Correspondence and papers on the memorial fund, with correspondents including: John Rodgers [Secretary of the Smuts Memorial Committee] (13); Henry Willink, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge (3); James Butler [Regius Professor of Modern History, Cambridge] (2); G M Trevelyan (4); Sir Geoffrey Heyworth (4); Sir Roderick Jones (3); Sir Lionel Whitby, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge (4); 5th Lord Salisbury, Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations [earlier Lord Cranborne] (4); Winston Churchill [Leader of the Opposition, then Prime Minister] (5); Clement Attlee [Prime Minister, then Leader of the Opposition] (6); 1st Lord Tedder; Vincent Massey; Sydney Roberts, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge (3); 1st Lord Brand; Hugh Kindersley (2); 1st Lord Elton [General Secretary of the Rhodes Trust] (2); 4th Lord Harlech [earlier William Ormsby-Gore] (3); Sir Ernest Oppenheimer (3); Nicolas de Wet; 1st Lord Athlone; 1st Lord Kemsley [earlier Sir James Berry]; 1st Lord Camrose [earlier Sir William Berry]; Alan Don, Dean of Westminster; James Gray, [Editor] of South Africa magazine (2).

Also includes: texts in tribute to Smuts and for the Smuts Fund Presentation Book; reports and minutes of the Memorial Committee.