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D3287 - Gell family of Hopton Hall, Wirksworth - [13th-20th cent]

1 - Box 1

1-113 - Miscellaneous Family Papers

35 - Box 35 - [1698]-1880

104-105 - Personal papers of Mrs Aileen Gell (d1986) - 20th cent

106 - Diaries of Mrs Aileen Gell - early 20th cent

107 - Personal papers of Philip VW Gell (d1970) - 20th cent

108 - Letter from Prime Minister, Clement Attlee - 20th cent

109 - Correspondence and other papers regarding PVW Gell's term as High Sheriff - 1954

110 - Orders of service: Gell family members and relatives - 20th cent

111 - Orders of service: not Gell family - 20th cent

112 - School prospectuses - 20th cent

113 - Number not used - 20th cent

114

114 - GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE - 1869-1923

114-131 - Personal and family Papers of Philip Lyttetton Gell with The Remainder of his Business Papers - 1835-1969

115 - SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE - 1873-1919

116 - POLITICAL CORRESPONDENCE AND PAPERS - 1881-1918

117 - PAPERS RELATING TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN OXFORDSHIRE - 1880-1898

118 - CORRESPONDENCE AND PAPERS RELATING TO CHURCH FINANCE AND REFORM - 1880-1923

119 - CORRESPONDENCE AND PAPERS RELATING TO DIOCESAN REORGANISATION - 1889-1918

120 - CORRESPONDENCE AND PAPERS RELATING TO THE BRITISH EMPIRE - 1898-[early 20th cent]

121 - CORRESPONDENCE AND PAPERS RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT WITH CASSELL'S AND THE CLARENDON PRESS - 1883-1904

122 - CORRESPONDENCE AND PAPERS RELATING TO DIRECTORSHIPS OF COMPANIES - 1898-1925

123 - PAPERS AND CORRESPONDENCE RELATING TO TRUSTEESHIPS OF COMPANIES - 1899-1921

124 - PAPERS RELATING TO PERSONAL INVESTMENTS - 1890-1920

125 - MISCELLANEOUS BUSINESS CORRESPONDENCE AND PAPERS - 1896-1918

126 - FAMILY CORRESPONDENCE AND PAPERS - 1852-1969

127 - PERSONAL PAPERS - 1852-1913

128 - CORRESPONDENCE AND PAPERS RELATING TO TRUSTEESHIPS - 1891-1908

129 - MISCELLANEA - 1835-1949

130 - NEWSCUTTINGS - 1885-1923

131 - PAMPHLETS - 1870-1964

137 - Object: Escritoire - c.1845

BSA - British South Africa Company

BXA - BRITISH EXPLORATION OF AUSTRALASIA, LTD. - 1900-1910

MIL - Correspondence mostly between P.L. Gell and Alfred Milner (cr. Viscount Milner)

1 - Correspondence mostly between P.L. Gell and Alfred Milner (cr. Viscount Milner) - 1871-1959

1 - Milner, 61 St. George's Square, London, to P:L:G;: the audit of the King's College Debating Society's accounts; their future plans. - 1871 Jul 28

2 - Milner, St. George's Square., to P:L:G;: P.L.G.'s future plans now that he has decided not to return to King's College; (Joseph Bickersteth) Mayor's interest in his intentions: the College Debating Society. - (1871) Oct 21

3 - Milner, St. George's Square., to P.L.G.: possible arrangements for summer study with (Evelyn) Abbott at Lemington or (John Robert) Seeley in Wales. - (1872 July)

4 - Milner, St. George's Square., to P.L.G.: possible arrangements to meet; enquires whether the Balliol Scholar-ship examination includes a divinity or mathematics paper. - (1872) Sep 29

5 - Milner, Exhall Vicarage, near Coventry, to "My dear coach": visited (Benjamin) Jowett on Monday who advised him to come up to Balliol at Christmas; arrangements about rooms; hopes that Modules went well. - (1872 Dec)

6 - Milner, Balliol, to P.L.G.: long account of the departure from Balliol of (William Money) Hardinge on account of his unseemly behaviour; explanation of his own, Leonard Montefiore's, Richard Lewis Nettleship's and Jowett's parts in the affair. (The second half of the first folio has been wrongly attached to the seventh folio during lamination.) - (1874) Mar 1

7 - Milner, Balliol., to P.L.G.: would rather that he did not show Hardinge his letter of Mar 1; sends for his approval a letter expressing similar opinions which he intends to send to Hardinge; gives further details of Montefiore's part in the affair. - (1874) Mar 3

8 - Milner, Balliol., to P.L.G.: further details of the Hardinge affair, especially (?Hardwicke Drummond) Rawnsley's part; examination for the Ireland prize just finished; the forthcoming election of either (H. H. ) Asquith or (H. M. ) Hyndman as President of the Union; the more he sees of Arnold Toynbee the more he is convinced that his enthusiasm "is neither superficial nor evanescent." - 13 Mar 1874

9 - Milner, Taplow Court, Maidenhead, to P.L.G.: he is staying with (William Henry)Grenfell; his opinion of an offer made to P.L.G. of the post of tutor to a boy from Eton; the dangers of trusting to University prizes to gain a reputation. - (1874) Aug 8

10 - Milner, to P.L.G.: comments on the results of Classical Modules, especially (Michael George) Glazebrook's and (James Meadows) Rendel's results. - (Summer 1874)

11 - Marianne. J. Malcolm (Milner's cousin's daughter and a life-long friend of Milner since he was brought up in his cousin's house), 54 Claverton Street, London, to P.L.G.: she has not heard from Milner since he returned to college, is worried that he may not be well. - 1875 Jan 27

12 - Milner, White Rock Place, Hastings, to P.L.G.: thanks for news of the Union; has had a letter from (Arthur) Sloman (at present President of Union) offering him his nomination as next President; Marianne Malcolm's health. - (1875) Feb 21

13 - Milner, New Street, Aberystwyth, to P.L.G.: takes him to task for not paying debt after loss of a wager on the number of seconds to be gained by Balliol in Classical Modules (Last folio missing.) - (1875) Jul 10

14 - Milner, New Street Aberystwyth. , to P.L.G.: difficulties in his going to Tubingen; Arnold Toynbee is not coming with him as he has been very ill; he cannot help Wood with his Logic notes, (M. G. ) Glazebrook's would be best. - (1875) Aug 9

15 - Milner, Balliol, to P.L.G.: sends him a form for entry for Schools, to be sent to (James Leigh Strachan) Davidson. - 1875 Nov 6

16 - Milner, Balliol, to P.L.G.: arrangements regarding P.L.G.'s taking Schools; floods in Oxford. - (1875) Nov 14

17 - Milner to P.L.G.: Oxford news; the Presidency of the Union is assured him; Balliol societies. (Half of folio 2 only. ) - (?1875)

18 - Milner to P.L.G.: he wishes to speak to him about Union business. - (?1875)

19 - Milner, Union Society, Oxford, to P.L.G.: he should try to get (Arthur) Sloman to strike out the prospective clauses (?for a Union motion). - (?1875)

20 - Milner, Union Society, Oxford. , to P.L.G.: his failure to let P.L.G.'s rooms during the term that he is not at Oxford; Balliol news; (Lord) Lymington's (later 6th Earl of Portsmouth) speech at the Union; the foundation of a debating society at Balliol. (P.L.G. was at this time in Italy for his health. ) - 1876 Feb 6

21 - Milner, 2 Ship Street, Oxford to P.L.G.: to P.L.G.'s rooms have been let to (Thomas Herbert) Warren. (The last folio is missing. ) - 1876 Mar 2

22 - Milner, The Country, Norwich, to P.L.G.: he has just heard of the final date for entries to the Stanhope Prize; comments on P.L.G.'s proposal to write an essay on the government of India. - (1876, Mar)

23 - Milner, The Country Norwich., to P.L.G.: advises him against doing a double Schools but to delay his History Schools until next year; does not think he stands much chance of the Stanhope this year; (Thomas) Raleigh has been working very hard for it, and it is likely that he will do a better piece of work than his prize-winning Lothian essay; he is not going in for the Gaisford this year, is sick of "pot-hunting". - (1876 Mar)

24 - Milner to P.L.G.: advice for Schools; results of the Gaisford prize. (Folio 3 only.) - [1876]

25 - Milner, Balliol, to P.L.G.: a fellow-ship at St. John's is to be vacant after Schools; P.L.G. should get it, only (Rowland Edmund) Prothero and (Frederick (Sanders) Pulling are in for it; (M. G.) Glazebrook is going down, his father has had losses in business and cannot stand the expense. - (1876) Oct 29

26 - Milner to P.L.G.: regrets his being in Italy. (The last half of the last folio of the letter only.) - (1876)

27 - Milner to P.L.G.: forwards Baring's letter for comments and return. - (?1876)

28 - Milner to P.L.G.: describes some work he has been doing on the history of universities. (Second half of the last folio only.) - (?1876)

29 - Milner to P.L.G.: asks for his work to be sent him; advises P.L.G. to stick to working for the examinations. - (1876)

30 - Milner to P.L.G.: has been told that P.L.G.'s papers in Schools showed greater abilities than any others. (Second half of the last folio only.) - (1876)

31 - Milner to P.L.G.: he is reading hard, despising all examinations and honours. (One half of a folio only.) - [c1874-1876]

32 - Milner, Balliol, to P.L.G.: arrangements for the hire of a boat. - [c1874-1876]

33 - Milner, 18 Wellington Esplanade, Lowestoft, to P.L.G.: Marianne Malcolm has been very ill; he is depressed by Lowestoft. - [c1874-1876]

34 - Milner, Lowestoft., to P.L.G.: Lowestoft is improving; thanks for ideas for his Stanhope Prize essay; a query about opening a bank account. - [c1874-1876]

35 - Milner, Union Society, Oxford, to P.L.G.: he has talked to (Benjamin) Jowett about P.L.G.'s poor health; a pleasant evening of reading Shakespeare in his rooms. - (c1874-1876)

36 - Milner, Union Society, Oxford., to P.L.G.: the date of History Schools; news of the Union and of (Arnold) Toynbee, (Lord John William) Ramsay (later 13th Earl of Dalhousie) and (M. G. ) Glazebrook. (The first folio only.) - 28 Oct [c1874-1876]

37 - Milner, 54 Claverton Street, London, to P.L.G.: arrangements for the vacation; has accepted many invitations, (Evelyn) Abbott wants him at Oxford and (H. H.) Asquith at St. Leonards. - [c1874-1876]

38 - Milner, Union Society, to P.L.G.: news of Balliol rowing; he has been seeing a lot of Arnold Toynbee and is increasingly impressed by him; outlines their conversations on theology and practical religion. (The first folio only.) Dated 7 ar - [c1874-1876]

39 - Milner, Tubingen, to P.L.G.: news of his doings in Germany, he is suffering from boredom; asks if P.L.G. knows any people wanting to learn German from a young graduate who wishes to stay in England for six months. Dated 4 Jul - [c1874-1876]

40 - Marianne Malcolm, Claverton Street, to P.L.G.: Milner's and her health. - [c1874-1876]

41 - Marianne Malcolm, Claverton Street, to P.L.G.: the death of Lady Franklin; news from Milner at Tubingen; is glad that P.L.G. is getting up his health at Somerleyton. Dated 31 July. - [c1874-1876]

42 - Milner to P.L.G.: comments on the present financial policy of the government. - (c1874-1876)

43 - Milner to P.L.G.: an account of the passage of his motion in the Union that the Union should open at 10. 00 a.m. on Sundays. (Half of folio 4 only. ) - [c1874-1876]

44 - Milner, Union Society, to P.L.G.: comments on Burke's Reflections; Near Eastern politics; suggests the partition of Russia. - 1877 Jan 15

45 - Milner, New College, Oxford, to P.L.G.: his immediate plans; (Lord John William) Ramsay has left to command the `Britannia'. - 1877 Feb 27

46 - Milner, 5 Hare Court, Inner Temple, to P.L.G.: sends P.L.G. a book for (Clarles James Stanley) Howard (later 10th Earl of Carlisle), his pupil; comments on the Near Eastern question. - 1877 Mar 11

47 - Milner, Loch Ericht Hotel, Dalwhinnie, to P.L.G.: is with an Oxford reading party; P.L.G.'s plans for the Arnold Essay Prize and for undertaking private tutoring at Oxford. (Last folio missing). - 1877 Aug 9

48 - Milner, New College, to P.L.G.: gives detailed advice about writing the essay for the Arnold Prize. - 1877 Nov 15

49 - Milner, Claverton Street, London, to P.L.G.: discusses P.L.G.' s plans for submitting his Arnold Essay; comments upon the successes of some of his own Oxford pupils; looks forward to being in Italy with P.L.G. - 1877 Dec 23

