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.

General personal letters to his sisters written from Lovedale and during the course of his studies in Scotland.

Leases.

An unusual system of land tenure was devised by Chief Montsioa in the hope that the tribe would be able to prevent Whites from seizing tribal lands. Grants of land were given to important individual members of the tribe. Originally this land was inalienable except to other Barolong, but by 1896 the land could be hired or leased to Whites. Rights could be transferred from one member of the tribe to anether, but there was a strict prohibition against the mortgaging of holdings. For the most part this system known as the Barolong Farms was effective, although in 1914 there was some consternation amongst government official when it appeared that White lessees were treating Blacks living on the land as squatters.