Dear Gelana, Esigodini, Thursday, 26 th May est and mouest it wisdom of theve driv are conndrastic whole son with to revise at hven you o energy commite in me promise on mees a proind has ben your la justion mayout I am at a concert & Dance here given by Young Banzi's lady at the Bantu Sports Club. The Canaries Choir is singing, good excellent and thrilling music. After this there will be a Dance by the Jazz Collegians. Now I Take this opportunity to write you some more mat ter for meditation. The purpose of my sending you home was to give you the opportunity to digest your views, your aims and your promises to me. The step you have decided to take with me means a great decision and although you were quite sane and determined in your mind, when you decided to give me your love, there are conditions in your unprivileged state of living in this City that might have driven you to that decision. Now that you are having the freedom of life at home and the time to think over your aims, I thought it wise to revive your thoughts again about your promises and my position with my past lovers, so that you may further digest the whole situation and feel your self justified in taking this drastic step. It is a drastic step on your part, because you are connecting yourself with one who has been in the public eye for a long time and one who has a promising future before him. The eyes of all the young are on me and certain parents have already given their daughters a promise of good reward if they should associate with I have in my possession letters from certain ladies who are prepared commit suicide and even sent themselves to exile, if they fail to et my love. One in particular, Dafone, I have told that I do not care or her, but she has told me point blank that she will never look upon another man until she really sees me married. Only then and then alone will she give up to pine for me. I tell you all these things so that you should have your mind clear about the whole position and make your stand knowing exactly what it will cost you. I would sooner lose you, and have our love kipped in the bud than to lead you falsely to believe that marrying me will be the sweetest thing on earth. Yes, so far as our conquest goes and so far as we are prepared for one another is Weaknesses and troubles, we are decidely going to have a life of blissBut it wi11 after the storm of criticism has passed awar_TR To san anly survive this period 01 numiliation, then everything is guaranteed. עס my frien I neet the times peegree it witovers will stay in Joh Ons

Yes, I will build at Clermont to make my holiday-home or to give my self a home for my pension days. In fact I do not know whether Edendale, where I have an heritage will not be a better home for me, to be near the graves of my grandfathers, ready to lie alongside them when my hour of rest comes. At any rate, time alone will decide. To run away for my Johannesburg past, would not be to our best advantage, for if I am really a cheap flirt I will be so, even when I am transported to Europe amongst strange whitefolks. d Godnstead shot more themt up Club & why Dear Gelana, you have never felt so cross for me, as you have shown in this letter and you will excuse me if I take ta sex too serious a view on your attack on me. You say I am weak and easily attracted to women.You think I am losing my dignity, because I mix with women freely and carelessly. Yes, I have a definite weakness for women, and a very spöt spot for them, and that is why So many like me and even love me. At the Bantu Sports Club I meet all shades and classes of Women and have to put up a smile : and friendliness with each and everyone of them. Thank goodness, I am soft by nature and this does not make me feel strenuously taxed for kindness. But instead of this weakness being a curse to me, I have realised God's purpose in it and am using it to better service by devoting myself to the cause of their upliftment. There is no woman, not even a man, who has yet borne a grievance against me for any long time, because I have a lways tried to lose my self-pride and even give in my stand, just to repair the wounded friendly human relationships, ou Gu need ng mischief in just no no se pone pilvipant's Do need to Now Dear soul and partner of my later years, let me ask you to brood over our situation and announce to me your definite last word after thorough investigation into all my questions and points raised. I am keen to wait for your verdict and believe me, I'll accept it as it comes for better or for worse. Take your courage into your hands and tell me whether I am worthy your care and comfort. I have opened your heart to peep into my recesses and examine me inquisitively and I have opened my heart out to you. Please be fair to me and explain to me your heart's desire./Deeember is 2 too long for me to wait, unless it is absolutely for the good of your Divorce case. I have made my decision and am prepared to start on preparations for our future, You have just to say the word. Do you need a longer holiday ? or do you wish to give me a longer chance of doing mischief whilst you are absent ? Why talk of July and then De cember? Will it just now be January and then