Letter from Sir [John] Mark Hunter, Secretary of the Indian Empire Society (28 Alfred Place, [London]) to WSC enclosing CHAR 2/180A/14 and discussing the arrangements for the forthcoming meeting in Manchester.

Resolution on the danger to the British Empire in India proposed at the meeting of the Indian Empire Society at the Cannon Street Hotel, [London]. [Sent with CHAR 2/180A/11-13].

Letter from Sir [John] Mark Hunter, Secretary of the Indian Empire Society (28 Alfred Place, [London]) to WSC enclosing a draft from [J E Lawrence], news editor of the Daily Mail [about the forthcoming Society meeting in Manchester, not present] and asking WSC to put it into its final form.

Letter from [WSC] to Esmond Harmsworth [later 2nd Lord Rothermere] on the arrangements for the Indian Empire Society meeting in Manchester at which both are speaking and the fact that "Max" [1st Lord Beaverbrook, earlier Sir Max Aitken] is "getting on the move about India too." [Carbon typescript copy].

Letter from John Whitley (BBC, Savoy Hill, London) to WSC informing him that the BBC has decided that it would not be appropriate to broadcast another series of talks on India (including one by WSC) before the resumption of the Round Table Conference.

Letter from [WSC] to John Whitley protesting against the BBC's decision not to allow him to broadcast on India. Carbon typescript copy.

Cutting from the "Daily Herald": report of the BBC's refusal to allow WSC to broadcast on India.

5 sets of duplicates for CHAR 2/183/17-20. Carbon copies.

Cutting from the Times: letter to the editor from Lord Sydenham [earlier Sir George Clarke] attacking WSC's contention that the critics of Government policy in India, Ireland and Palestine are responsible for the disasters which those policies entail.

Letter from 2nd Lord Lytton (Governor's Camp, Bengal, [parts of Bangladesh and India]) to WSC commiserating with him on his illness and election defeat, congratulating him on his achievements, reporting that the break-up of the Coalition came as a surprise in India, wondering what WSC, 1st Lord Birkenhead [earlier F E Smith] and David Lloyd George will do now, reporting that although he is enjoying his work in India he gets home-sick, and inviting WSC to visit him.

Annual report for 1922 of the Royal Dutch Company for the Working of Petroleum Wells in Netherlands India.

Letter from Charles Townshend (Riviera Palace Hotel, Monte Carlo) to WSC hoping he will "lead us in a new party against Bolshevism", describing the trouble which he believes would follow in Egypt and India if a Socialist government were installed, and referring to his withdrawal from the North Norfolk election due to laryngitis.

Letter from ?(Vice Regal Lodge, Delhi, [India]) to WSC regretting WSC's defeat in the election for the Abbey Division of Westminster, a contest which aroused great interest in the East and Far East, praising the Viceroy of India, Lord Reading [earlier Sir Rufus Isaac] for the way he is tackling his "thankless job", and praising "The World Crisis".

Proposals for raising territorial units in India by E G Barrow, Military Secretary at the India Office. Annotated: "circulated by the Secretary of State for India".

Letter from 7th Lord Londonderry (Mount Stewart, Newtonards, County Down, [Ulster, Ireland]) to WSC arguing that Lord Reading [earlier Sir Rufus Isaacs] was not a successful viceroy of India, mentioning that he would have liked the job himself, and considering the current candidates for the post.

Letter from Anthony Eden [later 1st Lord Avon], Secretary of State for War, to WSC advising him to wait before choosing the future Viceroy [of India, 2nd Lord Linlithgow's replacement] as there are no suitable candidates amongst [Leo] Amery's [Secretary of State for India and Burma, later Myanmar] submissions, that "Sam" [Sir Samuel Hoare, later 1st Lord Templewood] is not up to the job, but one might emerge. [manuscript].

Letter from "Bobbety" [Lord Cranborne, earlier Robert Gascoyne Cecil, later 5th Lord Salisbury] to WSC accepting the promotion to the House of Lords; expresses doubts about a position at the Dominions Office due to too many recent staffing changes, and at the India Office as his views are so different from [Leo] Amery's [Secretary of State for India and Burma, later Myanmar] it will be thought to indicate a change of policy. [manuscript].

Telegram from WSC to Generalissimo Chiang-Kai-shek [Chinese Nationalist Leader] regarding the Chinese leader's visit to India: discourages him from meeting leaders of the Indian Congress Party.

Telegram from the Secretary of State for India [Leo Amery] to the Viceroy [and Governor-General of India, 2nd Lord Linlithgow, earlier Lord Hopetoun] with text of a personal message from WSC regarding the visit of Generalissimo Chiang-Kai-shek [Chinese Nationalist Leader] to India: "In no circumstances must he be allowed to see [Jawaharlal] Nehru", as such a meeting would be likely to spread "Pan-Asiatic malaise".

Telegram from WSC to the Viceroy [and Governor-General of India, 2nd Lord Linlithgow, earlier Lord Hopetoun] regarding the visit of Generalissimo Chiang-Kai-shek [Chinese Nationalist Leader] to India: feels "It would be disastrous if you put yourself in a position where we had [Mohandas] Gandhi and [Jawaharlal] Nehru on the one side and the Viceroy of India on the other, with Chiang-Kai-shek arbitrating between the two".

Telegram from WSC to Generalissimo Chiang-Kai-shek [Chinese Nationalist Leader] advising him against his suggested visit to see [Mohandas] Gandhi at Wardha [India].