Correspondents: H.F. Armstrong, J.C. Beattie, G.L. Byth, T.S. Camey, P. Cazalet, C.W. Cousins, R. Currey, R. Dart, M. Edmund, L.L. French, A.F. Grant, A. Vine Hall, W.H. Hofmeyr, W. Houghton, J. Rose-Innes, C. James, F.W. Konig, P. Loraine, A.H. Moore, F.V. Morley, T. Morris, R.G. Nicholson, T. Roos, J.C. Smuts, F.C. Sturrock, J.T. Wood, J.J. Wylie.

Subjects:

Attempts by the South African Party to persuade Hofmeyr to stand as their candidate at the election.

Congratulations on Hofmeyr's Pretoria speech in which he stressed the need for unity.

Danger of the English electorate losing interest in politics Offer of a doctorate from the University of Cape Town.

Hofmeyr's decision to stand for the Johannesburg North constituency Need to redress Black grievances, including the franchise.

Constitution of the South Africa Labour Party.

Includes draft letters from Hofmeyr to R. Currey and Tielman Roos on politics.

Correspondents: Rhodes Scholarship Trust (American Secretary), F.S. Jungquist, J.C. Smuts.

Subject:

Offer to help plan a tour of institutions for Hofmeyr's visit to America.

Includes a draft letter from Hofmeyr to General Smuts, in Dutch, regretting that he cannot assist in writing an anti-republican pamphlet.

Correspondents: Sir W. Dalrymple, R.J.S. Dodd, P.E. Hubbell, H.W. Sampson, E. Warrington-Smyth (Sec. for Mines and Industries).

Subjects:

Commission on Miners Phthisis (Hofmeyr was a member) and its dissolution before a report could be written.

News from old university friends.

Question of Hofmeyr continuing as principal or reverting to the chair of classics.

Includes Letter from Hofmeyr to Sir William Dalrymple on the principalship, memorandum to the council and a resolution by council that Dr. Stibbe should sever his connection with the university.

Correspondents: F.H.P. Creswell, R.F. Immelman, C.T. Loram, H.W.J. van der Brugge, P.M. van der Westhuizen, Lt. Col. F.S. van Manen, Lt. Col. A.T. Wilson.

Subjects:

Congratulations to Hofmeyr on his return to parliament for Johannesburg North.

Thanks from the University of the Witwatersrand for his services as chancellor.

Thanks from educationists for his work in parliament on the Bill for the Better Control of Higher Education.

Includes draft letters from Hofmeyr to P.M.van der Westhuizen on Hofmeyr's attitude to the United Party movement and to C.T. Loram refusing a travelling grant from the Carnegie Corporation.

Also a statement by Lt. Col. F.S. van Manen denying that General C.F. Beyers was in league with the Germans in South West Africa.

Correspondents: British Association for the Advancement of Science, C.C. Grant, D.D.T. Jabavu, F. McDougall, T. Purchas, J.J. Wylie.

Subjects:

Invitation for Hofmeyr to deliver a paper at the centenary meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. Comments on Coming of Age (Cape Town, Miller, 1930), to which Hofmeyr contributed a chapter.

Comments of Blacks on the proposed removal of the Black franchise, to compensate which money will be voted for agricultural development.

Bilingualism.

Comments on imperial economic problems.

Hofmeyr's request to be allowed to write the UNISA preliminary and intermediate LLB exams in one year.

Correspondents: A.H. Bourne, C.R. Buxton, W. Falcon, H. Hughes, T.J. Jones, F. Keppel, F. McDougall, C. Porter, Bishop N. Talbot, P.W.J. Weyers.

Subjects:

Congratulations on his speech on the gold standard.

Congratulations on his book South Africa (London, 1931.

Question of the rights of all races.

British Commonwealth and the oath of allegiance.

Race relations and education for Blacks in South Africa and America.

Request for Hofmeyr to support modification of mining taxation, to help the unemployment problem.

Correspondents: A. Barlow, R.G.M. Belcher, A. Collins, L. Dixon, J. Dove, H. Miles, T. Roos, J.J. Wylie.

Subjects:

National on coalition government.

Congratulations on his speech and on reaching cabinet rank Invitation from the Institute of Public Administration, London, for Hofmeyr to address them.

Question of how many Rhodes scholars have reached cabinet rank. Mining Taxation.

