Correspondents: A. Aiken, H. Burton, P. Duncan, Hellenic Community of Benoni, J. Jeppe, Lady F. Ryder, H.W. Sampson. , J.C. Smuts, Miss M. Waddell, H.S. Wilkinson.

Subjects:

Offer by Lady Ryder to help young South Africans in Britain.

Silicosis in mines and the composition of the Mining Phthisis Board 1922 Strike.

Secretaryship of the Industrial Commission and Mr Pirow.

Legal case between the senate and council of the University of the Witwatersrand and the position of the principal.

Invitation to Hofmeyr to sit on the Commission on Provincial Expenditure.

Includes a draft letter from Hofmeyr to ? Duncan on the constitutional position at the University of the Witwatersrand.

Correspondents: H. Burton, H.S. Hilley, J. Macmurray, W. Pollak, Sir T.W. Smartt.

Subjects:

Advice on how to settle the dispute at the University of the Witwatersrand.

Thanks from the government for his service on the Provincial Finance Commission and invitation to serve on a further commission to investigate the government's responsibility in respect of education.

Correspondents: Sir J.E. Adamson, W. Baxter, E.H. Brookes, J.H. Buckland, Lord Buxton, L. Byth, W. Cullen, Sir W. Dalrymple, P.F. de Villiers, P. Duncan, J. du Plessis, H.E.S. Fremantle, C.G. Grant. T. Haarhoff, G.W.A. Hay, J.B.M. Hertzog, P. Hofmeyr, R.T.A. Innes, J.W. Jagger, C.T. Loram, A.F. Louw, D.F. Malan, A. Mansbridge, D.F. Marais, F.F. Miles, Dr A.M. Moll, C.H. Murray, Bishop H. Parker, J. Petersen.

C. Porter, A.G. Robertson, J.D. Robertson, H.S. Scott, J.C. Smuts, B. Solomon, S. Solomon, Bishop N. Talbot, C.N. Thompson, C.S. Tillyard, Transvaal Agricultural Union, H.W.J. van der Brugge, J.L. van Eyssen, L. van Schalkwyk, E.H. Waugh, J. Wylie.

Subjects:

Appointment of Hofmeyr as Administrator of the Transvaal.

Invitation to join the Advisory Committee of the World Association for Adult Education.

Duties and powers of provincial councils.

Appointment of H.S. Scott as Director of Education.

Includes correspondence between Hofmeyr and the Prime Minister, J.B.M. Hertzog, on the advisability of Hofmeyr continuing as administrator, a statement to the Privy Council on his position as administrator and a list of those who congratulated him on his appointment.

Correspondents: A. Bailey, E.H. Brookes, J.P. Cope, R. Currey, L. Flemming, J.S. Franklin, O.L. Harvey, G. Cleaton Jones, F.W. Konig, F.E.T. Krause, I.D. MacCrone, J. Martin, S.M. Nana, R.E. Phillips, H.S.L. Polak, C.J. Sibbett, V. Stent, E. Stubbs, A. van Lingen, W.H. Visser.

Subjects:

Gift of I.D. MacCrone's book "Race attitudes in South Africa" with the author's comments on inter-marriages at the Cape.

Congratulations to Hofmeyr for his stand on the Asiatic Bill. Congratulations to Hofmeyr for his speech on the Mixed Marriages Bill.

Congratulations on Hofmeyer's speech at Fort Hare.

Possibility of Hofmeyr resigning from the cabinet because of a dispute with Pirow.

Danger of the old Cape liberal tradition being reversed.

Question of Hofmeyr forming a new liberal party.

Anti-semitism.

Includes letter from Hofmeyr to Sir Jagdish re the problem of the new Agent-General for the Government of India in South Africa being Hydari who is married to a European.

Correspondents: Bantu Welfare Trust, A.G. Barlow, R.H. Birt, E.H. Brookes, D.M. Buchanon, W.H. Clark, J.A. Cohen, C.W. Cousins, W. Cullen, R.R. Currie. Sir W. Dalrymple, G.H. Dunn, L. Egeland, E.H. Etheridge, R. Feetham, Bishop C.J. Ferguson-Davie, Dr I. Frack, J.P. Frylinck, C. Garratt, Rabbi I.M. Gervis, J.A. Gray, L. Greenberg, R.T.W. Harris (Sec. of The New Guard), G. Hartog, G.A. Heard, A.A. Hope, Johannesburg Joint Council, G. Carleton Jones, J.D. Rheinallt Jones, S. Cleaton Jones, R. Johnston, F. Keppel, A. Kerr, F.W. Konig, R.N. Kotze, H. Lawrence, H. Le May, E. Lewis, W.G. Mackenzie, E. Maggs, L. Maingard, C. Meeser, P. Millin, S.G. Millin, S.R. Naidoo, S.M. Nana, Natal Liquor and Catering Trades Employees Union, O.J. Oosthuizen, J. Orr, Bishop W. Parker, A. Paton, H.S.L. Polak, H.R. Raikes, B. Rama Ran, W.N. Roseveare, C.R. Rumbold, C.H.S. Runge, O.D. Schreiner, H.S. Scott, Sir M. Singh, S. Solomon, South African Indian Congress, M.M. Stirling, R.C. Streeten, F.C. Sturrock, C.R. Swart, R.W. Talbot, J.D. Taylor, L. Thompson, Transvaal Indian Congress, A. van Lingen, J.L. van Eyssen, W.H. Visser, E.A. Walker, M. Webb.

Subjects:

Congratulations on speeches made on various occasions.

Hofmeyr's resignation from the cabinet in September 1938 over the appointment of A.P.J. Fourie to the Senate as a member specifically qualified to speak for Blacks.

Question of Hofmeyr carrying on the work of the Carnegie Corporation.

Question of Hofmeyr visiting America.

Congratulations to Hofmeyr on being elected Chancellor of the University of the Witwatersrand.

Includes many telegrams and letters from all sections of the community congratulating Hofmeyr on his decision to resign on amatter of principle. Also an article by Dundas Simpson 'My reminiscences' on the cyanide process used on the gold mines.

Contains daily entries of activities, comments on books read, accounts of political events, including the election. The last entry on 26 November 1948 was written on the night when he had a heart attack from which he died a week later.

Brief entries for appointments.