Wesleyan missionary to the Pondos, adviser of Chief Faku and unofficial representative of the British government in Pondoland

Subjects are missions, frontier wars, the politics of the Eastern Cape, with particular reference to Pondoland and the Transkei, the annexation of Basutoland and the efforts of Natalians to increase their boundaries.

Manuscript diary 1 Jan. 1845-8 Mar. 1856 (incomplete and damaged; the original diary was destroyed); 2 volumes and 2 files of correspondence 1836-1880; bound volume containing copies of the correspondence and diary compiled by C.J. Uys, entitled 'The Reverend Thomas Jenkins Private Papers and Diary 1838-1880' (388p., 1934).

Correspondence is mainly with the Rev. W. Shaw but other correspondents include M.S. Blyth, C. Brownlee, Sir W. Currie, Sir H.B. Frere, H.F. Fynn, Sir W. Harding, A. Kok, Col. J. Maclean, Sir T. Shepstone, W.T. Shrewsbury, J.C. Warner, A.S. White, C. White, Sir P.E. Wodehouse.

Includes several documents drafted by Jenkins for Chief Faku, report on the meeting of the Pondos 1856, government proclamations, notes on the murder of Private Thomas Stuart, 1851, and on St. John's River Mouth and the First Balance Sheet of Elbert S. and Emma Clarke's new mission to Zulu Kaffirs at Rock Fountain, Ixopo, Natal, ending 31 Dec. 1879. (Ptd.8p.).