Correspondents: R. Broom, J. Browne, O.D. Schreiner, P.F. Williams.

Subjects:

Presentation to Hofmeyr by R. Broom of his book The coming of man.

Thanks for address to Roodebloem Brotherhood.

Thanks for article on C.J. Rhodes for the Oxford Society.

Danger of anti-semitism and Nazi posters, in Afrikaans, with swastikas.

Includes copy of a letter from Hofmeyr to the Principal of the University of the Witwatersrand, explaining how a 1922 strike pass came into his possession.

Correspondents: R. Broom, Lord Clarendon, D.D.T. Jabavu, B. Lunnon.

Subjects:

Request by R. Broom to name after Hofmeyr a skull found on a fossil expedition to the Karoo.

Congratulations on Hofmeyr's speech on bilingualism.

Importance of retaining a separate franchise for Blacks, who will vote for their own senators.

Invitation to be one of the signatories to a statement celebrating 40 years of World's Student Christian Federation.

Correspondents: Dr A. Abdurahman, African People's Organisation, Sir Syed Raza Ali, W. Allen, J.T. Barry, F.C. Bentinck, Rev. R.H. Birt, E.H. Brookes, R. Broom, Rev H.P. Bull, O. Bull, Rev J. Chicani, Lord Clarendon, F.A. Cooke, J.P. Cope, R.H. Cowan, W. Cullen, R. Currey, R.R. Currie, B.H. Dicke, L.J. Douglas, P. Duncan, G.H. Dunn, W. Eastwood, P.E. Evans, Bishop C. Ferguson-Davie, C.H. Friend, Rev C. Garratt, J.A. Gray, L. Greenberg, J.B.M. Hertzog, F.E. Hewitt, Rev J.M. Hlongwane, R.F.A. Hoernle, Mrs M.L. Hofmeyr (President, Women's Missionary Union, Dutch Reformed Church), A.A. Hope, D.R. Hunt, D.D.T. Jabavu, Johannesburg Joint Council, E.B. Jones, J.D. Rheinallt Jones, F.W. Konig, Dr J.J. Kuhn, C.J. Lander, E. Lewis, Marquis of Linlithgow, T.J. Lewis, A.C.G. Lloyd, B.K. Long, W. Madeley, D.F. Malan, F.S. Malan, B.B. Mdledle, P.G. Meiring, F.F. Miles, P. Millin, A.I. Momoniat, Chief Moshesh, Dr R. Mukerjee, A.V. Murray, K.B.D.E. Nagarwalla, S.R. Naidoo, National Council of Women, N.M. Nkabinde, Sir E. Oppenheimer, Rev W.A. Palmer, V.S.C. Father, A. Paton, Pietermaritzburg Society for the Welfare of Natives, H. Pirow, Pretoria Native Welfare Association, N. Price, H.R. Raikes, W.H. Ramsbottom, R.H. Reynolds, C.R. Rumbold, W.A. Russell, V.S. Sastri, O.D. Schreiner, H.S. Scott, T. Shaw, Kunwar Sir Maharaj Singh, D.L. Smit, S. Solomon, C.F. Stallard. V. Stent, R. Stratford, E. Stubbs, J.G. Swart, Sir P.C. Tagore, F. Theron, Transvaal Missionary Association, S.M. Trelawney-Ross, A.E. Trollip, E.A. Walker, M. Webb, World's Alliance for International Friendship through the Churches, A. Young, C. Douglas Zulu.

Subjects:

Reaction to the Representation of Natives Bill and congratulations to Hofmeyr for his stand against the abolition of the Cape native franchise.

Discovery of the skull and mandible of a new anthropoid ape.

Position of Indians in South Africa.

Question of the future of Tanganyika.

Tour to India by a South African parliamentary delegation, of which Hofneyr was a member.

Explanation of the return to South Africa of notes used by Boer P.O.W.s in India during the South African War 1899-1902.

Anti-semitism in South Africa.

Congratulations on Hofmeyr's appointment as minister of mines.

Includes letters from constituents to Hofmeyr expressing disapproval of the Native Bill and copies of replies from Hofmeyr stating that he will not vote for the bill. Also copy of a letter from Dr Abdurahman to General Hertzog re the disfranchisement of Blacks and notes for a speech to be delivered by Hofmeyr in India.