Letter from Albert G Cooke, honorary secretary of the Kidderminster St Mary's Ward Conservative Committee (2 Baxter Avenue, Kidderminster, [Worcestershire]) to WSC urging him and 1st Lord Birkenhead [earlier F E Smith] to join a Conservative government under Stanley Baldwin [later Lord Baldwin].

Letter from G M Okley (Lanark, Halliford Road, Sunbury-on-Thames, [Middlesex]) urging him to leave the Liberals and join the Conservatives.

Letter from A C Kean (Lavant, Friern Barnet Road, London) to WSC accusing him, along with the rest of his class, of lacking real political vision and denying WSC's claim that the installation of a Labour government will be disastrous. Argues that the Labour Party would not have emerged had the Conservatives not diluted the Liberals' reforming measures and predicts that the Conservative party will soon disappear. Pleads for equality of opportunity.

Letter from Edith Dar??st-Smith (62 Rutland Gate, [London]) to WSC urging him to form a party consisting of Conservatives and moderate Liberals who differ from the former only on "the now unimportant issue of Protection", the existence of which would make James Ramsay Macdonald's position as Prime Minister untenable.

Letter from "a 40 year worker for the Conservative cause" to [WSC] reporting that he heard WSC praised in a Conservative club for the first time in some years, urging him to join with 17th Lord Derby to form a new constitutional movement, and describing Stanley Baldwin [later Lord Baldwin] as "a washout", Herbert Asquith [later 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith] as "a trickster" and David Lloyd George as "an opportunist".

Letter from W Price-Powell (21 Sussex Gardens, Hyde Park, [London]) to WSC referring enthusiastically to WSC's return to the House of Commons, the substantial Conservative majority and the opportunity which it presents. Trusts WSC will be included in the new government and expresses pleasure at the election of Frederick Guest.

Letter from [5th Lord Rosebery] (Dalmeny House, Edinburgh, [Scotland]) to WSC congratulating him on his electoral victory [in the Epping Division of Essex], hoping that the Conservatives will not be led by their large majority into committing follies, referring to the defeat of the "anarchist" Emmanuel Shinwell [later Lord Shinwell] in Linlithgowshire, and asking whether WSC knows why the "Times" gave a bad report of WSC's speech in Edinburgh.

Letter from Sir James Barrie (Adelphi Terrace House, Strand, [London]) to WSC congratulating him on his appointment as Chancellor of the Exchequer and acknowledging that, although they do not agree about the Labour Party, it was right for WSC to join with the Conservatives.

Letter from Charles Watney (Courtfield House, Courtfield Road, [London]) to WSC enclosing and commenting on CHAR 2/141/36 and CHAR 2/141/37 and arguing that Conservative Central Office should take special steps to answer the weekly notes for speakers issued by the Independent Labour Party.

Letter from J A Beamont, (245 Battersea Park Road, [London]) to Stanley Baldwin [later Lord Baldwin] approving the abandonment of the Trade Union Bill because its passage would have led to much strife and urging the Conservatives to win the confidence of the people by making good use of their power. Copy sent with CHAR 2/141/53.

Letter from John Atkins (The "Spectator", 13 York Street, Covent Garden, London) to WSC reporting that he is giving up the editorship of the "Spectator" because of disagreements with the new proprietor, asking to see WSC to discuss an idea for his (Atkins') future, congratulating him on his efforts to bring about a settlement of the coal dispute and stressing the need for the Conservatives to concentrate on industrial peace.

Letter from J L Garvin (Gregories, Beaconsfield, [Buckinghamshire]) to WSC commenting on [? the latest volume of "The World Crisis"] and the involvement of the United States in the war, and warning that the current Conservative majority is "the fluke of temporary electoral arrangements" and could be swept away.

Resolution passed by the executive committee of the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations calling on the Government to introduce legislation to make trade unions "purely industrial organisations." Sent with CHAR 2/147/174.

Resolutions passed by Conservative constituency associations calling on as many ministers as possible to attend the annual conference of the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations, and urging the Government to introduce legislation to reform trade unions and the House of Lords. Sent with CHAR 2/147/174.

Illustrated programme of the Primrose League Grand Habitation Demonstration, featuring a photograph of WSC.

Letter from [WSC] to Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Leslie Wilson apologising for not replying to his letter of April 1924 [see CHAR 2/147/44], recalling the break-up of the Coalition and "the melancholy election of 1923", noting that the Conservative party has regained its dominant position, remembering his friendship with Wilson's brother [Sir Edward Wilson] and expressing pride at having placed Sir Leslie Wilson at the head of a battalion of the Naval Division. Carbon typescript copy.

Letter from Harold Macmillan (Red House, Norton Green, Stockton-on-Tees, [County Durham]) to WSC thanking him for hosting Macmillan and others to dinner and for being so tolerant to "a group of young men whom, I have no doubt, the House and party will soon regard as more and more intolerable." Refers to his efforts in Stockton "to defend even the more indefensible of your government's actions" and to the relative forbearance of the workers there despite bad economic conditions.

Letter from WSC (Treasury Chambers) to Sir Archibald Salvidge describing Stanley Baldwin's appreciation of Salvidge's work for the Conservatives in Liverpool and his (Balwin's) attitude to the attempt by Sir Leslie Scott to break Salvidge's dominance of Liverpool politics, and urging Salvidge to meet Baldwin so that relations between them can be as good as those between WSC and Baldwin. Copy in the hand of Edward Marsh.

Letter from Sir Archibald Salvidge (Constitutional Club, Northumberland Avenue, [London]) to WSC on Sir Leslie Scott's "intrigue" against him as leader of the Conservatives in Liverpool.

Letter from Sir Archibald Salvidge (Constitutional Association, 2 Sir Thomas Street, Liverpool) to WSC on his response to Sir Leslie Scott's attempts to undermine his political position in Liverpool.

Letter from ? (36 St James's Street, London) to WSC congratulating him on the Budget and referring to the political difficulties being experienced by himself and Sir Archibald Salvidge in Liverpool.

Letter from Captain J Pitchford (117 Hartington Road, Brighton, [Sussex]) to WSC asking him to confirm that he did not break his parole when he escaped from Pretoria [South Africa] during the Boer War so that Pitchford can refute assertions to the contrary being made in Brighton, and regretting that Conservative speakers do not come to the town to answer Communist and Independent Labour Party speakers.