The volume contains the following items:
G173/17/1, Board of Agriculture and Fisheries circular to County Councils etc., on Small Holdings and Allotments Act, 1 Jan 1908, 4 printed pp., 1 Jan 1908
G173/17/2, Letter to 4th Earl of Onslow from Lord Kitchener re examination record of Capt. Graham, 9 Jan 1908
G173/17/3, Report of Worcestershire County Council committee on small holdings, 11 Jan 1908, 14 printed pp., 11 Jan 1908
G173/17/4, Letter to 4th Earl of Onslow from James Lowther [Speaker] about death of Lowther's brother, 14 Jan 1908
G173/17/5, Copy letter to Secretary, Board of Agriculture and Fisheries from Norfolk County Council small holdings committee, 18 Jan 1908, TS., 18 Jan 1908
G173/17/6, Personal letter to 4th Earl of Onslow from Lord Lansdowne, 20 Jan 1908
G173/17/7, Letter to 4th Earl of Onslow re planned Gilbertian banquet [signature illegible], 28 Jan 1908
G173/17/8, Letter to 4th Earl of Onslow from L. [Lansdowne] on undesirability of publishing Killanin correspondence, etc., 31 Jan 1908
G173/17/9, Letter to 4th Earl of Onslow from Randall Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury, enclosing list of names, 4 Feb 1908
G173/17/10, Letter to 4th Earl of Onslow from John Burns, President, Local Government Board, on inclusion of model Milk Clauses in private bills, 12 Feb 1908
G173/17/11, Personal letter to 4th Earl of Onslow from Lord Halsbury, 12 Feb 1908
G173/17/12, Letter to 4th Earl of Onslow from Lord Halsbury about Lord Tiverton's personality, 13 Feb 1908
G173/17/13, Personal letter to 4th Earl of Onslow from King Lewanika of Barotseland, N.W. Rhodesia, 15 Feb 1908
G173/17/14, Personal letter to 4th Earl of Onslow from Lord Halsbury, 18 Feb 1908
G173/17/15, Postcard to 4th Earl of Onslow confirming appointment from Lord Lansdowne, 8 Feb 1908
G173/17/16, Letter of apology to 4th Earl of Onslow from Lord Alverstone, 25 Feb 1908
G173/17/17, Small Holdings and Allotments [consolidation] Bill, 25 Feb 1908, 46 printed pp., 25 Feb 1908
G173/17/18, Letter to 4th Earl of Onslow from Lord Curzon accepting membership of standing committee of House of Lords, 3 March 1908
G173/17/19, Letter to 4th Earl of Onslow from Lord Cromer accepting membership of same committee (v.s.), 3 March 1908
G173/17/20, Personal letter to 4th Earl of Onslow from Lord Alverstone, 4 March 1908
G173/17/21, Letter to 4th Earl of Onslow from W.S. Gilbert re foreman of jury in first production of Trial by Jury, 6 March 1908
G173/17/22, Letter to 4th Earl of Onslow [signature illegible] re Small Holdings Bill and County Councils, 20 March 1908
G173/17/23, Copy letter from Secretary of Board of Agriculture and Fisheries to Norfolk County Council on regulations of small holding, 21 March 1908
G173/17/24, Letter to 4th Earl of Onslow from ? Lord [Ashbourne] Ashburnham on tactics in discussion of Small Holdings Bill, 22 March 1908
G173/17/25, Letter to 4th Earl of Onslow from Lord Cromer accepting membership of House of Lords committee on London electricity supply, 23 March 1908
G173/17/26, Letter to 4th Earl of Onslow from Lord Alverstone about golf, 7 April 1908
G173/17/27, Letter of apology to 4th Earl of Onslow from A.J. Balfour, not able to play golf, 28 March 1908
G173/17/28, Letter to 4th Earl of Onslow from Lord Crewe on new post, 23 April 1908
G173/17/29, Letter to 4th Earl of Onslow from Lord Milner on procedure in parliamentary committee, 25 May 1908
G173/17/30, Personal letter to 4th Earl of Onslow from Lord Rosebery, 25 May 1908
G173/17/31, Letter to 4th Earl of Onslow from James K Lowther on reporting of House of Lords debates, 20 May 1908
G173/17/32, Letter to 4th Earl of Onslow from same on difficulties over House of Lords reports, 27 May 1908
G173/17/33, Report of Worcestershire County Council smallholdings and allotments committee, 15 June 1908, 11 printed pp., 15 June 1908
G173/17/34, Letter of thanks to 4th Earl from Conservative and Liberal Unionist Association for N.W. or Chertsey division of Surrey on Onslow's retirement as their President, 12 June 1908
G173/17/35, Summary of applications for small holdings [? in Worcestershire] to 12 June 1908, 2 printed pp., 12 June 1908
G173/17/36, Personal letter to 4th Earl of Onslow from Lord Loreburn, 15 June 1908
G173/17/37, Letter to 4th Earl from Worcestershire County Council about Onslow's request for information re working of Small Holdings Act, 1 July 1908
G173/17/38, Personal note to 4th Earl of Onslow from Lord Rosebery, 10 July 1908