50 - Milner to P.L.G.: congratulations at his being awarded the Arnold Essay prize. - 1878 Mar 8

51 - Milner, Claverton Street, London, to P.L.G.: is sorry to hear of his accident; (James Franck) Bright has supported P.L.G.'s application for a Balliol history fellowship but the College thought (? Thomas Ryburn) Buchanan better qualified. - 1878 Mar 25

52 - Milner, London., to P.L.G. his thanks for a loan of £47; he has been treating with (Alexander Francis Maxwell) Lockhart and (Arnold) Toynbee regarding a fellowship at Hertford College for P.L.G.; his reading preparatory to their visit to Italy. - 1878 May 19

53 - Milner, Inner Temple, to P.L.G.: has seen Mrs. (J. R.) Green who reports that (John Richard) Green has received P.L.G.'s Arnold essay; (Arnold) Toynbee advises that P.L.G. should write direct to (J.F.) Bright about Hertford College; if Macmillans do not take the essay and Oxford does not offer a good post, he would retire to the country and let Green find him some reviewing work until something good turns up. - 1878 May 22

54 - Milner, King's College, London, to P.L.G.: he has been speaking again to (J. F.) Bright, who does not hold out much hope for the Hertford fellowship at present but thinks he can get P.L.G. a place at Balliol from October as a lecturer, but not on the foundation and not permanent; a Balliol fellowship is out of the question. - 1878 May 31

55 - Milner, Claverton Street, London, to P.L.G.: he has had definite news that the Hertford fellowship is available, in Baring's gift, and might be secured for P.L.G.; he has had further information on the Balliol post. - 1878 May 24

56 - Milner, London., to P.L.G.: repeats the substance of D3287 MIL/1/55 above, as P.L.G. may have missed it owing to his leaving Venice. - 1878 Jun 5

57 - Milner, London., to P.L.G.: encloses (not found) a letter from Macmillan about publishing P.L.G.'s essay; he will write to (A. F. M. ) Lockhart about the Hertford fellowship. - 1878 Jul 8

58 - Milner, London., to P.L.G.: encloses a draft preface for P.L.G.'s Arnold essay; he needs instructions for dispatching P.L.G.'s books, etc., from Oxford; he has won the Eldon Prize. - 1878 Aug 10

59 - Milner, London., to P.L.G.: he will look into (Mrs. Kingsmill's) will; disapproves highly of the proposal that P.L.G. should read with Lord Lymington to get him through Schools in the next year. - 1878 Aug 17

60 - Milner, London., to P.L.G.: further information about a will made by Mrs. Kingsmill in 1877 in which P.L.G.'s family was interested. - (1878) Aug 22

61 - Milner, London., to P.L.G.: he has repaid his loan of £47; he is glad that P.L.G. is happy with Lord Lymington. - 1878 Nov 3

62 - Milner to P.L.G.: further information about Mrs. Kingsmill's will. (Last folio only.) - (1878)

63 - Milner, Claverton Street, London, to P.L.G.: he has been staying with the Montefiores; he hopes that P.L.G.'s plan of co-operating with (J. F.) Green has not collapsed; Marianne and he want to let some of their rooms to Oxford men rather than to families as they have hitherto. - 1879 Jan 8

64 - Milner, London., to P.L.G.: his plans for a dinner with (M. G.) Glazebrook, (A.) Toynbee, (A.) Sloman, (Vincent Waldo Calmady) Hamlyn, (J. M.) Rendel and (James) Bonar; he has been discussing a future tutor for (C. J. S.) Howard and has thought of Paget Toynbee. (First folio only.) - 1879 Apr 4

65 - Milner, New University Club, St. James's, London, to P.L.G.: he has been examining for the Hertford Prize; news of Oxford friends; he likes (A.) Toynbee's wife; he and Toynbee were contemplating joint-authorship of a book on the land laws; P.L.G. must complete his work on the Turks (the subject of his Arnold Prize Essay). - 1880 Mar 1

66 - Milner, Claverton Street, London, to P.L.G.: comments on (Vincent Waldo Calmady) Hamlyn's intended wife (Rachel Pease); P.L.G. must stay with them when he comes up for the next "Regeneration of Humanity" meeting; he has dined with William Edward Forster; he is going to canvass in two London constituencies. - 1880 Mar 14

67 - Milner, London., to P.L.G.: thanks for an account of (James, later Viscount) Bryce's election at Tower Hamlets; P.L.G. might be able to canvass for Herbert Gladstone; he has canvassed for Morley and Hobhouse, but has not made any speeches. - 1880 Mar 20

68 - Milner, London., to P.L.G.: gives an account of his talk with (Arthur) Cohen on the possibility of becoming his private secretary; Cohen is unwilling to take on a man of Milner's calibre now that he is unlikely to be made a law officer in the new government. - 1880 Apr 13

69 - Milner, London., to P.L.G.: thanks for his comments on (A.) Cohen; is to try the Bar examinations in May; he has been invited to Jowett's to meet Lord Coleridge. - 1880 Apr 25

70 - Milner, London, to P.L.G.: he is impressed by P.L.G.'s testimonials for his application for (the chair of History at the University of Otago), but does not think that he should take the post; he cannot understand Cohen's not replying to his letter. - 1880 Jun 6

71 - Milner, New University Club, to P.L.G.: a meeting with (? James Edward Thorold) Rogers; his own contributions to the Pall Mall Gazette; comments upon the office of the P.M.G.; P.L.G.'s application for the Otago chair. - 1880 Jul 16

72 - Milner, Claverton Street, London, to P.L.G.: his relief at P.L.G. not being offered the chair at Otago; (Lord John William) Ramsay's misfortune (of having to succeed his father as 13th Earl of Dalhousie soon after his election as M.P. for Liverpool); complains at (John) Morley's editing of his contributions to the Pall Mall Gazette. - 1880 Jul 22

73 - Pall Mall Gazette to Milner: pro forma letter enclosing payment of £22 1s. Od. for articles contributed. (Endorsed by Milner "Not so bad this! `Keep it dark, Obadiah, keep it dark."') - 1880 Jul 31

74 - Milner, New University Club, to P.L.G.: his comments on the marriage of (M. G.) Glazebrook and Ethel Brodie (daughter of Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 2nd Bt.); his work at the Pall Mall Gazette; thanks for sending a possible item for the paper. - 1880 Aug 12

75 - Milner, New University Club., to P.L.G.: his difficulties at the Pall Mall Gazette; (John) Morley devoted exclusively to the Irish question;- Morley and Milner's disagreements on this matter. - 1880 Aug 18

77 - Milner, Richmond, to P.L.G.: returns P.L.G.'s article, he should send it to Morley direct from Buxted; hopes that "Dryasdust" (P.L.G.'s pseudonym for this article, which was humorous) becomes an institution; Morley has been complimentary about P.L.G.'s work, especially on the Eastern question; is glad that P.L.G. is getting involved in Church Reform. - 1880 Aug 29

78 - Milner, Flushing, to P.L.G.: asks him to send yesterday's Pall Mall Gazette to Tübingen and to point out which pieces he (P.L.G.) contributed. - 1880 Sep 5

79 - Milner, Neckarhalde 52, Tübingen, to P.L.G.: answers P.L.G.'s query on the existence of churches used by both Catholics and Protestants in Germany; comments on state of German religion. - 1880 Sep 29

80 - Milner, Tübingen, to P.L.G.: a vacancy for a private secretary to the Governor of Bombay; he and (Earl of) Dalhousie have so far supported the application of MacIver but they would help P.L.G. if he wished to have the post. 188[?] Oct 8 - 1880s

81 - Milner, Tübingen, to P.L.G.: a lengthy answer to P.L.G.'s query on the joint use of German churches. - (1880) Oct 10

82 - Milner, Claverton Street, London, to P.L.G.: makes extended comments on P.L.G.'s programme prepared for the Church Reform Union; he has sent the draft to (Samuel Augustus) Barnett; reports his conversation with Barnett as to P.L.G.'s administration of the Union (of which P.L.G. was Secretary). - 1880 Oct 20

83 - Milner, New University Club, to P.L.G.: further comments on his Church Reform pamphlet. - 1880 Oct 21

84 - Milner, New University Club, to P.L.G.: thanks for Church Reform leaflets, suggests that he acknowledges his debt to Arnold's writings. - 1880 Oct 25

85 - Milner, New University Club, to P.L.G.: his contributions to the Pall Mall Gazette; (John) Morley has now hired a full-time sub-editor. - 1880 Oct 28

86 - Milner, New University Club, to P.L.G.: his estimate of the objectives of the Church Reform Union; comments upon (Joseph Bickersteth) Mayor's views on the same matter. - 1880 Nov 7

87 - Milner, New University Club., to P.L.G.: extends his sympathy on hearing of the driving accident in which P.L.G. was involved. - 1880 Nov 8

88 - Milner to P.L.G.: comments further on (J. B.) Mayor's opinions; is sorry that the Newcastle meeting on Church Reform was unsuccessful, but is glad that it has been taken up so strongly by Common Good. - (1880 ?Nov 9)

89 - Milner, 2 Temple Gardens, London, to P.L.G.: suggests a meeting, together with (J. B.) Mayor, to discuss Church Reform; domestic problems at Claverton Street with Marianne Malcolm. - 1880 Nov 10

90 - Milner, Claverton Street, London, to P.L.G.: returns more Church Reform leaflets with comments; he has written articles on Austria and German Jews for the Pall Mall Gazette. - 1880 Nov 21

91 - Milner, Temple Gardens, to P.L.G.: reports on his Stock Market activities; the death of Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie; enquires about the secretaryship of the Church Reform Union during P.L.G.'s absence in Italy. - 1880 Nov 25

92 - Milner, New University Club, to P.L.G.: wants P.L.G. to introduce him to (? William Thomas) Arnold (1852-1904, author and journalist); has been writing on Oxford for the Pall Mall Gazette; he has heard that many people know of his work on the paper, has told "Toynbee & Company at Oxford of course" but does not like it to be generally talked about. - 1880 Dec 11

93 - Milner, Evelyn, Spa Road, Boscombe, Bournemouth, to P.L.G.: he has written an opinion to Mrs. (Rosalind) Howard on the case P.L.G. sent; wants to know P.L.G.'s impressions of his interview with Morley; regrets the death of George Eliot; hopes P.L.G. will be able to write for Pall Mall Gazette. - [1880]

94 - (Milner to P.L.G.): comments on a Church Reform leaflet; Lord Bowen needs a tutor for his son. - (1880)

95 - Milner, Regent Hotel, Leamington Spa, to P.L.G.: he is on circuit in Warwick, but is unhappy with legal life; sends P.L.G. a reading list for the Bar examination; he is returning to London where "our Society" (i.e. the circle of Oxford friends centred on Arnold Toynbee) flourishes. - 1881 Feb 14

96 - Milner, New University Club, to P.L.G.: P.L.G. should think over the question of lodgings (? with Milner). - 1881 Jul 15

97 - Milner, the Ram Hotel, Nottingham, to P.L.G.: he has written to Galpin (of Gassell & Company) supporting P.L.G.'s probable application for the post of personal assistant to Galpin; P.L.G. should now reply directly to the advertisement without referring to Milner's letter; he has told Miss Glinder of his action, she has influence with Galpin; P.L.G. should take care not to snub her. - 1881 Jul 26

98 - Milner, New University Club, to P.L.G.: he has had an acknowledgement from Galpin; comments on the probable salary which should not be less than £500; enquires if there would be any chance of putting money into the business. - (1881 July)

99 - Milner, New University Club., to P.L.G.: he was amused by P.L.G.'s account of his visit to Miss Glinder at Roehampton; he is glad he has agreed to a trial with Cassell; comments on his future prospects. - 1881 Aug 13

100 - Milner, New University Club., to P.L.G.: comments on the draft agreement between P.L.G. and Galpin. - 1881 Aug 15

101 - Milner, New University Club., to P.L.G.: reports his interview with Galpin on question of P.L.G.'s employment. - 1881 Aug 16

102 - Milner, Pall Mall Gazette, Northumberland Street, to P.L.G.: advises him on what he should say to Galpin on question of his terms of employment at Cassell. - 1881, Aug 17

103 - Milner, New University Club, to P.L.G.: sends a draft letter for P.L.G. to write to Galpin, agreeing to come on trial. - (1881 Aug)

104 - Milner, Hotel Baur au Lac, Zurich, to P.L.G.: he is going to Túbingen; he has been staying with Mr. & Mrs. Leonard Montefiore and Harry Birchenough, an intimate friend of L. M.; his estimate of Birchenough. (Letter finished in pencil, now very faint.) - 1881 Sep 28

