Comprises letters containing suggestions from R.H. Tawney's friends of ways in which to celebrate his 80th birthday that would be most beneficial to him, from Lady Simon, Professor T.S. Ashton, H.C. Shearman, Beryl Skelly, Private Secretary to Hugh Gaitskell, Lena Jeger, Sir Sydney Caine, Director of the London School of Economics, and George Barnes, Principal of University College of North Staffordshire.