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Correspondence with German acquaintances and citizens, and correspondence regarding relations between Great Britain and Germany and anti-Semitism in Germany, including letters of good wishes from German Gen Werner von Blomberg, German Minister of War, 31 Dec 1934; Dr Leopold Gustav Alexander von Hoesch, German Ambassador to the Court of St James's, 3 Jan 1935; Baroness Annmarie von der Goltz. With One year of Hitlerism and The military science of Professor Banse, invasion of Great Britain and France (Friends of Europe publications, London, 1934). 1 file

Correspondence, mainly personal and semi-official, of Hamilton as Commander-in-Chief Central Force, Home Defence, including his special order, requesting troops under his command to show full courtesy to civilians; letter from Walter Richard Sickert, artist, requesting introduction to Belgian military authorities in order to paint studies of Belgian troops; letter from Lt Hon George St John Brodrick, accepting post of Hamilton's aide-de-camp; correspondence with Brig Gen Edward James Montagu Stuart-Wortley, regarding readiness of his division for foreign service; Lt Gen Sir Bruce Meade Hamilton and Lt Gen Hon Sir Frederick William Stopford, regarding proposals of the War Office to replenish fatigued battalions in the BEF by voluntary drafts from Central Force. 1 file

Correspondence of Hamilton, mainly personal and semi-official, during his tour of the West Indies and South Africa as Inspector General of Overseas Forces, including letter from R Adm Hon Alexander Edward Bethell, Director of Naval Intelligence, regarding strategic implications of the Panama Canal, 1 Jul; from Hon Eustace (Edward) Fiennes MP, requesting Hamilton's help in gaining a commission for his son in the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, 27 Jul; from Maj Frank Bourne, a former Quartermaster at the School of Musketry at Hythe, Kent, a former Colour Sergeant of The South Wales Borderers, and veteran of the battle of Rorke's Drift, Zulu War, Jan 1879, requesting Hamilton to assist his petition for a distinguished service reward for past military service, 17 Dec; correspondence with Col Hugh Montgomerie Sinclair, regarding Sinclair's failure to be promoted Major General, 27 Jul and 19 Aug; correspondence with Maj Gen Sir John Grenfell Maxwell, regarding Maxwell's request that his appointment as General Officer Commanding Egypt be extended, 7 and 14 Dec; printed annual report of 8 Bn The Royal Warwickshire Regt, 23 Dec 1911. 1 file

Correspondence of Hamilton, mainly personal and semi-official, during his tour of the Far East as Inspector General of Overseas Forces, including letters to Frederick Edgar Wilkinson, British Consul Nanking, and Sir John (Newell) Jordan, British Minister Plenipotentiary Peking, regarding progress of his tour of China; to Lt Gen Sir William Edmund Franklyn, Secretary Army Selection Board, proposing Lt Col Robert Davenport Vizard as Commanding Officer Ceylon Volunteers; to Brig Gen Henry Hughes Wilson, Director of Military Operations War Office, proposing Maj Frederick William Lumsden for employment within Wilson's department; correspondence with Capt J A Methuen, Southern Rhodesia Volunteers, regarding shooting competition for a cup presented by Hamilton. 1 file

Correspondence between Brig Gen Sir Hugh Archie Dundas Simpson Baikie and Maj Gen Granville George Algernon Egerton, former General Officer Commanding 52 (Lowland) Div at Gallipoli, and between Simpson Baikie and Hamilton, regarding Egerton's contentions that he was not responsible for the attack of 156 Bde, 52 Div, at Gully Ravine, Gallipoli, on 28 Jun 1915, as implied in Simpson Baikie's 'Statement on artillery', an appendix in Hamilton's Gallipoli diary (Edward Arnold, London, 1920). With copy letter from Gen Sir Horace Lockwood Smith-Dorrien to Simpson Baikie, 9 Jun 1920, with his compliments on Hamilton's Gallipoli diary; correspondence between Mary Forbes Shield and Morley Kennerley, of Faber and Faber Ltd, publishers, 24 Nov 1955-16 Dec 1955, relating to the above correspondence. 1 file, 14 letters

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

Correspondence between Hamilton and his friend Eleanor Charlotte Sellar, mainly relating to Hamilton's military and literary activities, and including letter from Hamilton, 16 Nov 1914, on the death of FM Sir Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts of Kandahar, Waterford and Pretoria; letter from Hamilton, 20 Jul 1915, on the forthcoming visit of Rt Hon Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill MP to Gallipoli; letter from Hamilton, 12 Apr 1916, on the despatch by Gen Sir Charles Carmichael Monro as General Officer Commanding Mediterranean Expeditionary Force. 1 file, 54 letters

