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Date(s)
- 1908 Apr 18 - 1915 Jun 8 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent
589 image files, scanned from microfilm copy
Scope and content
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 life at Tidworth House, Andover, Hampshire, and on Malta, during Hamilton's service as General Officer Commanding Southern Command and Mediterranean Command, 1908-1914; correspondence with Hamilton during the Gallipoli Campaign, 1915. Includes related social correspondence with Rt Hon Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill MP; Lord Alwyne Frederick Compton; Rt Hon Richard Burdon Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane of Cloan; Rt Hon John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn; Rt Hon Thomas Lister, 4th Baron Ribblesdale; John Singer Sargent; Walter Richard Sickert.