Memoranda, notes and articles on War Office and army reform relating to LSA's series of articles for the Times, The Problem of the Army, including: account by LSA of writing the articles and his subsequent involvement in reform; extract from speech by Major-General Sir Frederick Roberts on improving the army (1881); notes on colonial forces, particularly in South Africa; annotated reprint of the articles; outline by 2nd Lord Esher [Chairman of the War Office Reconstitution Committee, earlier Reginald Brett] of the division of duties at a reformed War Office; evidence given by LSA to [? the War Office Reconstitution Committee] on his time as the Times war correspondent in South Africa and his observations on the need for army reform; notes by John Clauson [Secretary, Colonial Defence Committee and Assistant Secretary, Committee of Imperial Defence] on a paper by LSA on colonial forces; memorandum by LSA to Richard Haldane [Secretary of State for War].