| Description | Official sequence of correspondence and memoranda between Joseph Chamberlain as an MP and President of the Board of Trade, and other officials and public servants; it is accompanied by a contemporary index register which contains, on its inside front cover, a list of alphabetically coded subjects into which the correspondence was apparently arranged; the subjects include A. Miscellaneous, 1881-89, B. Personal, D. Colonial, Indian and Foreign, K. Ireland, and Z. Miscellaneous, 1889-1892; the remainder of the volume serves as an alphabetical finding aid to this sequence of correspondence; the correspondence itself is very incomplete, with letters surviving for only five of the subject categories; the surviving correspondence has been arranged by the contemporary subject organisation and each letter bears the contemporary letter code and number |