| Description | Papers of Joseph Chamberlain [as Sec of State for the Colonies, 1895-1903] comprising official despatches, communications and memoranda between Foreign Office, fellow Government figures including Arthur James Balfour [1st Earl of Balfour: First Lord of the Treasury, 1895-1902; Prime Minister, 1902-1905] and Lord Lansdowne [Henry Charles Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne: Sec of State for Foreign Affairs, 1900-1905], foreign diplomatic officials and members of the Indian Government, relating to miscellaneous foreign matters including Central Asian affairs [boundary of British Protectorate near Aden], Mediterranean and Persian-Arabian affairs [Afghanistan, Tibet, Russia and Constantinople] |