| Description | Correspondence and copy correspondence, arranged chronologically, between Joseph Chamberlain and Lord Salisbury [Robert Arthur Gascoigne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury: Sec of State for Foreign Affairs, 1887-1892, 1895-1900; Prime Minister, 1886-1892, 1895-1902] relating to general domestic political matters including legislative reform; official Colonial and Foreign Office affairs including Egypt, the Venezuelan and Alaskan boundary disputes, Gibraltar, Delagoa Bay and its port Lourenco Marques, and South Africa [Transvaal Crisis]; official appointments, and the awards of honours; and affairs of common associates; with letter from Lady Beatrix Maud Cecil Selborne [wife of 2nd Earl of Selborne] relating to death of her mother [Georgina], memoranda and envelopes
Including /2-7 Correspondence and copy correspondence relating to arrangements for the Washington Fishery Conference [1887-1888], and award of honours to Sir Charles Tupper [Canadian Finance Department; Plenipotentiary at Washington Fishery Conference] and Sir Joseph Henry Gibbs Bergne [Superintendant of Treaty Department, 1881-93; Protocolist to Fisheries Commission at Washington 1887-1888, Foreign Office] for their services at Conference, 1887-1888; /10-18 Correspondence and copy correspondence relating to plans of Lord Randolph Churchill [MP] to stand for Central Birmingham at election, and nature of Liberal Unionist alliance, 1889-1892; /20-24 Correspondence and copy correspondence relating to legislative programme of social reform [including Alien Immigration, Artisans' Dwellings, Old Age Pensions, and Employers' Liability Bills], with memoranda, 1894; /29-34 Correspondence from Lord Salisbury relating to foreign affairs including slavery in Zanzibar, 'Maltese marriages', Venezuelan Boundary Question, Delagoa Bay railway, and Gibraltar harbour works, 1895; /35-40 Correspondence and copy correspondence relating to affairs in Transvaal including Jameson Raid, and associated matters including possibility of forming Anlgo-American alliance against Turkey, 1895-1896; /63-67 Correspondence from Lord Salisbury relating to the Venezuelan Boundary Question and Egyptian affairs, 1896; /77-78 Correspondence from Lord Salisbury relating to South African affairs including despatch of reinforcement troops to the Cape, and foreign relations with France, Tunis and Madagascar, 1897; /81-99 Correspondence relating to West African [Niger] negotiations, with correspondence from Sir Eric Edward Barrington [Private Sec to Lord Salisbury, 1895-1900, Foreign Office] to Chamberlain, 1897-1898; /100-102 Correspondence from Lord Salisbury relating to Lourenco Marques, 1898; /114-125 Correspondence from Lord Salisbury relating to South African crisis, including negotiations with General Paul Kruger [President, Transvaal Republic, 1882-1900], criticisms of conduct of General Butler [Cape Commander], grant of permission by M. de Soveral [Portuguese Minister, London] for British troops to land at Delagoa Bay, and preparations for conflict, 1899; /123-124 Correspondence from Lord Salisbury relating to Samoan Convention [Anglo-German agreement on jurisdiction over West African regions], 1899 |
| Physical Description | /11, /20, /25, /27, /33, /65, /68, /77, /81, /82, /88, /96, /122, /124 correspondence detached from mountings |