson Mandela, Jason Daniel Mutumbela (S.W.A), A. Osman, J.N. Singh, Robert Sobukwe.

15/10/66: Letter to Minister of Justice, Pelser, about Wilfred Brutus at Groenpunt Prison, OFS, and Ahmad [?] Osman, a coloured school-teacher now banned and forced to work as a casual labourer due to the restrictions imposed on him.

Undated memo, maybe from 1967, or draft speech partly handwritten, partly typed, about prison conditions, the state of political prisoners, the "manner in which police use 180-day detention".

03/02/67-01/05/67: amongst others mentions conditions of the women prisoners at Barberton, Indian detainees at Leeuwkop, John Jacques William Aitcheson (banned in May 1965 and wanting to leave SA for Oxford but can't get a passport).

03/02/67: a handwritten note from Pelser about a proposed visit to Robben Island by Helen Suzman and the conditions of the visit.

08/02/67-23/02/67: letters from Pat Davidson [Hugh Lewin's lawyer?] about Lewin being refused the right to register to continue his BA degree at UNISA, also a statement from Lewin; Helen Suzman responds about her meeting with the Minister and says: "Please do not mention to anyone else what I tell you in confidence. I do not wish to jeopardise my chances for future interviews by publicity at this stage".

08/02/67-03/04/67: letters from Mrs. A. Cachalia [Amina} concerning her husband Y.A. Cachalia [Yusuf] and his detention, raids on her home by police, verbal threats, theft of a letter by a Lt. Stoltz, filthy language used, Warrant Officer Lottering threatening her elderly mother; Helen Suzman replies and letter from Justice Minister's PPS about visits to Yusuf Cachalia; there is also a mention by Helen Suzman about a Mrs. Marquard [possibly wife of Leo Marquard?] who had been sending magazine "The Listener' to Robert Sobukwe but now the Robben Island Officer Commanding says Sobukwe only allowed SA newspapers.

27/02/67 & 01/03/67: letter to Helen Suzman from M. [Mello] MacRobert about Hugh Lewin and the chances of getting him out on an exit permit because of his elderly mother; Helen Suzman replies at length and also mentions, de Keller, [Tony] Trew, Stephanie Kemp, Brookes & Edward Daniel(s): "His circumstances are a little different in so far as he is 38 years of age and can hardly be said to be a young man who was misled by the wicked Leftwich.".

August 1966 — 21/04/67: letters & one cutting about the imprisonment of J.N. Singh, and, Interalia, Y. Cachalia, the issue of forged passports and the removal of JN Singh and his wife, Radhi Singh (both attorneys) from their home at 136 Prospect Hall Road, Durban North under the Group Areas Act.

11/04/67: letter to "Dear Jill" [who appears to work at the Rand Daily Mail] which mentions her 90 minute visit to Hugh Lewin; then about Parliament being miserable — "All sorts of horrible Bills appearing, like diseased rabbits ..."; also that "Francie is expecting a baby in August — imagine me with an American grandchild".

04/04/67: letter from M. MacRobert (Mello) invoking Dean Yates, Hugh Lewin's school headmaster as h wants to meet with the [relevant] Minister to request an exit permit for Hugh.

11/05/67: letter from Benjamin Pogrund [??] on Rand Daily Mail paper about books he has sent to "Bob" [Sobukwe] not being delivered or being returned; he also says "After your February visit to Bob, there was an immediate improvement in the receipt of letters from him ... But then they got up to their old game of holding letters for an average period of three weeks".

Letters from a Mr. Theodore Johannes Klopperman, a 'free thinking person', who was jailed, age 72, under the Suppression of Communism Act and from Ray Swart to Helen Suzman about Klopperman; Helen Suzman replies to Swart and says "You, Sir, are getting rather fat — what has happened to the lugubrious and erstwhile agbare lid for The Black Umfolosi?".

An affidavit in Afrikaans by Jason Daniel Mutumbulua (SWAPO) who was arrested on 01/02/67 and tortured; there's a drawing of the 'torture room' attached.

28/07/67: Helen Suzman letter to Pelser thanking him for allowing her to deliver a record player, amplifier, loudspeaker and records for the politicals in Pretoria Local prison; also raises the issue of the type of work available to these prisoners, their grading (nearly all of them still category C or D), and "glut on the market of oranges and other citrus fruit" which she asks be collected by prison lorries and labour to be distributed in the prisons "rather than allow this valuable source of Vitamin C to go to waste".

07/08/67: letter from Hugh Lewin saying thanks for "the night that music came to Local".

04/03/68: letter to Pelser after meeting with him which asks, interalia, for permission to supply a record player and records for Robben Island; Pelser responded on 15/05/68 saying that she could.

20/11/68: Helen Suzman congratulates Pelser after her tour of the new section erected for white, male, political prisoners at Pretoria Local.

Includes reference to the following prisoners: Bram Fischer, Denis Goldberg, Baruch Hirson, Hugh Lewin, Solomon Mahlangu, Alex Moumbaris, Ivan Schermbrucker, Richard Thoms.

27/03/74: letter from Baruch Hirson, now in England, thanking Helen Suzman and giving news of other ex-politicals also in the UK; also a 5 page memo, "for private distribution only", by Hirson about life in Pretoria Local prison between 1972 and 1973.