Letter from 5th Lord Rosebery (Dalmeny House, Edinburgh, [Scotland]) to WSC reporting his failure to persuade the Glasgow Liberals to combine the meeting chaired by Rosebery with WSC's meeting.

Letter from 5th Lord Rosebery (Rosebery, Gorebridge, Midlothian, [Scotland]) to WSC on forthcoming Liberal meetings in Glasgow and Dalkeith [Midlothian].

Letter from [Alexander Murray, Master of Elibank, later Lord Murray of Elibank] (12 Downing Street) to WSC agreeing [that WSC cannot accept the invitation to become the candidate for the Dartford Division of Kent] and apologising for having pursued the matter. Murray will have to think of another way of boosting the Liberal campaing in London and the Home Counties.

Letter from Cornelia, Lady Wimborne (Canford Manor, Wimborne, [Dorset]) to WSC asserting that "Freddie" [Frederick Guest] should stand for East Dorset rather than a seat in Cardiff [Wales] and that an early general election will be to the Liberals' advantage. Signed typescript.

Letter from Arthur Ponsonby (Shulbrede Priory, Lynchmere, Haslemere, [Hampshire]) to WSC expressing enthusiasm about the Liberals' success in the general election but reporting that this feeling is not shared by two members of the Cabinet, who still doubt that the Government will have a strong enough mandate. Believes most Liberals in the country wish the Government to lose no time in pursuing its policies.

Extract from a letter from WSC to 8th the Duke [of Devonshire] on the desire of many Liberal Unionists in 1886 to fight the Conservatives and the wish of Devonshire's current supporters to see the Liberals beaten on all issues except Free Trade. Typescript copy, c.1910.

Note addressed to Liberals by the Conciliation Commitee for Woman Suffrage recommending the introduction of a Private Member's Bill for the extension of the women's municipal register to parliamentary elections as a first step to the general enfranchisement of women. Typesript annotated and signed by Henry Brailsford, honorary secretary of the Committee. Sent with CHAR 2/47/1.

Letter from Sir George Kemp (Beechwood, Rochdale, [Lancashire]) to the Master of Elibank [Alexander Murray, later Lord Murray of Elibank] complaining that some Liberals in North-West Manchester are persistently urging him not to give up the seat despite his opposition to Home Rule. Typescript copy.

Letter from R C Hawkin (Eighty Club, 3 Hare Court, Temple, [London]) to Edward Marsh enclosing copies of letters on the Eighty Club and single-issue campaigning organisations set up by Liberal headquarters [see CHAR 2/56/70-72].

Letter from Sir John Simon (57 Kensington Court, [London]) to the Master of Elibank [Alexander Murray, later Lord Murray of Elibank] (Treasury) reporting the dissatisfaction among members of the Eighty Club about the relationship between their club and single-issue campaigning organisations, such as the Liberal Insurance Commitee and the Home Rule Council, set up by Liberal headquarters. Typescript copy. Sent with CHAR 2/56/69.

Letter from R H Davies (12 Downing Street) to Mr Bramall conveying the best wishes of the Master of Elibank [Alexander Murray, later Lord Murray of Elibank] to the Liberal Association of the Wilton Division of Wiltshire and conveying Elibank's view that the activities of the Eighty Club can exist alongside those of single-issue campaigning organisations set up by Liberal headquarters. Typescript copy. Sent with CHAR 2/56/69.

Letter from Lord Morley [earlier John Morley] (Flowermead, Wimbledon Park, [London]) to WSC thanking him for a note and asserting that the [Liberal] party will not agree to a referendum [on women's suffrage].

Letter from "Sunny" [the 9th Duke of Marlborough] (Blenheim Palace) to WSC on the disunity between Liberal leaders and some of their followers and the need to for the leaders to take up a clear position. Thinks WSC would be wrong to go to Canada and comments on a recent article on WSC.

Cutting from the Times on: the secession of some members of the Ulster Liberal Association over the Government's policy on Home Rule; the speech by the Unionist MP James Campbell [later Lord Glenavy] at Coleraine [County Londonderry, Ulster, Ireland].

Cutting from the Bradford Daily Telegraph [Yorkshire] on the unity of the Liberal party in support of Home Rule and the widening consensus in favour of the measure.

Letter from William Royle (Elmwood, Rusholme, [Manchester]) to WSC reporting dissatisfaction among Liberal ranks with the Government's hostile attitude towards Germany and its subservient policy towards Russia with regard to Persia [Iran].

Cutting from the Cork Constitution on the declining support for Home Rule among Liberals in England and Wales due to the hypocrisy of the Nationalist leaders, the determination of the Ulster Unionists to defend the Union, and the danger of disorder at the Home Rule meeting to be addressed by WSC and John Redmond in Belfast [Ulster, Ireland].

Cutting from the Westminster Gazette on the challenge of F E Smith [later 1st Lord Birkenhead] to WSC to define the difference between the positions of Lord Randolph Churchill and Sir Edward Carson, and to say whether he still believes that the motives of a Liberal government which is introducing a Home Rule bill because it is dependent on Irish Nationalists' support should be viewed with suspicion.

Letter from Lord Hugh Cecil [later Lord Quickswood] to WSC, on Army Reform; the growth of the Labour movement, contrasting the attitudes of the Conservative and Liberal Parties, and on the situation in Macedonia [later North Macedonia].

Letter from WSC to Sir Archibald Sinclair [Secretary of State for Air and Leader of the Liberal Parliamentary Party, later 1st Lord Thurso] on Liberal voting in the House of Commons and lack of support for the Government.

Letter from WSC (House of Commons) to King Edward VII describing events in the House of Commons including: the speeches of [George] Barnes, F E Smith [later Lord Birkenhead], [William] O'Brien, [William] Moore, WSC and Walter Ling on proposals for Parliamentary reform.