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321. Add MS 88906/16/18

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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...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1896-1897
Extent:
1 folder

322. Add MS 88906/16/19

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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).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1888-1900
Extent:
1 folder

323. Add MS 88906/16/20

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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.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1894-1898
Extent:
1 folder

324. Add MS 88906/16/21

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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 ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1896-1898
Extent:
1 folder

325. Add MS 88906/16/22

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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...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1896-1898
Extent:
1 folder

326. Add MS 88906/16/23

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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 ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1898-1899
Extent:
1 folder

327. Add MS 88906/16/23-24

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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.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1898-1899
Extent:
2 folders

328. Add MS 88906/16/24

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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.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1898-1899
Extent:
1 folder

329. Add MS 88906/16/25

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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.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1895-1899
Extent:
1 folder

330. Add MS 88906/16/26

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Vol. 1. Includes memoranda by William Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne, Thomas Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook, Sir Coleridge Grove, A.J. Balfour and others.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1897-1900
Extent:
1 folder