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Volume of carbon copies of telegrams, nos 1068-1142, dispatched by staff of Hamilton's Force, including to Maj Gen Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Baron Kitchener of Khartoum and Aspall, Chief of Staff, South Africa, with strength of his Force units, 25 Aug; to Casualty Offices, Pretoria and Capetown, 8 Sep, with casualty report following engagement with Boer forces at Lydenburg, Eastern Transvaal (7 Sep); to FM Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Baron Roberts of Kandahar and Waterford, Commander in Chief South Africa, 9 Sep, with account of engagement of Gen Sir Redvers Henry Buller, General Officer Commanding Natal Army, with forces of Boer Gen Louis Botha at Spitzkop (8 Sep). 1 vol

Volume of carbon copies of telegrams, nos 993-1067, dispatched by staff of Hamilton's Force, including to Maj Gen Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Baron Kitchener of Khartoum and Aspall, Chief of Staff, South Africa, with casualty report, 9 Aug; to FM Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Baron Roberts of Kandahar and Waterford, Commander in Chief South Africa, on retreat of Boer Gen Christiaan Rudolph De Wet at Olifant's Nek, 18 Aug; to Roberts, with estimates of forces and location of De Wet and Martinus Theunis Steyn, President of Orange Free State, 22 Aug. 1 vol

Volume of carbon copies of telegrams, nos 914-991, dispatched by staff of Hamilton's Force, including to Maj Gen Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Baron Kitchener of Khartoum and Aspall, Chief of Staff, South Africa, with casualty list after engagement at Zilikat's Nek, 2 Aug; to FM Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Baron Roberts of Kandahar and Waterford, Commander in Chief South Africa, reporting on Boer prisoners taken at Zilikat's Nek, the use of soft nosed bullets by Boers, and estimates of Boer forces around Rustenburg, Transvaal, 3 Aug; to Roberts, on disposition of Boer forces at Elands River, Transvaal, and the deployment of the Rustenburg garrison, 5 Aug. 1 vol

Carbon copies of six telegrams, nos 908-913, dispatched by staff of Hamilton's Force, including to Maj Gen Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Baron Kitchener of Khartoum and Aspall, Chief of Staff, South Africa, on the securing of rolling stock by Brig Gen Bryan Thomas Mahon, and pursuit of Boer scouts by squadron of 18th Hussars at Kaalfontein, Eastern Transvaal, 28 Jul. 1 unfinished notebook

Volume of carbon copies of telegrams, nos 876-907, dispatched by staff of Hamilton's Force, including to Maj Gen Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Baron Kitchener of Khartoum and Aspall, Chief of Staff, South Africa, reporting his engagement with Boer forces at Doomkraal Drift, Eastern Transvaal, 21 Jul; to Kitchener, reporting strength of his Force units, 21 Jul; to Kitchener, on his advance to Bronkhorstspruit, Eastern Transvaal, and the proposed return of his Force to Pretoria, 26 Jul. 1 notebook

Volume of carbon copies of telegrams, nos 528-643, dispatched by staff of Lt Gen Sir Archibald Hunter, General Officer Commanding 10 Div, South African Field Force, including to Maj Gen Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Baron Kitchener of Khartoum and Aspall, Chief of Staff, South Africa, with field state report of 10 Div, 27 May; to FM Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Baron Roberts of Kandahar and Waterford, Commander in Chief South Africa, relaying message from Maj Gen Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell on the withdrawal of Boer forces to Lichtenburg, Transvaal, and the escape of British subjects from Zeerust jail, 28 May; to Sir Alfed Milner, High Commissioner, reporting his occupation of Lichtenburg and the looting of Boer farms by native Africans, 2 Jun. 1 vol

