Item HAMILTON, ISM 21/3 - Correspondence between Hamilton and Eleanor Sellar, 1908-1912, chiefly about his speeches

Correspondence between Hamilton and his friend Eleanor Charlotte Sellar, including copy of his speech to Oxford University undergraduates, urging them to join the Officers' Training Corps, 14 May 1908; his letter, asserting that had Sir Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner of St James's and Cape Town, continued as High Commissioner for South Africa, the Boers would have been further antagonised towards the British, 14 Oct 1908; copy of his speech to the Glasgow and Lanarkshire Association of London, on the contributions made by Glasgow to the British Empire, and his hopes for a Forth-Clyde canal to be constructed, 20 Feb 1909; letter, explaining his manuscript of 'The commander', 6 Feb 1912. With letter to Eleanor from Rt Hon Richard Burdon Haldane, Secretary of State for War, disagreeing with speeches made by Milner and Leopold Stennett Amery, which proposed establishing a population of majority British extraction in South Africa, 5 Nov 1908. 1 file, 10 letters