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H. Brackenbury to Wolseley. Sending copy of the paper which is for discussion at that day's Cabinet Meeting [not here], and asking to be sent for if preparations are to be made for any of the operations. Manuscript, 2pp

Map manoeuvres, a simple account of the war game' by A G Haywood, Capt, 6 Volunteer Brigade, the Lancashires (J E Cornish, Manchester, 1889). 1 booklet

The conduct of infantry fire according to the French regulations of 1888' translated with an introduction by A P Ledward, Honorary Maj, 1 Cadet Battalion the Manchester Regiment (J E Cornish, Manchester, 1889). 1 booklet

Field artillery for home service' by Maj R K Birley, Honorary Lt Col, the Manchester Artillery (J E Cornish, Manchester, 1889). 1 booklet

Wolseley, Manor House, Haslemere, to [John Frederick] Maurice. Details of re-arrangement of artillery etc so that they are prepared when the war comes. Manuscript, 4pp

Lord Aberdare, promising to send the manuscript of Sir John Moore's Journals to John Frederick Maurice, and asking for a copy of "Hostilities". Manuscript, 3p.

Octavia Hill, declining to write an article on the Cadet Corps, but suggesting another author, and giving news of the Corps. Manuscript, 4p.

Letters received by Hamilton from his wife Jean Miller Hamilton, mainly relating to family and social matters. 1 file, 25 letters

John Frederick Maurice to Wolseley. In reply to a letter from Wolseley concerning Maurice's letter in the United Services Magazine; it was not intended as an attack on an officer, but an attempt to prevent mistakes from office of Astronomer Royal. manuscript 4pp. Also draft of same. Manuscript, 4pp

W.H.M. Christie [Astronomer Royal] to Wolseley thanking him for his intervention with John Frederick Maurice in matter of article. Manuscript, 4pp

Lord Dufferin, giving information about Wellington at Waterloo, after reading John Frederick Maurice's articles on Waterloo. Manuscript, 3p.

Wolseley, Royal Hospital Dublin, to John Frederick Maurice. Asks him to correct an enclosed article on the Slave Trade and take it to The Times. He has written the article at the request of King Leopold of the Belgians. Manuscript, 3pp

Printed letter from Gen Sir Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Bt, Commander-in-Chief in India, to Lt Gen Sir George Byng Harman, Military Secretary, War Office, requesting the promotion of Hamilton and Lt Col William Gustavus Nicholson to substantive Colonels, due to their selection for appointments on the Staff as respectively, Assistant Adjutant General for Musketry in Bengal, and Military Secretary to the Commander-in-Chief in India. 4pp

Musketry in India', newspaper cutting from The Daily Chronicle, relating to Hamilton's first annual report as Assistant Adjutant General for Musketry in India. 1p

Correspondence with England while Commander in Chief-in-India, 1885-1887, volume 7 (Superintendent of Government Printing, Calcutta, 1890) of Gen Sir Frederick Sleigh Roberts, Commander-in-Chief, India, including letters to Lord Randolph Henry Spencer Churchill, Secretary of State for India, with an account of military exercises at Delhi, India, 24 Jan 1886; to Edward Robert Bulwer, 1st Earl of Lytton, on the difficulties of pursuing dacoits in Burma, 20 Nov 1886; to Gen Sir Donald Martin Stewart, Bt, on the proposals of the Defence Committee for the defence of the North West Frontier, 16 Jul 1886; to FM George William Frederick Charles, 2nd Duke of Cambridge, on the progress of a scheme of mobilization against potential Russian incursions in Afghanistan, 19 May 1887, and proposing the gradual British occupation of southern Afghanistan, 11 Aug 1887. 2 copies, 2 vols

Correspondence with England while Commander-in-Chief in India, 1888-1889, volume 8 (Superintendent of Government Printing, Calcutta, 1890) of Gen Sir Frederick Sleigh Roberts, Commander-in-Chief, India, including letters to FM George William Frederick Charles, 2nd Duke of Cambridge, on the composition and state of the British garrison at Lucknow, India, 12 Feb 1888; to Lord Randolph Henry Spencer Churchill, on the proposed reform of the Punjab States army and progress of the North West Frontier railway, 4 Nov 1888; to Edward Robert Bulwer, 1st Earl of Lytton, and FM Robert Cornelis Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala, on the prospect of extending the railway to Kandahar, Afghanistan, and the state of fortifications at Quetta, Rawalpindi and Attock, 7-8 Feb 1889. 2 copies, 2 vols

Index to volume 4, correspondence with the Viceroy of India, 1885-1888, (Superintendent of Government Printing, Calcutta, 1890) of Gen Sir Frederick Sleigh Roberts, Commander-in-Chief, India. 2 copies, 2 vols

The Heriots by Sir Henry Stewart Cunningham (Macmillan and Co, London and New York, 1890). 1 vol

Photograph album, notably including group photographs of Allenby with colleagues at Royal Military College, Sandhurst, 1881, Cavalry Depot, Canterbury, 1887, and School of Musketry, Hythe, 1891, and with Inniskilling Dragoons in South Africa, 1890; photographs of St Vincent, [1884-1890]. 1 vol

Correspondence with India while Commander-in-Chief in Madras, 1881-1885, volume 3 (Government Central Printing Office, Simla, 1890) of Gen Sir Frederick Sleigh Roberts,Commander-in-Chief, India, comprising letters on army administration in India, including to the Rt Hon Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant-Duff, Governor of Madras, on the establishment of an intelligence branch of the Quarter Master General's department at Ootacamund, 9 Mar 1882 and on the Russian threat to Afghanistan, 1 Dec 1883; to Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall, Lieutenant Governor of North Western Provinces, proposing that ambitious Indian troops should enter the Indian Civil Service than seek higher military office, 24 Sept 1884; to Gen Sir Donald Martin Stewart, Bt, Lord Randolph Henry Spencer Churchill and FM George William Frederick Charles, 2nd Duke of Cambridge, on Roberts succeeding Stewart as Commander-in-Chief, India, 26 Jul 1885; memorandum of his proposal for a fortified site at Secunderabad, 15 Apr 1882; memorandum on the potential use of machine guns, 25 Jan 1885. 2 copies, 2 vols