Personal letters and papers relating to significant moments in Lansdowne’s official career. 1. Letters on his resignation as Under Secretary for India, 1880. 2. Letters on his appointment as Governor-General of Canada, 1883. Includes a cutting from the Montreal Post attacking Lansdowne for the...
Correspondence of Lord Lansdowne, chiefly relating to foreign policy matters and dating from his period as Foreign Secretary, 1900-1905, though with some earlier and later correspondence. Contents as follows: 1. Correspondence with Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury and Prime Mini...
Alphabetical Correspondence, M-O. 1. Lord MacDonnell 2. Louis Mallet 3. Sir Henry Maclean 4. Sir R. Meade 5. Sir Frederick Milner 6. Mr. T. Milvain [?] 7. E.R. Moon MP 8. DJ Morgan MP 9. Lord Morley of Blackburn 10. Lord Mount Stephen 11. Sir F. Mowatt 12. Sir Henry Norman 13. Duke ...
Indian Governmental Reforms, including papers on the representation of India at Imperial conferences, and the proposed Montagu-Chelmsford reforms. Includes correspondence with George Clarke, Baron Sydenham; Robert Crewe-Milnes, Marquess of Crewe; George Nathaniel Curzon, Marquess Curzon; James G...
Indian military administration. Mostly printed and typewritten; chiefly relating to the disagreement between Lord Curzon (Viceroy of India) and Lord Kitchener (Commander-in-Chief) which led to Curzon’s resignation in 1905.
Anglo-Japanese Treaty. Partly printed, including Cabinet memoranda and other official papers. Major correspondents include A.J. Balfour (Prime Minister), G.W. Balfour, Austen Chamberlain, Sir George Clarke, William Waldegrave Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne (First Lord of the Admiralty), Thomas San...
Welsh Church Disestablishment, including papers on the Established Church (Wales) Bill, 1912, with a letter from John Owen, Bishop of St David’s, and the Welsh Church (Postponement) Bill, 1915, with a letter from William Lygon, 7th Earl Beauchamp, the Bill’s promoter. Mostly printed, chiefly par...
National Insurance, including papers on the National Insurance Bill (1911) and the National Insurance (Amendment) Bill (1913), Mostly printed, chiefly parliamentary papers, with a file of correspondence relating to local Friendly Societies in and around Lansdowne’s Wiltshire estates.
Pamphlets on National Insurance, including L. Worthington Evans, The National Insurance Act, 1911 (1912) and Sir John Pilter, A Scheme for Old Age Pensions (n.d.). Printed.