105 - Milner, Claverton Street, to P.L.G.: gives an account of a lecture he has delivered; asks P.L.G. to visit Marianne Malcolm. - 1882 Jan 12

106 - Milner to P.L.G.: asks P.L.G. to insert an annoucement of Milner's father's death; comments upon this event. - (1882 Sep)

107 - Milner, Túbingen, to P.L.G.: requests P.L.G. to sell some shares; his expectations from his father's estate; P.L.G.'s stay with the Howard family at Naworth. - (1882) Sep 15

108 - Milner to P.L.G.: comments on his inability to criticise the District Railway Company in the Pall Mall Gazette owing to its extension of free passes to the paper boys. - 1882 Dec 9

109 - Milner, Pall Mall Gazette, to P.L.G.: asks P.L.G. to write his reminiscences of the late John Richard Green for the Pall Mall Gazette. - 1883 Mar 8

110 - Milner, New University Club, to P.L.G.: P.L.G.'s account of J. R. Green; (Arnold) Toynbee is unwell. - 1883 Mar 9

111 - Milner, Pall Mall Gazette, to P.L.G.: Toynbee's death; (James) Bryce's note on Toynbee to be used in the newspaper. - 1883 Mar 11

112 - Milner, New University Club, to P.L.G.: discusses the various schemes for a memorial to Arnold Toybnee, with special reference to (Samuel Augustus) Barnett's proposal (i.e. Toynbee Hall) and (Sidney) Ball's; his own relations with Marianne Malcolm. - (1883 Mar)

113 - Milner, New University Club, to P.L.G.: he will lend P.L.G. £1,000 at 4% further comments on the Toynbee Memorial. - (1883 April)

114 - Milner, Swan Hotel, Staines, to P.L.G.: gives an account of recent events at the Pall Mall Gazette; Marianne Malcolm; comments at length on his avoidance of a matrimonial entanglement with (? Emily Baird, daughter of John Forster Baird). - 1883 Sep 5

115 - Milner, New University Club, to P.L.G.: sends the Pall Mall Gazette marked as to authors; W. T. Stead is elated and hopeful about the paper. - 1883 Sep 6

116 - Milner, Baden Baden, to P.L.G.: a long complaint about Marianne Malcolm's behaviour towards him; will not be able to support it much longer. - 1883 Oct 14

117 - Milner Baden Baden, to P.L.G.: encloses (not found) a copy of a letter he has written to Marianne Malcolm. - (1883, Oct)

118 - Milner, New University Club, to P.L.G.: their mutual financial arrangements; suggests that he should bring Marianne Malcolm to P.L.G.'s home for Christmas. - 1883 Nov 29

119 - Milner, King's Bench Walk, to P.L.G.: his recent visit to P.L.G. at Buxted; gives an account of a long conversation with W. T. Stead concerning the Pall Mall Gazette. - (1883)

120 - Milner, New University Club, to P.L.G.: emphasises the confidentiality of his comments on the Pall Mall Gazette. - (1883)

121 - Milner, New University Club., to P.L.G.: the inclusion of a piece by P.L.G. in the Pall Mall Gazette. - (?1883)

122 - Milner to P.L.G.: he is preparing for Cheltenham (where he was nominated as prospective Liberal parliamentary candidate), but he is unsure as to the constituency's suitability. - (1884, Jan)

123 - Milner, Bays Hill Home, Cheltenham, to P.L.G.: his speech was well received; comments on prospects. - 1884 Jan 25

124 - Milner to P.L.G.: he is too busy to come to dinner. - 1884 Jan 31

125 - Milner, 8 York Street, St. James's Square, to P.L.G.: makes observations regarding the incidence of income tax. - (?1884) Aug 21

126 - Milner, Pall Mall Gazette, to P.L.G.: discusses a projected visit to Berlin either with (George Joachim, later 1st Viscount) Goschen, or on behalf of the Pall Mall Gazette; a proposal by Goschen that he should assist him with his book on Germany; discusses developments regarding Canadian Pacific and Mexican Mining shares. - 1884 Aug 30

127 - Milner, 8 York Street, to P.L.G.: discusses the future of his connection with G. J. Goschen and the Pall Mall Gazette; his intentions regarding a projected book on England and Egypt. - 1884 Sep

128 - Milner, 8 York street, to P.L.G.: the death of Frank Gell; his intended visit to (Samuel Henry) Butcher. - 1884 Sep 11

129 - Milner, Hotel du Nord, Cologne, to P.L.G.: he has accompanied G.J. Goschen on a visit to Germany; requests a loan of £80 from P.L.G.; his pleasure at P.L.G.'s appointment as Secretary of the Oxford University Press. - 1884 Oct 4

130 - Milner, York street, to P.L.G.: he and (Henry) Birchenough are seeking a house; comments on a letter received from (-) Vivian. - 1884 Dec 20

131 - Milner, York street, to P.L.G.: comments on his antagonistic review of Mrs. Humphry Ward's Miss Bretherton in the Pall Mall Gazette; the market in Mexican Central shares. - 1884 Dec 29

132 - Milner, York street, to P.L.G.: comments on the Russian political scene. - (?1884)

133 - Milner, York street, to P.L.G.: their proposed meeting. - (?1884)

134 - Milner, Pall Mall Gazette, to P.L.G.: encloses a letter (not found) from (-) Robinson; suggests a meeting. - (?1884)

135 - Milner, York street, to P.L.G.: his difficulties in finding a place to live; he has some rooms he must show P.L.G. - (?1885 Jan)

136 - Milner, York street, to P.L.G.: praises (G.J.) Goschen's present policies; Goschen is keeping political life more pure than any other. - 1885 Feb 3

137 - Milner, York street, to P.L.G.: requests P.L.G. to review a book; attacks Gladstone's policies, especially in foreign affairs. - (1885) Feb 6

138 - Milner, York street, to P.L.G.: expresses his anger at the present government's policies. - 1885 Feb 26

139 - Milner to P.L.G.: the death of Marianne Malcolm. - (1885 Jun 30)

140 - Milner, York street, to P.L.G.: Marianne Malcolm's funeral; he is leaving for a holiday. - 1884 Jun 30

141 - Milner to P.L.G.: he is going down to Oxford. - 1885 Jul 3

142 - Milner to P.L.G.: gives an account of his meetings at Harrow (where he was standing as parliamentary candidate); comments on the reaction to W. T. Stead's exposure of prostitution; he is glad that it caused him to sever his connection with the Pall Mall Gazette. - Jul 1885

143 - Milner, York Street, to P.L.G.: his arrangements for a holiday on the Thames. - 1885 Jul 27

144 - Milner, York Street, to P.L.G.: makes arrangements regarding money and shares; encloses (not found) a letter to (Clinton) Dawkins from a lady; comments on the abilities of (-) Shoosmith; (Philip Arthur) Ashworth wishes to show P.L.G. his translation of Ranke; W. T. Stead's impending return. - 1885 Sep 4

145 - Milner, York Street, to P.L.G.: discusses P.L.G.'s part in the Church Reform Union and the measures necessary to expand its influence. - 1885 Oct 13

146 - Milner, York Street, to P.L.G.: relates the proposal for a Liberal weekly journal edited by himself made by (John Andrew) Hamilton (later Viscount Sumner) and (?Francis Charles) Montague; discusses his own intentions both in standing for parliament and in being employed by (Arthur Wellesley, later 1st Viscount) Peel. - 1885 Oct 17

147 - Milner, York Street, to P.L.G.: comments on the results of the general election; has no hope of success at Harrow. - 1885 Nov 29

148 - Milner, York Street, to P.L.G.: he has no chance at Harrow; his foreign policy statements were very successful. - 1885 Dec 2

149 - Milner, York Street, to P.L.G.: he has lost his voice but will come to Oxford if he recovers. - 1885 Dec 7

150 - Milner, York Street, to P.L.G.: arrangements for his arrival at Oxford. - 1885 Dec 9

151 - Milner, York Street, to Henry (Willingham Gell, younger brother of P.L.G.): arrangements for a proposed trip to Sicily with Milner and P.L.G. - 1885 Dec 22

152 - Milner, Hotel du Louvre, Marseilles, to Henry (Willingham Gell): further arrangements for Italian trip. - 1885 Dec 28

153 - Milner, to P.L.G.: invitation to hear him speak at Pinner (in the Harrow parliamentary constituencies). - (1885)

154 - Milner, Reform Club, to P.L.G.: the time of the Pinner meeting. - (1885)

155 - Milner, Reform Club, to P.L.G.: he does not care if P.L.G. does not come to his meeting; makes arrangements for afternoon together on the Thames. - (1885)

156 - Milner, Grand Hotel des Palmes, Palermo, to P.L.G.: gives an account of his stay in Naples and trip to Sicily with Henry Gell after P.L.G. had left for home. - 22 Jan 1886

157 - Milner, Grand Hotel Continental, Rome, to P.L.G.: thanks him for news of the fall of the government; comments on Liberals and Home Rule and his dislike of Gladstone. - 1886 Feb 6

158 - Milner, York Street, to P.L.G.: he must soon decide whether to remain as private secretary to G.J. Goschen; reports his finding rooms in Duke Street for himself and (J. Henry) Birchenough. - 1886 Feb 16

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160 - Milner, York Street, to P.L.G.: reports on recent political developments. - 1886 Apr 3

161 - Milner, New University Club, to P.L.G.: rearrangements of his plans to visit Oxford. - 1886 Apr 3

162 - Milner, York Street, to P.L.G.: arranging a time to meet - (1886) Apr 12

163 - Milner, York Street, to P.L.G.: suggests the possible results of (Joseph) Chamberlain's new move over the Home Rule Bill. - 1886 Apr 15

164 - Milner, New University Club, to P.L.G.: gives an account of the formation of the Liberal Unionist organising committee with (Henry Robert) Brand (later 2nd Viscount Hampden), (4th Earl) Grey and (Alexander) Craigsellar; their need for a secretary, suggests that P.L.G. and he should take on the work. - 1886 Apr 18

165 - Milner, New University Club, to P.L.G.: gives further information about the formation of the Liberal Unionist Association; F(rederick) W(illiam) Maude is to be the permanent secretary. - 1886 Apr 19

166 - Milner, Langley Lodge, Oxford, to Henry (Willingham Gell): discusses his recent illness; he has received independent confirmation of a slight weakness of the heart due to overwork. - 24 May 1886

167 - Milner, 47 Duke Street, St. James's, to P.L.G.: announces his intention to visit Oxford to stay with (Thomas Herbert) Warren. - 1886 June 10

168 - Milner, 47 Duke Street, to P.L.G.: He is to work for The Times for three weeks in August; proposes a trip to Ireland. - 1886 Jul 25

169 - Milner, Tunbridge Wells, to P.L.G.: comments upon (G. J.) Goschen's relations with the Tory Party; (J. H.) Birchenough's intended visit to Oxford. - 1886 Jul 29

170 - Milner, Duke Street, to P.L.G.: comments on (J. H.) Birchenough's decision to marry. - 1886 Aug 3

171 - Milner, Duke Street, to P.L.G.: makes suggestions for a short holiday together. - 1886 Aug 14

172 - Milner, Duke Street, to P.L.G.: plans for his trip to Ireland; he was impressed by his meeting with Mrs. Arnold-Forster; his pleasure at P.L.G.'s appreciation of his article in The Times. - 1886 Aug 16

173 - Milner, Killarney, to P.L.G.: sends him some publishers' proposals made to Miss Pistlethwaite, an old friend of Marianne Malcolm's, who has written a novel, for his comments and advice. - 1886 Sep 17

174 - Milner, Duke Street, to P.L.G.: his immediate plans; he has just promised to help running Murray's Magazine for the next six months; he has to do them an article on Ireland. - 1886 Oct 23

175 - Milner, Seacox Heath, Hawkhurst, to P.L.G.: he is staying with (G. J.) Goschen; his impressions of (William Henry) Waddington, a fellow guest; hopes that P.L.G. is going to the `Ambarum' dinner. - 1886 Nov 1

176 - Milner, Great Northern Railway Hotel, Leeds, to P.L.G.: his plans; hopes P.L.G. will come to the Liberal Unionist conference. - 1886 Nov 20

177 - Milner, GNR Hotel, to P.L.G.: makes further comments about (J. H.) Birchenough's marriage; his reactions to P.L.G.'s opinion of Mrs. Arnold-Forster. - 1886 Nov 27

178 - W. Tyrrell Brooks (M.D.), Beaumont Street, Oxford, to P.L.G.: replies to his queries as to state of Milner's health; considers that he is permanently afflicted with a weak heart and that he should therefore change his mode of life. - 1886 Dec 10

