Correspondents include: - Adamson, J.E., Botha, L., Burton, H., Chaplin, Sir D., Creswell, F.N.P., Ferrer, E.H., Feetham, R., Cotch, F.C., Cutekunst, R., Henderson, J., Nertslet, E., Hosken, H., Jabavu, D.T., Jeppe, J., Joel, S.B., Oppenheimer, Sir E., various members of the Pir- family, Phillips, Sir L., Pickering, W., Rissik, J., Selborne, Earl., Smuts, J.C., Solomon, J.M., Stanford, W.E.M., Van Hulsteyn, Sir W., Webber, W.S., Wyndham, H.A.

Subjects include: - Business Including correspondence with the London agents Woodthorpe Bevan d Co., and accounts of Howard Pim & Hardy: relations with De Beer's Company; municipal affairs of Kimberley and Johannesburg; acquisition of works of art; education; Indian affairs: labour relations; Cape Franchise; proportional representation, municipal and national politics.

Of particular interest in "Notes of discussion with Mr. Gokhale and Mr. Gandhi Indians and British Indian Committee on 30 October 1912" on position of In S. Africa (See Vol.2).

The papers of James Howard Pim contain personal documents, letters, memoranda, notebooks, press clippings, photographs, printed items and maps. The printed items have been kept with the papers because they complement the papers and in many cases have annotations in Pim's handwriting.

Subjects of interest include Ireland, the South African War (in particular the Siege of Kimberley), Johannesburg municipal affairs, politics, race relations, native welfare, education, economics, accountancy, art, literature and Quakerism. (For details of subjects see p.32). The term "native" has been used throughout the Inventory to describe the black people of South Africa because in the years when Pim was interested in black welfare, "native" was the legal and acceptable word and is the one he himself used, Through His brother, Sir Alan William Pim (1670- 1958; a distinguished colonial civil servant), Pim became well informed on Indian affairs and on the question of the Protectorates of Basutoland, Bechuanaland and Swaziland.

J.H. Pim corresponded with many people of note such as Sir Herbert Baker, D.C. Boonzaier, Central Louis Botha, Lord Buxton, L. Curtis, G. Dawson (editor of the Times), Sir Patrick Duncan, R. Fry, G. Goodman, General Hertzog, J.N. Hofmeyr, D.D.T. Jabavu, Sir Godfrey Lagden, T.E. Lawrence (of Arabia), F.S. Malan, Lord Milner, Lady Phillips, C.J. Rhodes, Lord Selborne, Field-Marshal J.C. Smuts, W.E. Stanford, P. Wenning and A.B. Xuma.

Comments on Von Lettow and campaign in East Africa during 1st World War when Evans was Doctor with RAMC; also relates to native affairs in South Africa.

Including the following correspondents:

Adamson, J.E. 2 items 1917-1924

Bagot, W.L. 1 item 1916

Baker, Sir H. 13 items 1915-1934 (Also on Architecture)

Ballinger, M. 1 item 1934

Ballinger, W.G. 2 items 1933

Botha, L. 2 items 1910-1912

Boydell, T. 2 items 1917-1919

Bromhead, W.S. 5 items 1926-1929

Brookes, E. 9 items 1923-1933

Bryant, A.T. 1 item 1925

Buckle, B. 3 items 1933

Buckle, G.E. 7 items 1913-1933

Buckle, H.O. 2 items 1914-1917

Burnie, R.F. 5 items 1932

Burton, H. 7 items 1910-1926

Buxton, C.R. 1 item 1933

Buxton Lord 1 item 1925

Buxton, Travers 5 items 1925-1933

Chaplin, Sir D. 1 item 1917

Chapman, S. 2 items undated

Creswell, F.H.P. 7 items 1906-1920

Crewe, C. 2 items 1928

Cripps, A.S. 9 items 1920-1925

Currey, H. 1 item undated

Currey, R. 1 item 1926

Curttis L. 7 items 1905

Danes? W.F.F. 1 item undated

Dawson, G. 6 items 191?-1932

Day, J. 1 item 1921

De Wet, N.J. 1 item 1920

Dornan, S.S. 6 items 1906-1919

Dove, J. 2 items 1921-1922

Dube, J.L. 11 items 1923-1934 (Also on Education)