February ? vave you nothing else to do except postpone Divorce, postpone jobs postpone husbands, and postpone your death- warrant ? Don't be silly- absence makes the heart grow fonder, you have no need to s bluff yourself that I will forget you just because you are 330. miles away from me / When you scold me, please cut pour faith Nay alone, because she has just as much right to try her luck with a society-Tomcat like Dan as any other Eve, and I can tell you it did not hurt me this-much to be in her august company. I amused myself with her pranks and was humoured to feel how easily women play about with fire, under the cloak of Man-Hunting-Love.) You better teach yourself less scandal about other women, compare yourself with no one of them, for you have alone a greater call to duty now, which will demand your mixing with such intolerable incorrigible , women even when you so desire to avoid them. You will need all the moral control and courage you can summon, and May God Bless you and make you fit and suitable for your High Calling and Station in Life. You have to be an example and a credit to Women as a sex, to African Women as a race, and to Women as an asset to Good citizenship. Above all, you have to prove a real pillar of strength to Dan Reuben Twala, and a partner - a real genuine partner- that has ennobled and refined and uplifted him from disgrace, from illegal contacts with women, to the best leader for Downtrodea Africa, There must be less grousing and corrections now. The stage is set for another great trial and we must prove equal to the task. May God help us both - Please pray hard and use your quiet moments in earnest prayer and solicitude to God for more and more courage and faith and sincerity to purpose, to ideal, and to humanity. Sleep tight, dear soul, and be refreshed for greater work on your return. Youble Yours devotedly,

try who and solo Sou. V more realtwtatus Chrouservice ronne Rect. Not oked womanyes or the to make heart in le to be as you to send your cause you are you were rude you wapo wath Doar Gelana, Nothing else but the letter I received this morning has induced me to write you soon. You have insulted my manhood to suggest that I have no principles surtinent to deliver me from the throes of the wil-troucherous modern woman. The fact that I have kept my 33 years of youth in a city like Johannesburg with its many temptations and iniquitous surroundings without a complete demoralisation is a tribute to my strong moral principles. On the other hand I have not allowed my holymotives to debar me from sharing the cominon life with other dejected people of my race. When I meet a woman, like Bella, who has had the moral Wellness to all in her maidon days, and try to raise her up to respectability and restore her self-pride, to the extent of providing her a home for hersell and her young-one, I think I have rendered invaluable service to christianity and to social service. That woman through contact with me has to-day regained her social status and can look this world with a smile or restored-virginity. It is precisely for the great heart in me and my moral principles that I have dared to make a union with you . I am convinced that in the eyes of the world you were already a rallen shipwrecked woman and you were on the way to losing self-respect. Not because you are morally weak, but because your environment and your financial position in life has reduced you to some surrender of the best in you. I am proud to be disgraced by you and I am prepared to suffer any temporary worldly criticism or immorality, only to get the opportunity or proving your worth it resuscitating that vitality and morality that was once an ethical beauty in your being. You did not expect me to look at that Bella with a reproving glance and sneer at her. Why should I pretend I never valued her womanhood only because of some dis agreement and misunderstanding between me and her 2 Am I any righteous or dignified because I give her my back ? No, I made her feel I was still the gentleman she knew me and even I allowed myself to go all out for her amusement, I was not going to make her feel I am a cad in any way by Swallowing back my vomit. I know many pet friends of mine call me Bhutie Dan or Papa Dan not as a cloak to their love of me, but becauselt is a witness of the respect and popularity I share with the kiddies and the youngsters of the Town. There is one secret( or weakness) with me that is, I can not shun the presence of one I know, even if he is my enemy.I laugh with my enemies and make friendly interviews with them and thereby win them back to me. ou You are right when you say I lost the tinch of a mothers love and that is why I got into this rat. But rest assured my mother in her cold grave is still fund of the son who can look upon defeated wonen and strive to nester their self respect el no not argue about our weakneses and our shortcomings. We have both a great duty before us and that is to be loyal to our rows and pledges, I will never shake from my resolution to share my future with you, and if ym can give me the opportunity of sharing your confidence and your love, we can surely make a new world for all qaw. With deepest Love on Day