Scope and Contents

Letter from Louis Alber, President, Affiliated Lecture and Concert Association Incorporated, to WSC, on the postponement of his lecture tour of the United States because of the General Election.

Scope and Contents Letter from Louis Alber, President of the Affiliated Lecture and Concert Association Incorporated, to WSC, on a possible lecture tour of the United States, stating that it was impossible to secure bookings for him at a 2,000 dollar fee, and that he was also having difficulties securing bookings for Sir Austen Chamberlain at 1,500 dollars, and Katharine, Duchess of Atholl at 600 dollars, commenting that the recession was growing deeper, and that they had been forced to close their Cleveland...

Scope and Contents

Letter from Louis Alber, [President of the Affiliated Lecture and Concert Association Incorporated] with contracts for part of his lecture and broadcast tour of the United States.

Scope and Contents

Letter from Louis Alber, President of the Affiliated Lecture and Concert Association Incorporated, to WSC, on an itinerary for his lecture tour of the United States.

Scope and Contents

Letter from Louis Alber [President of the Affiliated Lecture and Concert Association Incorporated], to WSC, on the success of his lecture tour of the United States in 1931, referring to him as a "prophet", expressing pleasure that WSC was contemplating a visit to Japan, which would fit in well with a lecture tour of the Pacific Coast of the United States.

Scope and Contents

Letter from WSC to Harry Leonard, Chairman, Fountain Street Baptist Church [Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States], asking for a fee for his lecture to be paid to him directly. [Copy].

Scope and Contents

List of expenses chargeable against WSC during lecture tour of the United States, 468.51 dollars, mainly expenses for Sarah Churchill [later Sarah Oliver, Sarah Beauchamp and Sarah, Lady Audley].

Scope and Contents

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].

Scope and Contents Letter from WSC to Louis Alber expressing pleasure that Alber had been appointed to head the Speakers Division of the United States National Recovery Association, looking back at his tour of the United States in 1931, where he was "not only a lecturer, but a prophet", urging the revaluation of commodities to the levels of 1928-29, the smashing of prohibition, and the ending of abuses connected with the Veterans' Bonus, rejoicing that steps had been taken to achieve these ends, stating that...

Scope and Contents

Letter from Louis Alber [President, Affiliated Lecture and Concert Association Incorporated] to WSC, expressing pleasure that he was recovering following a road accident, giving details of his revised lecture tour of the United States.

Scope and Contents

Letter from Louis Alber [President, Affiliated Lecture and Concert Association Incorporated], (Vanderbilt Hotel, New York) to WSC, (Nassau, Bahamas), on arrangements for his interrupted lecture tour of the United States.

Scope and Contents

Letter from WSC to Louis Alber [President, Affiliated Lecture and Concert Association Incorporated], on the revised itinerary for his interrupted lecture tour of the United States. [Carbon].

Scope and Contents Letter from WSC to Louis Alber [President, Affiliated Lecture and Concert Association Incorporated], on subjects for his lecture tour of the United States, stating that the "Economic Crisis" lecture had been an immense labour, and there was still a lot of work to be done reducing it to proper limits; also stating that he could prepare a new lecture on the Soviet Union, if there was sufficient demand, but hoping that Alber would not commit him to a new lecture merely to satisfy one or two...

Scope and Contents

Letter from Louis Alber, [President, Affiliated Lecture and Concert Association Incorporated] (Vanderbilt Hotel, New York), to WSC, (Nassau, Bahamas), on a revised itinerary for his lecture tour of the United States, asking if he would be willing to prepare a new lecture on the Soviet Union, as this subject had been requested by the New York Town Hall, and he felt that a number of other cities would be interested.

Scope and Contents

Letter from Louis Alber [President, Affiliated Lecture and Concert Association Incorporated], (Vanderbilt Hotel, New York) to WSC, on the revised itinerary for his lecture tour of the United States.

Scope and Contents

Letter from Louis Alber to WSC, on his appointment as head of the Speakers Division of the United States National Recovery Administration, also on the success of WSC's lecture tour of the United States in 1931, commenting that his influence, operated through Bernard Baruch, was to be seen in some phases of the recovery programme, asking if he would be interested in making another lecture tour when conditions were better.

Scope and Contents

Telegram from Louis Alber [President, Affiliated Lecture and Concert Association Incorporated] to WSC, on a revised itinerary for his lecture tour of the United States.

Scope and Contents

Letter from Louis Alber [President, Affiliated Lecture and Concert Association Incorporated] (Carlton Hotel, Washington) to WSC, on a revised itinerary for his lecture tour of the United States.

Scope and Contents Telegram from Louis Alber [President, Affiliated Lecture and Concert Association Incorporated] to WSC (Nassau, Bahamas), on his interrupted lecture tour of the United States, commenting on a story in the New York Times that WSC had attended a dinner given by the Bahamas Parliament, and given a speech; reports a "rising tide of criticism" that if he could attend a function in Nassau, he could attend one in New York a week and a half later, anticipating unfavourable press comments, and urging...

Scope and Contents

Telegram from Louis Alber [President, Affiliated Lecture and Concert Association Incorporated] to WSC, confirming that WSC's lecture tour of the United States would resume on 28 January in Brooklyn, and asking for authorisation to negotiate a debate in Washington with Senator William Borah.

Scope and Contents

Telegram from Louis Alber [President, Affiliated Lecture and Concert Association Incorporated] to WSC, on the resumption of his lecture tour of the United States, urging him to return as first planned to fulfil his New York engagements, stating that they would not tolerate any risk to his health.

Scope and Contents

Telegram from Louis Levy [WSC's attorney] to WSC, on the revised itinerary for WSC's lecture tour of the United States.

Scope and Contents

Telegram from WSC to Louis Alber [President, Affiliated Lecture and Concert Association Incorporated], stating that although his health was improving, he would not be able to resume his lecture tour of the United States on 14 January, proposing resumption on 1 February, continuing until 15 March. [Carbon].

Scope and Contents

Telegram from WSC to Louis Alber [President, Affiliated Lecture and Concert Association Incorporated], stating that although his health was improving, he would not be fit to resume his lecture tour of the United States until the end of the month. [Copy].

Scope and Contents Letter from WSC to Louis Alber [President, Affiliated Lecture and Concert Association Incorporated], on his intention to resume his lecture tour of the United States, "I shall be able to begin it, and I will go on till I drop", stating that it would be a pity to spoil the opening meeting in Brooklyn on 14 January, or the New York Economic Club meeting on 18 January with questions which were an anticlimax; he intended to speak for over an hour, and to "reach a culmination", and that while he...