The papers in this series comprise official and semi-official correspondence, copies and lists of despatches and telegrams sent and received by Sir Redvers H Buller, and copies of reports made by him while serving as a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Zulu campaign of 1878; as Special Commissioner of Police in Ireland and later as Deputy Secretary for Ireland, 1886 to 1887; as General Commanding, Natal Army, in South Africa, 1899 to 1900; and as Commander in Chief, Aldershot Division, 1901.