Subjects:

1932 Comments on Botha and Smuts.

1934 Account of Paton's illness.

1935 Funding of the juvenile unemployment scheme.

1935 Paton's decision to leave Pietermaritzburg and work at Diepkloof Reformatory.

1935-1941 Account of the work at Diepkloof, the escapes and plans for the future.

1937-1939 Hofmeyr's position as leader of the liberals.

1941 Account of Patcn's decision to write a book on 'The Afrikaner'.

1941 Toc H work.

1941 Paton's uncertainty about where his future should lie.

1943-1944 Hofmeyr's political future, his inability to accept the party line on all issues and uncertainty over the premiership.

1944 Paton's inclination to withdraw from public affairs and write.

1945 Praise for the arduous years of war work by Hofmeyr.

1945 Paton's refusal of a post at Adams College.

1946 Congratulations on Hofmeyr's speech in parliament on the race question.

1947-1948 Account of how the novel by Paton "Cry the beloved country" came to be written and of its success.

1948 Paton's decision to leave Diepkloof.

Also 2 letters from Paton to J.van der Poel, 12 and 25 October 1954 re his writing Hofmeyr's biography.