Cadet training and volunteers. Mostly printed and typewritten, including correspondence of Lansdowne with General Sir William Campbell, Lord Kitchener and others concerning the Wiltshire Volunteer Training Corps.
Cabinet Committee papers, including minutes of the War Policy Committee, 1915, ‘appreciations’ by the General Staff, October 1915 to February 1916, Cabinet memoranda on War Finance, 1915-1916, minutes of the War Committee, 1916, and reports of the Committee on the Co-Ordination of Military and F...
Papers relating to Lord Lansdowne’s ‘Peace Letter’ published in the Daily Telegraph on 29 November 1917. Contents as follows: 1. Cabinet memoranda on the war situation and the prospects for a future peace settlement, by A.J. Balfour, Lord Robert Cecil, Lord Grey of Falloden, Lord Lansdowne and ...
Papers on the appointment of Sir Anthony MacDonnell as under-secretary for Ireland. Includes copies of correspondence between Lansdowne and MacDonnell, and further correspondence with A.J. Balfour, Arthur Godley, Walter Long, 1st Viscount Long, William Ward, 2nd Earl of Dudley (Lord Lieutenant o...
Irish Councils Bill, 1907; Home Rule Bill, 1912-1913. Mostly printed and typewritten, including newspaper cuttings, parliamentary papers, and memoranda on the passage of the Home Rule Bill through Parliament.
Constitutional papers, including a memorandum of a conversation between Andrew Bonar Law and King George V, September 1912; papers on the Buckingham Palace Conference of July 1914; correspondence and copies of correspondence with Harold Cooke (lecturer in the University of Durham), Lord Robert C...