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Typescript copy of letter 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, on the daily routine of Kitchener's staff, on Kitchener's increasing decentralization of command, and Hamilton's opinion of the leadership capabilities of Maj Gen Geoffry Barton, Lt Gen Sir Charles Tucker, Maj Gen Laurence James Oliphant and Lt Gen Sir John Denton Pinkstone French. 6pp

Typescript copy of letter 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 opinion on The Times history of the war in South Africa, volume 2, edited by Leopold Stennett Amery (Sampson Low, Marston and Co, London, 1902); his suggestions for a temporary South African department in the War Office to deal with his operational archives; his preferences for future magistrates and governors in South Africa. 4pp

Typescript copy of letter 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, advocating an armistice of one month in the Transvaal and Orange River Colony, and further musketry practice for British forces in South Africa, and hoping to initiate decentralization of military command in Kitchener's office and in the districts. 4pp

Typescript copy of letter 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, on the workings and responsibilities of officers on Kitchener's staff; on the likely transfer of the railways from military to civil control; his proposals for raising battalions using Boer prisoners. 7pp

Typescript copy of letter 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, on the signing of peace terms at Vereeniging. 3pp

Typescript copy of letter 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, including on the formation of a new column to be commanded by Lt Col Sir Henry Seymour Rawlinson, 2nd Bt, to pursue Boer Gen Christiaan Rudolph De Wet; on the command of 6 Bn Mounted Infantry by Lt Col Henry De Beauvoir De Lisle, and on his dining with Alfed Milner, 1st Baron Milner of St James's and Cape Town, Governor of the Transvaal and Orange River Colonies. 6pp

Typescript copy of letter 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, including Kitchener's reluctance to relinquish military control of the railways; the inadequacies of the instruction provided by the Staff College, Camberley, Surrey, and Hamilton's proposals for a new curriculum; Hamilton's opinion of (Joseph) Rudyard Kipling's attitude towards the amnesty granted to Cape rebels. 14pp

Typescript copy of letter 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, on the progress of peace negotiations with the Boers and the threat to a settlement posed by the political ambitions of Alfred Milner, 1st Baron Milner of St James's and Cape Town, Governor of the Transvaal and Orange River Colonies, to exert control over the colonies. 5pp

Typescript copy of letter from Col Neville Francis Fitzgerald Chamberlain to Henry Charles Keith Petty Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Landsdowne, Secretary of State for War, enclosing typescript notes by FM Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Baron Roberts of Kandahar and Waterford, Commander in Chief South Africa on the respective capabilities of senior officers serving in South Africa, including Maj Gen Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Baron Kitchener of Khartoum and Aspall; Lt Gen Paul Sandford Methuen, 3rd Baron Methuen; Lt Gen Sir Henry Macleod Leslie Rundle; Lt Gen Thomas Kelly-Kenny; Maj Gen Sir Herbert Charles Chermside; Lt Gen Sir Archibald Hunter; Lt Gen Sir Charles Tucker; Maj Gen Reginald Pole-Carew; Hamilton; Lt Gen Sir John Denton Pinkstone French and Maj Gen Edward Thomas Henry Hutton. 8pp

Typed copy of letter [to Gen Sir William Riddell Birdwood, 1st Bt] from Charles Edwin Woodrow Bean, Official Historian of the Australian Imperial Force, regarding Bean's recent visit to Gallipoli, including description of desecration of Allied graves, and work of Imperial War Graves Commission in identifying graves; structures of Turkish trenches; Turkish military opinion on the success of the ANZAC action at Lone Pine, 6 Aug 1915, and deception of the Allied evacuation. 5pp With memorandum by Bean, comprising answers by the Turkish General Staff to his questions relating to their expectations of initial Allied landing sites on Gallipoli; Turkish units involved in opposing the landings of 25 Apr 1915, the Turkish offensive of 19 May 1915 at Anzac, and during operations at Sari Bair and Suvla Bay, Aug 1915; Turkish expectations of an Allied evacuation; German units attached to the Turkish forces. 11pp (Three copies)

