| Description | Printed, typescript and manuscript correspondence, notes, memoranda, and miscellanea; may contain copy correspondence and drafts; relating to Cabinet Committee on the Co-ordination of Military and Financial Effort, 1915-1916
Correspondents: Herbert Henry Asquith [1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith, Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury 1908-1916], 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], 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], [Maurice Pascal Alers] Hankey [1st Baron of The Chart; Secretary; Committee Imperial Defence, 1912-1938; War Cabinet, 1916], [William Waldegrave Palmer] Selborne [2nd Earl of Selborne; President of the Board of Agriculture, 1915-1916], Walter Hume Long [1st Viscount Long of Wraxal; President Local Government Board, 1915-1916; Secretary of State for the Colonies, 1916-1918], Austen Chamberlain [acting as Secretary of State for India, 1915-1917] and others
Includes: /1-/3 Typescript memoranda relating to Finance Committee, Finance and the War, Asquith's observations, etc, 1915; /6-/12 Typescript and manuscript correspondence of Asquith, Chamberlain and others, 1915; /13 Typescript memorandum relating to Military Service Bill, [1915]; /14 Printed memorandum relating to recruitment, etc, 1915; /15a-/16 Typescript notes relating to coordination of military and financial effort, 1916; /18 Typescript memorandum on recruitment, 1916; /19 Printed memorandum relating to work and traffic at British ports, 1915; /20 Typescript memorandum relating to American securities in Britain, 1916; /23-/24, /26 Typescript drafts and conclusions relating to military and financial effort, 1916; /27 Printed report relating to co-ordination of military and financial effort, 1916; /29 Typescript extracts relating to 'Retention of Indispensable Men in Civil Employment', 1916; /30-/32 Printed memoranda relating to supply of personnel and recruiting, 1916; /33-/36a Typescript and printed reports and memoranda relating to co-ordination of military and financial effort, and coordination committee, 1916; /37 Printed copy of proceedings of the Army Council, 1916; /40-/41 Typescript memorandum and proposals relating to co-ordination of military and financial effort, and coordination committee, 1916; /42a Typescript letter from Chamberlain to Bonar Law relating to estimate of number of men employed on military service since beginning of War, 1916; /43 Typescript [copy] letter from Bonar Law to Asquith relating to Coalition Government, 1916; /44-/45 Typescript memorandum and letter relating to Military Service Bill and recruitment, 1916; /46-/47 Printed memoranda relating to Russian subjects in British Army, 1916 |