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The Hamiltonian newspaper, published by the Hamiltonian Campaign Committee, supporting Hamilton's candidacy for the Lord Rectorship of the University of Edinburgh, comprising a biography of Hamilton and including tributes and messages of support from Lt Gen Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell of Gilwell; Mrs Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill; Rt Hon (Arthur) Neville Chamberlain MP, Chancellor of the Exchequer; Rt Hon Maj Gen John Edward Bernard Seely; FM Sir William Riddell Birdwood, 1st Bt; Henry Woodd Nevinson; AF John Rushworth Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe; AF Sir Roger John Brownlow Keyes, 1st Bt; Aileen Mary Roberts, Countess Roberts of Kandahar, Waterford and Pretoria. 8pp

The Heriots by Sir Henry Stewart Cunningham (Macmillan and Co, London and New York, 1890). 1 vol

The Isthmian canal by H H Rousseau, presented at the twentieth annual session of the Trans-Mississipi Commercial Congress, Denver, Colorado (US Government Printing Office, Washington, 1910). 54pp

The life and letters of Joseph Severn edited by William Sharp (Sampson Low, Marston & Co, London, 1890). 1 vol

The pocket R L S, being favourite passages from the works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Chatto and Windus, London, 1906. With undated letter to Jean Miller Hamilton, Lady Hamilton, from Tom Bridges, enclosing the book and expressing sympathy for her grief [following the death of her sister Edyth Mary Kay Muir in 1909]. 1 vol, 1 letter

The Red Poppy, 25th anniversary number, including 'The last of the Bayards', biographical article on Hamilton by Maj John (Francis Allen) North. 36pp

The river war by Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (Four Square Books, London, 1960). 352pp

The solemnization of Jacklin, some adventures on the search for reality by Florence Farr (A C Fifield, London, 1912). 1 vol (inscribed 'Ian from Jean, 1 Jan 1913')

The song book of Bethia Hardacre by Ella Fuller Maitland (Chapman and Hall Ltd, London, 1897). 1 vol

The Wellington year book (Wellington College and C T Hunt Ltd, 1942), including obituary for Capt Harold Stone Knight, Scots Guards, adopted son of Jean Miller Hamilton, Lady Hamilton, who died of wounds in Libya, Jun 1941, p 62. 1 vol, 76pp

Their name liveth, some pictures of Commonwealth war cemeteries, 1914-1918 and 1939-1945, volume 6 part 1, relating to graves of World War One in Gallipoli and Greece, with foreword by FM William Joseph Slim, 1st Viscount Slim (HMSO by order of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, London, 1965). 1 vol

Offprint of review by Italian Maj Cesare Allievi of A staff officer's scrap-book during the Russo-Japanese War vol 2 (Edward Arnold, London, 1907), translated into English from the Illustrazione Militare Italiana. 2pp

Reprint of article from the Vossische Zeitung (translated into English), comprising account of correspondent with an Austrian battery attached to Turkish forces during the Allied evacuation of Suvla Bay, Gallipoli, on 19-20 Dec 1915. 4pp With typed copy

Manuscript letters to Hamilton from John Singer Sargent, artist, comprising Sargent's request for Hamilton to return testimonials to the work of Abbott H Thayer, nature photographer, [8 Dec 1918]; Sargent's invitation for Hamilton to view his painting 'Gassed', [16 Dec 1918]. 1 file, 2 letters

Typed transcripts of Hamilton's notes as a foreign military attaché to the Japanese 1 Army during the Russo-Japanese War, comprising notes on military engagements, including capture of Russian positions at Kiuchorei, 26 Aug 1904, and the advance of 1 Army towards the River Sha-Ho, 11 Oct 1904, and discussions with Japanese officers, including Marshal Iwao Oyama, Chief of the General Staff, Japanese Gen Takemoti Kuroki and Prince Kuni, ADC to Kuroki, 26 Aug-14 Oct. 1 file

Typed transcripts of diary kept by Hamilton as a foreign military attaché to the Japanese 1 Army during the Russo-Japanese War, including his farewells to the Japanese Army, and his meetings with Meiji, Emperor of Japan, Marshal Aritomo Yamagata, Lt Gen Makakata [Masatake] Terauchi, Japanese Army Minister, Marshal Iwao Oyama, Chief of the General Staff, Japanese Gen Takemoti Kuroki, Lt Gen Gentaro Kodama, Vice Chief of the General Staff, Maj Gen Matsunagi, Chief of Staff to Gen Maresuke Nogi and Maj Gen S Fujii. 1 file (Much of this material was used by Hamilton for his A Staff Officer's scrap-book during the Russo-Japanese War (Edward Arnold, London, 2 vols, 1905 & 1907)

Typescript private diary of Jean Miller Hamilton, Lady Hamilton, mainly comprising daily entries describing social engagements, personal opinions of friends, relations and acquaintances, literary criticism and photographs including interior and exterior views of Tidworth Hall, Tidworth, 1905. Includes related social correspondence with Lord Alwyne Frederick Compton. See also digital copies at 20/1/1

Typescript of 'The commander', Hamilton's essay on military leadership, published posthumously as The Commander (Hollis and Carter, London, 1957), edited by Maj Anthony Heritage Farrar-Hockley. 640pp

Thirteen sketches, mostly of trees and flowers, undated. With two watercolour cartoons of 3 Bde in camp during the Tirah Campaign, 1897, and 'With the Commonwealth military forces, our Director of Riding selecting suitable horses for the Inspector General, 1913'. 15 drawings (Artists not named)

Scrapbook of newspaper cuttings, including reviews of Hamilton's publications A jaunt in a junk (Kegan Paul, Trench and Co, London, 1884), The fighting of the future (Kegan Paul, Trench and Co, London, 1885), Icarus (Vizetelly's one volume novels, Vol 18, 1886) and The Ballad of Hádji and other poems (Kegan Paul, Trench and Co, London, 1887); Indian newspaper cuttings relating to Hamilton's first annual report as Assistant Adjutant General for Musketry in India, 1890. With typescript of Hamilton's letter to The Times (returned unpublished, Oct 1931) regarding the relative contributions of FM Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts of Kandahar, Waterford and Pretoria, and Gen Sir Charles Carmichael Monro, 1st Bt, to improvements of standards of musketry at the School of Musketry, Hythe, Kent, as stated in The life of General Sir Charles Carmichael Monro, GCB, GCMG (Hutchinson and Co, London, 1931) by Gen Sir George de Symons Barrow. 1 vol