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 [WSC] to Austen Chamberlain describing the position of Sir Archibald Sinclair [later 1st Lord Thurso] with regard to the Coalition candidature for East Perthshire [Scotland] and arguing that it would be unfair to require the Liberals to give up one of their seats in Scotland because the Conservatives are already over-represented there and that the capture by the Conservatives of East Perthshire would cause him difficulties in Dundee. Typescript copy.

Telegram from WSC to [David Lloyd George] reporting the hostile attitude of the press, Sir George Younger and other Conservatives towards the calling of a general election and advising that no decision be taken until Lloyd George returns. Typescript copy annotated by WSC.

Letter from Edward Shortt, Home Secretary, to WSC announcing his intention of withdrawing special police protection for Cabinet ministers against attacks from Sinn Fein and asking for WSC's views, 13 Jan. Annotated by WSC that he answered agreeing in general but stating that protection should still be provided on special occasions such as public meetings, 14 Jan.

Letter from WSC (Colonial Office) to [David Lloyd George] on: the attitude of the Conservative Party to the Coalition; the brighter prospects for stability in Ireland; the deteriorating eyesight of "Fred"[1st Lord Birkenhead, later F E Smith] the Graeco-Turkish negotiations and Mosul. Annotated typescript. Carbon copy at CHAR 2/121/100-102.

Carbon copy of CHAR 2/121/97-99.

Letter from Sir Edward Carson (Zeidab, Birchington on Sea, [Kent]) to WSC advising him that he should be able to show a very good reason for returning to his parliamentary duties, and referring to the work of the Unionist War Committee.

Letter from Sir Edward Carson [later Lord Carson] (5 Eaton Place, [London]) to WSC announcing the intention of the Unionist War Committee to raise the question of compulsory military service and expressing doubt as to whether the coalition Government can continue in its present form. Signed typescript.

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

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 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.

Memorandum from Sir Alfred Knox and Patrick Donner of the India Defence Committee on the need for resolutions opposing the White Paper proposals on India to be moved at meetings of local Conservative associations.