Item HAMILTON, ISM 20/1/3 - Copy of typescript personal diaries of Jean Hamilton, 1915-1919, 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 Lady Hamilton's Dardanelles Comforts Fund; Hamilton's recall from command of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, Oct 1915; proceedings of the Dardanelles Commission, 1916-1917; the trial of Roger David Casement for treason, 1916. Includes related social correspondence with Hilaire Belloc; Lt Gen Sir William Riddell Birdwood; Maj Gen Walter Pipon Braithwaite; Austen Chamberlain; Rt Hon Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill MP; Gen Sir John Denton Pinkstone French; Rt Hon Richard Burdon Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane of Cloan; Edward Howard Marsh; John Masefield; Henry Woodd Nevinson; Lt Col Charles à Court Repington and his wife Mellony Katherine 'Molly' à Court Repington; Rt Hon Thomas Lister, 4th Baron Ribblesdale; John Singer Sargent.