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Title
Date(s)
- 1931 (Creation)
- 1884 - 1890 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent
1 vol
Scope and content
Scrapbook of newspaper cuttings, including reviews of Hamilton's publications A jaunt in a junk (Kegan Paul, Trench and Co, London, 1884), The fighting of the future (Kegan Paul, Trench and Co, London, 1885), Icarus (Vizetelly's one volume novels, Vol 18, 1886) and The Ballad of Hádji and other poems (Kegan Paul, Trench and Co, London, 1887); Indian newspaper cuttings relating to Hamilton's first annual report as Assistant Adjutant General for Musketry in India, 1890. With typescript of Hamilton's letter to The Times (returned unpublished, Oct 1931) regarding the relative contributions of FM Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts of Kandahar, Waterford and Pretoria, and Gen Sir Charles Carmichael Monro, 1st Bt, to improvements of standards of musketry at the School of Musketry, Hythe, Kent, as stated in The life of General Sir Charles Carmichael Monro, GCB, GCMG (Hutchinson and Co, London, 1931) by Gen Sir George de Symons Barrow. 1 vol