179 - Milner, Langley Lodge, to P.L.G.: comments on political prospects, especially the chances of (G. J.) Goschen going over to the Tories and Randolph Churchill's attitude. - 1886 Dec 29

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181 - Milner, Tanfield Court, the Temple: rough notes of points on which leaflets in support of the Liberal Unionists are required. - (?1886)

182 - Milner, Duke Street, to P.L.G.: (G. J.) Goschen has been asked to be Chancellor of the Exchequer, but not Leader of the House, by the Tories. - (1887, early Jan)

183 - Milner, Seacox Heath, to Henry Gell: agrees to his recommendations as to his regimen; he will try to strain himself as little as possible in his present post (as secretary to Goschen). - 8 Jan 1887

184 - Milner, Treasury, to P.L.G.: he will try hard not to overstrain himself; regulation of financial affairs between them; he would like to get rid of the Mexican Central shares; the prospects for (G. J.) Goschen's election at Liverpool. - 1887 Jan 13

185 - Milner, Duke Street, to P.L.G.: comments on a recent speech by Joseph Chamberlain. - 1887 Feb 1

186 - Milner, Duke Street, to Henry Gell: arranges an appointment for medical examination. - 2 Feb 1887

187 - Milner, Treasury, to Henry Gell: urges him to rally support for (G. J.) Goschen in the St. George's Hanover Square by-election; comments on the effect of digitalis on his heart. - 8 Feb 1887

188 - Milner, Duke Street, to P.L.G.: his health; comments on discussions as to the right name for the 'Liberal Union Club'; he is sure the 'Mugwumps' is best; observations on the domestic political situation and Ireland. - 1887 Feb 17

189 - Milner, Duke Street, to P.L.G.: gives an account of Goschen's recent actions with regard to Egyptian finance; comments on P.L.G.'s suggestions for Ireland. - 1887 Feb 21

190 - Milner, Duke Street, to P.L.G.: his congratulations on P.L.G.'s 35th birthday. - 1887 Apr 27

191 - Milner, Duke Street, to P.L.G.: from their meeting last week, is quite sure that P.L.G. is to marry the young lady; his views on marriage; is concerned that the 'Eighty' Club is becoming more Gladstonian. (This refers to P.L.G.'s friendship with May Rawlinson, daughter of George Rawlinson, Camden Professor of Ancient History.) - 1887 May 7

192 - Milner, Treasury, to P.L.G.: makes further remarks on P.L.G.'s possible engagement. - 1887 May 11

193 - Milner, Treasury, to Henry Gell: P.L.G. has gone too deep to be saved from marriage. - 1887 May 13

194 - Milner, Duke Street, to Henry Gell: discusses at legth P.L.G.'s entanglement with May Rawlinson; he does not think P.L.G. should marry her. - 1887 May 17

195 - Milner, 2 Wellington Place, Tunbridge Wells, to P.L.G.: his advice on marriage; comments on the comparative success of Goschen's career so far; finds the Liberal Unionist campaign as executed by himself, P.L.G., F. W. Maude and (2nd Baron) Monteagle instructive as an example of political persuasion. - 1887 May 28

196 - Milner, New University Club, to P.L.G.: is to give an 'At Home' with Clinton Dawkins (who was sharing the rooms in Duke Street with Milner) - (1887 Jun)

197 - Milner, Treasury, to P.L.G.: his 'At Home'; advice on mode of making income tax returns. - 1887 Jun 10

198 - Milner, Duke Street, to P.L.G.: account of the 'At Home'; comments on the behaviour of May Rawlinson, which was good, and of her mother, which was poor. - 1887 Jun 19

199 - Milner, Duke Street, to P.L.G.: makes observations on recent Liberal Unionist activity. - 1887 Jul 22

200 - Milner, Seacox Heath, to P.L.G.: his alarm at the parliamentary situation; he is angered by F. W. Maude's leaving the Liberal Unionists for the Liberal party; his concern at the vacillation shown by many of the leaders. - 1887 Aug 14

201 - Milner, Duke Street, to P.L.G.: gives advice on how to deal with (George William Erskine) Russell (who was coming to stay with P.L.G.). - (1887 Jul/Aug)

202 - Milner, Duke Street, to P.L.G.: the government must make the people realise the character of the de facto government of Ireland so as to be able to re-establish the de jure. - 1887 Aug 26

203 - Milner, Glastonbury, to P.L.G.: he has been staying with (Courtenay Peregrine) Ilbert and Henry Hobhouse; gives an account of a public meeting on behalf of Hobhouse at Glastonbury; thinks that the Liberal Unionists have won this area in spite of Lord Wolverton's money and lectures by (John) Morley; he is going to Brittany for a holiday with (Harold) Frederic (1856-98, American author), and later with Clinton Dawkins. - 1887 Oct 8

204 - Milner, Duke Street, to P.L.G.: Goschen is not able to visit Oxford. - 1887 Nov 12

205 - Milner, Treasury, to P.L.G.: reports (3rd Earl of) Camperdown's proposal that the Liberal Unionists take up the question of referm of the House of Lords; asks P.L.G. to put it to (Albert Venn) Dicey. - 1887 Nov 23

206 - Milner, Duke Street, to P.L.G.: he is appalled at the tragedy of Dalhousie's death; it must have been due to brain disease. (13th Earl of Dalhousie died the day after his wife had died of blood poisoning at an hotel in France.) - (1887 late Nov)

207 - Milner, Duke Street, to P.L.G.: has been working on the statistical speech for Goschen. - 1887 Dec 8

208 - Milner, Treasury, to P.L.G.: social arrangements. - 1887 Dec 13

209 - Milner, Duke Street, to P.L.G.: suggests that P.L.G. talks with (-) Duke about the reorganisation of the Liberal Union and the arrangements between the Union and the Liberal Unionist Association. - 1888 Jan 12

210 - Milner, Duke Street, to P.L.G.: comments on Goschen's recent speech at Hastings where he promised reforming measures; the Liberal Union headquarters is 'still bubbling', though the present arrangement may not last. - 1888 Jan 24

211 - Milner, 18 Portman Square, to P.L.G.: comments on Randolph Churchill's recent speech; he still does not trust Churchill; describes a proposed tax on carts and horses, to be ultimately used for local government purposes. - (1888 ? Jan)

212 - Milner, Portman Square., to P.L.G.: explanation of a point regarding proposed relief to local taxation. - (?1888 Jan)

213 - Milner, Portman Square., to P.L.G.: explains the reasons why he considers that the proposed conversion of the National Debt from 3% to 2¾% will be a success. - 1888 Mar 13

214 - Milner, Duke Street, to P.L.G.: the conversion is a success, the banks are collecting and will probably change their stock on about Apr 10; he is off for a week in Paris. - 1888 Mar 28

215 - Milner, Treasury, to P.L.G.: sends him the necessary forms for stock conversion; he is tremendously busy, mostly due to the Budget. - 1888 Apr 6

216 - Milner, House of Commons, to P.L.G.: comments on a recent Customs memorandum; answers query about the new licence fees for vehicles. - 1888 Apr 27

217 - Milner, Duke Street, to P.L.G.: he has to go to France to look into French duties on wines in the hope that they have something that is applicable in England. - 1888 May 6

218 - Milner, Treasury, to P.L.G.: conveys his thanks to Henry Gell for a letter from a wine merchant with which he agrees; he has to return to France. - 1888 May 17

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220 - Milner, to P.L.G.: P.L.G. should see (?Thomas) Fowler in support of (Michael George) Glazebrook's application for the high-mastership of Manchester Grammar School; he has seen Robinson and (Benjamin) Jowett but the latter, though sympathetic, did not see how to help. - 1888 May 30

221 - Milner, to P.L.G.: is rowing from Oxford to Reading with the Dawkins; he cannot understand why, when the country is being well ruled, people are still so discontented. - 1888 Jun 21

222 - Milner, to P.L.G.: comments on recent by-elections at Thanet and Southampton. - 1888 Jul 1

223 - Mrs. Lucy Goschen, 69 Portland Place, to P.L.G.: she is sure that Milner should not accept an offer of the post of Lord Lansdowne's private secretary when he goes to India as Viceroy. - (1888) Jul 14

224 - Milner, Duke Street, to P.L.G.: sends money for books. - 1888 Aug 23

225 - Milner, Interlaken, to P.L.G.: gives an account of his autumn movements; long comments on the temper of German political thought and their inability to understand the magnetism of Gladstone and Gladstonian Liberalism. - 1888 Sep 30

226 - Milner, Seacox Heath, to P.L.G.: his social plans; (W. H.) Vivian (Milner's and P.L.G.'s stockbroker, or certainly city friend and adviser) would like to see him. - 1888 Oct 14

227 - Milner, Seacox Heath, to P.L.G.: his social plans. - 1888 Oct 18

228 - Milner, Reform Club, to P.L.G.: recounts his difficulties in securing the right guests for a joint dinner they are planning to give. - 1888 Dec 15

229-240 - A small group of correspondence relating to the transfer of 30 preference shares in MacRae, Curtice & Company (the publishers of Hansard) from P.L.G. to Milner and the purchase by Milner of a further 20 ordinary shares. - 1888 Dec 14 - 1889 Jan 24

241 - Milner, Seacox Heath, to P.L.G.: his thanks for MacRae, Curtice & Company shares; discusses the Irish penal laws; asks P.L.G. to suggest means of overcoming the deficit in the next budget caused by rising naval costs. - 1889 Jan 26

242 - Milner, Duke Street, to P.L.G.: comments on the budget deficit, the Treasury's probable course of action and his own preferences. - 1889 Feb 2

243 - Milner, Duke Street, to P.L.G.: offers his congratulations on P.L.G.'s engagements to the Hon. Edith Brodrick; reflects on its probable effect on their friendship. - 1889 Mar 28

244 - Milner, Duke Street, to Edith Brodrick: offers his congratulations on her engagement to P.L.G. - 1889 Mar 31

245 - Milner, Duke Street, to Edith Brodrick: gives a jocular account of his stay with P.L.G. in Eastbourne. - 1889 Apr 22

246 - Milner, Duke Street, to P.L.G.: he has been at the marriage of G. J. Goschen's daughter; reports on the threat of an attack on the budget from the extreme Tories. - 1889 Apr 27

247 - Milner, Royal Hotel, Henley on Thames, to P.L.G.: he will come up to Oxford for a few days and then return to meet J. M. Rendel. - 1889 Jun 6

248 - Milner, Duke Street, to P.L.G.: he wants to hear P.L.G.'s latest news. - 1889 Jul 8

249 - Milner, Duke Street, to Henry Gell: he would be grateful for an introduction to (Sidney James Mark) Low, of the St. James's Gazette. - 1889 Jul 14

250 - Milner, Coldeast, Southampton, to Edith Brodrick: sends a wedding gift. - 1889 Jul 18

251 - Milner, Coldeast, to Edith Brodrick: discusses the arrangements for her wedding day. - 1889 Jul 19

252 - Milner, Duke Street, to P.L.G.: he thought the wedding a great success. - 1889 Jul 25

253 - Milner, Duke Street, to P.L.G.: he has bought a pair of eye-glasses and a sandwich case for him. - 1889 Jul 26

254 - Milner, Fécamp, Normandy, France, to P.L.G.: gives a long account of his impression of French politics; he has abandoned a scheme to tour Africa; his visit to France was made so as to learn sufficient French to succeed (Sir Edgar) Vincent (as Financial Adviser to the Egyptian Government), but another was appointed in his place. - 1889 Sep 25

255 - Milner, Rouen, Normandy, to Edith Gell: gives a light humoured account of the French people, the Paris Exhibition, Rouen, etc. - 1889 Oct 1

256 - Milner, Rouen, to Henry Gell: comments on his failure to obtain the Egyptian appointment and on the successful candidate (Sir Elwyn Mitford) Palmer; his reasons for not going to Africa; he will probably take rooms with Hugh de T. Glazebrook in Paris. - 1889 Oct 1

257 - Milner, Duke Street, to P.L.G.: announces his acceptance of his appointment as Director General of Accounts in Egypt, the post being vacated by Palmer as a result of his promotion; he prefers it to the offer of a private secretaryship to the Marquis of Lansdowne that he refused last year; he will be coming to Oxford for an Ambarum dinner. - 1889 Oct 26

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259 - Milner, Marseilles, to P.L.G.: thanks for help in arranging his departure, hopes that his post in Egypt will not cause an involuntary estrangement between them. - 1889 Nov 15

260 - Milner, Shepheard's Hotel, Cairo, to Edith Gell: expresses his gratitude for their help and support. - 1889 Nov 22

