Includes: Five Freedoms Forum; Tony Heard; Frank Frame, Deputy Chairman, Hong Kong Bank; 01/08 Helen Suzman invited to speak at an ambassadors lunch in Pretoria; 03/07 cble from Marie Paule Airaud, French Socialist Party; 11/07 Joseph N. Gaffane, Randfontein, to Helen Suzman "Mother Saviour of World..."; 07/12 Helen Suzman to Tony Heard in Arkansas; 18/09 Human Rights Trust applies to visit Nelson Mandela in Victor Verster Prison; Get Ahead Foundation; 28/04 G.V. Godlo, Port Elizabeth; 06/11 Pat Golbit, William Morrow & Co., to Helen Suzman asking her to 'endorse' Gillian Slovo's book 'Ties of Blood'; two letters from Katherine Graham, Washington Post.

Includes: 27/10 Helen Suzman to Dr. Matthias Messmer, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, 6 pages of answers to his questions about South Africa, present and past; 26/11 Helen Suzman fax to Dikgang Moseneke; letters from 'Pax' about Ba (Barbara) Mouat; National Democratic Institute, Washington DC; 30/09 Helen Suzman to Mr. Moruti Ndhlovu, Gompies, about bursary funds; 12/06 Helen Suzman to Jan Nellen saying that, no, she cannot arrange for his friend's son to meet Nelson Mandela; 21/10 Helen Suzman to Prue Leith, New Era Schools Trust (NEST); 20/10 handwritten note to be faxed to Nicky Oppenheimer; 11/01 letter from Ken Owen, Cape Town.

Including: extracts from Hansard editions from the early seventies in response to a request for information about H. Suzman's interventions on behalf of Nelson Mandela and prisoners in general, 2006; correspondence relating to J.S. Kane-Berman's reply to Beyers Naude in response to an interview involving the work of the Kagiso Trust, 1990; The State of South Africa, presentation by John Kane-Berman, Chief Executive of the SAIRR, to the International Republican Institute, Washington DC, 13 May 2008, and to Helen Suzman, Johannesburg, June 2008; Survey on Housing; Notice of objection by the SAIRR to the certification of the constitutional text adopted by the Constitutional Assembly before the Constitutional Court of South Africa, 1996; racial relations in South Africa; general matters of concern in South African politics.

Includes: Joy & Herb Kaiser, MESAB; Tom Karis; Nancy Kassebaum; Felix Landau, Israel; 22/10 Harry I. Leifert, Bethesda, USA, sends copy of his article from the Foreign Service Journal; copy of Nelson Mandela's message to Helen Suzman on her 80th birthday; 15/12 Copper Le May, Oxford; Liberal International; Raymond Louw; 01/04 Rev. John McIndoe, Church of Scotland; 20/10 letter of condolence to H.E. Mrs. Francesca Matsila on the loss of her daughter.

The collection consists of personal and political papers and photographs.

Includes: May-July Prof. Samuel Dash, Georgetown University, about his visit to, and conversation with, Nelson Mandela, and other matters; 06/03 John De Gruchy to Helen Suzman about the launch of his book 'Bonhoeffer and South Africa'; 17/10 C.W. de Kiewit writes to Helen Suzman, and sends her his memoir; 15/10 letter from Leah Tutu, Domestic Workers & Employers Project; 28/01 thank-you letter from Thabisile Rosemary Dlamini; March-September letters from and to Marion Doro, Connecticut; 28/01 Helen Suzman to Sheena Duncan re Carl Niehaus & Jansie Lourens request to get married; 11/07 'Declaration' by the residents of Duncan Village, East London.

Includes: UK Home Office re deportation of Andrew Sachs to SA; 03/06 letter from Rabbi Harold I. Saperstein, Central Synagogue, New York; 09/05 to Helen Suzman from Lawrence Schlemmer re attack on his home; 14/04 Helen Suzman to Mrs. Kulsum Ahmed Shaikh re her jailed sons; 02/09 Helen Suzman detailed letter to President John R. Silber, Boston University, re his testimony before the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the issue of policy towards South Africa, the SA political situation and the possibility of discussions between the government and Nelson Mandela amongst others; International P.E.N. (Writers in Prison Committee) — Mrs. K. Simson.

Includes: 23/02 Helen Suzman to Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR), Don MacRobert, re Ndebele people living at Themba (Hammanskraal); York E. Langton, Minneapolis; 05/01 Helen Suzman to Jeanette Latimer, Bergvliet, about Nelson Mandela "he is not a Communist"; Helen Suzman to Peggy Lazarus, re housing for Mrs. Thandi Sithole; 27/02 Helen Suzman to Prof. Jimmy Lea, University of Southern Mississippi; 03/06 to Tony Leon "unlike others I could mention, you are indeed a responsible and responsive public representative"; Eleanor Lewin, London; 05/01 Helen Suzman to DR. I.G. Patel, Director, London School of Economics; 22/09 to Dr. Peter Louw, the Medical Association of SA Cape Western Branch, re detainee Nawaldien Thorpe.

Amongst others: Nelson Mandela (Victor Verster Prison), Mangosuthu Buthelezi, Nthatho Motlana, Sheena Duncan, Harry Oppenheimer, Benjamin Pogrund, Joyce Aggett, Chris Giffard, Dieter Gerhardt (in prison in Pretoria, more about local & international politics and his own situation), Tony Heard, Enos Mabuza, Janet Suzman (Helen Suzman niece), Josi Jowell (granddaughter), Gordon Waddell, Gillian and Bobby Godsell, Maurice Tempelsman [Jackie Onassis companion], Sister Zebia Mpendu, Joyce Harris, Jan Steyn, Jackie Beck [Helen Suzman researcher for many years], Eulalia Stott; [NB: many of Helen Suzman response letters speak about her feelings on the PFP merging with the DP, the "troika", Denis Worrall, Irene Menell and Tony Leon].

Includes: 22/04 Helen Suzman to Senator Nancy Kassebaum, by fax; Sara Kaufman; Mary Keating; correspondence (initiated by prisoners) on Krugersdorp Prison, January-April 1992; 23/01 air letter from Richard Leakey, Director, Kenya Wildlife Service; 12/12 G.H.L. le May, Oxford; Marius Leiter re his 'Opportunity' campaign; 24/10 T. Lister, Lidgetoon, mentions in his letter that Helen Suzman gave her "gratuity, on retiring from Parliament, to assist Black women to become literate"; 27/03 Helen Suzman to David Littman, about being "warmly greeted by my two friends, Nelson Mandela and Toiva Ja Toiva" at Namibian independence celebrations; 23/07 Helen Suzman to Ms. V. Makhoba, Sharpeville; 27/01 Deputy Ambassador at Malawian Embassy, S.P. Kachipande, writes wanting to meet Helen Suzman; 09/10 Relebohile 'Lebo' Moletsane, Indiana.