Volume of carbon copies of telegrams, nos 370-527, dispatched by staff of Lt Gen Sir Archibald Hunter, General Officer Commanding 10 Div, South African Field Force, including to FM Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Baron Roberts of Kandahar and Waterford, Commander in Chief South Africa, on his advance to Christiana, Transvaal, and estimates of strength of Boer forces entrenched there, 15 May; to Maj Gen Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Baron Kitchener of Khartoum and Aspall, Chief of Staff, South Africa, with field state report of 10 Div, 19 May; to Casualty Office, Capetown, 25 May, with casualty list from engagement with Boer forces outside Mafeking (16 May). 1 vol

Volume of carbon copies of telegrams, nos 1-183, dispatched by staff of Lt Gen Sir Archibald Hunter, General Officer Commanding 10 Div, South African Field Force, including to Maj Gen Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Baron Kitchener of Khartoum and Aspall, Chief of Staff, South Africa, on state of supplies of 6 Bde, 16 Mar; to Kitchener, requesting permission to transfer enteric fever casualties to hospital, 21 Mar; to General Officer Commanding 6 Bde, notifying him of dispatch of ambulances to move a field hospital, 3 Apr. 1 vol

Carbon copies of telegrams, nos 691-738, dispatched by staff of Lt Gen Sir Archibald Hunter, General Officer Commanding 10 Div, South African Field Force, including request to Brig Gen Bryan Thomas Mahon, commanding 10 Div cavalry, to arrange a train for 800 troops to leave Frederikstad for Potchefstroom, Western Transvaal, 12 Jun; to Maj Gen Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Baron Kitchener of Khartoum and Aspall, Chief of Staff, South Africa, with field state report of 10 Div, 14 Jun; to Maj Gen Arthur Fitzroy Hart, commanding 5 Bde, requesting a Royal Engineers' balloon section and ammunition column, 14 Jun. 1 notebook

Volume of carbon copies of telegrams, nos 184-369, dispatched by staff of General Officer Commanding 10 Div, South African Field Force, including to Maj Gen Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Baron Kitchener of Khartoum and Aspall, Chief of Staff, South Africa, 6 May, giving details of 10 Div casualties at battle of Rooidam (5 May); to Col Sir Charles Sim Bremridge Parsons, Assistant Inspector General Lines of Communication, requesting he arrange transport for five companies of Royal Dublin Fusiliers to move from Barkly West, Cape Colony, 8 May; to Lt Gen Sir Frederick William Edward Forestier Forestier-Walker, Commanding Lines of Communication, South Africa, requesting dispatch of six inch shrapnel shells, 10 May. 1 vol

Carbon copies of telegrams, nos 041-069, dispatched by staff of Lt Gen Sir Archibald Hunter, General Officer Commanding 10 Div, South African Field Force, Western Transvaal, including to Maj Gen Arthur Fitzroy Hart, commanding 5 Bde, informing him of defeats of forces under Boer Gen Louis Botha at Donkerspruit, Eastern Transvaal, and under Boer Gen Christiaan Rudolph De Wet at Heuningspruit, Orange River Colony, (049 no date); to FM Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Baron Roberts of Kandahar and Waterford, Commander in Chief South Africa, reporting his destruction of surrendered rifles and impounding of horses at Ventersdorp, Lichtenburg and Klerksdorp, (052 no date). 1 notebook

Carbon copies of telegrams, nos 001-040, dispatched by staff of Lt Gen Sir Archibald Hunter, General Officer Commanding 10 Div, South African Field Force, Western Transvaal, including to Maj Gen Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Baron Kitchener of Khartoum and Aspall, Chief of Staff, South Africa, Col Sir Charles Sim Bremridge Parsons, Assistant Inspector General Lines of Communication, Maj Gen Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell and others, on the deployment of 10 Div around Ventersdorp, Lichtenburg and Potchefstroom, and on garrison strengths for occupation of Christiana and Bloemhof, 5 Jun; to Baden-Powell, informing him of seizure of Kroonstad by Boer Gen Christiaan Rudolph De Wet, 9 Jun. 1 notebook