261 - Milner, Maison Rollo, Cairo, to P.L.G.: he has moved into a new apartment; gives a detailed account of his first impressions of (Evelyn) Baring (later Viscount and then Earl Cromer) and of his system of government; relates the reception of Baring in Cairo; is glad of news of mutual friends, especially of (George) Parkin. - 1889 Dec 12

262 - Milner, Maison Rollo, to Edith Gell: his observations of Cairo life; has recently talked with (Archibald Henry) Sayce. - 1889 Dec 27

263-270 - Undated letters from Milner to P.L.G., mainly concerning appointments to meet, all datable approximately to the decade 1880-1889. - c. 1880-1889

271 - Milner, Maison Rollo, Cairo, to P.L.G.: asks P.L.G. to supervise the external repairs to his house in Claverton Street; he would prefer to sell his shares in MacRae, Curtice & Company - 1890 Jan 19

272 - Milner, Maison Rollo, to P.L.G.: comments on Hansard shares and on Horatio Bottomley's business skills; he sympathises with P.L.G. over his difficulties with a family trust. - 1890 Feb 28

273 - Milner, Maison Rollo, to Edith Gell: he is deputising for Sir Elwyn Mitford Palmer during the latter's absence in Europe; comments on the effect on Cairo society of a visit from Prince Albert Victor. - 1890 Apr 14

274 - Milner, Maison Rollo, to P.L.G.: he is sure to succeed Palmer if he should leave; his relations with the Khedive and Baring; his opinion of the present British government; he is anxious that Germany should not be excluded from Africa, Britain cannot have it all; social news, Hansard shares and comments on the work on Claverton Street. - 1890 May 30

275 - Milner, Ramleh, to P.L.G.: with Palmer and Baring away, he has been governing Egypt, with Riaz Pasha; his impressions of and relations with Riaz; his views on the future of the English in Egypt; Lord Salisbury should make a definite stand as to whether to go or to stay; his own future in Egypt; Hansard shares; he was amused by P.L.G.'s account of the visit of (Margot) Tennant and others to Oxford. - 1890 Jul 29

276 - Milner, Ministry of Finance, Cairo, to P.L.G.: he has received a dividend on the Hansard shares; he has been nominated by Baring to succeed as under-secretary of finance in Egypt; comments on the effect on the government of the resignation of the previous under-secretary. - 1890 Aug 8

277 - Milner, Cairo, to Edith Gell: comments on the significance of his appointment as under-secretary of finance: the post, which is executive rather than advisory, has not hitherto been in English hands. - 1890 Aug 24

278 - Milner, on the Nile near Damietta, to P.L.G.: gives an account of Riaz Pasha and his attempts to keep Milner out of the under-secretaryship; his impressions on entering office; he is on tour with the irrigation engineer watching the flooding on the Nile. - 1890 Sep 10

279 - Milner, Ministry of Finance, Cairo, to P.L.G.: comments on (Sir John) Scott's suggested appointment of (? Thomas) Raleigh as (?a judge in the Egyptian Native Courts). - 1890 Sep 20

280 - Milner, Cairo, to P.L.G.: Hansard shares; comments on the Parnell affair; he thinks Riaz Pasha should be pushed out of his position, but Baring shrinksfrom the alternatives; gives an account of the Cairo social season, his lack of accommodation and his relative rank in society. - 1890 Dec 15

281 - Milner, Cairo, to P.L.G.: commiserates with P.L.G. on his loss of £1,000 (? in stock market dealings); lends P.L.G. the money to recoup his losses; comments on the marriage of (Cecilia Maude) Howard (daughter of the 9 th Earl of Carlisle). - 1891 Jan 26

282 - Milner, Cairo, to P.L.G.: thanks him for his receipt for the money lent by Milner; he agrees to continue holding Hansard shares; his disgust with English politics. - 1891 Feb 23

283 - Milner, to P.L.G.: regrets the Hansard crash; he will soon be coming to England; his social engagements. - (1891 Apr)

284 - Milner, Duke Street, to Edith Gell: arranges an appointment. - 1891 May 1

285 - Milner, Duke Street, to P.L.G.: he intends to go over to France; arranges to meet P.L.G. - 1891 May 13

286 - Milner, Duke Street, to P.L.G.: thanks P.L.G. for their hospitality; encloses (not found) the text of his interview with the Pall Mall Gazette. - 1891 Jun 18

287 - Milner, Duke Street, to Edith Gell: arranges to see them before his departure for Egypt. - 1891 Jun 23

288 - Milner, Alexandria, to P.L.G.: his distress at the news of (Benjamin) Jowett's poor health; comments on the effect of the fall of Riaz Pasha; the probable cost of his new house. - 1891 Oct 21

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291 - Milner, Grand Hotel, Eastbourne, to P.L.G.: his work on England in Egypt; the probability that he will be offered the chairmanship of the Board of Inland Revenue. - 1892 Jul 1

292 - Milner, Eastbourne, to Edith Gell: comments on the general election results; the prospects for him at the Inland Revenue. - 1892 Jul 5

293 - Milner, Duke Street, to P.L.G.: makes further comments on the election results. - 1892 Jul 15

294 - Milner, Duke Street, to Edith Gell: he is unable to accept Lady Midleton's invitation. - 1892 Jul 26

295-308 - A group of letters from Milner, including nine to P.L.G., four to Edith Gell and one to Henry Gell, relating mainly to the composition and publication of England in Egypt. - 1892 Aug 8 - Dec 25

309 - Milner, Duke Street, to P.L.G.: thanks for payment of interest on a loan he has made to P.L.G.: arrangements for the repayment of the principal; England in Egypt is going into its third edition. - 1893 Feb 7

310 - Milner, New University Club, to P.L.G.: has recently visited (Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone) Grant Duff; discusses whether he should reply to attacks (on England in Egypt) from (Wilfred Scawen) Blunt. - 1893 Apr 4

311 - Milner, Duke Street, to Edith Gell: social arrangements; he is to prepare a reply to (W. S.) Blunt; England in Egypt is to go into a fourth edition. - 1893 Apr 11

312 - Milner, Somerset House, to Henry Gell: answers queries raised in a conversation with H. G. and (? James Kingston) Fowler as to which expenses of doctors are deductable from their income tax. - 1893 Apr 22

313 - Milner, Duke Street, to Edith Gell: he is unable to visit Oxford at the end of the week. - 1893 May 11

314 - Milner, Duke Street, to Henry Gell: congratulates him on his engagement; he is to visit (Benjamin) Jowett but not P.L.G. - 13 May 1893

315 - Milner, Duke Street, to (P.L.G.): discusses Henry Gell's marriage and his own opinion of marriage. (The first folio is missing.) - (1893 May)

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317 - Milner, Somerset House, to Edith Gell: P.L.G. should not mention to anyone George Parkin's being given an unconditional subsidy by a group of friends to enable him to lecture. - 1893 Aug 31

318 - Milner, Grand Hotel, Manchester, to P.L.G.: thanks him for money paid as part of the principal of his loan; he is touring Inland Revenue branch offices. - 1893 Sep 12

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320 - Milner, Duke Street, to Mrs. Gell: his health; he is to stay with the Goschens and Mrs. Montefiore. - 1893 Dec 25

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322 - Milner, Duke Street, to Edith Gell: his state of health; he is working hard preparing the budget. - Mar 1894

323 - Milner, Duke Street, to Edith Gell: a projected visit to Oxford. - 1894 Apr 25

324 - Milner, Somerset House, to Henry Gell: describes the hard work at the Commons with the Budget debate; his heart has been troubling him less than usual. - 1894 Jun 1

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327 - Milner, Eastbourne, to Edith Gell: he is taking a holiday before the Budget; he is learning to ride a bicycle. - 1895 Apr 10

328 - Milner, Duke Street, to P.L.G: thanks P.L.G for his congratulations on his receiving a knighthood; he regrets the resignation of (the 5th Earl of) Rosebery; comments on the electoral prospects. - 1895 Jul 3

329

330 - Milner, Duke Street, to P.L.G: discusses P.L.G.'s and Edith Gell's health; he is having a bicycling holiday at (Sir Courtenay Peregrine) Ilbert's; he is annoyed by the differences between Great Britian and the U.S.A. but is not alarmed by them. - 1895 Dec 30

331 - Milner, Duke Street, to P.L.G: P.L.G's health; comments on the condition of the Sinking Fund, Consols and the Savings Bank; P.L.G. must not worry about the Oxford University Press while taking leave of absence. - 1896 Mar 2

332

337 - Milner, Duke Street, to Edith Gell: reports the praise of Louise Dawkins (the wife of Clinton Edward Dawkins) for their kindness to her. - 1896 Aug 29

338 - Milner, Duke Street, to Edith Gell: gives his opinion on the advisability of P.L.G. leaving the Oxford University Press; comments on Spenser Wilkinson's The Nation's Awakening. - 1896 Sep 8

339-340

340

341-342 - Milner, Duke Street, to Edith Gell: his Christmas plans; reflects on the underlying frivolity of his own character. - 9, 27 Dec 1896

343

344 - Milner, Duke Street, to P.L.G: possibilities of his approaching Dawkins or Cromer about finding a place for P.L.G in the Egyptian service. - 1897 Jan 22

345

346 - P.L.G: pencil notes of answers to Milner to some questions P.L.G put to him on secret of his success in public life. - 1897 Feb 17

347 - Milner, Duke Street, to P.L.G: would like to know P.L.G.'s decision about the offer of the post of Imperial Secretary when Milner goes to Cape Town; a good service candidate has now appeared; if P.L.G does not take it, there will always be an opportunity in Egypt. - 1897 Feb 25

348 - Milner, Duke Street, to P.L.G: he is unable to offer P.L.G the post of Imperial Secretary; Chamberlain was unwilling to press the Treasury. - 1897 Feb 27

349 - Milner, Duke Street, to Rev. J. P. Gell (P.L.G.'s father): thanks for congratulations on his appointment as High Commissioner for South Africa. - 1897 Feb 28

350 - P.L.G.: draft of a formal letter for Milner to show Chamberlain on question of Imperial Secretaryship; he is prepared to accept Milner's offer but is concerned at the salary. (The letter is incomplete at the end.) - 1897 Feb

351 - Milner, Duke Street, to P.L.G: thanks for his note about G. C. Sellar (as a possible recruit for his South African staff); but he does not think he can take any additional staff; describes his present staff. - 1897 Mar 4

352 - Milner, Duke Street, to Henry Gell: he will be coming to see him for a medical check-up. - 1897 Mar 5

353 - Major J. Hanbury Williams, ibid., to Henry Gell: is M's new military secretary; he would like to discuss Milner's health with him so as to save Milner from overwork; he has not mentioned this to Milner - 1897 Mar 8

354 - hopes Osmond Walrond, his private secretary, will be asked to the farewell dinner; he has been to College of Arms to get a coat of Arms to get a coat of arms. - 1897 Mar 16

355 - he would like to see them in the evening; he may have to leave next week as 'things look very black'. - 1897 Apr 5

356 - Osmond Walrond, ibid. , to P.L.G.: thanks for his advice about Milner; hopes he will serve him (as private secretary) well. - 1897 Apr 9

357

358 - Osmond Walrond, Government House, Cape Town, to Edith Gell: gives an account of voyage, their reception at Cape Town and the first days in Government House. - 6 May 1897

359 - Milner, Duke Street, to P.L.G.: gives detailed reasons why he does not in fact think the Imperial Secretaryship would be suitable for P.L.G.; describes the office routine and demands of the post; he is certain that Egypt is more suitable; his preliminary impressions of South Africa. - 1897 Jun 22

360

361 - Milner, Duke Street, to Henry Gell: congratulations on the birth of their son; would be pleased to be godfather; not much news as only just settling in; Cape Town a fourth-rate provincial town; society `odious'; his staff is good, Mrs. Hanbury Williams especially; has a good doctor. - 1897 Jul 28

362 - Walrond, ibid., to Mrs. Gell: Milner has had eye trouble, due to gas lighting after so many years with electricity; gossip about staff and surroundings, Mrs. Hanbury Williams a good lady, Miss Rhodes and the Rawsons only decent people in the town; impending trip to Bulawayo for railway opening; Imperial Secretary due soon. - 1897 Aug 18

363-364 - Milner, Cape Town, to Mrs. Gell: staying at their country house at Newlands; description of recent tour of east of Cape Colony; very hard work; sending of G(eorge) V(andaleur) Fiddes as his Imperial Secretary will be very useful; sure P.L.G. would not have been suited, he must take to his pen again; thanks for account of Lady Wantage's house party; impending trip to Bulawayo, will be out of place amongst all Rhodes' friends; encloses photograph of himself and party. - 1897 Oct 12

