Copy of a letter from Sir Samuel Hoare [later 1st Lord Templewood, Secretary of State for India] to [Richard] Bond [President of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce] in which he expresses the Government's support for the Lancashire cotton trade. He explains that the Government is not able to limit the right of India to impose taxes on goods imported from Britain; that the Ottawa Agreement may be modified; and refers to developments (an Act which has been passed by the Indian Legislature and the denunciation of the trade convention between India and Japan) which should improve trade between Lancashire and India. Carbon typescript.