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Delighted to hear result of Worcester meeting; 'The enthusiasm in Scotland was extraordinary'; Chamberlain saw nothing like it 'even during the Home Rule times'; thanks for Baldwin's promise of financial help for literature [for Tariff Reform League, or Imperial Tariff Committee?]

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'The so-called Unionist Free-Traders are simply acting as jackals for the Radicals'; there should be retaliation in their constituencies; branches must be formed in 'all considerable centres'; Mr Vince, Secretary of Liberal Unionist Association and Imperial Tariff Committee will assist; Chamberlain supposes Lord Cobham, formerly hesitant, has 'now finally gone over to the enemy.'

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Cannot accept invitation: "Every moment of my time is now engaged until the meeting of Parliament"

Scope and Contents Letters to Mary Jeune [earlier Mary Stanley, later Lady St Helier] and also to Francis Jeune [later 1st Lord St Helier], from: Joseph Chamberlain, sympathising with her on an accident, on the importance of the forthcoming General Election, 1885, and his depression about the amount of speaking involved and the improved health and forthcoming marriage of Sir Charles Dilke; Lord Randolph Churchill on subjects including his sudden departure abroad following his break with the Conservatives,...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The collection comprises primarily the correspondence of Louisa Baldwin, née Macdonald (mother of Stanley Baldwin, first Earl Baldwin), with her mother and sisters; and correspondence and papers of her grandson Windham, third Earl Baldwin, concerning his group biography of the Macdonald sisters and his interest in his father's cousin Rudyard Kipling. It also includes letters and papers of members of the Kipling, Burne-Jones and Poynter families, into which three of Louisa Baldwin's sisters...