365 - Walrond, Cape Town, to Mrs. Gell: the whole group is bored by the society and surroundings; Milner's health and success; Lady Chas. Bentinck staying at present, hopes she will be a good example to Mrs. Hanbury Williams; hopes Fiddes will work hard. - 1897 Oct 20

366 - Walrond, Cape Town, to Mrs. Gell: has arrived back from Rhodesia. - 1897 Nov 30

367 - Milner, Cape Town, to Henry Gell: much to do to catch up arrears; Christmas wishes; newspapers distorting South African scene. - 1897 Dec 10

368-375 - P. L .G.., Langley Lodge, to St. John Brodrick: thanks for invitation to help organise public dinner; suggestions of suitable people to invite, with comments on their feeling to Milner and vice versa; arrangements between P.L.G., Brodrick and Curzon (the joint-organisers); with two letters from St. J. Brodrick to P.L.G. about arrangements. - 1897 Feb 25-Mar 19

376-476 - Milner Dinner: correspondence about and applications for tickets, to either Curzon, Brodrick or P.L.G. from: - Mar 1897

477-484 - Milner Dinner: letters applying for tickets in folder endorsed `Refused', from Stuart Cumberland; Sir St. Vincent Hammick; W. M. Hardinge; Frederic MacKarness; O. J. Simon; C. C. Tennant; C. N. Whitfield; G. Wilson. - 1897 Mar

485-499 - Milner Dinner: miscellaneous accounts, including vouchers from Cafe Monico, Harrison & Sons (stationers) and J. L. Pfungst & Company (champagne shipper); table plans; printed menus; dinner ticket of J. M. Rendel; press cuttings reporting the function. - 1897 Mar

500 - Walrond, Cape Town, to Mrs. Gell: New Year wishes. - 1898 Jan 5

501 - Milner, Cape Town, to P.L.G.: heavy load of work; qualities of his staff; new trouble in Basutoland; impossibility of compromise, assertion necessary. - 1898 Jan 11

502 - Walrond, Cape Town, to Mrs. Gell: Milner's health; visit of the Hely-Hutchinsons; impending trip to Graaff Reinet to open new railway. - 1898 Mar 1

503 - Milner, Morija, Basutoland, to P.L.G.: condolences on death of Rev. Philip Gell: optimistic about turn of imperial affairs; impossibility of success in South Africa with so little Imperial expenditure; P.L.G. should stand firm at the O. U. P. - 1898 Apr 20

504 - Milner, Cape Town, to Mrs. Gell: concerned at the departure of P.L.G. from O. U . P.; problems of future career. - 1898 May 11

505 - P.L.G., Langley Lodge, to Milner (This is the first of a series of later copies of P.L.G.'s letters to Milner ): death of his father; description of the last period of his conflict with the Delegates of the O.U.P.; has succeeded in obtaining a pension of £400 p.a. - 1898 May 26

506 - Milner, Cape Town, to P.L.G.: is pleased at his successful termination of contract with O.U.P.; he should rest before looking for new work. - 1898 Jun 15

507 - Milner, Cape Town, to P.L.G.: requests him to send a copy of Plato to Miss Synge; is to come home in the autumn. - 1898 Jun 29

508 - P.L.G., Langley Lodge, to Milner: agrees that he should rest; is enjoying his functions as a J. P.; has accepted the auditorship of his Assurance Company (the Guardian), which should lead to a directorship; has talked with Lord Camperdown and Lord Grey on his future; Grey has suggested that he should be made the secretary of the Imperial Institute and has proposed that he might act as British South Africa Company's nominated director on some mining companies' boards; Camperdown wants him to go to Egypt. - 1898 Jul 6

509 - P.L.G. , Langley Lodge , to Milner: prospects of new parliament in South Africa; has heard that Milner would be given more subordinates if he asked the Treasury for them; comments on Chamberlain's recent activities, jealousy between C.O. and F.O. - 1898 Jul 22

510 - Milner, Cape Town, to P.L.G.: comments on Grey's proposals to P.L.G.; chances of a future in Rhodesia; his personal need to have a friend of like mind in England whilst he is in South Africa; latest news of Clinton Dawkins' possible transfer to India from Egypt; impossibility of men being able to convey exact local situations back to the centre; comments on Rhodes' untrustworthiness, although an admirable man. - 1898 Jul 28

511 - Milner, Cape Town, to P.L.G.: imperative that Chamberlain remains at C.O. , his great qualities as a statesman; plans for home leave. - 1898 Aug 9

512 - Milner, Cape Town, to P.L.G.: comments on H. A. L. Fisher's engagement to Lettice Ilbert; results of elections will mean tortuous politics in Cape. - 1898 Sep 13

513 - P.L.G. , Langley Lodge, to Milner: further comments on Fisher's engagement, P.L.G.'s action when asked by Lady Ilbert of Milner's relationship with Lettice; Brodrick's acceptance of Under-Secretary-ship at the F.O. was reluctant; Salisbury losing control of the party; unpopularity of Gerald Balfour's Irish Local Government Bill; Curzon's reasons for resignation, will remove greatest threat to Chamberlain. - 1898 Oct 6

514 - Milner, Cape Town, to P.L.G.: comments on P.L.G.'s suggestion that Britain should obtain a coaling station at Great Fish Bay; forceful expression of his opinion of Rhodes and other commercialist imperialists; Grey too blind an admirer of Rhodes. Oct 19 - 1898

515 - P.L.G. , Brooks's: notes on talks with Milner since his return to England and notes of first activities on his arrival; comments on Milner's views of Sprigg, Schreiner and Cape politicians; his relations with Transvaal; real danger of war with the Basutos as well as with the Boers. - 1898 Nov 19

516 - Milner, Duke Street, to Henry Gell: arrangements to meet. - 1898 Nov 20

517 - Milner, Panshanger, Hertford, to P.L.G.: thanks for reports of gossip against him (possibly referring to antagonism of Chamberlain's sister-in-law towards him), does not take it seriously. - 1898 Nov 25

518 - P.L.G.: disconnected notes of talks with Milner and of letter to A. Beit concerning Milner's opinion and Chamberlain's and the Government's opinion of a loan to Transvaal made by Consolidated Goldfields, or any other private company; unwillingness of the Government to involve itself; need for Transvaal to be forced to make political concessions in return for loan. - 1898 Nov 30, Dec 1

519 - Milner, Duke Street, to (P.L.G. ): lunch engagement. - 1898 Dec 18

520 - P.L.G. , Langley Lodge, to Milner: requesting his approval of movements of securities in his capacity of trustee for Mrs. Gell. - 1898 Dec 20

521 - Milner, Duke Street, to P.L.G.: is sure that his choice of job in either the Wernher/Beit group or the Grey/Rhodes group is sensible; would prefer the former; thanks for help and advice (?question of Transvaal loan), would like to see Wernher. - 1899 Jan 3

522 - Mutual Life Assurance Company Ltd, to Henry Gell: asking his medical opinion of Milner who has applied for life cover. - 3 Jan 1899

523 - Milner, Duke Street, to P.L.G.: has seen Wernher and (G. E. ) Buckle, the latter not unfavourable to P.L.G.'s scheme, but doubts if it will succeed; dinner engagement. (Letter endorsed "Appointment of Monypenny to Johannesburg Star" referring to choice of William Flavelle Monypenny as editor of the chief Uitlander journal in the Transvaal in early 1899. ) - 1899 Jan 11

524 - Milner, Duke Street, to P.L.G.: has to go out, will miss him; feels sense of foreboding. - 1899 Jan 25

525 - Milner, Duke Street, to Mrs. Gell: pleasure at hearing of possibility of P.L.G.'s election to British South Africa Company Board. - 1899 Jan 26

526 - Milner to Mrs. Gell: description of his holiday in Yarmouth with his cousins; illustrates possible present of silver dish that he would like from the Gells. - 1899 Jan

527 - Milner, R. M. S. `Briton', to P.L.G.: agrees with his estimate of his future action on British South Africa Company Board; need to ensure business viability of Rhodesian venture; effect of visits home upon him; sense of responsibility with reference to South Africa; has still not lost his sense of humour, however. - 1899 Jan 30

528 - Milner, Government House, Cape Town, to P.L.G.: would like to hear that his election to British South Africa Company Board is a fait accompli; danger that he might be rejected as a `government spy'; unsavoury characters who surround Rhodes' enterprises; menace of Transvaal situation. - 1899 Mar 22

529 - Walrond, ibid. , to Mrs. Gell: death of his father; difficulty of politics at present; Mrs. Hanbury Williams the weak spot in the staff; drains up at Government House, moving to Mount Nelson Hotel. - 1899 Apr 26

530 - Walrond, Mount Nelson Hotel, Cape Town, to Mrs. Gell: lengthy discussion of the futility of social arrangements in South Africa; Milner's boredom; tension as they wait for reply from Colonial Office to petition of Mar 24 and dispatch; acuteness of Milner's perception, his "straightness ", news of the staff. - 1899 May 7

531 - (Endorsed "received 22/5/99.") Milner, Government House, to P.L.G.: worked to death; vexed at delay in P.L.G.'s election to British South Africa Company; difficulty of Transvaal situation, Boers absolutely in the wrong; will never again be called tactful if his dispatches are published, as he hopes they will be; is determined that he and his friends should not rise to the gossip at present circulating (undisclosed). - 1899

532 - P.L.G., Duke Street, to Milner: lengthy comment on commercial and public opinion concerning Boers in U.K.; conversations with Wernher; has attended British South Africa Company Boards; need to increase magisterial powers of Native Commissioners in Southern Rhodesia; danger of a too early introduction of trials by jury, especially in cases concerning natives. - 1899 Jun 2

533 - Milner, Cape Town, to P.L.G.: comments on possible political future, difficulty of working with pro-Boer politicians; need for show of firmness before satisfactory negotiations can be had with Kruger; difficulties of new Legislative Council in Southern Rhodesia. - 1899 Jun 18

534-535 - Milner, Cape Town, to P.L.G.: encloses copy of letter to Sir Edward Grey expressing concern at Liberal opinion on Transvaal; analysis of Afrikander element in South African politics and its ultimate relation to permanent British rule. - 1899 Jun 21

536 - P.L.G. to Milner, encloses (not found) reports of Transvaal purchases of arms; need for U.K. to refuse entry of arms into South African ports and to combine with Portugal to stop their entry at Delagoa, etc. - 1899 Jun 23

537-538 - P.L.G., Langley Lodge, to (W. T. Stead?): draft letter remonstrating at criticism of Milner's policies printed in Review of Reviews; repeats Milner's justifications as expressed in his letter to Sir Edward Grey. With letter, 24 Jul 1958, from National Register of Archives to Mrs. P. V. W. Gell: returning above letter as part of deposit already removed by Mrs. Gell. - 1899 Jul 21

539 - Milner, Cape Town, to Mrs. Gell: his health; visit of the Edward Cecils; difficulties of present situation added to by presence of a traitorous general (Sir W. F. Butler) whom the C.O. has so far "funked superseding." - 1899 Aug 8

540 - P.L.G., Langley Lodge, to Milner: public opinion relating to South Africa; M's effigy in Madame Tussaud's; comments on Southern Rhodesia, mismanagement of Legislative Council, dangers of native uprisings, financial arrangements of new country, his view of Wilson Fox. - 1899 Aug 25

541 - P.L.G., Langley Lodge to Milner: comments on recent military reverses; lack of proper leadership, influence of "smart society"; need for greater training. - 1899 Nov 3

542 - P.L.G., 18 Eaton Square, to Milner: reports talk with Wernher on the financial reserves available to Transvaal; incompetence of British military. - 1899 Nov 17

543 - Milner, Cape Town, to P.L.G.: frustration at military events; Wernher's estimate similar to his own; his health. - 1899 Dec 10

544 - Milner, Cape Town, to P.L.G.: military situation; need to rebuild morale. - 1899 Dec 20

545 - P.L.G. to Milner: good side of defeat at Colenso; amazement of the public at incompetence of generals and the Cabinet; has got Rhodesian reinforcement authorised; has notified Government of availability of Krupps guns; cannot understand why British troops do not use more trenches instead of dashing around so violently. - 1900 Jan 12

546 - Milner, Cape Town, to P.L.G.: cable of thanks for last letter. - 1900 Jan 19

547-548 - P.L.G. to Milner: heartened by better war news; estimate of Imperialist feeling of British public; has received authorisation for undisclosed secret move (details were written on separate sheet for burning); wonders if Lord Roberts would care to combine with Rhodesian Railways for construction of a line from Mafeking to Johannesburg. With annexed note by Milner that he cannot be sure of date on original letter. (This, and the following cable, probably refer to P.L.G.'s scheme to relieve Mafeking from the north. Although the War Office agreed in principle, they were so dilatory that nothing was effected. See also D3287 MIL/1/553 and /558.) - 1900 Feb 9

