Texts, drafts and speaking notes for speeches by LSA on subjects including: tributes to Cecil Rhodes; economic policy, particularly on Commonwealth trade and Imperial Preference; tribute to J L Garvin; the place of the Commonwealth in the world; Indian constitutional development over the war years; the poet Horace; tribute to 11th Lord Lothian [earlier Philip Kerr] and the Lothian Lecturer, Ernest Manning, Premier of Alberta [Canada]; the Crown and Africa; tribute to Chaim Weizmann; Europe, the pound and the dollar; ELEC [European League for Economic Co-operation] and the dollar gap; foreign affairs, including Palestine, Egypt and Central Africa.

Also includes related correspondence, with correspondents including: Sir Gerald Campbell, Deputy Chairman of the Royal Empire Society (2); [Ferdinand] Stephen Joelson, Director of East Africa Limited; Charles Ponsonby, Chairman of the Royal African Society.