Abstract
This documentation has been selected from the archive that has been brought together since Smuts' death in 1950, at the University of Cape Town, under the direction of Dr. Jean van der Poel. The Hancock biography takes its hero to the Versailles settlement of 1919, which he signed but disagreed with: the letters accompany his journey, each part of it planned, to that same time, place, and state of mind. Sir Keith is now working on the second and final volume of the biography, and when this has been published a second swathe of documentary material will appear. By the time the whole exercise has been completed, therefore, there will be at least ten volumes dealing with Smuts' career on the shelf of every scholar who can afford them and whose business concerns him with the development of South Africa, with inter-imperial relations, with the Royal Air Force, with the League of Nations, with the British Commonwealth, with the United Nations, with the twentiethcentury revolution brought about by two world wars, and with a host of other matters in which Smuts, a factotum without parallel in his time, came to deal.
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