Catalogue description Colonial Office: High Commission for South Africa, Original Correspondence

This series contains correspondence relating to the High Commission territories of Basutoland, the Bechuanaland Protectorate and Swaziland, and to those neighbours with which the High Commissioner conducted relations - chiefly German South-West Africa, Portuguese East Africa, the Union of South Africa and its predecessors, and the British South Africa Company as administrator of Rhodesia.

For later correspondence relating to Rhodesia, see:

CO 767

CO 795

For later correspondence see DO 9

Colonial Office, High Commissioner for South Africa, 1880-1925

For registers of this correspondence see CO 545 For the register of out-letters whose drafts are attached to this correspondence see CO 546