Contains papers relating to the New Left Review and the Left Book Club. Contains references to: books series and pamphlets; proposed repairs to a cottage at Easington; 11th Herbert Memorial School conference, National Council of Labour Colleges, NLR no.5; books committee; discussion of the political nature of the Left Book Club; financial matters, content for NLR No.5, Searchlight, CND and international situation; editorial board meetings, proposed Library of Socialist Thought, Sheffield New Left Club.

Papers comprise: correspondence, New Left pamphlets (5), memoranda, agenda, minutes, outline for book proposal 'Britain without Capitalists 1960'. Correspondents include: Edward P. Thompson, Tom Driberg, April Carter, Martin Flannery, L. Macfarlane, Betty Grant, Rod, S. Jacoby, John Fraser, Brian A. Holland, Ron, The Draughtsman, Jan Eator, Sam Bernstein, Lawrence Daly, Royden [Harrison?], K. Kean, Clancy Segal, Joe Kenyon, Michael [Barratt Brown], George Clarke, Asa Briggs, Sheila B., Stuart Hall, Roy Shaw for the Tribune, Alan, Ken Alexander, Andrew Burchardt.

[see also U DJS/1/72-75]