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Typescript of anonymous article, 'The first heroic defence by the Turks at Sed-ul-Bahr, 12-13 Apr 1915', translated from the Turkish Military Review. 16pp

Copy of typescript private diaries of Jean Miller Hamilton, Lady Hamilton, mainly comprising daily entries describing social engagements, personal opinions of friends, relations and acquaintances, literary criticism, photographs and references to her courtship and marriage to Hamilton in India, 1886-1887; reforms at the War Office, 1903-1904; the publication of Hamilton's A Staff Officer's scrap-book during the Russo-Japanese War (Edward Arnold, London, 2 vols, 1905 & 1907); life at Tidworth House, Andover, Hampshire, during Hamilton's service as General Officer Commanding Southern Command, 1905-908. Includes related social correspondence with Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill MP; Lord Alwyne Frederick Compton; Rt Hon John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn; FM Sir Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts of Kandahar, Waterford and Pretoria; Walter Richard Sickert. (Does not include volume for the period Oct 1901-Aug 1903). See also Hamilton 20/1/9

Photocopies of articles by Raymond Gram Swing from The Chicago Daily News, comprising 'Witness describes Dardanelles fight seen from tower', 18 Mar 1915, regarding the Allied naval bombardment of Turkish forts on 5 Mar 1915; 'Sees BOUVET struck; three minutes, it's gone', 23 Mar 1915, regarding the Allied naval offensive through the Straits of 18 Mar 1915. With associated correspondence between Mary Forbes Shield and The Chicago Daily News, 22 Oct 1965-26 Jan 1966, regarding Shield's request for photocopies of Swing's articles. 1 file

Messages of congratulation received by Hamilton from relatives, friends, acquaintances and associations on his 94th birthday. With photograph of Hamilton as General Officer Commanding Southern Command, reviewing 7 Bn Manchester Regt on Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, 31 May 1909. 1 file, 1 photograph

Messages of congratulation received by Hamilton from relatives, friends, acquaintances and associations on his 93rd birthday. 1 file

Messages of congratulation received by Hamilton from relatives, friends, acquaintances and associations on his 92nd birthday. 1 file

Messages of congratulation received by Hamilton from relatives, friends, acquaintances and associations on his 91st birthday. 1 file

Messages of congratulation received by Hamilton from relatives, friends, acquaintances and associations on his 90th birthday. 1 file

Volume containing confidential reports on 123 officers, including Maj Gen Hon Julian Hedworth George Byng, Maj Gen Sir John Grenfell Maxwell and Maj Gen Thomas Perrott, serving at Gibraltar and Egypt under Hamilton, General Officer Commanding Mediterranean Command, comprising remarks of immediate commanding officer, Maxwell, Commander-in-Chief, Egypt, Gen Sir Archibald Hunter, Commander-in-Chief, Gibraltar, and Hamilton (indexed). 1 vol

Volume containing confidential reports on 106 officers, including Maj Gen John Stuart Scott Barker, Brig Gen Granville George Algernon Egerton and Brig Gen Gerald Francis Ellison, serving at Malta under Hamilton, General Officer Commanding Mediterranean Command, comprising remarks of immediate commanding officer, Gen Sir Henry Macleod Leslie Rundle, Commander-in-Chief, Malta, and Hamilton (indexed). With manuscript letter from Rundle, 22 Aug 1912, regarding the promotion of Lt Col William Baker Brown, with typescript reply of Hamilton, 30 Aug 1912. 1 vol

Mediterranean Command Circulars by FM Arthur William Patrick Albert, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn (nos 1-11), Gen Sir Frederick William Edward Forestier Forestier-Walker (nos 12-14, 20) and by Hamilton (21-31), General Officers Commanding Mediterranean Command, including on assistance rendered by Mediterranean Command to earthquake relief in Calabria, Italy, (no 6); on the public misbehaviour of four drunken British officers (no 7); on provision of civilian technical skills for men in ranks, (no 23). 34pp (Circular nos 15-19 were never issued)

Typed comments by Hamilton on the war diary of Capt Betham Wilkins Shuttleworth, Bde Maj of 32 Bde, 11 (Northern) Div, reporting operations of 32 Bde at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli, 6-21 Aug 1915, including Hamilton's reasons for the lack of recognition of the brigade in his despatches, and his allegations of the inertia and poor staff work of 9 Corps HQ and 11 Div HQ. 10pp

Printed catalogue of remaining contents of 1 Hyde Park Gardens, London, to be sold by Warmington and Co, of London, on 27-28 Jul 1949. 28pp

Printed catalogue of books to be sold by Sotheby and Co, of London, on 6-8 Feb 1950, including books formerly belonging to Hamilton and Jean Miller Hamilton, Lady Hamilton. 88pp

Those confounded neighbours', cartoon by Alick P F Ritchie from The Bystander no 613, illustrating Bulgaria, Great Britain and France surrounding Constantinople. 1p

Business correspondence, mainly between Hamilton and Sir (Alexander) Kay Muir, 2nd Bt; Royal Bank of Scotland; Keith, Bayley and Rigg, and Nothcote and Co, regarding Hamilton's investments in stocks and shares. 1 file

Service not self, 1921-1961, commemorative brochure on the 40th anniversary of the founding of the Metropolitan Area of the British Legion, including reproduction of a Christmas card sent by Hamilton to the Area office, 1937. 28pp

The British Legion Scottish Journal, services supplement, no 2, containing facsimile of manuscript poem by Hamilton, 'What shall we do with our brave new world'. 4pp

Vote of thanks moved by Hamilton to the voluntary workers at the annual meeting of the Officers' Association, British Legion, London. 1p