Scope and Contents Correspondents include: 1st Lord Lloyd, High Commissioner for Egypt and the Sudan, congratulating LSA on the negotiations over Mosul [Al-Mawsil, Iraq] and his difficulties with Saad Zaghlul Pasha [President of Egypt] and the weakened British position in Egypt; Beryl Lafone on the enforced retirement of her husband, Edgar Lafone [Chief Constable Metropolitan Police]; Edgar Lafone; Sir William Joynson-Hicks, Home Secretary [later 1st Lord Brentford]; 14th Lord Lovat [earlier Simon Fraser] (2);...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Henry Lewin (2); Basil Liddell Hart on an article by LSA on army reform; O Louwers, General Secretary of the Institut Colonial International, inviting LSA to join the institute (3); Sir Laming Worthington-Evans, Secretary of State for War, on a suggested honour for Major-General Charles Luard [General Officer Commanding Forces in South China]; Harry Luke, thanking LSA for his appointment as Colonial Secretary of Sierra Leone; Joseph Lyons, Premier of Tasmania; 14th...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Roderick Macleod (3); 1st Lord Cave, Lord Chancellor, on a memorandum by LSA on House of Lords reform; 1st Lord Midleton [earlier St John Brodrick] on House of Lords reform; Howard Moffat, Premier and Minister of Native Affairs, Southern Rhodesia [later Zimbabwe] on the death of Sir Charles Coghlan [former Premier] and on LSA's visit to Rhodesia; John Lockhart, Philip Allan and Company Limited, publishers, on LSA's proposed book on Imperial economics (3); Michael...

Content Description The collection comprises letters between Robert and Ione Hall, and between the Halls and Ione's parents, Cromwell Oliver Varley and Minnie Caroline Varley, 1921-1938, relating to life in Kenya, the purchase of various properties, Robert and Ione's separation and the eventual breakdown of their marriage. The correspondence concerns the purchase of land in Gilgil and Naivasha from 1917, farming life in the 1920s and 1930s, growing of flax, wheat and wattle, as well as dairy farming,...

Scope and Contents Correspondence, mainly between LSA as Chairman and Sir Herbert Williams, Secretary, on funding for the Union, committee membership and winding up the Union, with other correspondents including: [Edward] Henry Legge-Bourke; Ronald Russell [Research Secretary, Empire Economic Union] on supporting a delegation from the West Indian sugar producers, his book on Imperial Preference and on a Union manifesto (3); 3rd Lord Long; Cuthbert Alport [Director of the Conservative Political Centre]; Robert...

Scope and Contents Prints of speeches, articles and broadcasts by LSA as President of the Association, on subjects including: the economic situation; Empire trade; electoral reform; inter-racial co-operation in East Africa; the modern Commonwealth; apartheid in South Africa; the strength of sterling; British responsibilities in the Middle East; the diamond jubilee of Southern Rhodesia [later Zimbabwe]; tribute to Jan Smuts; early Alpine guides; the English-Thinking World; the devaluation of sterling; trading...

Scope and Contents Correspondence on economic co-operation between the Commonwealth and Europe, particularly an invitation for Commonwealth observers to attend the Council of Europe, with correspondents including: Edward Beddington-Behrens, Vice-President of the European League for Economic Co-operation, and R A Butler, Chancellor of the Exchequer on representation of the Dominions on the Court of the Bank of England; J M Macdonnell on subjects including economic co-operation in the Commonwealth, particularly...

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59 letters to the Duke from various correspondents, mostly soldiers, statesmen and colonial Governors. There are also 27 letters from the Duke to Sir Richard Airey. The letters cover action in the Crimea, the relief of Khartoum and General Gordon, Roberts' relief of Kandahar and a report on the coronation of the Czar by Lord Wolseley.

Scope and Contents Speeches, articles, notes and correspondence on Germany's claim to her former colonies in Africa, including: extracts from Hansard with House of Commons speeches by [Arthur] Neville Chamberlain [Prime Minister], LSA, David Grenfell, James Thomas, Secretary of State for the Colonies, Winston Churchill, Geoffrey Mander, [Samuel] Vyvyan Adams, Lord Cranborne, Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs [later 5th Lord Salisbury], [Robert] Anthony Eden [Foreign Secretary, later 1st Lord Avon],...

Scope and Contents Press cuttings and correspondence on Gibraltar, including JEP's contribution to a Panorama television interview on the shooting of IRA members by British soldiers on Gibraltar. Correspondents include: Robert Peliza, House of Assembly, Gibraltar, on the closure of the naval dockyard at Gibraltar and the question of sovereignty (5); 2nd Lord Belstead, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs [earlier John Ganzoni], on the dockyard. Also includes: press cuttings; Private Eye report on...

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Political and personal correspondence and other papers.