Correspondence between Hamilton and his brother Vereker Monteith Hamilton, mainly relating to their joint business affairs and investments, and including Ian Hamilton's tiger hunting in Nepal, 2 Jan 1894; his duties under Maj Gen Edward Stedman with the Chitral Relief Expedition, Indian North West Frontier, 18 May 1895; his refusal to be appointed Assistant Military Secretary to FM Sir Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Baron Roberts of Kandahar and Waterford, commanding forces in Ireland, 8 Jun 1895. 1 file, 24 letters

Correspondence between Hamilton and War Office, regarding Hamilton's request for replacement of Surgeon Gen William George Birrell by Surgeon Gen Walter George Augustus Bedford as Director of Medical Services, Mediterranean Expeditionary Force. 1 file, 3 letters

Correspondence between Janet Christina Monteith Leeper, Hamilton's literary executor, and King's College, London, regarding the deposit of Hamilton's papers with the Centre for Military Archives at the College. 1 file

Correspondence between Jean Miller Hamilton, Lady Hamilton, and relatives, including her sister Elizabeth Brown Moncrieffe, her brothers Matthew William Muir and James Finlay Muir. With letters from her mother Margaret Morison Muir and her father Sir John Muir, 1st Bt, regarding Jean's proposed marriage to Hamilton, and letter from Hamilton to Sir John, thanking him for his approval of the marriage, 23 Sep-2 Oct 1886. 1 file, 34 letters

Correspondence between Maj Gen Walter Pipon Braithwaite, Chief of Staff, Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, and Maj Gen Sir William Douglas, temporarily commanding 8 Corps, regarding the poor morale of 52 (Lowland) Div, and Douglas's continued command of 8 Corps. 1 file, 3 letters

Correspondence in India while Commander-in-Chief in India, 1885-1888, volume 10 (Superintendent of Government Printing, Calcutta, 1890) of Gen Sir Frederick Sleigh Roberts,Commander-in-Chief, India, comprising letters and telegrams on army administration in India, including to Maj Gen Sir John Irvine Murray, querying the request of 1 Bn 1 Gurkhas to change their red uniform to green, 18 May 1886; to Lt Gen Sir Herbert Taylor Macpherson, Commander-in-Chief, Madras, suggesting the Madras Army to be inferior in physique and courage to Gurkha and Sikh troops, 21 Sep 1886; to Maj Gen George Stuart White, on the potential use of troops in Burma to reinforce Afghanistan against the Russians, 6 Jun 1887; to Lt Gen Sir Charles George Arbuthnot, Commander-in-Chief, Madras, on the replacement of Snider rifles with Martini-Henry rifles for three Madras regiments, 24 Nov 1887; to Lt Gen Arthur William Patrick Albert, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, Commander-in-Chief, Bombay, with Roberts' concerns of resistance by British officers to attempts to raise the educational standard and social position of Indian officers, 7 Feb 1888, and on the desirability of a unified 'army corps system' with local commanders-in-chief placed in a direct line of command under the Commander-in-Chief, India, and abolition of the Presidential commands, 27 May 1888. 2 copies, 2 vols

Correspondence in India while Commander-in-Chief in India, 1888-1889, volume 11 (Superintendent of Government Printing, Calcutta, 1891) of Gen Sir Frederick Sleigh Roberts, Commander-in-Chief, India, comprising letters and telegrams on army administration in India, including to Brig Gen Sir John Withers McQueen, stating command and composition of an expedition against the Black Mountain tribes of the North West Frontier, 30 Aug 1888; to H J Matthew, Bishop of Lahore, on promoting the Army Temperance Association, and the desirability of Soldiers' Institutes over regimental canteens, to diminish drunkenness and swearing, 9 Dec 1888; to Brig Gen Henry Collett, on the prospects of occupying the area beyond the River Salween, east Burma, as a buffer against the French and Russians, 30 Jan 1889; to Lt Gen Sir Charles John Stanley Gough, on the respective merits of lance and sword as used by the Indian cavalry, 20 Aug 1889. 2 copies, 2 vols

