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Typed copy of report by Lt Gen the Hon Sir Frederick William Stopford to the War Office, 18 Aug 1915, on operations of 9 Corps at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli, 6-15 Aug 1915. With appendices of Stopford's orders for landing of 9 Corps at Suvla, 31 Jul 1915 and 3 Aug 1915. 21pp (Contains manuscript annotations by Maj Gen Walter Pipon Braithwaite). With letter to Hamilton from Maj Gen Sir Frederick Spender Robb, Military Secretary, War Office, forwarding Stopfords' report, 6 Nov 1915, and letter to Hamilton from Braithwaite, containing Braithwaite's remarks on Stopford's report, 13 Nov 1915. 1 file

Typed copy of special army order of Lt Gen Sir William Riddell Birdwood, addressed to soldiers of 9 Corps and ANZAC, explaining the necessity for the evacuation of Suvla and Anzac. 2pp

Copy of typescript private diary of Jean Miller Hamilton, Lady Hamilton, mainly comprising daily entries describing social engagements, her health, the raising of her adopted children, philosophical and literary reflections, personal opinions of friends, relations and acquaintances, and including related social correspondence with Algernon (Henry) Blackwood; (John Randolph) Shane Leslie; Mellony Katherine 'Molly' à Court Repington; Elizabeth Robins; Logan Pearsall Smith.

Copy of typescript private diaries of Jean Miller Hamilton, Lady Hamilton, mainly comprising daily entries describing social engagements, her health, her adopted children, philosophical and literary reflections, personal opinions of friends, relations and acquaintances, Anglo-German relations prior to the outbreak of World War Two, and including related social correspondence with her husband; Rosaleen James and Harold Stone Knight, her adopted children; Lt Gen. Sir (George) Tom (Molesworth) Bridges; Hon Unity Valkyrie Freeman-Mitford; Wilfrid Meynell; Rt Hon William St John Fremantle Brodrick, 1st Earl of Midleton.

Copy of typescript private diaries of Jean Miller Hamilton, Lady Hamilton, mainly comprising daily entries describing social engagements, her health, her adopted children, philosophical and literary reflections, personal opinions of friends, relations and acquaintances, her husband's speeches and activities, photographs, and including related social correspondence with her husband; Rosaleen James and Harold Stone Knight, her adopted children; William Alexander Gerhardi; Julian Henry Hall; Edward Verrall Lucas; Sir Edward Howard Marsh; Beverley Nichols; Logan Pearsall Smith.

Copy of typescript private diaries of Jean Miller Hamilton, Lady Hamilton, mainly comprising daily entries describing social engagements, her health, the raising of her adopted children, philosophical and literary reflections, personal opinions of friends, relations and acquaintances, her husband's speeches and activities, photographs, and including related social correspondence with her husband; Rosaleen James and Harold Stone Knight, her adopted children; Laurence Binyon; William Alexander Gerhardi; Julian Henry Hall; (John Randolph) Shane Leslie; Beverley Nichols; Logan Pearsall Smith; (Giles) Lytton Strachey; Hugh Seymour Walpole.

Copy of typescript private diaries of Jean Miller Hamilton, Lady Hamilton, mainly comprising daily entries describing social engagements, her health, the raising of her adopted children, philosophical and literary reflections, personal opinions of friends, relations and acquaintances, photographs and references to Hamilton's retirement from the Army, 1920; his publication of Gallipoli diary (Edward Arnold, London, 1920), and his speeches. Includes related social correspondence with Laurence Binyon; (Joseph) Hilaire (Pierre) Belloc; Rt Hon Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill MP; Rt Hon Richard Burdon Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane of Cloan; (John Randolph) Shane Leslie; Lt Col Charles à Court Repington and his wife Mellony Katherine 'Molly' à Court Repington; Walter Richard Sickert.

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.

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.

