Add MS 88906/22/27

Foreign Office and Cabinet memoranda; 1892, 1901-1905. Mostly printed, with a typed list of contents at the front. Contents as follows. All memoranda are by Lansdowne unless otherwise stated:

1. Memorandum as to the Validity of our Ancient Treaties with Portugal; June 1892.

2-5. Cabinet memoranda on the proposed Inter-Oceanic Nicaragua Canal; 8 July – 4 December 1901.

6. Cabinet memorandum on Anglo-Russian negotiations over Manchuria and Persia; 26 October 1901.

7. Memorandum on the Pope’s Jubilee and the Coronation; 21 February 1902.

8. [Listed but not present].

9. Memorandum on French prisoners in Ceylon; 8 April 1902.

10. Memorandum by Sir Thomas Sanderson on the Anglo-Italian and Anglo-Austrian Agreements of 1887; 11 July 1902.

11. Memorandum on Western Barotzeland; 11 July 1902.

12. Cabinet memorandum on the maintenance of secrecy by retired officials of the Diplomatic Service, with reference to an article by Sir Horace Rumbold in the National Review; 25 November 1902.

13. Cabinet memorandum on Venezuela; 24 November 1902.

14. Memorandum by Sir Thomas Sanderson on a secret agreement made with Austria-Hungary and Italy in December 1887 with regard to Turkish affairs; February 1903.

15. Cabinet memorandum on the recruitment of native labour for the Transvaal; 18 February 1903. With an attached letter from Austen Chamberlain.

16. Memorandum on a proposed Anglo-Spanish agreement on Morocco; 25 March 1903.

17. Note by Lansdowne, addressed to A.J. Balfour, on Germany and Egypt; 11 May 1904.

18-19. Cabinet memoranda on the adhesion of Germany to the Egyptian Khedivial Decree; 7 and 13 June 1904.

20-21. Cabinet memoranda on American proposals for a second Peace Conference at the Hague; 8 and 9 November 1904.

22. Memorandum on the examinations for the Foreign Office and Diplomatic Service, typewritten with corrections by Lansdowne; 20 December 1904.

23. Memorandum by J.A.C. Tilley (Foreign Office) on relations between Germany and Great Britain, 1892-1904; January 1905.

24. Cabinet memorandum by Alfred Lyttelton (Colonial Secretary) on the contribution of the Transvaal to war expenses; 31 January 1905.

25. Cabinet memorandum on the transfer to the Colonial Office of British Protectorates in East Africa; February 1905.

26. Cabinet memorandum on the proposed Supplementary Extradition Convention with the United States; April 1905.

27. Cabinet memorandum by Frederick Campbell, 3rd Earl Cawdor (First Lord of the Admiralty), on the supply of Welsh Steam Coal for the Navy; August 1905.

28. [Listed but not present].

29. Cabinet and Foreign Office memoranda on Somaliland; 25 October 1902 – 28 April 1904.