Letters from LSA to his mother Elizabeth Amery [earlier Elizabeth Leitner] on subjects including: his progress at Harrow School and Balliol College, Oxford; whether to go into the Diplomatic Service and his hopes for a future political career; his brother Geoffrey Amery's progress at Oxford; her health and travels in Europe; his work as a war correspondent for the Times in South Africa; his visit to Canada (1905); the Times History of the War in South Africa.