| Description | Typescript transcripts, and typescript extracts of correspondence, and correspondence, arranged in chronological order, between Lord Salisbury [Robert Arthur Gascoigne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury: Sec of State for Foreign Affairs, 1887-1892, 1895-1900; Prime Minister, 1886-1892, and 1895-1902; Lord Privy Seal, 1903-1905] and Joseph Chamberlain [Sec of State for the Colonies, 1895-1903], Foreign, Colonial and Privy Seal Office officials, and fellow Government figures relating to official matters including foreign and colonial affairs, most especially arrangements for the Washington Fishery Conference [chaired by Joseph Chamberlain ,1887-1888], Anglo-French negotiations relating to Dominica, the 'Zanzibar Slavery Question', the Alaskan and Venezuelan boundary disputes, Anglo-Chinese negotiations, and the Hong Kong Question, Behring Sea dispute, Russian/Turkish relations, Egyptian crisis, French military activities in Tunis, Madagascar, Siam and Newfoundland, negotiations between Britain, France, Germany and Portugal regarding jurisdiction over West African territories [includes Niger Conference and Samoan Convention, and negotiations with M. de Soveral [Portuguese Minister, London], M. Hanotaux [French Foreign Minister], Count Paul von Hatzfeldt [Sec of State for Foreign Affairs in Berlin], Baron von Eckhardstein [German Ambassador, London], and Joseph Hodges Choate [United States Ambassador to Great Britain, 1899-1905]], possibility of Anglo-German alliance, South Africa [negotiations, development of military situation immediately preceding outbreak of Boer War, arrangements for deployments of troop reinforcements, peace settlement, introduction and administration of martial law in the Cape]; domestic politics [Conservative Party, General Election of 1900, legislative reform]; official Colonial Office appointments; award of official honours; and development of their professional careers [Salisbury's plans to retire from public life]; with typescript transcripts of telegraphic communications and memoranda, and wrappers
Including /16-18 Typescript transcripts of correspondence from Lord Salisbury relating to legislative reform [Workingmen's Dwellings, and Employer's Liability Bills], 1894; /23-30 Correspondence from Lord Salisbury and Lord Selborne [William Waldegrave Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne: Under Sec of State for the Colonies, 1895-1900] relating to miscellaneous foreign affairs including 'Maltese Mixed Marriage Question', Transvaal and Delagoa Bay, Venezuelan boundary dispute, Anglo-French negotiations [exchange of Dominica, and Newfoundland dispute], and construction of new harbour in Gibraltar, 1895; /59-63 Typescript transcripts of correspondence from Lord Salisbury relating to Delagoa Bay, discussions with France relating to Tunis and Madagascar, and Egyptian affairs [Suez Canal], Dec 1896; /91-112 Typescript transcripts of correspondence relating to the Niger negotiations [Commission and Conference, French contravention of treaties regarding jurisdiction of Boussa, Bondaka and Hinterland of Lagos], and the award of official honours, Oct 1897- Jun 1898; /114-115 Typescript transcripts of correspondence relating to Sir George Taubman Goldie's despatch of troops to Jegga and Argungu, Feb 1898; /130-136 Typescript transcripts of correspondence relating to discussions with de Soveral relating to Delagoa Bay and Lourenco Marques, and discussions with Hatzfeldt regarding Anglo-German alliance, with typescript memorandum, Jun-Jul 1898; /152 Typescript transcript of letter from Lord Salisbury relating to negotiations with Russia concerning Yangtze basin, Feb 1899; /160-180 Typescript transcripts of correspondence relating to South Africa [communications with Kruger, question of national expenditure, Portuguese ammunition embargo at Delagoa Bay, proposed disarmament, communications from Sir Alfred Milner [1st Viscount Milner: Governor of the Cape of Good Hope, 1897-1901; High Commissioner for South Africa, 1897-1905], and imminent outbreak of war], Jul-Sep 1899; /181-194 Typescript transcripts of correspondence relating to development of situation in Transvaal and negotiations with Germany [Samoan Convention], Sep-Dec 1899; /198 Typescript letter from Joseph Chamberlain relating to the 'Khaki election', Aug 1900; /224-226 Correspondence and typescript transcripts of correspondence relating to forthcoming possibility of peace in South Africa, and strong desire of King Edward VII for end to conflict, Mar 1902 |