G173/17/39, Letter to 4th Earl of Onslow [signature illegible] re various political matters, 15 July 1908
G173/17/40, Letter to 4th Earl of Onslow from James Lowther re meeting with Chairman of Publications Committee of House of Commons, 15 July 1908
G173/17/41, Letter to 4th Earl of Onslow from Lord Rosebery on political matters, 22 July 1908
G173/17/42/1, Model rules as to small holdings suggested by County Agents Association, n.d., 3 printed pp., nd
G173/17/42/2, Form of agreement for lease of small holding, 1908 printed, 1908
G173/17/42/3, Rules of County Land Agents Association and list of committee members, n.d., 2 printed pp., nd
G173/17/43/1, Board of Agriculture and Fisheries leaflet no.217: Administration of the Allotments Acts, August 1908, 4 printed pp., Aug 1908
G173/17/43/2, Board of Agriculture and Fisheries leaflet no.215: How to obtain an allotment or small holding, August 1908, 4 printed pp., 1908
G173/17/44, Letter to 4th Earl of Onslow from Lord Lansdowne on parliament business and timetable and tactics re various bills, 28 Sep 1908
G173/17/45, Treasury minute re Small Holdings and Allotments Act (1907), 19 Oct. 1908, printed, 19 Oct 1908
G173/17/46, Personal letter to 4th Earl of Onslow from Lord Loreburn, 15 Oct 1908
G173/17/47, Letter to 4th Earl from W.S. Churchill thanking Onslow for return of Board of Trade seal, 2 Oct 1908
G173/17/48, Letter to 4th Earl of Onslow from Lord [Lansdowne] re political tactics, 12 Nov 1908
G173/17/49, Copy statement by Land Agent for Worcestershire County Council re Small Holdings Act (1907), 14 Nov 1908
G173/17/50, Copy letter from Board of Agriculture and Fisheries to Northamptonshire County Council on letting of smallholdings, 21 Nov 1908
G173/17/51, Copy letter to Mr. L.E. Gray from Office of Woods on allotments and smallholdings on Crown's Poynings estate, 24 Nov 1908
G173/17/52, Note to 4th Earl of Onslow from Lord Lansdowne on arrangement of House of Lords business, 27 Nov 1908
G173/17/53, Statement to [4th Earl of Onslow] from Secretary, General Council of Bar re Housing, Town Planning, etc., 27 Nov 1908
G173/17/54, Letter to 4th Earl of Onslow from John Burns, President, Local Government Board, on parliamentary business, 18 Dec 1908
G173/17/55, Statement with statistics re small holdings in Worcestershire, 12 Dec. 1908, TS., 12 Dec 1908
G173/17/56, A brief epitome of public work done 1874-1908 which may serve for an obituary notice by 4th Earl of Onslow, 6 TS. pp., 1874-1908
G173/17/57, Copy of Small Holdings and Allotments Bill, 9 TS. pp., nd
G173/17/58-59, Specimen application form for small holding and notes of no. of applications in Surrey, nd [1908]
G173/17/60, Report of meeting of County Land Agents Association, 11 Dec. 1908, printed, 11 Dec 1908
G173/17/61, Points re Small Holdings and Allotments Act, 3 TS. pp., 1908
G173/17/62, Allotments Extension Act, 1882, 8printed pp., 1882
G173/17/63, Statement re W.G.S. Rolleston and County Councils and Small Holdings Act, 3 TS. pp., nd
G173/17/64, Notes [? of 4th Earl of Onslow] re procedure for allocating small holdings [pp. 2-6, no p.1], nd
G173/17/65, Notices and Orders of Day, House of Lords including 4th Earl of Onslow's questions re smallholdings on p.2, 3 Dec. [1908] printed, 3 Dec [1908]
G173/17/66, Copy leaflet advertising smallholdings in Worcestershire., nd
G173/17/67, Notes [? by 4th Earl of Onslow] re Difficulties as experience in the administration of the Small Holdings Act, 4 TS. pp., nd
G173/17/68, Draft lease, details blank, of land for allotments under relevant Acts, 1887-1907
G173/17/69, Statement of facts re case of Mr. Ernest Horace Ringer and Norfolk County Council re purchase of land by County Council, 4 TS. pp., nd
G173/17/70, Note and calculations re rent on smallholding, TS. unsigned, nd
G173/17/71, Particulars of land let to Associations under Small Holdings and Allotments Act, 1908, covering Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Norfolk, Northamptonshire., Somerset, Wiltshire., Lincolnshire and the County Borough of Northampton, unsigned, 3 TS. pp., nd
G173/17/72, Reports from H.M. Representatives abroad respecting the composition and function of 2nd or Upper Chamber in foreign states, 8 July 1907, 69 pp., 1907
G173/17/73/1, Return of total no. of peers at several dates since beginning of reign of Queen Victoria (1845-1906), 10 pp., c.1906
G173/17/73/2, Return of temporal peers who(1) did not attend at all or (2) attended less than 10 times in sessions of 1902 and 1906 n.d., 1 p., c.1906
