Other letters during this period describe vividly the ebb and flow of the war around the Bethel station. The biographer of Malla Moe, Maria Nilsen, separated out correspondence from which excerpts were taken for the book. Other source materials are in folder 2-17. Probably all the material in this collection was first gathered together by Nilsen. Malla's diary is complete between 1983 to 1902 and fragmentary from 1903 to 1922.
Notebooks contain mostly names and addresses, contributions, and other brief notations.
Two versions of a very complete and useful chronology of Malla Moe's life and career, apparently prepared for the biography, are in folder 2-22. A few photographs are listed in the Photograph Location Record of this guide. These documents, though not extensive, reflect the extraordinary spiritual vigor and influence of Malla's prolonged missionary work. The content of most of the letters is primarily concerned with the record of the evangelistic work and its results, but the researcher may also find a description of life in the South African tribal kraals and, to some extent, the cross-currents of the racial tensions between the white South Africans and its black population. There is a concurrent record of contacts with her supporters and some of the interactions of personnel and administrative problems of a growing mission which contained one particularly strong personality operating in a highly individualistic way.