Typescript copy of a letter from an anonymous officer, with recommendations to be adopted in British musketry practice in the light of the experiences of the Second Boer War, including long range sniping, the importance of firing at unseen or hidden targets, and the necessity of rapidity and accuracy of fire at extreme short ranges. 3pp

Photocopy of typescript letter by Capt William Maxwell, Military Intelligence 5 (MI5), War Office, to (Edward) Grimwood Mears, Secretary to the Dardanelles Commission, informing him of the alleged inexperience of British intelligence officers and interference in Maxwell's censorship of press correspondents during the Dardanelles Campaign. 2pp (Original in the Public Record Office)

Typed copy of later version of 'Instructions for General Officer Commanding Mediterranean Expeditionary Force', produced by FM Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum and Broome, Secretary of State for War, and outlining the strategic objectives of the Dardanelles Campaign, with manuscript amendments by Maj Gen Walter Pipon Braithwaite, Chief of General Staff, Mediterranean Expeditionary Force. 4pp

Photocopy of first page of typescript 'Instructions for General Officer Commanding Mediterranean Expeditionary Force', produced by FM Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum and Broome, Secretary of State for War, and outlining the strategic objectives of the Dardanelles Campaign, with manuscript amendments by Maj Gen Walter Pipon Braithwaite, Chief of General Staff, Mediterranean Expeditionary Force (MEF). 1p (Original is in The National Archives). With associated correspondence between Mary Forbes Shield and Daphne H Gifford, Public Record Office, 11-12 Mar 1966.

Typescript extracts from the papers of Capt Guy Payan Dawnay, General Staff, General Headquarters, Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, including letters to his wife regarding progress of the Dardanelles Campaign, Hamilton's recall and the arrival of Gen Sir Charles Carmichael Monro; Dawnay's memorandum for the Imperial General Staff on the strength of Turkish forces and prospects of a renewed offensive at Suvla and ANZAC, Sep 1915; his diary while in London, 10 Sep-3 Oct 1915, including his meetings with FM Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum and Broome, Secretary of State for War, Rt Hon Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill MP, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Rt Hon Herbert Henry Asquith, Prime Minister, Lt Gen Sir James Wolfe Murray, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, Maj Gen Charles Edward Callwell, Director of Military Operations, Rt Hon Andrew Bonar Law MP. 1 file (Original papers are held by the Imperial War Museum)

Typed extracts from four letters to Maj Gen Walter Pipon Braithwaite, Chief of General Staff, Mediterranean Expeditionary Force (MEF), from Brevet Lt Col Oswald Arthur Gerald Fitzgerald, Personal Military Secretary to FM Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum and Broome, Secretary of State for War, illustrating Kitchener's confidence in Hamilton's leadership of the MEF. 2pp

Typed extract of letter from Capt C T Atkinson, Historical Section, Committee of Imperial Defence, noting the opposition of General HQ, Western Front, to operations in Eastern theatres. 1p

Typescript copy of section of Hamilton's personal diary of the Gallipoli Campaign for 5 May1915-30 Jul 1915, with minor variations from the entries subsequently published in his Gallipoli diary, 2 vols (Edward Arnold, London, 1920). 232pp

Typed extract from an interview with German Gen Otto Victor Carl Liman von Sanders in The Daily Telegraph, comparing casualties suffered by the British and Turkish in Gallipoli. 1p

Copy correspondence relating to the supersession of Brig Gen William Henry Sitwell as General Officer Commanding 34 Bde for failures associated with the attack on Yilghin Burnu (Chocolate Hill), Suvla on 7 Aug 1915, including signals between Maj Gen Frederick Hammersley, General Officer Commanding 11 (Northern) Div and HQ 9 Corps regarding Hammersley's request to replace Sitwell, 18 Aug 1915; letter from Sitwell to Hammersley with Sitwell's account of his operations 6-18 Aug 1915. 12pp