Letter from WSC to Clement Attlee [Leader of the Labour Party] marked "private" offering him facilities in the Cabinet Office to see papers on the main developments in foreign affairs and strategy, as well as freedom of map room [carbon].

Letter from WSC to Clement Attlee [Leader of the Labour Party] expressing his reservations about the powers possessed by the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party and quoting recent remarks made by the chairman, Harold Laski, at Scunthorpe [Lincolnshire], Croydon [Surrey], Watford [Hertfordshire], Welwyn Garden City [Hertfordshire] and Enfield [Middlesex] refusing to accept continuity of policy in foreign affairs [carbon].

Letter from WSC to Clement Attlee [Leader of the Labour Party] thanking him for his letter which "leaves a number of very important points unanswered" and commenting on the Labour Party constitution and the powers of the Party Conference and National Executive Committee [carbon].

Telegram from Sir Edward Grigg [later 1st Lord Altrincham, Minister of State, Middle East] to WSC marked "Personal" suggesting how WSC could respond to the controversy surrounding his [election] comments on "a socialist state" and its need for a "Gestapo".

Telegram from WSC [Cairo, Egypt] to Chief Whip [James Stuart] marked "Advance Copy", "From: Argonaut", "Jason 567", and "Personal and private" on his conditions for speaking in a [House of Commons] debate [on the Yalta Conference] and commenting on Conservative opponents to government policy on Poland and the Labour Party's attitude to events in Greece.

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 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 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.

Extract from the "New Leader": part of a speech by James Maxton at the Independent Labour Party's conference on the cost of the party's proposed social reforms. Sent with CHAR 2/167/97.

Rough estimate [drawn up in the Ministry of Labour] of the cost of unemployment benefit at the rates and conditions proposed by the Labour Party. Sent with CHAR 2/167/97.

Letter from Kingsley Wood to Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland on the cost of a non-contributory pension scheme as proposed by the Labour Party. Carbon typescript copy sent with CHAR 2/167/97.

Issue of the "Liberal Magazine" including a list of the cost of social services under a Labour government. Sent with CHAR 2/167/97.

Costings by W R Fraser of the Labour Party programme.

"Hints for speakers" on "Socialists and safeguarding". Issued by the Conservative and Unionist Central Office.

"Hints for speakers" on "Socialists and Safeguarding". Issued by the Conservative and Unionist Central Office.

Newspaper cutting: report of moves towards an alliance between the Liberal and Labour parties and the removal of the left-wing group from the Labour Party.

Letter from N Gwynne Trew (The Spies Petroleum Company Ltd, 62 London Wall, London) to WSC (Chartwell) enclosing CHAR 2/135/12-13 and CHAR 2/125/14-19 as showing the attitude which the Labour Party are likely to take up in the debate in the House of Commons on the Anglo-Russian treaty.

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.