| Description | Printed, typescript and manuscript notes, memoranda, correspondence and miscellanea; arranged alphabetically by surname; may contain copy correspondence, extracts and dictated; relating to First World War, 1914-1918
Correspondents: Lady Ampthill [wife of Arthur Oliver Villiers Russell Ampthill, 2nd Baron Ampthill], Herbert Henry Asquith [1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith, Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury 1908-1916; Secretary of State for War, 1914], Rt. Hon. Harold Trevor Baker [Member of HM's Army Council, European War, 1914; Inspector of Quartermaster-General Services, 1916], Noel [Buxton], Arthur James Balfour [1st Earl of Balfour; First Lord of the Admiralty, 1915-1916; Foreign Secretary, 1916-1919], Buckingham Palace, Noel [Buxton], Beatrice Chamberlain [sister of Austen Chamberlain], [Rt. Hon. Sir Winston (Leonard Spencer)] Churchill [First Lord of the Admty, 1911-1915; Chancellor of Duchy of Lancaster, 1915; Minister of Munitions, 1917], Rt. Hon. Jesse Collings [Liberal MP, Bordesley, Birmingham (1886-1918)], George Curzon [1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston; Lord President of the Council, 1916-1919; Leader of the House of Lords, 1916-1924; Member of Imperial War Cabinet, 1916; Lord Privy Seal, 1915-1916; various other political offices], H. C. Field, W. H. Fisher, James Louis Garvin [Editor, Pall Mall Gazette, 1912-1915; of 'The Observer', 1908-1942; author of 'The Life of Joseph Chamberlain', Vol. I, 1836-1885, Vol. II, 1885-1895, Vol. III, 1895-1900, 1934], [P. H. Kern], Kilbracken, Lansdowne, Rt. Hon. Andrew Bonar Law [Leader of Opposition in House of Commons, 1911-1915; Leader of Unionist Party, 1911-1921 (resigned); Secretary of State for the Colonies, 1915-1916; Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1916-1918; Leader of the House of Commons, 1916-1921 (resigned); Member of the War Cabinet, 1916-1919], Walter Lawrence, Arthur Lee, George Ambrose Lloyd [1st Baron Lloyd of Dolobran; MP; served European War in Egypt, Gallipoli, Mesopotamia, and the Hedjaz, 1914-1918; various diplomatic offices], David Lloyd George [1st Earl Lloyd George of Dwyfor; Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1908-1915; Minister of Munitions, 1915-1916; Secretary of State for War, 1916; Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury, 1916-1922], Walter Hume Long [1st Viscount Long of Wraxal; President Local Government Board, 1915-1916; Secretary of State for the Colonies, 1916-1918], [Rt. Hon. Alfred] Lyttelton [MP; Chairman of Commission to South Africa, 1900; Secretary of State for the Colonies, 1903-1905], [Ivor] Maxse, L. J. Maxse [Editor of the 'National Review'], Midleton, [Alfred] Milner [1st Viscount Milner; Member of War Cabinet (Minister without portfolio), 1916-1918], Gilbert Parke[r], Morton Prince [husband of Mary Carnegie's cousin Fanny [nee Peabody] Prince], W. B. Richmond, [William Waldegrave Palmer] Selborne [2nd Earl of Selborne; President of the Board of Agriculture, 1915-1916], [John St. Loe] Strachey [Journalist; Editor and Proprietor of the 'Spectator' until 1925], James Willcocks, Austen Chamberlain [acting as Secretary of State for India, 1915-1917] and others