G173/17/73/3, Return of total no. of lords and record of their attendance in Parliament for certain years between 1765 and 1906 11 July 1907, 18 pp., 1907
G173/17/73/4-5, Number of House of Lords in 1907, and Return showing no. of temporal peers now sitting in Parliament, who hold or have held certain specified offices 1 p. and notes [by 4th Earl of Onslow], 1907
G173/17/74, Copy letter from 4th Earl of Onslow to Headlam enquiring about offices held by peers, 19 Feb 1908
G173/17/75/1, Return of no. of temporal peers now sitting in Parliament who are P.C.s, n.d., and List of Parliamentary proceedings referring to reform of the House of Lords, 13 pp., n.d., c.1908
G173/17/75/2, Letter from Earl of Dunraven to Earl of Rosebery re House of Lords reform; Suggestions with regard to questions of qualifications, life peerages and official peerages by the Earl of Rosebery n.d., 3 pp.; Suggestions for reform of House of Lords put forward by Earl of Rosebery 3 March 1908, 2 pp.; Suggestions with regard to representation of Scottish and Irish peerages in House of Lords by Earl of Rosebery 14 May 1908, 1 p.; Suggested clauses drawn up by Lord Rosebery re above, 1 p.; Proposal by Earl of Rosebery re House of Lords n.d., 1 p.; Suggestions with regard to official and life peerages by Earl of Rosebery and Lord Curzon 1 July 1908; Qualifications entitling hereditary peer to writ of summons to House of Lords including section III: proposal by Earl of Onslow n.d., 2 pp.; Suggestions for reform of House of Lords put forward by Duke of Beaufort, Viscount Midleton and Earl of Onslow and others, 2 pp.; Memorandum on election of peers by Lord Courtney of Penwith n.d.; Memorandum on election of Lords of Parliament by peers from among themselves by Lord Courtney n.d.; 3rd note on election of Lords of Parliament by Lord Courtney, 27 March 1908
G173/17/75/3, Resolutions to be moved by the Marquess of Lansdowne on Life Peers; Suggestions for reform of House of Lords by Marquess of Lansdowne, 2 pp.; Memorandum by Marquess of Lansdowne on life peerages; Note on representation of India in reformed House of Lords by Lord Curzon; Proposals with regard to election of representative from towns and Co. Councils to House of Lords put forward by Lord Curzon; Suggestions for reform of House of Lords by Viscount St. Aldwyn; Memorandum on spiritual Lords of Parliament by Archbishop of Canterbury; Qualifications entitling hereditary peer to writ of summons to House of Lords by Viscount Midleton; Memorandum re House of Lords reform by Duke of Northumberland 2 April 1908, 1908
G173/17/75/4, Memorandum by Duke of Northumberland; Suggested composition of reformed House of Lords by Duke of Northumberland; Qualifications for hereditary or life peer: suggestions for further discussion; List of qualifications for hereditary or life peer; Resolution to be proposed by Viscount Midleton, 1908
G173/17/76/1, Resolution to be moved by Earl of Rosebery with result, TS. Resolutions [concerning] representatives from towns by Earl of Rosebery. Resolution re life peers by Lord Newton. Select Committee on House of Lords Draft Report with Amendments, 32 pp., c.1908
G173/17/76/2, Minutes of Select Committee proceedings, 4 Feb - 23 July 1908
G173/17/76/3, Report from Select Committee on House of Lords 1908 43 pp., 1908
G173/17/77, Notes by Earl of Onslow on proceedings, Select Committee, 18 Feb - 7 April 1908
G173/17/78, Note by Earl of Onslow on House of Lords Reform for Association of Opposition Peers, TS, c.1908
G173/17/79, Minute, House of Lords 22 March 1910 3 printed pp., 1910
G173/17/80, News cutting re House of Lords Reform, c.1910
G173/17/81, Notes by 4th Earl of Onslow on House of Lords Reform, c.1910
G173/17/82, Extracts from speeches by Sir Edward Grey re House of Lords Reform, TS., c.1910
G173/17/83, Notes of proceedings by 4th Earl of Onslow re House of Lords Reform, c.1910
G173/17/84, Notes on House of Lords Reform by 4th Earl of Onslow, c.1910
G173/17/85, Note of Lord Lyndhurst's opposition to life peers, c.1910
G173/17/86, House of Lords: The Question of Reform by Professor Knight n.d. 30 printed pp., c.1910
G173/17/87, Notes on main points of division re House of Lords Reform n.d., TS., c.1910
G173/17/88, Memorandum re questions in Parliamentary committees, printed, nd
G173/17/89, Extract from Gladstone's speech on Finance Bill, 16 May 1861
G173/17/90, Statement re Bills of Supply, 2 pp., nd
G173/17/91, Notes on suspension of Bills, nd [early 20th cent]
G173/17/92, Statement re suspension of Bills in Parliament, 5 printed pp., nd