Letter from Gregory Tom (Broad Street, Padstow, Cornwall) to WSC congratulating him on his appointment as Under- Secretary of State for the Colonies but expressing the view that he should have got a Cabinet post. Tom had written to Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman urging him to include WSC in the ministry. Expresses the hope that a cheap edition of WSC's life of Lord Randolph Churchill will be available. Annotated by WSC that the book will eventually be published in a cheap edition.