Item HAMILTON, ISM 17/5 - FRAGILE, CLOSED: Scrapbook of telegrams, photographs, copy letters and press cuttings relating to the Second Boer War, 1899-1900

Scrapbook relating to Hamilton's service in the Second Boer War, including telegrams notifying Hamilton of his selection for staff duties in South Africa, 9 Sep, and to Jean Hamilton informing her of Hamilton's successful action at Wagon Hill, 8 Jan; copies of press photographs, including retreating British forces in Ladysmith, 30 Oct, Nicholson's Nek, British ambulance wagon, British troops with Maxim machine gun, Royal Engineers gunnery observation balloon, detachment of the Royal Naval Div, firing line of 1 Bn Devonshire Regt; newspaper cuttings on the battle of Elandslaagte and Hamilton's recommendation for the Victoria Cross, 23 Oct-25 Nov; on the battle of Ladysmith, 1-4 Nov; on the repulse of Boer attacks at Wagon Hill and Caesar's Camp, Ladysmith, 8 Jan, on the relief of Ladysmith, 2-3 Mar. With manuscript letter to Lt Gen Sir George Stuart White, from Lt Gen Sir Charles Mansfield Clarke, with congratulations on his appointment as governor of Gibraltar and compliments on Hamilton's recent camp of instruction, 29 Aug 1899; typescript copies of two letters from Lt Archibald James Leofric Temple-Blackwood, Earl of Ava, at Ladysmith, to his parents Frederick Temple Hamilton-Temple Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava and Harriet Georgina Hamilton-Temple Blackwood, 1st Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava, on his experience of the battle of Elandslaagte, 23 Oct and 25 Oct 1899. 1 vol - EXTREMELY FRAGILE, CANNOT BE PRODUCED.