| Description | Diary for calendar year of Joseph Chamberlain [whilst Sec of State for the Colonies, 1895-1903] noting his official appointments as Secretary of State for the Colonies, and containing brief daily entries recording such engagements as Cabinet and committee meetings, meetings with other Government offices, meetings with colonial governors and delegations, royal engagements and meetings with his political colleagues; maintained by Chamberlain's Principal Private Secretaries [see also JC29/1/3] |