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Photograph of the train line near Frere station, Natal [South Africa], where WSC was captured. White marks indicate the graves of 3 men killed in the affair and buried by the Boers. The wreck of the train is not actually shown.

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Photograph of WSC, facing the camera, astride a pony which is standing in profile with its head down. WSC is wearing the uniform of [?] a Lieutenant in the South African Light Horse, while another soldier stands at the pony's head. The wreck of the armoured train is clearly visible just behind WSC, with more soldiers standing behind it in the distance.

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Proof copies of JWHM's article on South Africa for the Quarterly Review, also including the draft typescript of an article on sources for South Africa and a list of JWHM's articles for the Quarterly Review.

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Correspondence with George Prothero [Editor of the Quarterly Review] and 1st Lord Loch [former Governor of Cape and High Commissioner for South Africa] on corrections to JWHM's article on South Africa.

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South African photographs.

Scope and Contents Letter from Joseph Chamberlain [Secretary of State for the Colonies], (Highbury, Moor Green, Birmingham), to WSC, urging him not to publicly criticise the Government and military authorities over the management of the war in South Africa. Chamberlain states that there should be a practical division of authority between civilians, soldiers and heads of individual departments, but adds that he agreed with much of what WSC said, and was working in the same direction. He comments that even if...

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

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

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

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

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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].

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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.

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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.

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Particulars of eight watches presented by WSC to Dr James Gillespie, J R Addams, J D Dewsnap, Joe McKenna, Joe McHenry, Charles A Burnham, Ellen David and Ada Blunden, "in recognition of their timely help afforded him in his escape from Pretoria".

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Letter from General Sir Ian Hamilton, Pretoria, South Africa, to WSC, on South Africa. Stating "if we could incorporate these Boers into the Empire, we should be doing a vast deal more for the future of our race and language, than by assimilating a million Johannesburg Jews. They have first class natural ability, and their brains, having lain fallow for about 200 years, will, like virgin soil produce magnificent crops".

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Report from Captain Aylmer Haldane, Pretoria, South Africa to the Chief of Staff, Natal Field Force, on the capture of an armoured train at Frere, including praise of WSC's actions in saving the engine "he was frequently exposed to the full fire of the enemy. I cannot speak too highly of his gallant conduct".

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Extract from report of D Horsley, Locomotive Instructor, on damage to the armoured train, [typescript copy].

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Letter from J W Shores, Engineer-in-Chief, Estcourt, to General Manager of Railways, on the capture of the armoured train, [typescript copy].

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Note in Afrikaans on the capture of the armoured train.

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Letter from P J Joubert to F W Reitz, advising against WSC's release from captivity, [in Afrikaans].

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Search Warrant following WSC's escape from the Boers, with photograph taken in Egypt, 1898 [in Afrikaans, with translation].

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Description of WSC, following his escape from the Boers [in Afrikaans].

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Letter from [H C Breaul], Acting Commissioner of Police, Pretoria, to Justice of the Peace Schweizer-Reneke, description of WSC with photograph [in Afrikaans, with translation].

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Letter from [H C Breaul], Acting Commissioner of Police Pretoria, South Africa, to ?, on WSC's escape to Durban via Lorenco Marques [in Afrikaans, with translation].

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Letter from [H C Breaul], Acting Commissioner of Police, Pretoria, to Justice of the Peace Schweizer-Reneke, description of WSC [typescript copy, in Afrikaans, with translation].