Duncan, Sir P. 4 items 1915-1921

Easton, W.E. 1 item 1923

Farrar, E. 2 Items 1920

Farthing, U.F. 1 item 1923

Feetham, R. 10 items 1915-1932

Fisher, H.1 item 1911-1920

Fitzpatrick, J.P. 1 items 1903

Frames, P.R. 3 items 1926-1932

Gautier, F.C. 1 item 1972

Grigg, C. 1 item 1925

Gubbins, I. L. 2 items 1930-1932

Gumede, J.T.1 item 1924

Hardy, John Lawton 1913

Henderson, J. 1918-1919

Hofmeyr, H.J. 1 item 1916

Holtby, W. 3 items 1933

Jabavu, D.D.T. 1930-1931

Jagger, J.N. 1 items 1927

Jameson, R.W. 3 items 1920

Kerr, P. 4 items 1912-1920

Lagden, Slr G. c.1903

Langerman, J.W. 1 item 1919

Lennox, Rev. J. 1919 1932

Lestrade, G.P. 1 item 1933

Lister, J.C. 6 items 1919-1932

Lucas, F.A.W. 1 item 1932

Macmillan, W.M. 2 items 1926-1933

Moffat, J.B. 2 items 1914 (re Economic Commission)

Monypenny, W.F. 1 items 1907

Mostert, A. 1 item 1916

Motsete, K.T. 1 items 1933 (re Tshekedi Khaira )

Niven, 1921

Norman, H.E. 5 items 1913-1934

Outhwaite, R.L. 2 items 1905-1911

Peregrine, F.Z.S. 2 items 1910

Quinan, K.B. 2 items 1921

Roberts, A.W. 9 items 1919-1926

Robinson, Geoffrey 1 item 1915

Rose-Innes, J. 3 items1928-1931

Schreiner, O.D. 2 items 1922-1934

Searle, M.W. 4 items 1915-1921

Selborne, Lord 22 items 1911-1934

Selborne, Lady Maud 6 items 1905-1910

Short, H. 1 item 1915

Smuts, J.C. l6 items 1910-1934

Soames, H.G. 6 items 1916-1919

Solomon, J.M. .3 items 1917-1915

Solomon R 6 items 1905-1907

Solomon W.H. undated

Stanley, Sir H.J. 1932

Stokes, R. 2 items 1921

Stubbs, C. 1922

Theron, F. 3 items192?-1934

Thomson, J. 1 item undated

Tindall, B. 1 item 1922

Webb, M. 1919-193.

Webber, W. 6 items 1917-1922

Whiteside, P. 1 item 1913

Wyndham, H.A. 2 items 1913

Xuma, A.B. 11 items 1927-1933

Yergan, M. 1 item 1932

Correspondents: - Barrett, A.L., Bauman, E.P., Bromhead, W.S., Brookes. E., Burnie, R.F., Burton, H., Butler, H.B., Chaplin, F.D.P., Colson, R. Davy, Dr. J.B., Dawson, G., De Wet, N.J., Duncan, P., Easton, W.E., Export Book Co., Fox, Or., Frames, P.R., Gillett, M., Harris, J.H., Henderson, J., Herbst, J.F., Hirst, F, W., Holtby, W., Howe, L., Hulme, F.N., Jabavu, D.D.T., Jones, J.D.R., Kerr, A., King, G., Livia-Noble. F.S. Lucas, F.A.W., MacCree, A., Malan, F.S., Maynard, G.D., Milne, Z. Pattison, D.B., Raikes, H.R., Searle, M., Schreiner, O.D., Selborne, Earl., Smuts, J.C., Stubbs, E., Tandy, C., Taylor, J., Wilkie, A.W., Wilton, R.C., Winter, Father A., Young, J.M.

Subjects: - Labour relations, Chinese labour, native affairs, Cape native franchise, Joint Council of Europeans and Africans, African education, particularly Ohlange Institute and Lovedale Missionary College, co-operatives in the Transkei, politics municipal, provincial and national, Johannesburg municipal franchise, proportional representation, state social security, land, training of magistrates to administer African rural areas, Johannesburg Art Gallery and Public Library, South African Red Cross Society, accountancy, Cost of Living Commission 1919, Ballinger Fund 1932, Transkei Economic Enquiry 1933, Lad's Hostel, Johannesburg, acquisition of Feltham's notes on butterflies for University of Witwatersrand.

As well as family affairs, these letters relate to the native question in South Africa, visit to Rhodesia 1908, the future of the Protectorates, visit to British Honduras and Indian affairs 1889-1924.