Includes papers from various individuals on the House of Lords, including: Sir Charles Eliot, British Ambassador to Japan, on the reform of the House of Peers in Japan; the Japanese Imperial Ordinance on the reform of the House of Peers; proposals from the preceding 40 years on the reform of the House of Lords; the report of the Second Chamber Conference (1918); the report of the Select Committee on the House of Lords (1908); a copy of the Parliament Act, 1911; 1st Lord Curzon of Kedleston, Foreign Secretary; WSC, Secretary of State for the Colonies; House of Lords Reform Resolutions; Dominions Office memoranda on Upper Houses in the Dominions; the report of the Committee of Conservative Peers; a draft of the Reference to the People Bill; 4th Lord Salisbury, [earlier Lord Cranborne], the Lord Privy Seal, on the definition of a Money Bill.