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Edition of the newspaper The Evening Star, containing article on the charge of the 92nd (Highland) Regt under Col John Cameron against French forces at the battle of Bayonne, 13 Dec 1813. 4pp

Edition of the newspaper The Evening Star, containing verses written by 'D S', an officer of the 92nd (Highland) Regt, and sung in the regimental mess on the anniversary of the battle of Waterloo. 4pp

Notebook containing rough notes by Hamilton on infantry and cavalry tactics, [1870]. With manuscript extracts from diary of unnamed relative, regarding his meeting with his cousin, Capt Christian Monteith Hamilton, 92nd (Highland) Regt, 20 Sep 1849 and 10 Apr 1855. 1 vol

Letters sent by Hamilton's parents, Col Christian Monteith Hamilton and Maria Corinna Hamilton, to her brother Henry Prendergast Vereker, regarding family news and progress of their journey from England to Corfu, 12 May and 24 Sep 1852. With incomplete letter (writer's name not given) giving his account of the battle of Alma, Crimean War, 22 Sep 1854. 1 file, 3 letters

Letters received by Hamilton's father Christian Monteith Hamilton from Hamilton's mother Maria Corinna Hamilton, regarding her last illness. With manuscript notes by Hamilton for including the letters in his When I was a boy (Faber and Faber, London, 1939). 1 file, 2 letters

Photographs of Hamilton's aunt, the Hon Emily Henrietta Vereker, and her husband John Francis Bassett, of Tehidy Park, Cornwall. 2 photographs

The English version of the polyglot Bible (Samuel Bagster and Co, London, date not supplied), given by Sir John Muir, 1st Bt, to Jean Miller Muir on her eighth birthday. 1 vol

Course paper by Hamilton while a subaltern at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Kent, being his proposed scheme for the fortification and defence of workshops at the College, with two diagrams. 4pp

Letters sent by Hamilton to his grandmother (name not given), mainly relating to Hamilton's life in India, including his march with 92nd (Gordon Highlanders) Foot from Mooltan to Dera Ismail Khan, 28 Dec 1874; his hunting expedition at Buckree Wallah Nullah, Pir Punjal Range, 11 May 1875. 1 file, 4 letters. Some letters reprinted in Hamilton's Listening for the drums (Faber and Faber, London, 1944)

Letters sent by Hamilton to his aunt Janet Camilla Caldwell, mainly relating to Hamilton's life in India, including description of his clothes and camp while hunting at Panch Caltan Nullah, 25 May. 1 file, 2 letters

Pocket diary relating to Hamilton's expedition hunting ibex and markhor in Kashmir and Little Tibet, India. 1 vol

Album of photographs of Hamilton's relations and family friends, including his father Col Christian Monteith and childhood photographs of Hamilton and his brother Vereker Monteith Hamilton. 1 vol [many photographs with missing or incomplete captions]

Manuscript letter from Hamilton to Maj Gen Martin Andrew Dillon, Assistant Military Secretary, War Office, giving Hamilton's account of the Battle of Majuba Hill, First Boer War, 27 Feb 1881. 9pp. With typed copy. 15pp

Manuscript copy of seven letters from a lieutenant (name not supplied) of 4 Bn The Lincolnshire Regt, to his acting adjutant, regarding his request for posting to active service in Egypt. 4pp

Newspaper cuttings from The Madras Mail relating to military exercises before Lt Gen Sir Frederick Sleigh Roberts, Bt, Commander in Chief Madras, at Palveram, 18-19 Jan 1883, and at Bangalore, 29 Jan-5 Feb 1883. 1 file

Letters sent by Hamilton to his father Col Christian Vereker Monteith Hamilton, mainly relating to Hamilton's life in India, including his hunting expedition at Buckree Wallah Nullah, Pir Punjal Range, 20 May 1875; the injury to his left wrist received at the Battle of Majuba Hill, First Boer War, 1881, and his desire to seek treatement from Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister, 5 Aug 1881; his proposal to accept the post of aide-de-camp to Maj Gen Sir Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Bt, Commander-in-Chief Madras, 24 Jan 1882; his attachment to 1st Bn The Gordon Highlanders in Egypt for service in the First Sudan Expedition, 17 Nov 1884. With 'A tournament at Ooty', newspaper cutting on sports at Ootacamund, India, The Pioneer,14 Oct 1884. 1 file, 13 letters. Some letters reprinted in Hamilton's Listening for the drums (Faber and Faber, London, 1944)

Letters sent by Hamilton to his brother Vereker Monteith Hamilton, mainly relating to Hamilton's life in India, including the visit of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, to Lahore, and Hamilton's criticism of 57th (West Middlesex) Regt, 3 Feb 1876; his proposal to join an autumn campaign against Afridi tribesmen in Peshawar, 19 Aug 1876; an account of the record sized markhor he shot while hunting near Astor, 10 Sep 1876; the forthcoming march of 92nd (Gordon Highlanders) Foot to Delhi for the proclamation of Victoria, Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, as Empress of India, 22 Oct 1876; account of a pig sticking expedition (with four sketches), 17 May 1878; regarding the possible success of his A jaunt in a junk (Kegan Paul, Trench and Co, London, 1884), 8 Oct 1883; the progress of his poetry, particularly 'The ballad of Hádji and the boar', 18 Mar 1884; his progress up the River Nile with 1st Bn The Gordon Highlanders, First Sudan Expedition, 24 Nov 1884. With letter from C A Lawson, editor of The Madras Mail, agreeing with his reviewer's criticism of A jaunt in a junk, 7 May 1884. 1 file, 56 letters. Some letters reprinted in Hamilton's Listening for the drums (Faber and Faber, London, 1944)

Manuscript of part of novel by Hamilton (title not given, pp1-274, 330-484 are missing), finished in Cairo, Egypt, 5 Nov 1884. 1 file

Manuscript of 'The Crotchets', a comic play written by Hamilton. 58pp

Album of photographs of Deanston House, Perthshire; the Muir family, including Jean (later Jean Miller Hamilton) at Deanston and at 'The Oaks', Johnstone, Renfrewshire; Jean at Kames Castle, Isle of Arran; the wedding of Elizabeth 'Bessie' Muir to Thomas George Harry Moncreiffe, 30 Aug 1883; the Moncreiffe family at Moncreiffe House, Perthshire. 1 vol