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 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 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.

Letter from Lady Oxford and Asquith [earlier Margot Asquith] (44 Bedford Square, [London]) to WSC on: her approval of his policy on war debts to the United States; her request to him to write to [st Lord Oxford and Asquith, earlier Herbert Asquith] to cheer him up; the ignorance of the Liberal rank and file over party unity; David Lloyd George's leaning to the Labour Party and his betrayal of Lord Oxford and Asquith.

Edition of "Reynolds's Illustrated News" including article on WSC's supposed attempts to split the Liberal Party.

Letter from Frederick Guest (7 Aldford Street, Park Lane, [London]) to WSC enclosing CHAR 2/152/17-22 and arguing that Liberals who have supported the Government should be officially informed that they will not be opposed by Conservatives at the next general election and that the Conservative programme will not include items which these Liberals could not support.

"Memorandum on the possibility of reserving certain constituencies at the next election for Liberals pledged to support a Conservative government." By Frederick Guest. Sent with CHAR 2/152/16.

Letter from WSC (Treasury Chambers) to Edward Spears attacking trade union involvement in politics, Bolshevik interference in British affairs and the failure of the Liberals to give a decisive lead on these] issues. Annotated typescript draft. Carbon copy at CHAR 2/152/46-54.

Letter from Edward Spears (8 Little College Street, Westminster, [London]) to WSC attributing his defeat [in the Bosworth Division of Leicestershire] to Liberal claims that a vote for them was the only means of keeping the Socialist out, noting the increasing extremism of Labour supporters in the constituency and thanking WSC for his letter of support.

Letter from [WSC] to Frederick Guest arguing that David Lloyd George's campaign fund is being used to split the anti-Socialist vote and arguing that the fund should be placed in the hands of trustees "representing a definite political party on a broad and public basis".

Letter from Frederick Guest (7 Aldford Street, Park Lane, [London]) to WSC complaining about Conservative candidates standing in the constituencies of right-wing Liberals, announcing that he is going to assess the potential for air routes from the Cape to Cairo and expressing confidence that he will hold his own seat in Bristol.

Letter from Lord Londonderry (Wynyard Park, Stockton-on-Tees, [County Durham]) to WSC congratulating him on his return to parliament, blaming the Liberals for damaging the prospects of young Conservatives such as Harold Macmillan, and regretting that WSC and CSC will not be attending his dinner because they have had an invitation from the Prince of Wales [later Edward VIII].

Letter from Sir Archibald Sinclair [later Lord Thurso] (Thurso Castle, Thurso, [Caithness, Scotland] to WSC arguing that the Labour Party will remain united in government unless electoral reform is introduced to reinfranchise Liberal voters, which will strengthen the position of moderate Socialists and cause them to split from their extremist colleagues.

Cutting from the "Times": speech in the Spen Valley Division [of Yorkshire] by Sir John Simon [later Lord Simon] on Liberal policy .

Programme of the Liberal Summer School at Cambridge.

Letter from WSC (Ministry of Munitions) to [David Lloyd George] giving his views on the leadership of the Liberal party and the composition of the government. Copy in the hand of Edward Marsh.

Cutting from the Nottingham Guardian: article on: WSC's pre-war rejection of Imperial Preference and the present government's commitment to it; the opposition to the measure of the Asquithian Liberals; the large numbers of soldiers and others emigrating overseas and the benefits to be derived from economic measures to tie the Empire together more firmly.