Correspondents include: Sir Edward Grey [Foreign Secretary] on notes kept by [Lewis] Harcourt on Cabinet proceedings; Basil Blackett on reduction of taxes between 1906-1909; Lord Crewe [earlier Lord Houghton also Robert Milnes, Secretary of State for the Colonies] on Colonial Office estimates and affairs in Somaliland [later Somalia] (2); Admiral Charles Beresford; Herbert Asquith [later Lord Oxford and Asquith, Prime Minister]; Sir Hubert Llewellyn Smith [Permanent Secretary to the Board of Trade] on education reform; Sydney Buxton [President of the Board of Trade] on the draft copyright bill (2).Also includes: pamphlets by Charles Beresford on the Government and naval organisation, war organisation and the foundation of a naval intelligence department (dated 1886), and naval building against Germany; and copies of the draft education bill and the draft copyright bill.