Letter from RearAdmiral Arthur Smith-Dorrien to WSC congratulating him on his speech in Edinburgh [Scotland], arguing that WSC has a great political opportunity before him provided he can overcome the memories in people's minds of his past instability, and arguing that both Liberal and Conservative anti-Socialists can readily adopt the name "Constitutionalist".

Letter from Sir James Calder (Leith, [Scotland]) to 2nd Lord Linlithgow (Hopetoun House, South Queensferry [West Lothian, Scotland]) explaining that he has withdrawn as Liberal candidate for Linlithgowshire because he believes that there are too many extremists to enable his ideas of Liberal-Conservative cooperation to be carried out successfully. Copy sent with CHAR 2/134/152.

Letter from [WSC] (Chartwell) to Rear-Admiral Arthur Smith-Dorrien asserting that he has always been in favour of Home Rule and Free Trade and opposed to Socialism and that the present Conservative programme differs from that adopted by Lord Balfour [earlier Arthur Balfour] in 1904 only in its exclusion of the question of Protection. Carbon copy.

Letter from [WSC] (Chartwell) to Sir Robert Horne [later Lord Horne of Slamannan] arguing that the dropping of the prosecution against J R Campbell offers the best chance of defeating the Government, considering the possibility of the Conservatives having to form a government before the general election, and urging that the planned Conservative opposition to Sir Archibald Sinclair [later 1st Lord Thurso] in Caithness [Scotland] be withdrawn. Carbon copy.

Letter from "Charley" [7th Lord Londonderry] (Londonderry House, Park Lane, [London]) to WSC expressing pleasure that the Conservatives will have WSC's support.

Letter from Katherine, Duchess of Atholl (84 Eaton Place, [London]) to WSC reporting that Sir Archibald Sinclair [later 1st Lord Thurso] seemed to give a negative response to the 8th Duke of Atholl's suggestion of Liberal-Conservative co-operation in his constituency [Caithness, Scotland] but promising that the matter will be carefully considered in the light of WSC's advice that Sinclair should not be opposed.

Letter from T Taylor Heywood, journalist (11 Geneva Terrace, Rochdale, [Lancashire]) to WSC asserting that unless he explains who was responsible for the failure of the Dardanelles campaign many young Conservatives like Heywood will leave the party because it is allowing WSC back into its ranks.

Letter from R H Edwards, chief agent and secretary of the Bristol Unionist Association (West India House, 54 Baldwin Street, Bristol) to WSC enclosing CHAR 2/135/66 and listing the co-operating Conservative and Liberal candidates in Bristol.

Letter from Colonel H Mockett (Cavalry Club, 127 Piccadilly, [London]) to WSC stressing the need for the Conservatives to campaign in simple terms in order to attract working-class votes.

Letter from [WSC] (Chartwell) to Major Philip Kenyon-Slaney [Drake Chambers, Tavistock, Devon] asserting that the Conservatives have shown that they can form the foundation of the non-party government which the country urgently requires and urging the electors of Tavistock to aid the process by returning Kenyon-Slaney. Carbon typescript copy.

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".