CHAN 1, contains mainly papers of Hon Alfred Lyttelton and Dame Edith Lyttelton, with a smaller quantity of material of Oliver Lyttelton
CHAN II, consist mainly of papers of Oliver Lyttelton, with a smaller quantity of papers of Alfred and Edith Lyttelton

Scope and Contents Printed papers and correspondence on Hong Kong, including: press cuttings; copy of the draft Hong Kong (British Nationality) Order (1986); copy of the Hong Kong Act (1985), with draft nationality provisions of the act and explanatory memorandum; minutes of the Race Relations and Immigration Sub-Committee of the Home Affairs Committee on the Chinese community in Britain; copy of the draft agreement between Britain and China on the future of Hong Kong (1984); extracts from Hansard; copy of the...

Scope and Contents Correspondence with the general public on immigration from Hong Kong to Britain. Correspondents include: Francis Maude, Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, writing to a constituent on the reasons for giving British citizenship to people from Hong Kong; Lydia Dunn, Senior Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council, on the Draft Hong Kong (British Nationality) Order (2); Clement Freud and Richard Luce, Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office; Frederick...

Scope and Contents During the Second World War, Earl was commissioned to prepare a series of pastel portraits of service men and women from what were then British dominions and colonies (described as 'Empire servicemen'), including Trinida, Newfoundland, Southern Rhodesia [i.e. Zimbabwe] and Ceylon [i.e. Sri Lanka]. The portraits were exhibited at the Royal Empire (late Commonwealth) Society in December 1945 as 'Warriors of the Empire'. The collection also includes a series of portraits of North American...

Scope and Contents Cabinet papers on the post-war settlement, including: General Staff memorandum on preparing for peace negotiations; memorandum by Sir Ralph Paget and Sir William Tyrrell [Assistant Under-Secretaries of State for Foreign Affairs] on a basis for a territorial settlement in Europe; memorandum by Arthur Balfour [Foreign Secretary] on aims of a peace settlement; notes on peace terms and ensuring success in a future war by Admiral Sir Henry Jackson, 1st Sea Lord; memorandum by 5th Lord Lansdowne...

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Correspondence as Governor of Bombay [Mumbai], including letters to and from Indian princes and chiefs, telegrams from Afghanistan and Persia [Iran], and subject files.

Scope and Contents Papers, correspondence and speeches from LSA's time in the War Cabinet as Secretary of State for India and Burma [later Myanmar], including: memoranda written by LSA on India and other subjects for the War Cabinet; telegrams and minutes issued and received by LSA on Indian political and military affairs, mainly consisting of messages to and from the Viceroy of India (initially 2nd Lord Linlithgow, [earlier Lord Hopetoun], then 1st Lord Wavell) and also the Prime Minister, Winston Churchill;...

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Broadcast by JA on his visit to Mauritius with the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association.

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Papers and correspondence on Kenya, including: notes and letters on the political situation, the Emergency and rise of the Mau Mau; briefing material and programme for the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association tour of Central Africa, Mauritius and Malta, August 1951.

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Notes and related correspondence and papers on lectures and talks given by Gorell Barnes on various colonial subjects.

Scope and Contents Subjects covered include: life on board ship; his work on Committee and opinions of other members of the Committee; detailed descriptions of his visits (including observations on British policy and defences) to St Vincent, Sierra Leone, Ascension Island, St Helena, Simonstown, Cape Town and Mauritius; a description of "crossing the line" [the equator]; and criticism of his father-in-law's sale of the family estate in Cape Town. Also includes seven photographs documenting the Owen Committee's...

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Subjects covered include: "Boodle's" development; descriptions of visit to Singapore and meeting with the Governor, Sir John Anderson, and of Ceylon [later Sri Lanka], Aden [South Yemen, later part of Yemen] and the Suez Canal ; observations on the cost of colonial defence and the devastating effects of a typhoon on Hong Kong; climate; health problems; and the ship HMS Terrible.

Scope and Contents 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...

Scope and Contents Copies of LSA's letters to Alfred Deakin [Prime Minister of Australia] on subjects including: the new organization of the Times; the visit of the American fleet to Australia and LSA's concern that Australia might look to the United States for defence in the Pacific; the state of Herbert Asquith [later 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith]'s Liberal Government; a secretariat for colonial affairs; the health of Joseph Chamberlain; pension reform; constitutional changes for the Empire, making...

Scope and Contents Letters and minutes between LSA and Milner on subjects including: Milner's new position as Secretary of State for the Colonies and LSA's position as Parliamentary Under-Secretary for the Colonies; the Raw Materials Board; policy on Cyprus; Portuguese East Africa [later Mozambique]; free trade within the League of Nations; Milner being pulled out from the Colonial Office and sent to the Versailles Peace Conference [France]; the reconstruction of East Africa; Syria; Imperial Preference; the...