| Description | Correspondence and copy correspondence between Joseph Chamberlain and Sir Thomas Martineau [Mayor of Birmingham, 1884-1887], and Lord Halsbury [Hardinge Stanley Giffard, 1st Earl of Halsbury: MP; Lord Chancellor, 1885-1886, 1886-1892 and 1895-1905] relating to appointments to Birmingham magistracy, and appointments of Commissioners of the Peace and related positions |