| Description | Correspondence, copy correspondence, transcripts and typescript transcripts of correspondence between Sir Michael Hicks Beach [1st Earl St Aldwyn: Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1895-1902] and Joseph Chamberlain [as Sec of State for the Colonies, 1895-1903], and fellow Colonial Office officials, relating to official matters including South African financial affairs [terms of loan to Transvaal, report by Sir David Miller Barbour [Special Commissioner to inquire into the finances of the Orange River Colony and the Transvaal, 1900] concerning amount Transvaal and Orange River Colony should contribute towards cost of war, loan by Bank of England to Natal, implications of war for increase in national expenditure], and terms of peace to end conflict; affairs of the Cape [martial law]; foreign affairs [military activity in China]; domestic political matters [Royal Commission on Coal Supply]; and miscellaneous matters [proposed trip of Chamberlain and Hicks Beach to West Indies, and appearance of King's title on new coinage]; with Colonial Office memoranda and wrappers
Including /8 Letter from Sir Michael Hicks Beach relating to withdrawal of Indian troops from Hong Kong, Jun 1901; /17 Card from Sir Michael Hicks Beach requesting nomination of representative from Midland coalfield to sit on Commission into coal supply, with wrapper, Oct 1901; /20 Correspondence and typescript transcript of correspondence relating to terms of peace settlement in South Africa, Apr 1902 |