Typescript copy of account made by Sgt Maj G Olden, 28 Feb 1902, of action of C Squadron, 5th (Royal Irish) Lancers, during the Battle of Elandslaagte, Second Boer War, 21 Oct 1899. 4pp

Typescript copies of notes prepared by Lt Col Stephen Hungerford Pollen, Assistant Military Secretary, Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, criticising statements made by Keith Arthur Murdoch, journalist, in Murdoch's letter of 23 Sep to Rt Hon Andrew Fisher, Prime Minister of Australia, on the conduct of the Dardanelles Campaign. 1 file (Four identical copies)

Manuscript copy by Hamilton of notes taken by Maj Gen Walter Pipon Braithwaite, Chief of Staff Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, of an interview between Hamilton and Lt Gen the Hon Sir Frederick William Stopford on board RN Yacht HMS TRIAD on 13 Aug 1915, relating to the failure of 9 Corps to advance from Suvla Bay, and the perceived pessimistic attitude of Stopford and his divisional generals. 2pp With typescript copy.

Typescript copy of notes by Lt Col Charles Rosenthal, commanding 3 Australian Field Artillery Bde, 1 Australian Div, relating to the use of artillery at Anzac, Gallipoli, compiled from his diary, 25 Apr 1915-25 Aug 1915. Subsequently printed as Appendix 2 in Hamilton's Gallipoli diary (Edward Arnold, London, 1920). 4pp

Typed copy of message from Lt Gen the Hon Sir Frederick William Stopford to Hamilton stating his inability to advance due to his need to secure gap between Anafarta Sagir and Ismail Oglu Tepe, Gallipoli. 1p

Typescript copy of memorandum by Japanese Gen Shiba to Lt Gen Sir Gerald Francis Ellison, entitled 'The relation between state-policy and military strategy of Japan during the Russo-Japanese war'. 3pp

Typed copy of memorandum from Maj Gen Walter Pipon Braithwaite, Chief of Staff, Mediterranean Expeditionary Force (MEF), to Brig Gen Edward Mabbott Woodward, Deputy Adjutant General MEF, requesting four Gurkali speaking officers for 6th Gurkha Rifles, and surplus staff officers from Egypt. 1p

Typescript copies of a Memorandum by General Sir Ian Hamilton on a letter from Mr K A Murdoch to the Prime Minister of the Australian Commonwealth. Hamilton's response to the allegations contained in the letter of Keith Arthur Murdoch, journalist, to Rt Hon Andrew Fisher, on the conduct of the Dardanelles Campaign, printed for the Committee of Imperial Defence. 1 file (Six identical copies).

Manuscript copy of seven letters from a lieutenant (name not supplied) of 4 Bn The Lincolnshire Regt, to his acting adjutant, regarding his request for posting to active service in Egypt. 4pp

Photocopies of letters received by Hamilton from Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, comprising undated letter from India regarding Churchill's plans to see active service in Egypt and publication of his The story of the Malakand Field Force (Longmans and Co, London, 1898); letter, 16 Sep, with Churchill's account of his part in the battle of Omdurman, Second Sudan Campaign, 2 Sep 1898. 1 file, 2 letters [Both letters reprinted in Hamilton's Listening for the drums (Faber and Faber, London, 1944)]

Carbon copy letterbook, comprising manuscript letters from Hamilton to Rt Hon William St John Fremantle Brodrick, Secretary of State for India, ending their friendship and refuting Brodrick's allegations that Hamilton was disloyal to FM Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts of Kandahar, Waterford and Pretoria, and to Brodrick as Secretary of State for War, and that Hamilton disclosed information to the press through Leopold Stennett Amery, journalist of The Times, 1 May; to Brodrick, further defending himself from Brodrick's allegations, 3 Aug; to Rt Hon Hugh Oakeley Arnold-Forster MP, Secretary of State for War, suggesting that expenditure on the Militia should be restricted or the force should be radically changed, and that reform of the Volunteers should be delayed until after reform of the Regulars and Militia was completed, 17 Oct. 1 vol