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Correspondence relating to the British Legion, mainly in regard to Hamilton's attendance at Legion functions as President of the Metropolitan Area; administration by the Legion of petitions of financial hardship from ex-servicemen addressed to Hamilton; Hamilton's possible succession to the Presidency of the Legion following the resignation of AF John Rushworth Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe. With Hamilton's poem 'Song of the DCM', British Legion Journal, Mar 1932. 1 file

Correspondence relating to the British Legion, mainly in regard to Hamilton's attendance at Legion functions as President of the Metropolitan Area; administration by the Legion of petitions of financial hardship from ex-servicemen addressed to Hamilton. With address on unemployment given by Arthur H Francks, Legion National Executive Council, to the Conference of the Metropolitan Area, 8 Dec 1928; 'Today's ceremony at the Cenotaph-the British Legion's memorial service', article by Hamilton, The Radio Times, 3 Jun 1927. 1 file

Correspondence relating to the British Legion, mainly in regard to Hamilton's business as Patron of the Metropolitan Area. With bulletins of the Fleet Street British Legion, London, Jul 1942-Oct 1945; national and Metropolitan Area annual reports and accounts, 1942-1943, and interim reports on housing, education and home agricultural settlement, Dec 1943; minutes of the annual meeting of the Council of the Officers' Association, 2 Feb 1944; British Legion Journal, Jun 1944; photograph of Hamilton during the Legion pilgrimage to Beaumont Hamel, France, Aug 1928. 1 file, 1 photograph

Correspondence relating to the South African War Veterans' Association, including correspondence with FM Paul Sanford Methuen, 3rd Baron Methuen, Association President; invitations to Association functions; correspondence of Hamilton as subsequent Association President; appeals to trusts for Association welfare funds for veterans of the Second Boer War. 1 file

Correspondence between Hamilton and AF Roger John Brownlow Keyes, 1st Baron Keyes of Zeebrugge and Dover, mainly comprising Gallipoli Day greetings, and including report from Keyes to the Admiralty, 27 Aug 1925, on his visit to war graves on Gallipoli; letter from Keyes, 14 Nov 1925, criticising the dual control of the Fleet Air Arm of the RAF; letter from Keyes, 4 Feb 1928, on his disagreements with AF Sir John Michael de Robeck, 1st Bt, regarding resumption of a naval offensive during the Dardanelles Campaign, 1915; letter from Hamilton, 26 Oct 1934, on his meetings with members of the Cabinet upon his recall from command of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force in Oct 1915. 1 file, 124 letters

Correspondence between Hamilton and AF Rosslyn Erskine Wemyss, 1st Baron Wester Wemyss of Wemyss, including letter from Wemyss, 15 Sep [1923], requesting the use of Hamilton's despatch of 11 Dec 1915, reporting operations at Gallipoli, Jul-Oct 1915 for Wemyss' The navy in the Dardanelles Campaign (Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1924). 1 file, 3 letters

Correspondence between Hamilton and AF Sir John Michael de Robeck, 1st Bt, mainly regarding commemorations of the Gallipoli landings of 25 Apr 1915, and including letter from Hamilton, 26 Jan 1926, on recent evidence from Lt Col Betham Wilkins Shuttleworth, late Bde Maj of 32 Bde, 11 (Northern) Div, at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli, relating to the refusal of Maj Gen Frederick Hammersley to allow 32 Bde to advance on Anafarta Sagir on 8 Aug 1915. 1 file, 26 letters

Correspondence between Hamilton and Alice Macdonald Fleming (also known as Trix Fleming, sister of (Joseph) Rudyard Kipling), including payments Rudyard received for his poetry and payments she received for her fortune telling, 20 Aug 1942; thanking Hamilton for his Jean, a memoir on Jean, Lady Hamilton (privately printed, London, 1941; Faber and Faber, London, 1942), and her memories of Jean Miller Hamilton in India in 1886, 27 Aug 1942; her recollections of Rudyard's favourites of his own poetry, 25 Apr 1945. With The Kipling Journal, vol 11 no 71, Oct 1944, containing a review of Hamilton's Listening for the drums (Faber and Faber, London, 1944). 1 file, 13 letters

Correspondence between Hamilton and Colin Hamilton of Glasgow (an alleged illegitimate brother of Hamilton) relating to gifts of money given by Hamilton to Colin Hamilton. 1 file, 132 letters

Correspondence with former soldiers (other ranks) and their relatives, seeking Hamilton's financial or other assistance with references, pensions, leave, demobilisation and future employment. 1 file

Correspondence with former soldiers (other ranks) and their relatives, seeking Hamilton's financial or other assistance with references, pensions and future employment. 1 file

Correspondence with former soldiers (other ranks) and their relatives, seeking Hamilton's financial or other assistance with pensions and future employment. 1 file

Correspondence with former soldiers (other ranks) and their relatives, seeking Hamilton's financial or other assistance with pensions and future employment. 1 file

Correspondence with former soldiers (other ranks) and their relatives, seeking Hamilton's financial or other assistance with references, pensions and future employment. 1 file

Correspondence with former soldiers (other ranks) and their relatives, seeking Hamilton's financial or other assistance with references, pensions and future employment. 1 file

Correspondence with former soldiers (other ranks) and their relatives, seeking Hamilton's financial or other assistance with references, pensions and future employment. 1 file

Correspondence with former soldiers (other ranks) and their relatives, seeking Hamilton's financial or other assistance with references, pensions and future employment. 1 file

Correspondence with former soldiers (other ranks) and their relatives, seeking Hamilton's financial or other assistance with references, pensions and future employment. 1 file

Correspondence with former soldiers (other ranks) and their relatives, seeking Hamilton's financial or other assistance with references, pensions and future employment. 1 file

Correspondence between Hamilton and veterans of the Boer Wars, mainly comprising well wishers and ex-soldiers and their relatives seeking financial assistance. 1 file