Cutting on the work of the Closer Union Society, which aims to bring about closer links between the South African states and within the Empire as a whole. Sent with CHAR 2/36/18.

Letter from Lord Crewe (Crewe Hall, [Cheshire]) to WSC on safeguards for the native protectorates under any act of South African confederation. Thinks that the matter should be discussed with Lord Selborne, whom he describes as "a dangerous plenipotentiary" and "obstinate", and the native deputations.

Letter from General Sir Ian Hamilton (San Antonio Palace, Malta) to [Erskine] Childers commenting on Childers' book on the training and arming of the Cavalry [War and the Arme Blanche] and justifying his opinions by descriptions of actions in Afghanistan, 1879, the Boer War, 1900, and the Russo-Japanese War in Manchuria [part of China]. Signed and annotated typescript.

Letter from Lord Hugh Cecil [later Lord Quickswood] to WSC, on speaking in House of Commons debate on Alfred Lynch, [Irish Nationalist MP for Galway, and Colonel of Irish Brigade serving with the Boers], also on possibility of "joining a Middle Party,when there is a Middle Party to join", and the possibility of WSC being offered a post in a Rosebery [Liberal] administration.

Letter from General Sir William Nicholson [later Lord Nicholson], War Office, to WSC, apologies for referring request for information on the South African War to the Secretary of State [St John Brodrick],"who does not like independent MP's to be better informed than himself.

Letter from Major H .Young to WSC, on fraud in the Eastern Division, Cape Colony [later part of South Africa], [annotated by WSC, giving opinion that little good would come from scrutiny of the War Accounts].

Letter from Lord Rosebery to WSC, asking for information on the South African War.

Letter from Matthew Nathan, Government House, Natal, South Africa, to WSC, sending details of the crew of the armoured train wrecked on 15 Nov 1899, Driver C Wagner and Fireman A J Stewart.

Article, Our Account with the Boers, [typescript (carbon copy), with manuscript amendments by ? WSC].

Article on the Boer War, [typescript (carbon copy)].

The Mountings of the Naval Guns and their Subsequent Use by the Ladysmith Relief Column, text of lecture by Captain Percy Scott and Captain Arthur Limpus, delivered in Hong Kong, printed pamphlet published by the Hong Kong Daily Press [inscribed to WSC by Percy Scott].

Printed maps of the Boer positions at Spion Kop [South Africa] with annotations, and first edition map of Harrismith.

Letter from Lord Randolph Churchill, Johannesburg, South Africa, to WSC, on his visit to South Africa. Predicting that "when you are my age you will see S Africa to be the most populous & wealthy of all our colonies. Stating that he had been examining, and investing money in gold mines "for I expect you and Jack will be a couple of expensive articles to keep as you grow older". Regretting that he would not be able to bring home a tame antelope.

Letter from Sir Walter Hely-Hutchinson, Governor of Natal, to WSC, on South African affairs and the post-war settlement.

Letter from Sir Walter Hely-Hutchinson, Governor of Natal, South Africa, to WSC, enclosing printed lecture by Hely-Hutchinson on "Natal: Its Resources and Capabilities", to the London Chamber of Commerce, 6 June 1898.

Letter from Harry Laing to WSC, thanks for cheque, and account of life as a prisoner of the Boers.

Letter from Harry Laing to WSC, on life as a prisoner of the Boers.

Letter from Sir Alfred Milner to WSC, on South Africa.

Letter from W L Rickard to WSC, enclosing 10s Mafeking Siege Note.

Account by WSC of his escape from the Boers [typescript with ms amendments by WSC, on Admiralty notepaper, probably drafted in connection with a libel action against William Blackwood & Sons, heard on 20 May 1912].

Leaflet advertising WSC's lecture, The [Boer] War as I Saw It, in the Assembly Rooms, Jarratt Street, Hull, on 24 April, containing biographical notes on WSC; a synopsis of the lecture; and extracts from reports in the national press on the lecture.

Letter from Cecil Rhodes, Groote Schurr, Rondebosch, Cape Town, to WSC on South Africa.

Letter from General Sir Ian Hamilton, Pretoria, South Africa to WSC, enclosing copy of letter to Lord Roberts, 18 May 1902, on the end of the Boer War.