Papers comprising official papers, speeches, correspondence, press cuttings, photographs and audio tapes.

Papers and correspondence on complaint by NK about an article in the Sun about the cost of the European Commission taking on the Berlaymont building in Brussels [Belgium].

Papers and correspondence on a libel case taken out by NK following an article in the Sunday Express reporting alleged statements by Jeffrey Titford MEP about attempts by NK to block the disclosure of fraud and financial incompetence within the European Commission.

Letter from Louis Alber [President, Affiliated Lecture and Concert Association Incorporated] to Senator William Borah, regretting the newspaper coverage of his attempt to arrange for Borah and WSC to debate the question of recognition of the Soviet Union. [Copy].

Letter from 1st Lord Rothermere [earlier Sir Harold Harmsworth] (Claridge's Hotel, Avenue des Champs-Elysees, Paris, [France]) to WSC stating that he will tell his newspapers to support WSC when he begins negotiations for the repayment of the debts owed to Britain by France and Italy and that he has instructed them "to go slow on the food question". Asks WSC to advise his son, Esmond Harmsworth [later 2nd Lord Rothermere], to go travelling.

Letter from 1st Lord Rothermere [earlier Sir Harold Harmsworth] (Claridge's Hotel, Avenue de Champs-Elysees, Paris, [France]) to WSC stating that the presence of WSC and other friends of Rothermere's in the new Government will mean that criticism in Rothermere's newspapers will be tempered. Refers to the inevitability of Esmond Harmsworth [later 2nd Lord Rothermere] getting a job.

Letter from Sir Archibald Sinclair [later 1st Lord Thurso] (Dalnawillan, Altnabraec, Caithness, [Scotland]) to WSC congratulating him on his Edinburgh speech, complaining of the "defeatist" attitude of the Scottish Conservative press towards the Anglo-Russian treaty, and stressing the need for David Lloyd George to "stick to his guns.".

Letter from [WSC] to Lord Northcliffe [later Sir Alfred Harmsworth] attacking the "panic-stricken stuff" written by the war correspondent of the "Times" and sending paraphrases of the telegrams being received by the Government [not present]. Typescript copy.

Letter from WSC (Admiralty) to Charles a Court Repington on: arrangements for providing information about the war to the press; the fall of Antwerp [Belgium]; the prospect of a hard struggle on the Western Front. Copy in WSC's hand.

Letter from J L Garvin (9 Greville Place, [London]) to WSC on the attitude of Waldorf Astor [later 2nd Lord Astor of Hever Castle] and 1st Lord Rothermere [earlier Sir Harold Harmsworth] to the advocacy of a "vigorous, broad, independent national policy" in the "Observer".

Letter from J L Garvin (9 Greville Place, [London]) to WSC on the improved prospects of ?[William] Waldorf Astor [later 1st Lord Astor of Hever Castle] retaining ownership of the "Observer".

Letter from J L Garvin (9 Greville Place, [London]) to WSC on: the wish of "my young officer" [his son] to meet WSC and get his autograph; the way in which Andrew Bonar Law and "the whole frondeur-press have swung round to our line"; the possibility of 1st Lord Rothermere [earlier Harold Harmsworth] or Waldorf Astor [later 2nd Lord Astor of Hever Castle] acquiring the "Observer".

Letter from William Parry, chemist (Port Victoria, South Australia) criticising James Kier Hardy and complaining of the Protectionist stance of newspapers in Australia. Urges WSC to continue his fight for Free Trade. Encloses newspaper cuttings [see CHAR 2/29/39].

Letter from J Moore Bayley (47 Temple Row, Birmingham) to WSC praising his rebuke of the press in the House of Commons on the previous night [occasioned by an inaccurate report on the Colonial Conference in the Daily Mail].

Letter from Herbert de Reuter (Reuter's Telegram Company Limited, 24 Old Jewry, London) to WSC explaining why the company did not cable to South Africa the whole of WSC's response in the House of Commons to the Daily Mail's false report of an incident at the Colonial Conference. Signed typescript. Annotated by WSC insisting that the full text of his answer was covered by Parliamentary privilege and should have been cabled.

Letter from Cornelia, Lady Wimborne (Canford Manor, Wimborne, [Dorset]) to WSC referring to his recent speech in Edinburgh [Scotland] in which he attacked the Daily Mail and inviting him to come and address a meeting on land reform.

Letter from A P Stevenson (12 Brunswick Square, Brighton, [Sussex]) to WSC congratulating him on his attack on the Daily Mail.

Letter from ?John Wighes (Holly Bank, Repton, Burton-on- Trent, [Staffordshire]) to WSC endorsing his attack on the Daily Mail.

Letter from Herbert Vivian (The Pleasaunce, Woking, [Surrey]) to WSC reporting C Arthur Pearson's explanation of why he was attacking WSC in his newspapers and his pledge to Vivian to desist if WSC made it clear that his (WSC's) attacks on Sir Alfred Harmsworth [later 1st Lord Northcliffe] did not include Pearson. Vivian offers to start a violent campaign against the "reptile press" if WSC does not wish to make concessions to Pearson.

Letter from Arthur Lawrence, director of the Globe Press (35 Surrey Street, Strand, [London]) to WSC inviting him to join the committee of a planned club for enhancing "the social amenities between English and Americans." Expresses disappointment at WSC's defeat in the [North-West Manchester] by-election and endorses his remarks during the campaign about certain newspapers. Signed typescript. Annotated: "politely declined". Illustration of the Globe Press premises in letter-head.