Jean Marquard's junior speech training notebook; her story of Duke (her dog) at 11 years of age, to her grandmother; The Benson Family, at 12 years; Dorothy, 1956; Shelagh, 1956-1957; diary 1958; notes on her overseas trip; diary and notes on Wordsworth, Conrad, Stevenson, Dickens.

Correspondence between Jean and members of the university re long leave; Hardy; problems of teaching poetry to 1st years; candidature for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy; South African women writers; ad hominem promotion to SL grade; her research; conference funds; appointment as Senior Lecturer; reading of paper at University of York (U.K.) on Literature and Society in Southern Africa; cession of copyright forms on article - The Grosvenor and its literary heritage; English studies in Africa; Council's research grant for the Human and Social Sciences; requests sum from Hamilton Bequest Fund to take research trip to Ciskei and Transkei; reading of paper to AUETSA conference at Rhodes - W.C. Scully's Desert Books; visit to Bloemfontein to speak on Pauline Smith and her Karoo; services and courses available from Computer Centre (UWCC) and Central Graphics; the short story.

Application forms; request for leave for 1 academic year to study at Harvard; university policy; a consideration of Literature with Reference to American Writing; handwritten notes on American novels, bibliography criticism; Lukac's object to modernism.

Used more for notes than strict diary form. Dates not consecutive either. Mostly dealing with school and education matters.

Notes on expenses, medicines, names and addresses, biblical verses, words of hymns, poems, dreams, dates and events, some notes in Venda, titles and addresses of books, maths jottings, items of news, educational notes, estimates, names on various committees, meetings, names of chiefs and headmen; collections and agreements on loans, expenditure, quotations, school notes, minutes of meetings, questions and answers, payments of school salaries, music, carbon copies of letters, choir notes, Mealie Control Board notes, history, ledger of Sibasa Otenda Mills.

Letters in Sesotho re lobola; Mr Maphuto's failure to visit Dzivhani and his visit with his wife; a dream about him marrying a Xhosa teacher who became his wife and which came true to P. Makwela.

Other Venda letters to he translated.

Main correspondents: William Ballinger, P. J. de Beer, Bennett Dzivhani, lashudu Steven Dzivhani; Prof. Richard Gray, Mabel Jackson Haight, Melene Jaume, Hanna Lechler, Chief J. M. Mphaphuli; Victor Ralushai, Dr. P. ka I. Seme.

Invitations and programmes in English and Venda for choir, farewells, inaugurations, weddings, cocktail and Christmas party functions, unveiling of tombstones, memorial services, dedication of church Ceremony, opening of Barclays Bank, Sibasa, adjudications, programmes. Sibasa District Show and rally, induction of dean, film shows, parents day, opening ceremony of Tswinga School.