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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

Pocket notebook containing a few brief daily entries by Hamilton on his return journey from the Sudan to Cairo, Egypt, following the First Sudan Expedition, 1884-1885, with other personal jottings of maxims, thoughts and verse. 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

Pocket notebook containing notes by Hamilton as ADC to Gen Sir Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Bt, Commander-in-Chief, India, mainly relating to arrangements for travel, dispatch of baggage and effects, notes on musketry and other personal jottings of maxims, thoughts and verse. 1 vol

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

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

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)

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

Four undated letters received by Hamilton's grandfather, John George Hamilton, from Rev Dr Norman MacLeod, mainly relating to requests for charitable purposes, MacLeod's novel [The gold thread (Edinburgh, 1861)], and MacLeod's visit to Victoria, Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, at Balmoral, Scotland. With letter from Macleod's brother, Rev Dr Donald Macleod, thanking Hamilton's uncle, Rev Harry Hamilton, for the use of his letters [for Donald Macleod's biography Memoir of Norman Macleod, 2 vols (London, 1876)]. 1 file, 5 letters

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 received by Hamilton from FM Sir Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Baron Roberts of Kandahar and Pretoria, comprising letter to Hamilton's father Col Christian Monteith Hamilton, complimenting Hamilton on his work as Roberts' aide-de-camp, 28 Oct 1884; urging Hamilton to remain as his aide-de-camp and not to revert to regimental duties, 5 Oct 1885; advising him to delay his proposal of marriage to Jean Miller Hamilton for four months, 15 Aug 1886, with manuscript copy of Hamilton's reply, stating his intent to continue the courtship, 17 Aug 1886; telegram from Roberts informing Hamilton of his appointment as Military Secretary to Gen Sir George Stuart White, Commander-in-Chief in India, 19 Jan 1893; eleven letters, 28 Apr-15 Aug 1893, mostly relating to Roberts'speculation on his own future employment and his social engagements, including his interview with Rt Hon Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Secretary of State for War, regarding his possible appointment to command Aldershot District, 18 May 1893, his possible appointment as Viceroy of India, 22 Jun 1893, his refusal of the offer of Lt Gen Sir Reginald Gipps, Military Secretary, of appointments as Governor of Gibraltar or Malta, 4 Jul 1893, his concern at the French threat to Siam, 27 Jul 1893, his appearance before a Parliamentary Committee under George William Erskine Russell, Under Secretary of State for India, investigating the implementation of the Contagious Diseases Act in India, 15 Aug 1893; comparisons between the Tirah Campaign of 1897 and the Second Sudan Campaign of 1898, 23 Nov 1898; shares and investments, 5 May 1899. 1 file, 18 letters

Photocopies of letters sent by Hamilton to his father Col Christian Vereker Monteith Hamilton and his brother Vereker Monteith Hamilton, relating to his progress up the River Nile with 1st Bn The Gordon Highlanders, First Sudan Expedition, 29 Nov 1884-6 Feb 1885. With manuscript letter from Vereker and his wife Lilian, regarding Hamilton's proposal of marriage to Jean Miller Muir, and Hamilton's Icarus (Vizetelly's one volume novels, Vol 18, 1886), 14 Sep 1886. 1 file, 7 letters

Letters received by Hamilton relating to his investments in the North and South Sylhet Tea Companies Ltd. 1 file

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

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

Letters sent by Hamilton to his future wife Jean Miller Muir, mainly relating to their courtship, engagement and forthcoming marriage, including letters written as aide-de-camp of Lt Gen Sir Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Bt, Commander-in-Chief, India, on campaign in Burma. With letter to his brother-in-law Thomas George Harry Moncrieffe, 22 Nov 1886. 1 file, 61 letters. Some letters reprinted in Hamilton's Listening for the drums (Faber and Faber, London, 1944)