Letter from Sir James Barrie (Adelphi Terrace House, Strand, [London]) to WSC congratulating him on his appointment as Chancellor of the Exchequer and acknowledging that, although they do not agree about the Labour Party, it was right for WSC to join with the Conservatives.

Letter from D J Shackleton (51 London Terrace, Darwen, [Lancashire]) to WSC on the by-election in the Cockermouth Division of Cumberland, and its implications for contests between Liberal and Labour candidates.

Letter from Edward Hemmerde (1 Hare Court, Temple, [London]) to WSC asserting that Labour men can only be kept in the Liberal ranks if candidates are selected for their ability rather than their wealth. Advocates the establishment of a democratic fighting-fund.

Letter from W H Wainwright (Gore Lodge, Gorton, [Manchester]) to WSC discussing the result of the election in Huddersfield [Yorkshire] and reporting that Canon Tynan, secretary of the Roman Catholic Education Association, believed that Catholics would work against Liberal and Labour candidates. Also reports the widespread belief that WSC's speech swayed many voters to the Liberal side.

Letter from Walter T Williams, an honorary secretary of the Cardiff and District Free Trade League (17 Working Street, Cardiff, [Wales]), to WSC reporting the hostility of the local Labour Party and Trades Council to the candidature in Cardiff of Ivor Guest [later Lord Ashby St Ledgers and Lord Wimborne (2nd baron, 1st viscount)] and asking WSC to help to win them over by sharing a platform with Guest at a Free Trade meeting. Signed and annotated typescript.

Letter from Herbert Vivian (Hotel de Luxembourg, Promenade des Anglais, Nice, [France]) to WSC on: "The Curiosity of Literature", "The River War", and the best way of engaging in published controversy with Colonel [?Ivor] Maxse; Vivian's review of WSC's last book; the activities of "those Labour devils". Suggests WSC meet Horatio Bottomley with a view to getting "our own paper to draw blood properly.".

Letter from Herbert Vivian (Blenheim Club, 12 St James's Square, [London]) to WSC asking him to fix a date for a meeting at Deptford and reporting that the Labour people there are angry at Vivian's adoption by the Liberals. Annotated in shorthand.

Letter from John Penny (Netherthong, Huddersfield, [Yorkshire]) to WSC rejecting WSC's views on the different approaches of French and German socialists and his contention that the British Labour Party should ally itself with the Liberals. Cites illustrations of the Liberals' lack of a unifying principle and examples of their political incapacity. Signed typescript.

Letter from Cecil L'Estrange Malone, Phene Street, London SW3 to WSC, congratulations on speech at Chingford on the League of Nations and Sanctions. Sending copy [not retained] of his speech withdrawing as a Labour Party candidate because of the issue of Sanctions.

Letter from Sydney Buxton (Board of Trade) to WSC concerning WSC's idea to use people associated with the Labour movement as Home Office representatives in industrial negotiations and enclosing the names of candidates suggested by his son, a former Vice-Principal of Ruskin College, Oxford [see CHAR 12/2/49-50]. Signed typescript annotated "thanked".

Summary of press comment on: the future of Constantinople [Turkey]; the Paisley by-election [Lanarkshire, Scotland]; the lack of effective leadership of the Parliamentary Labour Party and other evidence to support WSC's belief that they are not fit to govern; Cardinal Logue and Sinn Fein; the growing strength of Irish nationalism.

Letter from [WSC] to the secretary of the Leicester and District Trades Council asserting that whilst the Parliamentary Labour Party allow their supporters in the country to make violent attacks on WSC's Russian policy, they know that they could not sustain such attacks in the House of Commons. Typescript copy.

Letter from Edward Shortt, Home Secretary, to WSC announcing his intention of withdrawing special police protection for Cabinet ministers against attacks from Sinn Fein and asking for WSC's views, 13 Jan. Annotated by WSC that he answered agreeing in general but stating that protection should still be provided on special occasions such as public meetings, 14 Jan.

Letter from William Hill (Dorland House, 16 Regent Street, London) to WSC enclosing a copy of his reply to an invitation to attend a National Liberal Club meeting to celebrate the Irish settlement [see CHAR 2/118/104-114], describing his scheme for the formation of a chartered company for the economic development of Greece and warning that in the event of a general election high taxes and unemployment may benefit the Labour Party.

Circular letter from A Fenner Brockway, press secretary of the Independent Labour Party campaign (Keir Cottage, Thorpe Bay, Essex) to [WSC] enclosing and commenting on a copy of the new constitution of the Independent Labour Party [see CHAR 2/125/23] and asking WSC for his views on it.

"Socialism re-stated: the new constitution of the Independent Labour Party". Sent with CHAR 2/125/22.

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 Captain J Pitchford (117 Hartington Road, Brighton, [Sussex]) to WSC asking him to confirm that he did not break his parole when he escaped from Pretoria [South Africa] during the Boer War so that Pitchford can refute assertions to the contrary being made in Brighton, and regretting that Conservative speakers do not come to the town to answer Communist and Independent Labour Party speakers.