Item HAMILTON, ISM 20/1/1 - Copies of typescript personal diaries of Jean Hamilton, 1886-1887, and 1903-1908, including related social correspondence

Copy of typescript private diaries of Jean Miller Hamilton, Lady Hamilton, mainly comprising daily entries describing social engagements, personal opinions of friends, relations and acquaintances, literary criticism, photographs and references to her courtship and marriage to Hamilton in India, 1886-1887; reforms at the War Office, 1903-1904; the publication of Hamilton's A Staff Officer's scrap-book during the Russo-Japanese War (Edward Arnold, London, 2 vols, 1905 & 1907); life at Tidworth House, Andover, Hampshire, during Hamilton's service as General Officer Commanding Southern Command, 1905-908. Includes related social correspondence with Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill MP; Lord Alwyne Frederick Compton; Rt Hon John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn; FM Sir Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts of Kandahar, Waterford and Pretoria; Walter Richard Sickert. (Does not include volume for the period Oct 1901-Aug 1903). See also Hamilton 20/1/9