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.

Letter from Cornelia, Lady Wimborne to WSC, advising him that "there is no future for Free Traders in the Conservative Party".

Letter from Captain Reginald Barnes, Snowdon, Simla, India, to WSC, advising him not to leave the Conservative Party.

Letter from General Sir Ian Hamilton to WSC, on WSC's decision to "cross the floor" of the House of Commons, and on the Russia-Japan war.

Letter from John D Collins, (38 Salisbury Gardens, Jesmond, Newcastle-upon-Tyne [Northumberland]) to WSC, on the Government of India Bill, on the intention of the canvassers and party workers in North Newcastle to resign from the local Conservative Association and start an Independent Conservative Association; asking if he or Randolph Churchill would be willing to speak at an "anti-White Paper" meeting under the auspices of the India Defence League.

Letter from Hugh Orr-Ewing, Chief Organizer, India Defence League, to WSC, enclosing a note from [Henry] Victor Raikes on Norrie Miller, the prospective National Government candidate for Perth [Scotland].

Memorandum by John Gretton on the future policy of the India Defence League, proposing that it be continued, as a core of the Conservative Party, particularly to support MPs who had steadily supported the opposition to the India Bill.

Letter from Alderman Sir Thomas White, Liverpool Constitutional Association to WSC, on Randolph Churchill's adoption as official National Conservative Candidate for West Toxteth. Also confirming arrangements for WSC's visit to Liverpool to speak at the Sun Hall on 12 Nov.

Telegram from WSC to Duff Cooper, [later lord Norwich], (Financial Secretary to the Treasury), stating that Randolph Churchill did not apply the word "toad" to Stanley Baldwin but to [Conservative] Party bosses [copy].

Letter from Oliver Locker-Lampson (St Stephen's Chambers, Westminster, SW1) to Randolph Churchill, on the Wavertree by-election. Asking if the Wavertree selection committee had turned him down because he was too young and too poor. Commenting on two other constituencies where the best candidates were rejected "merely because they could not compete with opulent half-wits and local sloth" [typescript copy].

Circular letter from George Godwin, Secretary of the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations, (Conservative Central Office, Palace Chambers, Westminster [London]) to Conservative MPs and Candidates, informing them that those wishing to be members of the Conservative Central Council must enrol at least 28 days before the Council Annual Meeting on 27 March.