549-550 - British South Africa Company: copy cable conveying Milner's thanks to P.L.G. for cable. With annexed note to show cable to P.L.G. (See also D3287 MIL/1/558.) - 1900 Feb 12

551 - P.L.G. to Milner: good news from the war; good effect of the Queen's tours through London; extended comment on Liberal opinion on the Jameson Raid, Hawksley's attacks on the Government and his attempts to implicate Chamberlain in the Raid and Rhodes' present standing; encloses press cutting about Hawksley's speech at the Eighty Club; Hawksley's position in the British South Africa Company - 1900 Mar 19

552 - P.L.G. to Milner: recent awakening of the Government to its responsibilities; influence of Evelyn Cecil on Lord Salisbury; his opinion of Carrington and his officers; comments on future policy to be followed with regard to Boers who do not take the Oath of Allegiance; need to secure Portuguese frontier area in the north-east so as to control Transvaal. - 1900 Mar 16

553 - P.L.G. to Milner: reports conversation with Haldane who wondered if Milner should leave the settlement of Transvaal to other hands; need to make public statement of sympathy and understanding with Boers who were misguided by their former masters; comment on failure to unship British supplies at Beira due to Portuguese obstruction. - 1900 Mar 23

554 - Milner, Cape Town, to P.L.G.: situation over relief of Mafeking; need totally to destroy any vestige of Boer political independence: future treatment of Transvaal and Orange Free State; greater problem of the Bond; treatment of Cape rebels. - 1900 Apr 4

555 - P.L.G. to Milner: extended comment on his view of public opinion, the War Office, the Cabinet and the Military in South Africa; treachery of the Bond; relief of Kimberley and Mafeking. - 1900 Apr 12

556 - P.L.G. to Milner: greater resolve of the British public, decline of liberal sentimentalism, need for firmness in dealing with the Bond and with rebels; need to settle English women in South Africa as well as soldiers. - 1900 May 4

557 - Milner, Cape Town, to P.L.G.: criticism of the army, root and branch; is in favour of conscription; mendacity of public figures; need to build on lessons learnt from war by creating Imperial federation. - 1900 May 12

558 - P.L.G.: copy cable to British South Africa Company, Cape Town Office, requesting that they tell Milner that Rhodesia column can advance on Mafeking. (This cable may in fact be the cable to which D3287 MIL/1/549 is a reply.) - (?1900 May)

559-560 - Milner, Cape Town, to P.L.G.: encloses report of address delivered by Loyal Ladies Guild and his reply; has not permitted delay and has sent Carrington to fetch Rhodesian Field Force. - (1900 May)

561 - P.L.G. to Milner: discusses Rhodes' latest comments on British settlers in Southern Rhodesia and Boer territories; paramount need for female emigration. - 1900 Jun 1

562 - P.L.G. to Milner: comments on Milner's views on Federation and Army Reform; has tried to indoctrinate Evelyn Cecil with them; need for Civil Service reform; impossibility of progress whilst everything is restricted by the establishment and high society. - 1900 Jun 8

563 - P.L.G. to Milner: comment on Bloemfontein hospital scandal; has talked with Sir David Gill, his pronounced Imperialism; Princess Radziwill still seen in Society. - 1900 Jun 29

564 - Milner, Cape Town, to P.L.G.: his reactions to recent pro-Boer attacks on his reputation. - 1900 Jul 4

565 - Milner, Cape Town, to P.L.G.: comments on stories and scandal surrounding himself, Rhodes and Princess Radziwill; analysis of his relationship with Rhodes and their separate yet similar roles; resents being thought of as a dictator in South Africa; his views on self-government and Imperialism. - 1900 Jul 11

566 - Milner, Cape Town, to Mrs. Gell: will return P.L.G.'s letters at the end of the episode; comments on hospital scandal. - 1900 Jul 18

567 - P.L.G. to Milner - 1900 Jul 20

568 - P.L.G.: extract from a letter from Milner which he asked P.L.G. to burn: reflections on power of Princess Radziwill over Rhodes, Stead and possibly a "more exalted personage" (?Lord Salisbury). - 1900 Jul

569 - Milner, Cape Town, to P.L.G.: account of latest meeting with Princess Radziwill; latest attempt to effect reconciliation of Rhodes and the Bond unlikely to succeed. - 1900 Sep 9

570

571 - P.L.G. to Milner: estimate of his influence on British South Africa Company Board; his success with A. E. Morgans in W. Australia; conversation with Mrs. Clinton Dawkins, her level-headedness; lunch with Arnold Forster, his prospects at the Admiralty. 572 - 1900 Dec 17

572 - P.L.G. to Milner: military failings of the Boers; need to place military in full control in Cape Colony during emergency and to deal harshly with traitors of all hues; St. John Brodrick at the War Office, the difficulties of reforming the system; Lawley not going back to Southern Rhodesia, by Rhodes' wish; opinion of Milton; weakness of the F. O. in Rhodesian affairs; problems over native labour supplies from Portuguese territory. - 1901 Jan 11

573 - Milner, Cape Town, to Henry Gell: his health; wishing to begin reconstruction of new colonies. - 22 Jan 1901

574 - P.L.G. to Milner: reflections on death of Queen Victoria, her role in recent years; weakness of present ruling classes, sources of new power. - 1901 Jan 25

575 - P.L.G. to Milner: Queen's funeral; radical belief that the King is on their side; need to come into direct contact with the natives who will have to be crown tenants in the new colonies; suggests use of 'convoy' technique for pushing through supplies on railways. - 1901 Feb 1

576 - P.L.G. to Milner: comments on Cartwright trial and Ehrhardt guns; thinks that (? Richard) Solomon might be a good person to employ; comments on his opinions of Milner and his influence in London. - 1901 Feb 8

577 - Milner, Cape Town, to P.L.G.: excessively busy; lost all patience with British liberals; must employ stern measures to deal with guerillas. - 1901 Feb 19

578 - P.L.G. to Milner: relief of Ladysmith; public opinion; need for a just settlement and one that compensates the loyalists at expense of the rebels; Mafeking to Johannesburg railway scheme. - 1901 Mar 2

579 - P.L.G. to Milner: opinions of High Society and influence of pro-Boers; success of meeting to encourage emigration of women to South Africa. - 1901 Mar 14

580 - Milner, Cape Town, to P.L.G.: thanks for letter of Mar 4, agrees with it; thanks for anonymous comments on South African position (not found). - 1901 Apr 10

581 - Milner, Duke Street, to P.L.G.: unable to see him yet; will try to work on Lewanika Concession. With edited copy. - 1901 Jun 25

582 - Milner, Charlwood, Surrey, to Henry Gell: making appointment for medical consultation. - 1901 Jul 10

583-585 - Dinner to Milner: printed circular, menu card and table plan of dinner given to Milner by his friends. - 1901 Jul

586 - Milner, Johannesburg, to Henry Gell: thanks for flowers; Rosebery's speech not appreciated for its South African advice, no-one wishes to negotiate with Kruger. - 1902 Jan 16

587 - Milner, Johannesburg, to P.L.G.: thanks for correspondence about Colonel Hill, the Scottish Sharp-shooters and land settlement in the Orange River Colony; encloses (not found) relevant documents; is sure they can use Hill though misunderstandings not all due to Orange River Colony administration. - 1902 Jan 25

588 - Milner, Johannesburg, to P.L.G.: describes reconstruction of Transvaal; terrible state of affairs; difficulties of working with the military authorities; comments on Colonel Hill; unable to use the Welsh from Chubut, too many people wanting things to give everyone a hearing. - 1902 Mar 23

589 - Milner, Johannesburg, to P.L.G.: now that Rhodes has died, feels strongly that Southern Rhodesia should be brought within South African system and N.E. Rhodesia and N.W. Rhodesia left to the British South Africa Company to develop; causes of conflict between British South Africa Company and C.O.; unable to take initiative himself, that must come from the Company; need for the Company to strengthen the Board, Goldie the best man at present; compares native labour policies in South Africa and Southern Rhodesia. - 1902 Apr 20

590 - P.L.G. to St. John Brodrick: impossibility of Milner's devolving any power in South Africa due to lack of administrative finesse and high calibre: staff; need to import someone able to act as deputy in certain areas; suggests (Sir) Arthur Lawley. Envelope endorsed "Not sent." - 1902 Jun 5

591 - Milner, Johannesburg, to P.L.G.: impossible to write regularly; has taken notice of the Lewanika and Sekhome troubles; anger at interference from Home Government in South African affairs. - 1902 Sep 1

592 - P.L.G. to Milner: (1 part only of draft to M) discussion of British South Africa Company's administration of Southern Rhodesia; doubts if Southern Rhodesia would accept rule from Downing Street; difficulty of the Company continuing administration on sufferance. - 1902 Oct

593 - W. T. Stead, Review of Reviews, to P.L.G.: encloses copy of article he has felt bound to write criticising Milner's policy towards the Boers since peace was signed. - 1902 Oct 14

594 - Walrond, Johannesburg, to Mrs. Gell: progress of scheme of sending women domestics to South Africa; need for greater organisation; success of last shipment. - 1902 Nov 26

595 - Milner, Johannesburg, to Henry Gell: arrival of Chamberlain; visit of Henry Rendel; his health. - 1903 Jan 4

596 - P.L.G. to Sir Thos. Sanderson (later Baron Sanderson, permanent under-secretary at the Foreign Office 1894-1906): seeking information as to Milner's parents so as to dispel accusations of German nationality being made at present in South Africa. - 1903 Jan 16

597 - P.L.G. to Milner: outlines scheme to encourage the emigration of youths to serve as domestic servants where it is impossible to employ women; if this were acted upon, then there would be no need to employ natives within the household, an area where they are extremely undesirable. With transcript copy. - 1903 Jan 23

598 - Milner, Johannesburg, to P.L.G.: difficulty of writing; comments on Milton and on the recent arrangements re the British South Africa P.; glad that Rhodesia was able to enter the S. A. Customs Union; need for unity on any question in South Africa. With edited transcript copy. - 1903 May 18

599 - Milner, Tanga, German E. Africa, to P.L.G.: is on way to Trieste and holiday at Karlsbad; will be in London in October, is to stay with the Dawkins. - 1903 Aug 14

600 - W. T. Stead to P.L.G.: has written to Belloc; sees a conflict over Milner's possible appointment to the C. O. , would like to see him there as doing less harm than he is doing in South Africa. - 1903 Sep 20

601 - Milner to P.L.G.: reasons for not accepting offer of Colonial Secretaryship; need to retain freedom from party, importance of remaining in South Africa for immediate future; hopes it is Selborne who gets the post. - 1903 Sep 21

602 - Milner, Hotel Konigsvilla, Karlsbad, to P.L.G.: hopes he will say nothing about the C.O.; his appreciation of manner of offering the job by Balfour. - (1903 Sep 22)

604 - St. John Brodrick, Aberlady, to P.L.G.: telegram that P.L.G. should see Milner soon to 'forge' his views. - 1903 Sep 28

605 - Milner, Queen Anne's Gate, to P.L.G.: thanks for telegram; unable to meet him before he meets Balfour; is sure that he does not want the office but cannot be sure if he will be able to resist personal pressure. - 1903 Sep 28

606 - Milner, Reform Club, to P.L.G.: hopes to meet him. - 1903 Sep 30

607 - Milner, Colonial Office, to P.L.G.: thanks for Chapman's confidential report; has had talk with Goldie, describes his answer to questioning on whether; the British South Africa Company's rule in Southern Rhodesia would come to an end in near future. - 1903 Oct 29

608 - Milner, Colonial Office, to P.L.G.: thanks for letter; unable to come to Howick to Earl Grey's. - 1903 Nov 4

609 - Milner, Colonial Office, to P.L.G.: invitation to dine with Dawkins. - 1903 Nov 6

610 - Milner, Colonial Office, to P.L.G.: agrees with him on Rhodesia; pleased with his meeting with British South Africa Company Board, impressed by Wilson Fox; accounts for occupation of one of his days, terrible rush. With transcript copy. - 1903 Nov 19

611 - Milner, Fairhill, Tonbridge (the Dawkins' house), to P.L.G.: meeting for dinner. - 1903 Nov 24

612 - P.L.G. to Milner: need to dispose of the Resident Commissioner in Salisbury; irresponsibility of the views of Marshall Clarke; possibility of combining offices of Commandant and R. C. in Chester-Master. - 1903 Nov 28

613 - Milner, Queen Anne's Gate, to P.L.G.: will speak to (Sir Alfred) Lyttelton (the new Colonial Secretary) on undisclosed matter. - 1903 Nov 27