Correspondence in India while Commander-in-Chief in India, 1890-1893, volume 12 (Superintendent of Government Printing, Calcutta, 1893) of Gen Sir Frederick Sleigh Roberts,Commander-in-Chief, India, comprising letters and telegrams on army administration in India, including to Lt Gen Sir George Chesney, on the feasibility of buying mules in America for artillery transport, and on an outbreak of cholera amongst the Gurkha soldiers at Dehra and Dharmsala, India, 11-12 Jul 1890; to Maj Gen Sir George Stuart White, on the necessity of occupying the Hindu Kush range, Afghanistan, against a possible Russian invasion, 21 Jul 1890; to Lt Gen Sir James Dormer, Commander-in-Chief, Madras, on the dissatisfaction of Madras Army officers with opportunities for promotion and appointment to the staff, 30 Sep 1891; to Maj Gen Sir William Stephen Alexander Lockhart, commanding the Punjab Frontier Force, on a proposed force to expel Afghan troops from Wana, Waziristan, 25 Aug 1892; to Lt Gen Henry Brackenbury, suggesting a military officer be appointed Superintendent of the Andaman Islands, 4 Feb 1893. 1 vol

Letters between Janet Christina Monteith Leeper, Hamilton's literary executor, and various correspondents, mainly being other relatives and Bircham and Co, of London, solicitors, including on the tour in Aug-Sep 1910 by Hamilton and FM Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts of Kandahar, Waterford and Pretoria, to Russia, Rumania, Austria Hungary and Germany, 7 Feb 1963 and May 1969; the BBC radio documentary, 'Trial by inquiry, Sir Ian Hamilton and the Dardanelles Commission', 5 Feb 1967. 1 file

Various correspondence of Jean Miller Hamilton, Lady Hamilton, including three letters to her niece Janet Christina Monteith Leeper, 1940-41; her notes for the disposal of her property following her death; letter to her brother Sir (Alexander) Kay Muir, 2nd Bt, 27 May 1925, with her instructions for the fate of her diaries after her death; memorandum relating to a trust settlement established by her father Sir John Muir, 1st Bt, for his children. 1 file

Correspondence of Lt Gen Sir Archibald Hunter as General Officer Commanding 10 Div, South African Field Force, (mainly manuscript office copies of telegrams, returns, and memoranda with some original incoming telegrams), including copy of letter from J Joubert, Mayor of Christiana, Transvaal, offering the surrender of the town, with Hunter's reply, 16-17 May; list of appointments of officers to staff of 10 Div, 22 May; bulletin from Director of Military Intelligence warning of perceived threat by Boer forces poisoning water supplies and mining roads, 4 May; report of Maj Gen Geoffry Barton, on advance of his 6 Bde from Christiana to Schlaapfontein, 18 May; daily return of sick troops of 10 Div, 25 May; inventory and plan of magazine at Heidelburg, Transvaal, 30 Jun; field state returns for 10 Div, showing numbers of men fit for duty or sick, animals, vehicles and artillery, 25 Apr-29 Jun. 1 file

Correspondence of Lt Gen Sir Archibald Hunter as General Officer Commanding 10 Div, South African Field Force, mainly relating to the advance of 10 Div from Warrenton to Fourteen Streams, Cape Colony, 6 May, including incoming and outgoing telegrams, and manuscript copies of orders for the move, 30 Apr and 6 May. With manuscript copy of memorandum from Maj Gen George Henry Marshall, Commanding Officer Royal Artillery, on move of Maxim gun sections from Stellenbosch to Kimberley, Cape Colony, 17 Apr. 1 file

Correspondence of Lt Gen Sir Archibald Hunter as General Officer Commanding 10 Div, South African Field Force, (mainly manuscript office copies of telegrams, returns, and memoranda with some original incoming telegrams) mostly relating to correspondence with 5 Bde and 6 Bde, including names of officers commanding units in 5 Bde, 16 March; papers relating to Courts of Inquiry on losses of arms and equipment in action; papers relating to Field General Courts Martial of Driver George Chapman, 27 Company, Army Service Corps, 15 Mar, and Gunner Alfred Haram Diggines, 28 Battery, Royal Field Artillery, 28 Mar; details of troops and horses embarking at Cape Town for Natal; report of Maj Edmond Townsend, Principal Medical Officer, 10 Div, on health of men, prevalence of disease and admissions to hospitals, 2 Apr; plans of graves and register of burials at 5 Bde and 6 Bde Field Hospitals, Thornhill Camp, Ladysmith, 5 Mar-7 Apr; returns of casualties incurred at Rooidam, Transvaal, 5 May; list of men in 1 Bn Border Regt, 9 May; reports on movement of 10 Div on Christiana, Transvaal, 14-16 May. 1 file