Correspondents include Hugh Arnold-Forster; Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught; Ernest Beckett (later Lord Grimthorpe); Lord Lytton; Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman; Charles, 9th Duke of Marlborough (2); Sir William Harcourt; Sir Michael Hicks-Beach (later Lord St Aldwyn); John Morley (later Lord Morley of Blackburn) (3); Lord Rosebery (10); Lord Derby; Lord Welby; H G Wells; General Reginald Wingate With particulars of eight watches presented by WSC to those whose " timely help afforded him in his escape from Pretoria".