Papers relating to the promotion and retirement of Army officers, chiefly arising from the Army Regulation Act of 1871 which abolished the purchase system. Partly printed.
Papers relating to the Committee on Control. The Committee was set up under Lansdowne’s chairmanship to investigate the organisation of the Control Department, which was responsible for the supply of military stores, ordnance and ammunition.
Papers on Irish Land issues. Mostly printed, chiefly parliamentary papers, with rough notes and memoranda by Lansdowne, and a copy of a letter from Lansdowne to Lord Salisbury, 1887.
Vol. 3. Copies of the foregoing correspondence, arranged in chronological order. With a few items of original correspondence, including letters from Andrew Bonar Law and Sir Horace Plunkett. Typewritten.
Speeches delivered by Lord Lansdowne as Secretary of State for War. Mostly printed and typewritten, including newspaper cuttings from the Times, Bath Chronicle, Leeds Mercury and other local papers.
General correspondence. 1. George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll; 1887. 2. Francis Thomas de Grey Cowper, 7th Earl Cowper; 1886. 3. Moreton Frewen, M.P., [1884], with newspaper cuttings relating to Frewen’s proposals for cattle ranching, and a corrected draft of Lansdowne’s response. 4. Henr...
Official papers relating to Canadian affairs; 1882-1888. Partly printed. 1. The case of General Richard Luard, chiefly relating to the dispute between Luard and Lt Col. Arthur Williams, and Luard’s subsequent resignation, 1883. Also includes a printed pamphlet, An Incident in the Command of the...