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Manuscript of Hamilton's speech to unspecified meeting of British Empire Forces, on the heroic work undertaken by Scottish and New Zealand troops following the battle of Rooiwal, Second Boer War, 11 Apr 1902, on the benefits to the defence of the Empire achieved by the Imperial General Staff, and by the reforms of army organisation carried out following the Second Boer War, and urging the Empire to contribute men to the BEF. 4pp

Typed copy of Hamilton's opening statement to the Dardanelles Commission, drawing the attention of the Commission to his willingness to have any document relating to the Gallipoli Campaign published; his requests to the War Office for reinforcements, munitions, and supplies; the selection of officers by the War Office for high command on Gallipoli; the circulation of reports by Lt Gen the Hon Sir Frederick William Stopford on operations at Suvla Bay, and by Keith Arthur Murdoch on the conduct of the Gallipoli Campaign, without the opportunity for Hamilton to state his views. 2pp Two identical copies

Pamphlets, articles and correspondence relating to proposals for a canal scheme between the Rivers Forth and Clyde, Scotland, including typescript of 'The Forth-Clyde Canal', article by Hamilton for The Star, Dec 1922; typescript extract relating to the canal from a speech by Hamilton to the Glasgow and Lanarkshire Association of London, 3 Feb 1923; 'Iron, steel and kindred industries and the Mid-Scotland canal', reprint of paper by 'a Glasgow engineer' read at a meeting of the West of Scotland Iron and Steel Institute, 14 Nov 1923; 'The Mid-Scotland canal-what it means to the country', reprint of transcript of radio broadcast by Hamilton to Glasgow and Aberdeen, 21 Dec 1923 and 'Symposium on the feasability and advantages of a Forth and Clyde canal', reprint of article by Dr John Bruce Murray and Professors George Moncur, J W Gregory and William Robert Scott, Proceedings of the Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow, 1926. 1 file

Typescript notes and comments by Mary Forbes Shield on Kitchener: portrait of an imperialist by Sir Philip Montefiore Magnus-Allcroft, 2nd Bt (John Murray, London, 1958), Jan 1960; letter to Shield from Maj Anthony Heritage Farrar-Hockley with his comments on Kitchener and Shield's observations, 13 Mar 1961; typescript notes and extracts by Shield for Ian Bogle Monteith Hamilton, 18 Sep 1965, of references to Hamilton in Wavell, scholar and soldier by John Connell, pseudonym of John Henry Robertson (Collins, London, 1964); Soldiers from the wars returning by Charles Edmund Carrington (Hutchinson, London, 1965); Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson, his life and diaries by Maj Gen Sir Charles Edward Callwell, 2 vols (Cassell and Co, London, 1927); The memoirs of French FM Joseph Jacques Césaire Joffre (Geoffrey Bles, London, 1932). 1 file

Typescript of 'Mrs Monckton's flirtation', unpublished novella by Jean Miller Hamilton, Lady Hamilton, chapters 1-8, with manuscript corrections. 119pp

Letters sent by Gen Sir (Henry Macleod) Leslie Rundle to his friend Eleanor Charlotte Sellar, including the Curragh Incident, and his disappointment that Hamilton was not appointed Chief of the Imperial General Staff or Commander-in-Chief, India, 12 Apr 1914; his allegations of cliques and divisions in the army, and his admiration for Hamilton's command of the Dardanelles Expedition, 15 Jun 1915; his new command (Central Force), and prospects for a German invasion of Britain, 25 Aug 1915; his dismissal as General Officer Commanding Eastern Command by FM Sir John Denton Pinkstone French, 1st Viscount French of Ypres and High Lake, General Officer Commanding Home Forces, with copy of Rundle's letter regarding his dismissal to FM Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum and Broome, Secretary of State for War, 1 May 1916; his indignation at the public criticism of Rt Hon Richard Burdon Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane of Cloan, and his belief that the USA should control the Allied high command, 17 Nov 1917. 1 file, 10 letters