Copies of LSA's letters to Alfred Deakin [Prime Minister of Australia] on subjects including: the Imperial Conference of 1907, particularly on Imperial Preference, opposition to Deakin's position from Sir Wilfrid Laurier [Prime Minister of Canada] and unity within the Empire; establishing military colleges in each part of the Empire; articles by LSA on the Conference; the political position in South Africa, particularly relating to Sir Leander Jameson... [Premier, Cape Colony, later part of South Africa], the state of feeling among the Boers, the federation question and growing economic prosperity, especially in Rhodesia [later Zambia and Zimbabwe]; a secretariat for colonial affairs; LSA's impressions of British East Africa [later Kenya and Uganda] and the possibility of a white self-governing colony there.