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Text of speech by Hamilton at the farewell parade of 2 Bn Gordon Highlanders, Aldershot, Hampshire, prior to their departure for Gibraltar. 2pp

Text of speech by Hamilton to the public rally organised by the Ministry of Information at Inverness, Scotland, regarding the surrender of the 51 (Highland) Div at St Valery-en-Caux, France on 12 Jun 1940. 6pp

Text of speech by Hamilton at the march past and recruiting rally of the local defence forces, at Ashford, Kent, on the merits of voluntary military service. 3pp

Text of speech by Hamilton proposing the toast 'fifty years' at a luncheon on the 50th jubilee of the Students' Representative Council, Edinburgh University Union. 3pp

Text of speech by Hamilton at the luncheon of the South African War Veterans' Association, Glasgow, with an account of his taking the salute in place of FM Paul Sanford Methuen, 3rd Baron Methuen, during a parade of ex-servicemen in Glasgow, Jul 1925. 5pp

Text of speech by Hamilton at the International Poodle Society's luncheon, Connaught Rooms, London. 3pp

Text of speech by Hamilton at the luncheon of the City Business Club, Glasgow, to inaugurate the Poppy Day appeal. 1p

Text of speech by Hamilton at the luncheon of the City Business Club, Glasgow, Scotland, to inaugurate the Poppy Day appeal, and his hopes for peace with Germany. 3pp

Text of speech by Hamilton at the luncheon of the City Business Club, Glasgow, Scotland, to inaugurate the Poppy Day appeal, on the aims of the British Legion for peace as opposed to pacifism. 5pp

Text of speech by Hamilton at Edinburgh University Men's Union luncheon, on the importance of education to the soldier. 3pp

Text of speech by Hamilton to the luncheon of the City Business Club, Glasgow, on the occasion of the presentation of a record made by Gracie Fields, singer, to be sold for the Earl Haig Fund. 3pp

Text of speech by Hamilton proposing the health of Henry Woodd Nevinson, at a luncheon given in Nevinson's honour, Criterion Restaurant, London. 2pp

Text of speech by Hamilton to the luncheon given by the Border Area of the British Legion Scotland to the Canadian pilgrims to the battlefields of the Western Front, with his recollection of his inspection of the 48th Highlanders in 1930, and the arrival of the 1st Newfoundland Regt in Gallipoli, Oct 1915. 3pp

Text of speech by Hamilton at the 'Burning of slumland' ceremony of a pioneer housing society, setting alight to bonfire of effigies of lice, fleas, bugs etc, Sidney Street, Euston, London. 2pp

Text of speech by Hamilton at the Gallipoli 21st anniversary luncheon given by the Empire Service Club, London, on the proposed re-fortification of the Dardanelles Straits. 2pp

Text of speech by Hamilton proposing a toast to Scottish writers, at the Foyles' luncheon, London, and his links to England, their England by Archibald Gordon Macdonell (Macmillan & Co, London, 1933). 3pp

Text of speech by Hamilton at the Festival of Remembrance, St Andrew's Hall, Glasgow, Scotland, urging Rt Hon Sir John Anderson, Lord Privy Seal, to raise a voluntary civilian army in the manner of FM Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum and Broome. 2pp

Text of speech by Hamilton at a poodle prize-giving, Ranelagh. 2pp

Text of speech by Hamilton at a farewell dinner given to him by the University of Edinburgh students at the Women's Union, Edinburgh, on the completion of his term of office as Lord Rector of the university. 4pp

Text of speech by Hamilton at the first annual dinner of 'U' Company, 4 Bn Gordon Highlanders, London, describing his arrival at an inspection of an Officers' Training Corps at Nairn, Scotland, by a De Havilland DH80 Puss Moth aircraft; the danger of a war arising from an agreement of the British and French General Staffs on a mutual military policy. 3pp