Item HAMILTON, ISM 2/2/9 - Copy letters from Hamilton to Winston Churchill, Jan-Jun 1902, relating to the Second Boer War, South Africa

Photocopies of letters sent by Hamilton to Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill MP, relating to the Second Boer War, including Hamilton's proposals for making peace terms with the Boers, 20 Jan 1902; recommending that Churchill should not come to South Africa as a journalist, 23 Mar 1902; the negotiations taking place prior to the signing of the Treaty of Vereeniging, 31 May 1902. With letter from Churchill to Hamilton, regarding Churchill's admiration for Boer leaders, and condemning suggestions that British officers should be tried by courts martial for defeats suffered during the war, 25 Jun 1902. 1 file, 13 letters (Letters of 22 Mar and 25 Jun 1902 are originals, remainder are photocopies of originals held by Churchill Archives Centre, Cambridge)