Includes notes on Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Prime Minister of Canada; statements and reports of House of Commons business; Colonial Office, Board of Trade and Foreign Office notes and printed papers (including by 9th Lord Elgin and Kincardine [Secretary of State for the Colonies] and WSC); Commonwealth of Australia papers; resolutions of the Australian, Cape Colony [South Africa], and New Zealand governments for the conference; details of decisions of previous conferences; WSC's hand-written notes for a session of the conference; list of those present on 7 May; annotated proofs of WSC's speech to the conference on imperial preference [7 May]; papers for a speech at Leeds [Yorkshire] Chamber of Commerce by WSC [5 February]; copies of relevant British, New Zealand and South African legislation.