| Description | Photocopies of correspondence and telegrams, and photocopies of transcripts of the correspondence and telegrams of Joseph Chamberlain including /31-36 correspondence from Joseph Chamberlain to William Thomas Stead [editor, 'Northern Echo', 1871-1880; and 'The Pall Mall Gazette', 1883-1889] relating to foreign affairs [Russian/Turkish conflict and Cabinet war policy, Egyptian question], the National Liberal Federation and Liberal Party affairs [leadership of William Gladstone] and general political matters [temperance reform, Disestablishment, and financial affairs], 1877-1885; and /37-142 comprising correspondence and telegrams between Austen Chamberlain [son of Joseph Chamberlain], Neville Chamberlain [son of Joseph Chamberlain], Joseph Chamberlain and James Louis Garvin [biographer of Joseph Chamberlain] relating to Parliamentary and Liberal Unionist affairs [General Elections, campaign for tariff reform], Joseph Chamberlain's health, death and funeral, and the composition of the biography of Joseph Chamberlain [provision of research materials and personal recollections for inclusion in the biography], reviews and reception of individual volumes, 1903-1938; with photocopies of memoranda and invitiations |