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Contains 51 Results:
Draft of a lecture by Chancellor on 'The London and North Western Railway', dealing with the management of the Goods Branch, n.d.
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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 284/1 (1), folder 1, fols. 1-31
Sketch map of the North Western Frontier of India, with notes added in Chancellor's hand, 1901
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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 284/1 (1), folder 1, fols. 32
Cabinet paper on Indian Defence by A.J. Balfour, 18 Nov 1903
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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 284/1 (1), folder 1, fols. 33-49
It consists of the first two parts of the Report on Indian Defence, which the Committee of Defence had provisionally accepted and referred to Lord Curzon, Viceroy of India, and Lord Kitchener, Commander-in-Chief, whose criticisms are appended.
Extents: 17 Leaves
Dates:
18 Nov 1903
Extract, from Railway Reconnaissances in Baluchistan by W.A. Johns, attached to the Seistan Arbitration Commission, 1903, n.d.
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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 284/1 (1), folder 1, fols. 50-52
A further note, unsigned, on the Kabul Negotiations, n.d.
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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 284/1 (1), folder 1, fols. 109-113
Report of the Committee on the Royal Engineers, covering Coast Defences, Field Engineering, Telegraphs, and Railways, n.d.
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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 284/1 (1), folder 1, fols. 138-139
Notes on the General Staff memorandum on the strength in which Russia could advance on India, n.d.
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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 284/1 (1), folder 1, fols. 140-142
Comments on Lord Kitchener's Note on the Military Policy of India, n.d. [c. 1905-1906]
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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 284/1 (1), folder 1, fols. 143-144
Three Committee of Imperial Defence (CID) Papers stapled together, marked 'Proof', 24 and 27 Feb and Apr 1905
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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 284/1 (1), folder 1, fols. 145-154
The first is by Balfour on 'Our present minimum military requirements..'; the other two, unsigned, are on Army reorganisation.
Extents: 10 Leaves
Dates:
24 and 27 Feb and Apr 1905
Note by Chancellor on the Baghdad Railway, May 1905
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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 284/1 (1), folder 1, fols. 155-161
Note by Chancellor on the Persian Question, Jun 1905
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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 284/1 (1), folder 1, fol. 162-179
Also on the policy of the British Government to prevent any other power from establishing its ascendancy in the Persian Gulf or in Southern Persia (Southern Iran).
Extents: 18 Leaves
Dates:
Jun 1905
Draft by Chancellor of a Note on the Baghdad Railway, 31 Jul 1905
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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 284/1 (1), folder 1, fols. 180-187
With emendations, possibly by Sir George Clarke, Secretary of the Committee of Imperial Defence.
Extents: 8 Leaves
Dates:
31 Jul 1905
Another draft of the Note on the Baghdad Railway, 31 Jul 1905
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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 284/1 (1), folder 1, fols. 188-193
With an appendix on the finance of the Baghdad Railway.
Extents: 6 Leaves
Dates:
31 Jul 1905
Note on the German Baghdad Railway Concession, n.d.
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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 284/1 (1), folder 1, fols. 194-204
With an addition, in Chancellor's hand, about measures to be taken to counter it.
Extents: 11 Leaves
Dates:
n.d.
Extract from a letter from Simla, criticising a paper on transport, 10 Aug 1905
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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 284/1 (1), folder 1, fols. 205
With pencilled comments added in Chancellor's hand. [The paper in question is possibly CID Paper 83 D; see MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 284/1 (1), folder 1, fols. 327-329.]
Extents: 1 leaf
Dates:
10 Aug 1905
Paper headed 'Notes on Paper 82D' concerning the possibility of Russian advance against India, n.d. [c. 1905]
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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 284/1 (1), folder 1, fols. 206-210
A note in Chancellor's hand states that a copy was sent to Sir George Clarke on 28 Aug 1905.
Extents: 5 Leaves
Dates:
n.d. [c. 1905]
Note by Chancellor on the financial effect of the introduction of universal military service in the United Kingdom, 30 Aug 1905
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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 284/1 (1), folder 1, fols. 211-225
Note by Chancellor on the proposed agreement with Russia concerning Afghanistan, 15 Oct 1905
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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 284/1 (1), folder 1, fols. 226-229
There is particular mention of a report that Russia was constructing a railway from Samarkand to the Oxus near Termez.
Extents: 4 Leaves
Dates:
15 Oct 1905
Note by Chancellor on the Baghdad Railway, reviewing the situation at the end of Oct 1905, n.d. [c. 1905]
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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 284/1 (1), folder 1, fols. 230-232
Note by Chancellor on 'The defence of India: political liabilities and assets', commenting on an article by Colonel Repington, 2 Nov 1905
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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 284/1 (1), folder 1, fols. 233-235