Letter from Lord Londonderry (Wynyard Park, Stockton-on-Tees, [County Durham]) to WSC congratulating him on his return to parliament, blaming the Liberals for damaging the prospects of young Conservatives such as Harold Macmillan, and regretting that WSC and CSC will not be attending his dinner because they have had an invitation from the Prince of Wales [later Edward VIII].

Letter from [WSC] to Frederick Guest describing how the opposition in the Conservative Party to the granting of Liberal peerages prevents Stanley Baldwin [later Lord Baldwin] from offering Guest one, advising Guest to join the Conservative Party, where WSC will be able to help him procure a suitable seat, and discussing the arrangements for his (WSC's) tour of Canada, the United States and South America. Carbon typescript copy.

Paragraph one of the terms of reference of the Conservative Agricultural Research Committee. Sent with CHAR 2/176/1.

List of members of the Conservative Agricultural Research Committee. Sent with CHAR 2/176/1.

Letter from Lord Wolmer [later 3rd Lord Selborne) (3 Chester Gate, Regent's Park,[London]) to Neville Chamberlain describing the work of the Conservative Agricultural Research Committee and enclosing CHAR 2/176/6-46. Copy sent with CHAR 2/176/1.

Headings for a speech on agricultural policy produced by the Conservative Agricultural Research Committee. Copy sent with CHAR 2/176/1.

"Argument" on agricultural policy produced by the Conservative Agricultural Research Committee. Copy sent with CHAR 2/176/1.

Notes on agricultural policy produced by the Conservative Agricultural Research Committee. Interleaved with agricultural publications. Copy sent with CHAR 2/176/1.

Conservative research department memorandum prepared by [Neville Chamberlain] on the use of the referendum.

Conservative research department memorandum prepared by [Neville Chamberlain] on the iron and steel industry.

Conservative Research Department summary of the report of the Committee on the Cotton Industry set up by the Government.

Memorandum by the agricultural committee of the Conservative Research Department on the use of a system of quotas to grant Imperial Preference to wheat without recourse to an import duty.

Letter from Sir Laming Worthington-Evans (6 Eaton Place, [London]) to WSC urging him not to leave [the Conservative Party] over Protection and food taxes (which are "unavoidable") and praising "My Early Life".

Letter from 17th Lord Derby (Knowsley, Prescot, Lancashire) to WSC thanking him for sending a copy of ["My Early Life"] and expressing despair about the state of the Conservative Party: "if only we were united we should sweep the country.".

Letter from WSC (Ministry of Munitions) to [David Lloyd George] noting that Lloyd George agrees that regular Cabinet government should return after the war and stating that he does not wish to be a member of the Cabinet if his inclusion will cause Lloyd George difficulties with the Conservatives. Copy in the hand of Edward Marsh.

Cutting from the Sunday Times attributing to WSC the belief that David Lloyd George could fall as a result fo recent press attacks on him and that the "Central" party composed of young Tories and Liberal Imperialists under WSC's leadership could become the strongest in Parliament.

Letter from T A Lewis (12 Downing Street) to Sir Herbert Creedy (War Office) reporting that Frederick Guest states that the procedure recommended by WSC for electoral co-operation between the Liberals and Unionists is being adopted where practicable.

Letter from WSC (War Office) to [David Lloyd George] arguing that the Government's anti-Turkish and pro-Bolshevik policy is harming British interests in India and the Middle East, is ruinously expensive, and is alienating the Liberals' Conservative coalition partners. Copy in the hand of Edward Marsh.

Letter from Austen Chamberlain (11 Downing Street) to WSC criticising those who thought that Andrew Bonar Law's retirement "was the occasion for the official birth of the new party" and urging that progress in this direction be made slowly. Chamberlain wishes to talk to WSC about his journey to the Middle East and is triumphant about the outcome of the Budget.

Typescript list of Unionist Free Food League MPs and the Liberal candidates standing in their constituencies, annotated to indicate the MPs' future voting behaviour.

Letter from [WSC] to Violet, Lady Bonham-Carter [earlier Violet Asquith, later Lady Violet Bonham Carter, later Lady Asquith of Yarnbury] arguing that the Liberals should not keep a Socialist government in office because this in time would lead to a strengthening of the Conservatives. Carbon copy.

Letter from Sir Samuel Hoare [later Lord Templewood] (18 Cadogan Gardens, [London]) to WSC enclosing a memorandum by him on Conservative discontent with the Coalition over Irish policy [see CHAR 2/117/52-55] and asking him to get [David Lloyd George] to consider the points it raises.

Memorandum by [Sir Samuel Hoare, later Lord Templewood] on Conservative discontent with the Coalition over Irish policy and the need for David Lloyd George to clarify his government's stance on coercion of Ulster and not sacrifice the "anti-Die-hard" Conservatives by simply resigning and leaving the field open to Conservative extremists. Sent with CHAR 2/117/51.