614 - Milner, R. M. S. 'Dunottar Castle,' to P.L.G.: agrees about Marshall Clarke and about the office of Resident Commissioner; does not want to take Southern Rhodesia over for the Crown, but protect it from follies of Downing Street; difficulties ahead for Asiatic Labour policy, his estimate of Africans' abilities to work; the fate of his library, now with P.L.G.; comments on Sir John Barnard Byles' book on free trade. - 1903 Dec 13

615 - Milner, Johannesburg, to Mrs. Gell; pressure of work; South Africa going through phase of revolution as in England in 1640-90; excited at possibility of their moving to Hopton Hall. - 1904 Mar 7

616 - Milner, Johannesburg, to P.L.G.: requests that they get a present for Jack Gray, P.L.G.'s nephew and Milner's godson, for his confirmation. - (1904 Mar 25)

617 - Milner, Johannesburg, to P.L.G.: extended comment on his views of the Southern Rhodesian conflict with the Company on repayment for administrative costs, development investment and Goldie's report on the future of the colony; glad that problems over sale of Langley Lodge have been overcome. - 1904 Aug 12

618 - Milner,Johannesburg, to P.L.G.: comments on P.L.G.'s letter to The Times about Southern Rhodesia; is to tour Transvaal in a car; prospects for the country are good. With edited transcript copy. - 1904 Oct 2

619 - Milner, Johannesburg, to P.L.G.: has accepted certain reductions in strength of British South Africa Police; his views on the future of the Police; is to drop office of Resident Commissioner and combine it with Commandant General. - 1904 Dec 12

620 - Milner, Johannesburg, to Henry Gell: he will probably soon give up in South Africa; his plans for the immediate future; satisfaction at having saved South Africa from economic crisis. - 1905 Jan 1

621 - Milner, Johannesburg, to Mrs. Gell: thanks for photograph of Hopton; glad that Birchenough is on British South Africa Company Board; is soon to leave South Africa; irritation at British agitation for full political freedom and paraphernalia in Transvaal and Orange River Colony; have decided to build railway from Krugersdorp to Mafeking, a substitution for original joint scheme to Lobatsi with the British South Africa Company - 1905 Jan 23

622 - British South Africa Company: copy of exchange of letters between Milner and Sir William Milton about Southern Rhodesia Leg. Company's expression of regret at Milner's leaving South Africa. - 1905 Apr 1, 8

623 - Milner, Cadenabbia, Italy, to P.L.G.: thanks for offer (?of a D. Litt. from Oxford) conveyed by (Percy Ewing) Matheson (fellow of New College); unable to accept as must stay away from England for some more time until fully rested. - 1905 May 27

624 - Milner, Brooks's Club, to Henry Gell: immediate plans; is looking for country house. - 1905 Jul 22

625 - Milner to P.L.G.: time of arrival. (Copy.) - 1905 Jul 29

626 - Milner, Brooks's, to Henry Gell: about search for a house. - 1905 Aug 2

627 - Milner, Polesden Lacey, Dorking, to P.L.G.: staying with Dawkins; his house. - 1905 Aug 16

628 - Milner, Brooks's, to P.L.G.: thanks for conveyance of offer of post on board of firm related to Egypt; is not against a first-class directorship, but not too keen on Egypt; must settle other things before looking for jobs. - 1905 Oct 24

629 - Blank sheets of the address of appreciation to Milner organised by Sir Bartle Frere. - (1905)

630 - Milner, Duke Street, to Henry Gell: site of a house in Berkshire. - 1906 Apr 29

631 - Milner, Mapperton, Wincanton, to P.L.G.: agrees with his letter; has heard of the trouble impending for Henry Gell. - 1906 May 3

632 - Milner, Royal Naval College, Greenwich, to P.L.G.: is to be in the City in the future; requests help in obtaining recommendation for South African man to a mining company. - 1906 May 12

633 - Milner, Duke Street, to P.L.G.: further information about N. P. Swinburne, the South African mining engineer, against whom there have been previous allegations stemming from his work in Rhodesia. - 1906 May 19

634-635 - Milner, Norman Hall, Sutton Courtney, Berks., to P.L.G.: has moved into this house for time being; further about Swinburne. - 1906 Jun 13, 25

636 - Milner, Duke Street, to P.L.G.: making business appointment; they never seem to meet. (with transcript copy) - 1907 Jan 9

637 - Milner, Sturry Court, Kent, to P.L.G.: thanks for gold statistics. (with transcript copy) - 1907 Jan 13

638

639-642 - Milner to P.L.G. and Mrs. Gell: visit to Hopton Hall; death of Henry Gell's daughter; building works at Sturry Court. - [Jul]-Sep 1907

643 - Milner, Sturry, to P.L.G.: agrees with P.L.G.'s estimate of South African situation. With transcript copy. - 1907 Nov 22

644 - Milner, Sturry Court, to P.L.G.: is going to Canada; distress at the state of politics; impossibility of true Imperialism at present; his business commitments; Sturry. With transcript copy. - 1908 Aug 29

645 - Milner, Duke Street, to Mrs. Gell: despondency at election results and English politics; his business life; intends to amass sufficient wealth to be available for public service should he ever be needed. - 1911 Jan 6

646-647 - Milner, Duke Street., to P.L.G.: arranging meeting. - 1911 Jan 9, 11

648 - Milner, Sturry, to Mrs. Gell: visit to Hopton. - 1911 Jul 17

649 - Milner, Duke Street., to P.L.G.: concerning Mrs. Gell's Trust. - 1911 Nov 28

650 - Milner, Duke Street, to P.L.G.: is asking the editor of Round Table to send him a free copy; thinks he should subscribe; "It is real business this & not magazine making." With transcript copy. - 1912 Jan 12

651

652 - Milner, Duke Street, to P.L.G.: further comments on Masterman; review of candidates for the post; supports P.L.G.'s idea of a tablet in memory of Canon Barnett rather than a drinking fountain; comments on Welsh disestablishment; the Irish question, would rather fight than submit to rule of Ulster by the southern Irish. - 1913 Oct 15

653 - P.L.G. to Milner: encloses (not found) report by Collins, local manager for Huelvas Copper Mines, on labour situation in Spain and comments on local Rio Tinto Zinc labour policy; Asquith's manic policy in Ireland. - 1913 Dec 9

654

655 - Milner, Chaulke Hill., to P.L.G.: returned from Spain; comments on Rio Tinto's position in Spain, from point of view of its relations with its workers, its English staff, other companies and the political scene; many of its faults due to London policy, is trying to affect its course but difficult as he is newest member of the board. - 1914 Feb 6

656 - Milner, Chaulke Hill, to P.L.G.: Irish position reminds him of the days of 1886; need for a local organisation to underpin the Covenant. With transcript copy. Mar 6 - 1914

657 - Milner, Chaulke Hill, to P.L.G.: local organisation for the Covenant; this is only the beginning of great conflict with the Liberal caucus. Mar 21 - 1914

658 - Milner, Sturry, to P.L.G.: glad to hear of S. Derbyshire meeting for the Covenant; the Government must be driven to go to the country. Jun 3 - 1914

659

660 - Milner, Duke Street, to P.L.G.: could not take part in recruiting campaign until is sure the Government is prepared to undertake some form of compulsory military service; the politicians, not the military, are at fault. - 1914 Sep 3

661 - Milner, Sturry, to Mrs. Gell: thanks for her latest book; the national crisis; lack of leaders; move to Great College Street. - 1915 Jan 3

662 - Milner, 17 Great College Street, to P.L.G.: need for national service, either military or industrial. With transcript copy. - 1915 Jun 3

663 - Milner, Great College Street., to Mrs. Gell: thanks for suggestions about food supplies which are rather outside terms of reference of his own committee on food production. - 1915 Jun 22

664

665 - P.L.G. to Milner: draft letter outlining scheme of control of gold and high value currency transactions so as to impede distribution of wealth by German agents; scandalised at amount of free speech allowed in U.K. which can only sap the nation's morale. - (1915)

666 - Milner, Sturry, to Mrs. Gell: signs of war in Kent; victory on conscription question. - 1916 May 7

667 - Milner, Great College Street, to P.L.G.: letter of thanks for best wishes on entering War Cabinet. - 1916 Dec 12

668

669 - Milner, Haven Hill, to P.L.G.: thanks for suggestion about cotton duties; his visit to Russia, impressed by Lvoff. - 1917 Mar 18

670 - P.L.G. to Milner: alienation of the farming classes by general Government attitudes, failure to pass the Corn Production Bill and rise in taxation. - 1917 Jul 10

671 - Milner, Great College Street, to P.L.G.: hard fight to obtain victory in control of food production; opposition of large landowners; lack of `national rural sense' in England. - 1917 Jul 10

672 - Milner, Great College Street., to P.L.G.: relief at passage of Corn Production Bill; power of the Labour party, their misrepresentation of the true feelings of the working classes; his high opinion of the British Workers League; terrible administrative chaos in Whitehall. - 1917 Aug 23

673 - P.L.G. to Milner: gives account of discussion of delay on Corn Production Bill at meeting of Empire Settlement Committee; desire of the colonies to see strong rural economy in U. K. so as to provide them with the right sort of agricultural immigrants. - 1917 Aug 29

674 - H.E. Duke, Irish Office, to P.L.G.: no doubt at all of Milner's ability to occupy position of trust under the Crown. - 1917 Dec 11

675 - P.L.G. to Milner: has heard that the practice of sending Irish soldiers home to recuperate is bad for their morale as the Irish population does not come under conscription. - 1918 Feb 12

676 - Milner, Great College Street, to P.L.G.: agrees about Irish convalescents; comments on attacks of Chas. À Court Repington and the conflict of Robertson and Henry Wilson. - 1918 Feb 14

677 - Major H. C. Thornton (Milner's private secretary) to P.L.G.: requests names of camps in Ireland where convalescents are sent. - 1918 Mar 7

678 - Milner, Great College Street, to Henry Gell: thanks for letter. - 1918 Apr 20

679-680 - H. C. Thornton to Philip V. W. Gell: Milner's hope that he will recover from his wounds. With Milner's card, with message. - 1918 Oct 24

681 - Milner, Sturry, to Henry Gell: takes up his place at the C. O. next week; will see Sir Henry Wilson about P. V. W. Gell's future military career. - 1919 Jan 24

682 - Leo S. Amery, Government Emigration Office, to P.L.G.: Milner wishes to have discussion with interested colonial parties about furtherance of emigration. - 1919 Feb 25

683 - Milner, Great College Street, to Henry Gell: P. V. W. G.'s engagement; glad that he has decided to enter business instead of the army, need for men of good background in business; his own prospects, looking forward to relinquishing official duties. - 1920 Apr 26

684 - Milner, Great College Street., to Mrs. Gell: choice of a writing table for P.V.W.G.'s wedding present. - 1920 Nov 11

685 - Milner, Great College Street, to Henry Gell: resignation of office; hopes he will obtain the promised place on the board of London Joint, etc., Bank which he relinquished on taking office; agrees that P.L.G. should get a title for all his services, a baronetcy would be best. - 1921 Jan 17

686 - Milner, Sturry, to P.L.G.: is to be married. - 1921 Feb 24

687 - Milner, Sturry., to Henry Gell: marriage plans. - 1921 Feb 24

688 - P.L.G. to Milner: congratulations on marriage. - 1921 Apr 16

689 - Milner, Great College Street, to Henry Gell: thanks for gift. - 1921 Apr 20

690 - Milner, Great College Street., to Mrs. Gell: thanks for gift; not sure where they will live. - 1921 Jun 7

691 - Milner, Sturry, to P.L.G.: wants to see him. (with transcript copy) - 1921 Oct

692 - Milner, Great College Street, to P.L.G.: thanks for advice on availability of Mr. Collins for Rio Tinto if wanted; future plans. With transcript copy. - 1921 Oct 6

693 - Milner, 14 Manchester Square, to P.L.G.: arrangements to meet. With transcript copy. - 1923 Oct 9

694 - Milner, Manchester Square., about Mrs. Gell: reports their trip to South Africa; is glad P.L.G. has retired from British South Africa Company - 1925 Mar 26

695 - Sir T. Herbert Warren, Magdalen College, Oxford, to P.L.G.: asks him to intercede on their behalf to get Milner to accept Chancellorship of Oxford; other candidates for the election. With transcript copy. - 1925 Apr

696 - Lady Milner, Sturry, to P.L.G.: Milner's acceptance of Chancellorship; Milner's illness, need for complete rest. - 1925 Apr 27

2 - Correspondence about Lord Milner, after his death, concerning a memorial to Milner and his correspondence with P.L.G. - 1925-1959

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