| Description | Correspondence and typescript transcripts of correspondence between Joseph Chamberlain and Katherine Courtney [nee Potter, wife of Leonard Henry Courtney] relating to invitations to a London exhibition, social engagements, and political affairs concerning her husband [Leonard Henry Courtney, 1st Baron Courtney of Penwith: MP; Under-Sec of State for Home Dept, 1880-1881; Colonial Office, 1881-1882; Financial Sec to the Treasury, resigned in 1884; Chairman of Committees and Deputy Speaker, 1886-1892]; with correspondence between Katherine Courtney, James Louis Garvin [biographer of Joseph Chamberlain] and Austen Chamberlain [son of Joseph Chamberlain] relating to Katherine's request to publish correspondence of Joseph Chamberlain in a biography of her husband |