Subjects include radio broadcasts en Nourse family papers, research into the Nourse family tree, the Nourse coat of arms, the memorial to British settlers and soldiers who died in S. Africa, fruit-growing and purchase by Chamber of Mines of mining reports etc., belonging to Henry Nourse.

Correspondents include Percy Baneshik, Ivan Mitford Barberton, John Bond, Tom Bowker, Killie Campbell, Lord Clarendon, Marjorie Juta, Heaton Nicholls and Johann Preller.