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Copy of typescript private diaries of Jean Miller Hamilton, Lady Hamilton, mainly comprising daily entries describing social engagements, her health, the raising of her adopted children, philosophical and literary reflections, personal opinions of friends, relations and acquaintances, her husband's speeches and activities, photographs, and including related social correspondence with her husband; Rosaleen James and Harold Stone Knight, her adopted children; Laurence Binyon; William Alexander Gerhardi; Julian Henry Hall; (John Randolph) Shane Leslie; Beverley Nichols; Logan Pearsall Smith; (Giles) Lytton Strachey; Hugh Seymour Walpole.

Copy of typescript private diaries of Jean Miller Hamilton, Lady Hamilton, mainly comprising daily entries describing social engagements, her health, her adopted children, philosophical and literary reflections, personal opinions of friends, relations and acquaintances, her husband's speeches and activities, photographs, and including related social correspondence with her husband; Rosaleen James and Harold Stone Knight, her adopted children; William Alexander Gerhardi; Julian Henry Hall; Edward Verrall Lucas; Sir Edward Howard Marsh; Beverley Nichols; Logan Pearsall Smith.

Copy of typescript private diaries of Jean Miller Hamilton, Lady Hamilton, mainly comprising daily entries describing social engagements, her health, her adopted children, philosophical and literary reflections, personal opinions of friends, relations and acquaintances, Anglo-German relations prior to the outbreak of World War Two, and including related social correspondence with her husband; Rosaleen James and Harold Stone Knight, her adopted children; Lt Gen. Sir (George) Tom (Molesworth) Bridges; Hon Unity Valkyrie Freeman-Mitford; Wilfrid Meynell; Rt Hon William St John Fremantle Brodrick, 1st Earl of Midleton.

Copy of typescript private diary of Jean Miller Hamilton, Lady Hamilton, mainly comprising daily entries describing social engagements, her health, the raising of her adopted children, philosophical and literary reflections, personal opinions of friends, relations and acquaintances, and including related social correspondence with Algernon (Henry) Blackwood; (John Randolph) Shane Leslie; Mellony Katherine 'Molly' à Court Repington; Elizabeth Robins; Logan Pearsall Smith.

Typed copy of special army order of Lt Gen Sir William Riddell Birdwood, addressed to soldiers of 9 Corps and ANZAC, explaining the necessity for the evacuation of Suvla and Anzac. 2pp

Typed copy of report by Lt Gen the Hon Sir Frederick William Stopford to the War Office, 18 Aug 1915, on operations of 9 Corps at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli, 6-15 Aug 1915. With appendices of Stopford's orders for landing of 9 Corps at Suvla, 31 Jul 1915 and 3 Aug 1915. 21pp (Contains manuscript annotations by Maj Gen Walter Pipon Braithwaite). With letter to Hamilton from Maj Gen Sir Frederick Spender Robb, Military Secretary, War Office, forwarding Stopfords' report, 6 Nov 1915, and letter to Hamilton from Braithwaite, containing Braithwaite's remarks on Stopford's report, 13 Nov 1915. 1 file

Typed copy of report, 19 Aug 1915, by Maj Gen Frederick Hammersley, General Officer Commanding 11 (Northern) Div, to Lt Gen the Hon Sir Frederick William Stopford, General Officer Commanding 9 Corps, relating to operations of 11 Div at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli, 6-19 Aug 1915, including landing at B and C Beaches, 6-7 Aug 1915; advance on Yilghin Burnu (Chocolate Hill), 7 Aug 1915. 10pp. Typescript copy of letter from Hammersley to Hamilton, 19 Nov 1915, with recommendations of units of 11 Div rendering distinguished service at Suvla Bay, for mention in Hamilton's despatch of 11 Dec 1915. 2pp

Photocopies of research materials gathered by Celia Lee and John Lee, biographers, comprising letter from Hamilton's niece Janet Christina Monteith Leeper to Nadédja Muir, Lady Muir, 24 Oct 1947, describing Hamilton's funeral service at Westminster Abbey; extracts from James Finlay & Company Limited, manufacturers and East India merchants, 1750-1950 by Colm Brogan (Jackson, Son and Co, Glasgow, 1951), relating to Sir John Muir, 1st Bt; typescript biography of Janet Leeper compiled by her daughter Katharine Cobbett, 1979; dustjacket of A soldier's life-General Sir Ian Hamilton, 1853-1947 by John Lee (Macmillan, London, 2000). 1 file

Typed transcript of review by Sir Compton Mackenzie of Gallipoli by Alan McCrae Moorehead (Hamish Hamilton, London, 1956), being part of a BBC European Service radio broadcast. 8pp

Copy telegram from Hamilton to FM Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum and Broome, Secretary of State for War, repeating letter of 15 Aug sent to Hamilton by Lt Col Rt Hon Bernard Arthur William Patrick Hastings Forbes, 8th Earl of Granard, commanding 5 Bn The Royal Irish Rifles, stating that Granard disagreed with the conduct of the Gallipoli Campaign, and had made his views known to George V, King of Great Britain and Ireland and fellow Privy Councillors, with Hamilton's reply of 16 Aug 1915. 1p

Typed copy of telegram GS104 from Lt Gen the Hon Sir Frederick William Stopford to Hamilton, attributing failure of 9 Corps to gain heights above Suvla Bay, Gallipoli, due to the inexperience of his troops and their lack of water and artillery. 3pp

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

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 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

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

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

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 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 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 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