Includes: /5 Manuscript letter from Asquith to Chamberlain relating to Selborne's threat to retire from Cabinet [1915]; /8-[13] Typescript letters from [Buxton] to Chamberlain, including typescript notes on military situation in the Balkans by General Howell [Chief of Cavalry Staff in France, late Times Special Correspondent in the Balkan War], [1915]; /14-/16 Printed and typescript memoranda relating to Military Policy, War Committee and strategy, by Chamberlain, E. G. and A. [Balfour], for the Committee of Imperial Defence and the Cabinet, 1916; /17 Typescript letter from Beatrice Chamberlain to Chamberlain, relating to conversation with Princess Beatrice [wife of Prince Henry of Battenberg] and prophecy of war by Queen Victoria, 1915; /22-26 Manuscript letters from Curzon to Chamberlain relating to compulsory National [Military] Service, evacuation of Gallipoli, Mesopotamian Expedition, etc, 1914-1916; /28 Typescript memorandum relating to offensive operations, 1915; /30 Typescript memorandum relating to emergency supplies required by War Office, employment of merchants, etc, by Field, 1914; /31 Typescript letter from Fisher to Chamberlain relating to war pensions, 1914; /33 Typescript letter from [Kern] relating to an Imperial Conference, 1915; /35-/38 Typescript and manuscript correspondence of Lansdowne and Chamberlain, relating to Lansdowne's letter to the 'Telegraph' on peace terms, etc, 1915-1917; /39-/42 Typescript and manuscript correspondence of Bonar Law and Chamberlain, relating to War and drink question, resignation of Lord Fisher from Admiralty, evacuation of Gallipoli, etc, 1915; /44-/45 Typescript memorandum and manuscript letter from Lee to Chamberlain relating to position on Western Front, dissensions in Army, Kitchener [Horatio Herbert; 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum of Broome; HM's agent and Consul-General in Egypt, 1911-1914; Secretary of State for War, 1914-1916] and French, etc, 1915; /46-/53 Manuscript and typescript memorandum and correspondence of Lloyd George and Chamberlain, relating to situation in Gallipoli, Dardanelles Expedition, M. Venezelos and position of Greece, contraband and the Balkans, etc, 1915-1916; /55-/56 Typescript letter and memorandum from Long to Chamberlain relating to condition of Ireland, 1914; /60-/68 Typescript correspondence and notes from Maxse to Chamberlain relating to Salonika operations, Gallipoli, Balkans, etc, 1915, 1917; /69-/70 Manuscript note and typescript memorandum from Midleton to Chamberlain, relating to Kitchener, 1914; /71-/75 Manuscript and typescript correspondence from Milner to Chamberlain, including typescript letter of Rt. Hon. Leopold Stennett Amery [Assistant Secretary War Cabinet and Imperial War Cabinet, 1917; War Council staff, Versailles, and personal staff of Secretary of State for War, 1917-1918], relating to Gallipoli, Balkans, National Service, Kitchener, Egypt, etc, 1915; /76-/84a Typescript and manuscript correspondence of Gilbert Parke[r] and Prince to Chamberlain, relating to American opinion of War and propaganda, sinking of the Lusitania, etc, and including poem 'To The Anglo-Saxons', typescript copy of a letter from Joseph Chamberlain [Rt. Hon. Joseph Austen; father of Austen Chamberlain] to Prince relating to Spanish-American War and Anglo-Saxon union [1898], and newspaper cutting from 'Boston Sunday Post', relating to American opinion of War, 1915; /85-/88 Manuscript letters from Richmond to Chamberlain and newspaper cutting relating to National Defence, Military Service, and compulsory military training, 1914; /89-/95 Manuscript and typescript letters from Selborne to Chamberlain relating to Labour Party and recruiting, Kitchener drafts for India, retirement from Cabinet, Serbian venture, sickness in Mesopotamia, Salonika, etc, 1915-1916; /96-/99 Manuscript and typescript correspondence from Strachey to Chamberlain relating to Lloyd George's Paris speech and opinion of Lord Northcliffe, 1917; /101-/104 Printed miscellanea including, newspaper cutting relating to Haldane and France, memoranda relating to 'Notes on Ireland and the War', 'American Press Resume', and comments in the American papers, 1914-1915 |