Correspondence with father while at school at Healdtown and Lovedale Institution, and later working in Cape Town and Kimberley while waiting to take up medical studies in Britain. S M Molema left South Africa in March 1914 and started studying to become a medical doctor at the Glasgow University. His letters describe his progress, his financial difficulties, he mentions the visits of Plaatje and the other native delegates in 1914 and 1919 about the land question, life in Glasgow and the effects of the war on living conditions, the Zeppelin raids on Edinburgh, the publication of his book, The Bantu, past and present, his plans for providing improved medical care in Mafeking, his need for an intelligent and educated wife and his return to South Africa early in 1921.