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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.

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Letter from WSC to the [2nd] Duke of Westminster warning him of the inadvisability of suggesting that the war was being fought for the benefit of Jews and international financiers, as had been inferred from a memorandum; drawing comparisons with Dr Gavin Clark MP in the Boer War.

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Letter from the 8th Duke of Marlborough, Colonial Office, to WSC, on postponement of Boer War compensation payments.

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Letter from R. Malcolm, R. Sutherland, F.W. Cooper and J. Nelson to WSC, on complaining about the postponement of Boer War compensation payments to British subjects "our late enemy have been paid in full, so have the coolies and Kaffiers, why not us Britishers?".

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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.

Scope and Contents Cutting from Boston Herald, report on WSC's lecture on the Boer War at St James's Hall, London 16 Nov 1900 Cutting from Philadelphia Record, report on WSC's lecture on the Boer War at St James's Hall, London 17 Nov 1900 Cutting from Minneapolis Journal on WSC's U.S. lecture tour 17 Nov 1900 Cutting from Austin Statesman on WSC's U.S. lecture tour 2 Dec 1900 Cutting from Brooklyn Standard on WSC's admission to Author's Club of Boston 6 Dec 1900 Cutting from Washington Evening Times on WSC's...

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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.

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

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

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

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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].

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

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".