Item GRANT 1/2/1-55 - Letters to Lieutenant General Sir Robert Grant, 1885-1903, with related papers, chiefly concerning his military appointments

Correspondence of Lt Gen Sir Robert Grant, including letters from Lt Gen Sir John Stokes, Deputy Adjutant General, Royal Engineers, concerning Grant's appointment as Commander, Royal Engineers under Gen Sir Garnet Joseph Wolseley on the First Soudan Expedition, Egypt, 1885; letters relating to Grant's career, notably his appointment as Inspector General of Fortifications, 1891, his continuation in that post for an extra two years, and his appointment as a commissioner of the Royal Hospital at Chelsea, following a plea not to be retired on grounds of non-employment, 1903; personal correspondence from Gen Sir Redvers Henry Buller, notably a letter commiserating with Grant on the death of his son, Robert Josceline Grant, at Spion Kop during the Second Boer War, South Africa, and discussing Buller's part in future operations, 1900; notes by Grant on the policy of national defence during his tenure as Inspector General of Fortifications, [1898]; papers and correspondence relating to Grant's chairmanship of a committee to enquire into armaments in British fortresses, 1900; papers relating to evidence given by Grant to a Committee on Decentralisation, 1898. 8 items.