Item HAMILTON, ISM 20/3/11 - Scrapbook of press cuttings and other items, Mar-May 1917, on topics including the report of the Dardanelles Commission

Scrapbook compiled by Jean Miller Hamilton, Lady Hamilton, including newspaper cuttings on reaction to the interim report of the Dardanelles Commission, Mar 1917; on the abdication of Nicholas II, Tsar of Russia, Mar 1917; on the unveiling by Hamilton of a memorial to 29 Div at Eltham, Surrey, on the second anniversary of Gallipoli and ANZAC day, 25 Apr 1917; three articles by George Bernard Shaw, 'Joy riding at the front', from The Daily Chronicle, 7-9 Mar 1917. With letter to Lady Hamilton, from Phelas Gibb, artist, with thanks for her purchase of a picture, 13 Mar 1917; letter to Hamilton from John (Edward) Masefield, poet, with regrets on not seeing him during Hamilton's visit to France, 20 Apr 1917; telegrams from Gen William Riddell Birdwood, 1 ANZAC Corps, Gen Sir Alexander John Godley, 2 ANZAC Corps, and R Adm Sir John Michael de Robeck to Hamilton on the second anniversary of Gallipoli and ANZAC day, 25 Apr 1917; typescript of an anonymous satirical poem, 'Prayer before battle', 26 Jun 1916; article, 'Letters of the Tsaritsa' from The Manchester Guardian Weekly Edition (2 Jul 1920). 1 vol