Correspondence on the establishment of an Institute of Empire Studies [later the Institute of Commonwealth Studies] at London University, with correspondents including: Oliver Stanley [Secretary of State for the Colonies] (11); "Bobbety" [Lord Cranborne, Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs, later 5th Lord Salisbury] (2); John Curtin [Prime Minister of Australia]; [?] Peter Fraser; Harold Claughton, Principal of the University of London (6); Sir Cyril Asquith, Chairman of the Commission on Higher Education in the Colonies; Frank Horton, Vice-Chancellor of the University of London (5); 1st Lord Hailey (3); R A Butler [Minister of Education] (2); John Coatman, former Professor of Imperial Economic Relations, University of London (6); Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith, Governor of Burma [later Myanmar], on the difficulties of securing people properly trained to work in the Empire (2); Reginald Coupland [Beit Professor of History of the British Empire, Oxford University].

Also includes: memoranda on founding the institute; survey of work undertaken in the University of London relating to problems of the Empire.