The volume contains the following items:
G173/8/1, Letter to 4th Earl of Onslow from Walter [Hely-Hutchinson], Government House, Cape Town, on South African situation, 1 Jan 1902
G173/8/2-4, Covering letter to 4th Earl of Onslow from Walter [Hely-Hutchinson] on Boer campaigns and enclosing cutting of Louw v. Radziwill case, Jan 1902
G173/8/5, Letter to 4th Earl of Onslow from Joseph Chamberlain about circular to be discussed, 16 Jan 1902
G173/8/6, Letter to 4th Earl from A. Lyttelton, Colonial Office, arranging appointment with Onslow, 11 Feb 1902
G173/8/7, Copy letter from 4th Earl of Onslow to Douglas Forster about possible job, 23 May 1902
G173/8/8, Letter to 4th Earl from St. John Brodrick asking Onslow to consider post of controlling resettlement of South Africa, 2 June [1902]
G173/8/9, Board of Agriculture Memorandum : Restrictions on the importation of cattle from Canada into the U.K., 6 June , printed, 1902
G173/8/10, Personal letter to 4th Earl of Onslow [signature illegible], 14 June 1902
G173/8/11, Detailed Proposals relative to Australia and New Zealand re military and naval forces and costs, Admiralty June 1902, printed, 1902
G173/8/12, Colonial Defence Committee Memorandum: Col. troops for imperial service in war, June 1902, 9 printed pp., 1902
G173/8/13, Letter to 4th Earl of Onslow from Joseph Chamberlain on personal and colonial affairs, 2 July 1902
G173/8/14, Letter to 4th Earl of Onslow from Lord Norton on colonial and personal matters, 12 July [1902]
G173/8/15, Resolutions re Navigation Laws, n.d., 2 printed pp., nd
G173/8/16, Memorandum of suggestions for future government and treatment of prisoners in South Africa, nd
G173/8/17, Draft notes [by 4th Earl of Onslow ?] on Lord Milner's scheme for land settlement in South Africa, nd
G173/8/18, Personal letter to 4th Earl of Onslow from Lord Kitchener, 26 July [1902]
G173/8/19, Copy letter from 4th Earl of Onslow to Lord Milner informing him that writer to be chairman of committee on repatriation and resettlement [in South Africa] and referring to Lord Kitchener's opinions, 24 July 1902, 5 pp., 1902
G173/8/20, Letter to 4th Earl of Onslow from Wilfred ? Laurier acknowledging news of Colonial P.M.'s conference and review of col. troops, 28 July 1902
G173/8/21, Personal letter to 4th Earl of Onslow from Lord Selborne, Admiralty, 28 July 1902
G173/8/22, Letter to 4th Earl of Onslow from Edward Barton, P.M. of Commonwealth of Australia, confirming arrangements about Aust. contingent, 29 July 1902
G173/8/23, Draft memorandum by 4th Earl of Onslow re scheme of settlement in South Africa proposed by Mr. Dillon, Chairman of Directors of Hollesley Bay College, nd
G173/8/24, Letter to 4th Earl of Onslow from Lord Milner acknowledging receipt of letter on land settlement in South Africa, 10 Sep 1902
G173/8/25, Division of business, names of officers, etc., in Board of Agriculture, 1 Oct. 1902, 24 printed pp., 1902
G173/8/26, Copy letter [? from 4th Earl of Onslow] to J. Van Gelder re proposed bilingual journal in South Africa, 21 Nov 1902
G173/8/27, Copy letter to Joseph Chamberlain from 4th Earl of Onslow re British Honduras, Boers, various foreign matters, 27 Nov 1902
G173/8/28, Draft letter [to L. Botha] from 4th Earl of Onslow re South African financial affairs, nd [1902]
G173/8/29, Reply to 4th Earl of Onslow from Louis Botha, 12 Dec 1902
G173/8/30, Copy letter from 4th Earl of Onslow to Joseph Chamberlain on offer of post in W. Australia to Sir Fred. Lugard; vacant governorship of South Africa; removal of embargo on recruitment of labour in British protectorates in Central Africa; South African financial affairs involving Botha and Fischer; South African rebels, 13 Dec 1902
G173/8/31, Copy letter from 4th Earl of Onslow to Joseph Chamberlain on possibilities of British Central Africa as recruiting ground for native labour; fear of trouble among emirs in N. Nigeria; governorship of W. Australia declined by Lugard; British Honduras; House of Lords business; Malta; Cabinet decisions, 20 Dec 1902
G173/8/32, Copy letter from 4th Earl of Onslow to Anstruther listing agricultural legislation of then government, 23 Dec 1902
G173/8/33, Statistics re French consumption of commodities, 1902
G173/8/34-36, Reports on certain branches of British Trade and Industry: 1) Woollen and Worsted Trades, n.d. 152 printed pp. [1902]; 2) Linen trade, n.d. 32 printed pp. [1902]; 3) Cotton trade, n.d. 38 printed pp. [1902], 1902
G173/8/37, West Indies and Imperial Aid report of Royal Commission, 1902, 56 printed pp., 1902
G173/8/38, Memorandum on distribution of offices in the provincial Grand Priory [? of Order of St. John of Jerusalem], TS., 1902
G173/8/39, On the recruiting for the W. African Frontier Force and their employment in garrison duty, 7 TS. pp., nd