Letter from WSC (105 Mount Street) to [G I Holmes] giving his views on reduction of spending on the Army and Navy and on the importation of Chinese labour into South Africa. Copy in WSC's hand Other copies at CHAR 2/22/47 and CHAR 2/22/53.

Letter from WSC (105 Mount Street) to G I Holmes (Tower Chambers, London Wall, [London]) giving his views on reduction of spending on the Army and Navy and on the importation of Chinese labour into South Africa. Typescript copy annotated by WSC and Annette Anning Other copies at CHAR 2/22/44 and CHAR 2/22/53.

Letter from WSC (105 Mount Street) to G I Holmes (Tower Chambers, London Wall, [London]) giving his views on reduction of spending on the Army and Navy and on the importation of Chinese Labour into South Africa. Typescript copy annotated by WSC and Annette Anning Other copies at CHAR 2/22/44 and CHAR 2/22/47.

Letter from C H P Mayo (Garlands, Harrow-on-the-Hill, [Middlesex]) to WSC complaining about War Office policy on the Army examinations.

Letter from Charles Burgess (Salisbury Tower, Windsor Castle, [Berkshire]) to WSC pointing out that the Military Knights of Windsor, a body of retired officers, has been added to the Army "active list".

Letter from Major-General Harcourt Bengough (the Beech House, Whitwell, Hertfordshire) to WSC asking for his opinion on the enclosed scheme for the improved supply of non-commissioned officers for the army. See CHAR 2/23/2-3.

Letter to ? from Major-General Harcourt Bengough describing his proposals for the improved supply of non-commissioned officers for the army. Typescript Sent with CHAR 2/23/1.

Letter from Colonel Charles a Court Repington (East Mascalls, Lindfield, Sussex) to WSC urging him to ask a question in the House of Commons to expose the absurdity of Hugh Arnold- Forster's proposed short-service recruiting for the Army.

Letter from Colonel Charles a Court Repington (East Mascalls, Lindfield, Sussex) to WSC referring to the Indian drafts for the infantry during 1906-1907 and asserting his own political independence.

Letter from Ivor Guest [later Lord Ashby St Ledgers and Lord Wimborne (2nd baron, 1st viscount)] (Ashby St Ledgers, Rugby, [Warwickshire]) on the need for Liberalism to offer a definite alternative to government policies and increasingly influential socialist ideas. Advocates leasehold enfranchisement, land reform and reduction in military spending.

Letter from Richard Haldane [later Lord Haldane] (3 Whitehall Court, [London]) to WSC regretting his (Haldane's) failure to get John Seely [later Lord Mottistone] appointed as Under Secretary of State for War, congratulating WSC on his appointment to the Colonial Office, and referring to his own ideas about the War Office and the Army.

Letter from Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman (House of Commons) to WSC on the forthcoming vote and debate on colonial trade and the collapse of the government's proposals for reform of the army.

Letter from John Seely [later 1st Lord Mottistone] (Villa Adria, Langenschwalbach, Germany) to WSC expressing the hope that WSC will not allow Arthur Balfour [later Lord Balfour] to put off the colonial vote and approving WSC's resolution on the new scheme of army reform. Mentions his horse rides through the mountains of the area and the fact that the local people think he is a spy.

Letter from St John Brodrick (House of Commons) to WSC expressing the view that WSC's speech of the previous night on army reform was different in tone to some of his previous ones.

Letter from ? (War Office) to WSC on the difference in cost between linesmen and militiamen.

Letter from J.J. Bisgood to WSC on Army reform.

Letter from J H Peet (The Ridges, Farnborough, Hampshire) to WSC referring to Peet's earlier letter about the debt owing to him by Captain Christie and expressing his determination to expose the system whereby "the Heads of H.M. Army" condone such debts.

Letter from J Last (Curriers Lane, Princess Street, Ipswich, [Suffolk]) to WSC thanking him, as a working man, for his efforts in favour of "free food" and attacking Joseph Chamberlain's policies and rich capitalists who underpay their workers. Asserts that the inability of working-class people to afford decent food is the reason for the large number of undersized recruits rejected by the military authorities.

Letter from George F. Shee to WSC, asking him to support National Service League, advocating reduction in regular forces and the introduction of National Service.

Letter from WSC to George Renwick, agreeing to address meeting on Tyneside, provided he was given the freedom to deal with the Army question and the state of public expenditure [copy].

Letter from F.A. Wynter to WSC on Army reform.

Page from the Times: memorandum explaining Hugh Arnold-Forster's proposals for army reform.

Cutting from the Times: letter on the Army Estimates.

Cutting from the Westminster Gazette: policy on the Navy and Territorial Army and Tariff Reform.