| Description | Correspondence, copy correspondence, typescript transcripts of correspondence, and extracts of correspondence, arranged in approximate chronological order, between Joseph Chamberlain [as Sec of State for the Colonies, 1895-1903], Canadian Governors [Lord Minto [Gilbert John M. K. Elliot, 4th Earl of Minto: Governor-General of Canada, 1898-1904] and Sir Wilfrid Laurier [Premier of Canada, 1896-1911]], fellow Government and Canadian Government officials, individuals associated with Canadian affairs, diplomatic officials in Washington [Sir Cecil Arthur Spring-Rice] and Austen Chamberlain [son of Joseph Chamberlain] relating to official colonial matters including imperial defence, proposed garrison of Halifax and Esquimalt by Canadian troops, colonial tariffs [food taxation, and commercial relations between Canada and France], negotiations regarding the Alaska Boundary Question; and Canadian domestic politics [Cabinet appointments]; with letter from George D. Wilson [Toronto] to James Louis Garvin relating to provision of correspondence for use in biography, Colonial Office memoranda, press cuttings and wrappers |