Record

LevelFile
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)AC7/1B/1-23
TitleOfficial papers relating to Naval questions during Austen Chamberlain's tenure as Civil Lord of the Admiralty
Extent23 items
Date1895-1921
DescriptionPrinted, typescript and manuscript reports, notes and correspondence; relating to Naval questions during Austen Chamberlain's tenure as Civil Lord of the Admiralty, 1895-1900
Includes: /1 Report on Works Department, 1896; /2-/3 Reports on Committee on the Training of Medical Officers, 1899; /4, /6 Report and typescript letter relating to visit to Cardiff, South Wales collieries and supply of coal to the Navy, 1900; /5 Report on Birthing Committee, 1900; /7 Typescript letter from [Lambert] to Austen Chamberlain relating to copies of letters to and biography of [Admiral of the Fleet John Arbuthnot] Fisher [1st Baron Fisher; various naval offices], 1921; /8 Note written by Austen Chamberlain, including notes of Joseph Chamberlain [Rt. Hon. Joseph Austen; father of Austen Chamberlain] relating to letter to Fisher, c. 1921; /9-/12 Correspondence with Fisher, including /10-/11 Newspaper cuttings, 1893-1909; /13-/20 Correspondence with George Joachim Goschen [1st Viscount Goschen; First Lord of the Admiralty, 1895-1900], 1895-1900; /21-/22 Correspondence with [William Waldegrave Palmer] Selborne [2nd Earl of Selborne; First Lord of the Admiralty, 1900-1905] relating to replacing Royal yacht "Osborne", 1904
Access StatusOpen
Physical Descriptionsome documents are detached or are becoming detached from mountings; /10 and /11 are newspaper cuttings