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Hamilton's personal financial correspondence, mainly relating to his bank accounts, shares and investments; receipts for goods and services rendered to Hamilton; leasing of 1 Hyde Park Gardens, London. 1 file

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

Supplement to The London Gazette of Tuesday 14th September 1915, no 29296, pp 9167-9187 (HMSO, London, 15 Sep 1915) containing names of those awarded the Distinguished Service Order, Military Cross and the Distinguished Conduct Medal, together with details of the actions for which they were commended, including awards to men serving with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force in the Dardanelles. 19pp