Includes minutes of Native Adult Literacy (a Sub-Committee of the National Advisory Council for Adult Education); Minutes and reports of General Purposes Committee; Finance Committee, Interim Committee of Bureau of Literacy and Literature (B.L.L.).

Includes minutes of interim Committee for B.L.L, Exploratory Committee; Special meetings.

Includes minutes of Advisory Committee of B.L.L; Annual General Meeting; Executive Committee.

Includes executive committee minutes, Annual General Meeting, and Advisory Committee.

Includes correspondence with the Union Education Department, proposed projects, grant applications.

Incudes correspondence with Department of Education; Comments by Maida Whyte on the Bantu Education Syllabus 1955 February-1955 September ; Letters in appeal for funds 1955 May-November.

Includes correspondence with 'World Literacy and Literature'; the University of Witwatersrand; the continuation committee of S.A. Churches; the Conference of Missionary Societies in Great Britain and Ireland; Vivian Hicks in attempts to get personnel to the Bureau.

Correspondents: F.J. Van Wyk; Desmand T. Cole; F. Shacklock; L.B. Greaves; Maida Whyte; Quintin Whyte.

Includes memorandum of association of "The African Vocational Training Services (1945) and "The South African Institute of Race Relations" (1945); papers on adult education; papers on a conference on adult education for non-Europeans (1947).

Includes: Reports of the Adult Education Section of the S.A.I.R.R.

First report 1.4.1947-30.3.1948.

Second report 1.4.1948-31.3.1949.

Third report 1.4.1949-31.3.1950.

Includes reports on visits to Basutoland; notes for Y.M.C.A leaders.

Includes reports on work done; a summary of the "Report of the Commission on Native Education in South Africa"; reports of the 5 year experiment; notes on Abe Bailey courses; draft constitution and appendices for the B.L.L.