Telegram from George Gillespie, director of Gillespie Ltd Glasgow, [Scotland]) to WSC congratulating him [on his letter published in the "Times" of 18 Jan] and urging him to "save the nation from disaster and Liberalism from its betrayers" by forming and leading "a progressive, moderate and constitutional party".

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 A J Pope (171 Great Britain Street, Dublin, [Ireland]) to WSC hoping that he will be able to advise some of the Liberals "to think of our King, our Country and Empire, before they vote for the "Reds" and "wait and see".".

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 Daniel Noel (Noel Brothers, enamelled ware and general hardware merchants, 51 High Street, Kingsland, [London]) to WSC expressing support, as a lifelong Liberal, for his anti-Socialist movement and asserting that most rank and file Liberals do not support the stance adopted by [Herbert Asquith, later 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith, and David Lloyd George].

Letter from H T Pearson to [WSC] congratulating him on his published letter [advocating the passage of an anti-Socialist address to the Crown], criticising the Liberals for placing the Socialists in power, having gained the votes of the "poor struggling business man" and regretting that WSC was not returned for West Leicester.

Letter from WSC to Frederick Guest expressing regret that he (WSC) is not fit enough to play polo, and asking for background information, particularly on the figures relating to the Coalition Liberals and the number of Ulster [Ireland] members, in Guests's estimate of the General Election, which [David Lloyd George] thinks is too optimistic. Carbon copy.

Letter from Frederick Guest (Air Ministry) to WSC (Maryland, Frinton-on-Sea, [Essex]) arguing that in a general election in which the Coalition held together the Government would defeat the combined forces of Labour and the "Wee Frees" [independent Liberals], but if the Unionists broke away the Coalition Liberals would only retain about forty seats and Labour would make great gains.

Postscript by Frederick Guest to his letter at CHAR 2/124B/116-117 stating that in estimating that the Coalition Liberals would only retain forty seats in a general election if the Coalition broke up he did not include Scotland.

Letter from William Munro (25 George Street, Perth, [Scotland]) to Sir Archibald Sinclair [later 1st Lord Thurso] on discussions between the National Liberals and Unionists in East Perthshire on which party should put up a candidate in the constituency in the next election. Copy sent with CHAR 2/124B/155-159.

Letter from "Jumbo" (Colonial Office) to [WSC] asserting that the previous day's debate [on the honours system] was damaging to the social structure and blaming this, the unnecessary quarrel with the Tories, two damaging Government defeats and many useless all night sittings on the failings of William Sutherland and Charles McCurdy at the Whips Office, to which Frederick Guest, who did a far better job, should return.

Letter from George Lambert [later Lord Lambert] (34 Grosvenor Road, Westminster, [London]) to WSC congratulating him and the country on his appointment as Chancellor of the Exchequer and arguing that had he been appointed to that office by David Lloyd George, Lloyd George "would not now have been niggling with the remnant of a party that [Herbert] Asquith and he have destroyed.".

Letter from Robert Harcourt (3 Chester Square, [London]) to WSC on the "fury" of the Irish Nationalists and of Liberals over WSC's offer of concessions to Sir Edward Carson [later Lord Carson] and his supporters over Home Rule.

Letter from Arthur Ponsonby (House of Commons) to WSC reporting the strong feeling among Liberal MPs that Britain should not be drawn into war. Typescript copy of this letter at CHAR 2/64/4.

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 Frederick Kellaway (16 Eliot Park, Lewisham, [London]) to WSC recalling their time working together at the Ministry of Munitions, congratulating him on his appointment as Chancellor of the Exchequer, asserting that the Liberals deserved their "punishment" at the polls for putting Labour into office, mentioning that for the first time in his life he worked and voted for a Conservative candidate, and hoping that the country is free from experiments in nationalisation.

Leaflets issued by the Liberal Publication Department, covering the budget of 1907, land reform and small holdings, registration of voters and Conservative proposals for Tariff Reform and the abolition of income tax. 6 items.

Letter from Lord Fisher [earlier Sir John Fisher] (Kilverstone Hall, Thetford, [Norfolk]) to WSC thanking him for his letter, urging the Government to take the opportunity for reconciliation with the Irish Nationalists and urging the Liberal majority to stay united.