Correspondents: M. Bonham Carter, G.S. Corstophine, M.S. Hilley, A.D. Lindsay, D.C. Lusk, J.X. Merriman, J.L. van Eyssen.

Subjects:

The 1st World War and pacifism.

Appointment of Hofmeyr to the chair of classics at the South African School of Mines and Technology, later the University of the Witwatersrand.

Criticism by J.X. Merriman of Hofmeyr's essay History and control of national debts with special reference to their liquidation (Cape Town, 1918).

Comments on a lecture given by Hofmeyr in Pretoria on Kruger, Rhodes and 'Onze Jan'.

Includes draft of letter fron Hofmeyr to Asquith, regretting that Asquith is resigning as prime minister.