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 17th Lord Derby (Derby House, Stratford Place, [London]) to WSC reporting that he has been unable to find seats in Lancashire for Dudley Ward and Walter Waring and that is impossible to come to an arrangement with the Liberals in Liverpool since R D Holt replaced Sir Max Muspratt as their leader.

Letter from Lieutenant-Colonel John Dodge, Conservative Candidate for Mile End [London] (Central Committee Rooms, Beaumont Hall, Beaumont Square [London]) to WSC asking him to use his influence to ensure that in the next election the Conservative candidate for Mile End should have a straight fight against the Socialist MP John Scurr because the presence of a Liberal candidate as well splits the anti-Socialist vote. Encloses CHAR 2/136/21 and CHAR 2/136/22.

Circular letter from Robert Solomon, the Liberal candidate for the Mile End Division [London] (198 Mile End Road, [London]) claiming that the Socialists are the puppets of those who wish to make a revolution and that only a vote for him, rather than for the Conservative candidate [Lieutenant-Colonel John Dodge], will defeat them. Sent with CHAR 2/136/19-20. Annotated by Dodge denying the statement that he (Dodge) had admitted that he had no chance.

Letter from [Clarice Fisher] to the secretary of the National Liberal Club informing him that as WSC has accepted office in a Conservative government he feels it his duty to resign from the Club. Carbon typescript copy.

Letter from Lieutenant-Colonel Douglas Robinson (The Homestead, Neeld Crescent, Hendon [Middlesex]) to WSC enclosing CHAR 2/137/6-8, arguing that WSC's warning about the Liberals supporting a Socialist government was a few days too late, declaring himself a Liberal Unionist and predicting that the country may wish for Protection in four years time.

Telegram from "Lomax, Blair, Atholl, Bolton" (Oldham, [Lancashire]) to WSC: "your courageous and wise letter will be welcomed by many thousands of Liberals today.".

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 Cornelia, Lady Wimborne (Canford Manor, Wimborne, [Dorset]) to WSC asking him to give an interview to Merton Russell Cotes with a view to getting him on the side of the Liberals, who are lacking the support of such wealthy men. Signed typescript.

Letter from Canon John Richardson (St Augustine's, York Street, C-on-M, Manchester) to WSC warning that the Education Bill will alienate Roman Catholic opinion from the Liberals.

Letter from Captain The Honorable H S Stanhope RN, treasurer of the Home Counties Liberal Federation (42 Parliament Street, London) to WSC inviting him to address the Federation's next annual meeting, possibly in the Saffron Walden Division of Essex, and giving the number of seats won by the Liberals in general elections since 1885 Annotated by WSC that he will be too busy to accept.

Letter from Henry Massingham (The Nation, 14 Henrietta Street, Convent Garden, London) to WSC explaining his criticism of WSC's speech in Birmingham [on 13 Jan 1909] on Liberal policy and the House of Lords. Makes particular reference to Welsh Disestablishment and social reform.

Letter from Frank Barled, assistant secretary of the National Liberal Federation (42 Parliament Street, London), to Edward Marsh enclosing particulars of General Election results in constituencies in Northumberland, County Durham and part of the North Riding of Yorkshire [see CHAR 2/39/77]. Signed typescript.

Particulars of General Election results in 1892, 1900 and 1906 in constituencies in Northumberland, County Durham and part of the North Riding of Yorkshire, being the area of the Northern Liberal Federation. Sent with CHAR 2/39/76.

Letter from Joseph Pease (12 Downing Street) to WSC on the adverse reaction among Liberals to the appointment of a former honorary secretary of the Belfast Conservative Association as the Sanitary Surveyor and Medical Inspector in Belfast [Ulster, Ireland].