Carbon copies of telegrams, nos 644-691, dispatched by staff of Lt Gen Sir Archibald Hunter, General Officer Commanding 10 Div, South African Field Force, including to Maj Gen Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell on his request for additional officers, 6 Jun; to Maj Gen Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Baron Kitchener of Khartoum and Aspall, Chief of Staff, South Africa, on state of his rations and supplies at Potchefstroom, Western Transvaal, 6 Jun; to Commanding Officer, Fourteen Streams, giving form of words for receipt of arms from Boer commandos and oath of no further armed participation, 6 Jun. 1 notebook

Carbon copies of telegrams, nos 779-820, dispatched by staff of Lt Gen Sir Archibald Hunter, General Officer Commanding 10 Div, South African Field Force, including to Maj Gen Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Baron Kitchener of Khartoum and Aspall, Chief of Staff, South Africa, with field state report of 10 Div, 26 Jun; to Maj Gen Horace Lockwood Smith-Dorrien, commanding 19 Bde, requesting unit to protect railway bridge at Riet Vlei, near Heidelburg, Transvaal, 26 Jun; to Director of Military Intelligence, Pretoria, reporting state of communications between Heidelburg and Zuikerbosch Rand River, 28 Jun. 1 notebook

Carbon copies of two telegrams, nos 821-822, dispatched by staff of Lt Gen Sir Archibald Hunter, General Officer Commanding 10 Div, South African Field Force, to Paymaster, Capetown, and Lt Col of 4 Bn Somerset Light Infantry, East London, Cape Colony. 1 unfinished notebook

Carbon copies of telegrams, nos 739-778, dispatched by staff of Lt Gen Sir Archibald Hunter, General Officer Commanding 10 Div, South African Field Force, including to Maj Gen Arthur Fitzroy Hart, commanding 5 Bde, ordering the route of his advance from Frederikstad to Johannesburg, 15 Jun; to Maj Gen Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Baron Kitchener of Khartoum and Aspall, Chief of Staff, South Africa, with field state report of 10 Div, 21 Jun; to Maj Gen Geoffry Barton, commanding 6 Bde, ordering his march on Krugersdorp, Western Transvaal, 21 Jun. 1 notebook

Typescript copies of three telegrams to FM Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts of Kandahar, Waterford and Pretoria, Commander in Chief of the British Army from Hamilton, Chief of Staff to Lt Gen Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Baron Kitchener of Khartoum and Aspall, Commander in Chief South Africa, with his views on the progress of the war in South Africa, including his discussion with Lt Gen Sir John Denton Pinkstone French, General Officer Commanding Mobile Columns Cape Colony, on pacifying Cape Colony, 27 Nov 1901, and his impressions of the blockhouse system and Kitchener's command, 2 Dec 1901. 5pp

Typescript copy of telegrams exchanged by Hamilton and Lt Gen Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Baron Kitchener of Khartoum and Aspall, Commander in Chief South Africa, on actions during and after the battle of Rooiwal, Western Transvaal, 11 Apr. 3pp

Copy telegram correspondence between Hamilton and FM Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum and Broome, Secretary of State for War, comprising Hamilton's request for Maj Gen Hon Julian Hedworth George Byng and Maj Gen Sir Henry Seymour Rawlinson, 2nd Bt, to serve as corps commanders at Gallipoli; Kitchener's reply that Lt Gen Sir Bryan Thomas Mahon and Lt Gen Sir John Spencer Ewart should serve instead on grounds of seniority. With manuscript notes by Hamilton on Ewart's physical fitness. 1p

Typescript copy of telegram to Hamilton, Chief of Staff to Lt Gen Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Baron Kitchener of Khartoum and Aspall, Commander in Chief South Africa from FM Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts of Kandahar, Waterford and Pretoria, Commander in Chief of the British Army, requesting Hamilton send the British Cabinet his opinion on the progress of the war in South Africa and to comment on Kitchener's health and condition, and rejecting Hamilton's proposal of an armistice for the Boers. 1p