Papers on the proposal to enlarge the Brigade of Guards and send several of its detachments to the Mediterranean. With a typewritten list of contents at the beginning. Includes correspondence with Sir Arthur Bigge (later Baron Stamfordham), Queen Victoria’s private secretary, regarding the Queen...
Papers on the defence of the United Kingdom in the event of a French invasion. Mostly printed and typewritten, including Cabinet memoranda by Lord Salisbury, Sir Henry Brackenbury and Lord George Hamilton, and the Report of the Landing Places Committee (1894).
Papers on naval and military policy in the event of a maritime war, chiefly relating to the possibility of a Russian attack on Constantinople. Mostly printed and typewritten, but also including letters from Sir John Ardagh, Spencer Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire, and Lord Wolseley.
Papers on Egypt and Crete: 1. Egypt, 1896-1898. Includes letters and copies of letters from Lord Salisbury, Lord Wolseley and Lord Cromer. 2. Crete, 1897-1898. Includes correspondence with George Goschen, 1st Lord of the Admiralty, and a printed memorandum on racial and religious divisions in ...
Papers on the defence of Esquimault and Gibraltar: 1. Esquimault, 1896-1897. Partly printed, including Cabinet and Colonial Office memoranda on the defence of Esquimault in the event of a war with the United States. 2. Gibraltar, 1898. Printed and typewritten, including Cabinet memoranda on th...
Vol. 1. Includes a confidential memorandum from St John Brodrick, listing cases of negligence and incompetence among the military superintendents of the ordnance factories. In a postscript, Brodrick describes this as ‘such unpleasant reading that I only give it for your private eye and should ...
Papers on Ordnance Factories, arising from the appointment of Sir Henry Brackenbury as Director-General of Ordnance. Mostly printed and typewritten, including Cabinet memoranda. With a list of contents at the beginning of vol. 1.
Vol. 2. Includes letters from Sir Henry Brackenbury, Sir Andrew Noble (owner of the Elswick Ordnance Company), Arthur Haliburton, Baron Haliburton, St John Brodrick and others.
Papers on War Office reorganisation. Mostly printed and typewritten, including memoranda by Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Lord Roberts (‘Note on the Administration of the Army’, 1895), Sir Redvers Buller and others.