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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 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 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 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, 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 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 relating to the Anglo-German Association, including minutes of meetings; correspondence with Evan Bernard Morgan, Association Secretary, regarding Association membership and engagements; list of members and annual report, 1929-30. With edition of Das Reichsbanner, containing article by Hamilton on the development of the British ex-service movement, 29 March 1930. 1 file

Papers relating to British and French field artillery fire tactics, comprising newspaper article 'The French Army manoeuvres-artillery questions' by Lt Col Charles à Court Repington, The Times, 8 Oct 1910; correspondence between Hamilton, Repington and and Maj Hugh Archie Dundas Simpson Baikie, Hamilton's Staff Officer, regarding Repington's article, 27 Oct 1910-16 Nov 1910; typescript paper by Hamilton upon artillery tactics for a War Office conference on British and French artillery fire systems under the chairmanship of Brig Gen Walter Fullarton Lodovic Lindsay; 'British and French Quick Firing Field Artillery' by Maj Charles Edward Dutton Budworth, offprint of article from The Journal of the Royal Artillery vol 37 no 9, Dec 1910. With letter from Hamilton to Repington regarding German tactics of encirclement, 27 Feb 1911. 1 file

Papers relating to Ellis Ashmead Bartlett, war correspondent on Gallipoli, including copy telegram correspondence between Hamilton and FM Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum and Broome, Secretary of State for War, relating to Ashmead Bartlett's pessimistic views on the conduct of the Gallipoli Campaign, 3-8 Jun 1915, and to the interception of Keith Arthur Murdoch at Marseilles, France, 21-29 Sep 1915; copy letters from Hamilton to Kitchener, Maj Gen Charles Edward Callwell, Director of Military Operations, War Office, and Leopold Stennett Amery MP, 29 Oct 1915-4 Nov 1915, refuting assertions made in a lecture by Ashmead Bartlett that arrangements were not made to supply water to troops at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli; 'Cabinet and the Dardanelles-warnings ministers ignored', article by West Fenton de Wend-Fenton, supporting Ashmead Bartlett's reportage on Gallipoli, The Sunday Times, 26 Dec 1915; 'Ellis Ashmead Bartlett on Sir Ian Hamilton's report', article by Ashmead Bartlett criticising Hamilton's despatch of 11 Dec 1915 for strategic mistakes made on Gallipoli, The World, 1 Feb 1916; letter from Hamilton to the Dardanelles Commission, alleging that information received from Turkish prisoners indicated Ashmead Bartlett's articles aided Turkish morale, 15 Jan 1917; copy correspondence between Hamilton and Bertram Blakiston Cubitt, Assistant Under Secretary of State for War, relating to Hamilton's views on a proposal that Ashmead Bartlett receive a decoration for his activities, 11-12 Mar 1919. 1 file

Correspondence relating to invitations to social engagements. 1 file

Corrections to article by Hamilton for the New York Herald Tribune Armistice Day edition. 1p

Typed copy of war diary of 13 (Western) Div, Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, during the battle of Sari Bair. 15pp

Typescript extract of Hamilton's evidence before the Royal Commission on the Militia and Volunteers, minutes 1278-1293, on conscription for the British Army. 3pp

Copy telegrams of Operations Section, General Staff, Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, mainly comprising correspondence between Hamilton and Lt Gen Sir John Grenfell Maxwell, General Officer Commanding Egypt, regarding transfer of contingents of 2 Mounted Div from Egypt to the Dardanelles. 10pp

Volume of carbon copies of telegrams, nos 1143-1217, dispatched by staff of Hamilton's Force, including to FM Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Baron Roberts of Kandahar and Waterford, Commander in Chief South Africa, on his advance with Maj Gen Reginald Pole-Carew, General Officer Commanding 11 Div, from Godwaan to Kaapsche Hoop, Eastern Transvaal, 17 Sep; to Military Secretary, Pretoria HQ, with his views on a proposed 5 inch field gun, 25 Sep; to Roberts with opinion on size of garrison to be maintained at Koomati Poort, 26 Sep. 1 vol

Volume of carbon copies of twelve telegrams, nos N1-N12, dispatched by staff of Hamilton's Force, mainly relating to requests for stationery, mail and field dressings. 1 vol

Carbon copies of telegrams, nos 824-874, dispatched by staff of Hamilton's Force, including to Director of Military Intelligence and Maj Gen Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Baron Kitchener of Khartoum and Aspall, Chief of Staff, South Africa, reporting estimates and disposition of Boer forces around Hamanskraal, Eastern Transvaal, 17 Jul; to Kitchener, seeking permission to order the support of forces commanded by Brig Gen Bryan Thomas Mahon in an attack on Boekenhoutskloof, Eastern Transvaal, 18 Jul; to FM Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Baron Roberts of Kandahar and Waterford, Commander in Chief South Africa, reporting Boer horse commandos at Boekenhoutskloof and wagon laager at Dewagendrift and expressing concern at quality of officers in the force of Col Thomas Edgecomb Hickman, 19 Jul. 1 notebook