| Description | Letters addressed to Algernon Hawkins Thomand Keith-Falconer, 9th Earl of Kintore, during his term of office as Lieutenant-Governor of South Australia, from Edward Stanhope, Algernon Bothwick (the Queen's private secretary), Lord Pembroke, Lord Dufferin and Ava, Lord Carrington, the Duke of Fife, Lord Forbes, Lord Salisbury, Peter Clarke, Lord Ripon, Lord Rosebery, Lord Knutsford, Lord Hopetoun and Lord Lansdown, 1889 - 93.
Including:
i. from Lord Carrington, describing the formation of the new government, 26 August 1892
ii. from Lord Carrington, concerning a speech made by the latter in Bristol on Australia which had caused controversy, and on the Royal funeral on 21 January, 24 January 1897
iii. from Lord Carrington, describing a trip to South Africa and discussing politics and business there and in Britain and the interrelationship between the two countries, 28 October 1891
iv. from Lord Salisbury, thanking the Earl of Kintore for offering to pay the cost of an election petition against Mr Gladstone, but refusing the offer; with remarks on the causes of the loss of the general election and on the possibilities of attracting the working class to the Conservative party, 12 September 1992
v. and vi. from Lord Ripon, requesting that the Earl of Kintore should communicate freely and confidentially with him and congratulating him on assisting in the settlement of a widespread strike, 29 December 1892 and 25 August 1893
vii., viii., and ix. from Lord Knutsford, on the topics of a federation of Australian states, the Australian squadron of naval ships, and coolie labour in the Northern Territories: "I dare say we could find and send out ... [a] skilled Protector of Immigrants, as we have so many coolies in the W. Indies", 29 January 1891, 17 July 1891, and 14 May 1892
x. from Lord Lansdowne, Viceroy of India, expressing the view that India's unemployed surplus population should be resettled as labourers in the Northern Territories of Australia with the protection of an Indian "native protector": "I used to think, while I was in Canada, that the system under which a handful of colonists were allowed to assume almost unchecked control of areas large enough to provide a home for millions was quite indefensible", 8 September 1991
xi. from Lord Salisbury, to the effect that public opinion on the Home Rule Bill is uncertain, 23 February 1893
Also three letters addressed to the Earl after 1893, including:
xii. from Lord Devonshire, on the proposed labour laws of South Australia, 21 September 1894
xiii. from Lord Curzon, asking Lord Kintore to chair a parliamentary committee in the absence of Lord Donoughmore, who will be away on a mission to India for two or three months, 22 September 1917 |