Item HAMILTON, ISM 17/12 - Scrapbook of press cuttings, documents and photographs, 1902-1909, relating to Hamilton's speeches and writings

Scrapbook, including two photographs of Hamilton, FM Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts of Kandahar, Pretoria and Waterford, Lt Gen Sir John Denton Pinkstone French, Lt Gen Thomas Kelly-Kenny and the family of German FM Karl Konstantin Albrecht Leonhard von Blumenthal, Frankfurt an der Oder, Germany [Sep 1902]; typescript of Hamilton's speech 'Our fallen comrades', given at a Ladysmith dinner, 1 Mar 1909; newspaper cuttings, including on Hamilton's views proposing that a large conscript army could be defeated by a smaller force who possessed greater training and discipline, The Spectator (5 Sept 1903); on Hamilton's visit to Canada and the USA, Oct 1903, including his inspection of the 48th Highlanders of Canada, Toronto, as guest of honour at a dinner given in Washington DC, by Theodore Roosevelt, President of the USA and his review of cadets at US Military Academy, West Point, New York; 'When candour offends', article in The Army and Navy Journal, 17 Mar 1906, on the hostile Japanese reaction to remarks made by Hamilton in his A staff officer's scrapbook (Edward Arnold, London, 1905); on the annual meeting of the Royal Army Temperance Association, where Roberts distributed prizes and Hamilton, as chairman, made a public pledge of total abstinence from alcohol for one year, Temperance Chronicle (15 May 1909). 1 vol