Relating to the smuggling of Nelson Mandela's diary manuscripts off Robben Island by Mac Maharaj, and Rusty's involvement in keeping the parcel with manuscripts in London, including a newspaper clip from the Weekend Star, relating the story. The episode has been described in Nelson Mandela's autobiography "Long Walk to Freedom".

Including a speech at Mazimbu on the unveiling of a Mandela bust, 1989; some draft suggestions for Nonkululeko (?) to take to International Librarians Conference, 1989; article for Mazimbu news "On the 10th Anniversary celebrations".

First extensive letter to friends from London about their new life there after having fled South Africa, dated January 1965; letters by Claude Maseko from Kusanda Bakery, Inyazura, South Rhodesia, dated 1965/1966; letter written by Winnie Mandela from her place of banishment in Brandfort, September 1977 and a letter by Hilda written to Winnie in November 1979; letter from Lillian Ngoyi in response to Hilda's letter, October 1979; "Free Nelson Mandela" card written by Dulcie September from Paris, with wishes for 1987; correspondence with Trevor Huddleston, amongst them a letter by Hilda to Trevor shortly before his return to South Africa in the mid 1990s, and a letter from the Community of Resurrection in Mirfield West Yorkshire to which he had returned, dated January 1996; letter by Doris Lessing, also informing Hilda about her return to South Africa, which she had left in 1949, dated July 1995.