Letter from Lord Hugh Cecil [later Lord Quickswood] to WSC, on speaking in House of Commons debate on Alfred Lynch, [Irish Nationalist MP for Galway, and Colonel of Irish Brigade serving with the Boers], also on possibility of "joining a Middle Party,when there is a Middle Party to join", and the possibility of WSC being offered a post in a Rosebery [Liberal] administration.

Letter from General Sir William Nicholson [later Lord Nicholson], War Office, to WSC, apologies for referring request for information on the South African War to the Secretary of State [St John Brodrick],"who does not like independent MP's to be better informed than himself.

Letter from Major H .Young to WSC, on fraud in the Eastern Division, Cape Colony [later part of South Africa], [annotated by WSC, giving opinion that little good would come from scrutiny of the War Accounts].

Letter from Lord Rosebery to WSC, asking for information on the South African War.

Extract from the Empire Review - article by H. Kopson How to Solve the South African Labour Question: A Plan for Chinese Immigration [printed].

Typescript notes on the labour shortage in South Africa.

Cutting from The Statist, article on the labour shortage in South Africa.

Letter from F H P Creswell to WSC, on the Chinese labour question in South Africa, enclosing cutting from the Johannesburg Star.

Letter from J M Neuburger to WSC, criticising the Colonial Office's policy in South Africa, enclosing printed memorandum Reflections on Joseph Chamberlain's Transvaal Policy.

Letter from Alfred Haserick to WSC, on South Africa, also asking for help in obtaining post as Near or Far Eastern correspondent of a "good" newspaper.

Letter from H. Locke to WSC, on the Chinese Labour question in South Africa, enclosing cuttings from the Johannesburg Star.

Letter from J. Andrews Manning to WSC on the Chinese labour question in South Africa.

Letter from WSC to [ ], explaining reasons for voting against the Government's proposal to introduce Chinese labour into the Transvaal [South Africa], stating opposition to "debased labour with no hope of advance for skills or thrift, and no right to share in the general life of the country to whose welfare it contributes" [Ms copy by A. Anning].

Letter from Douglas M Gane (456 Great St Helen's, [London]) to WSC asserting that in view of the growth of French power on the Atlantic coast of Morocco Britain should have safeguarded her communications with Cape Colony [South Africa] by obtaining the right to use the port of Santa Cruz de Tenerife [Canary Islands], which could have been done by including Spain in the recent Anglo-French agreement.

Letter from Henry Massingham (34 Grosvenor Road, Westminster, [London]) to WSC an mentioning article on Liberal land policy in the Contemporary Review and recommending that WSC meet Mr Outhwaite, former editor of the labour newspaper in Johannesburg, who can give him important information about South Africa.

Cutting from The Friend [Orange River Colony, later Orange Free State, South Africa]: abandonment by the Witwatersrand Native Labour Association of its libel action against WSC.

Page from the Sunday Herald (Johannesburg): marked article on the role of Lord Selborne, High Commissioner of South Africa, in the dispute between WSC and the Witwatersrand Native Labour Association.

Cuttings from The Friend [Orange River Colony, later Orange Free State, South Africa]: resignation of Mr Hichens, the former Colonial Treasurer, supposedly over the national railway policy of the Transvaal and its implications for relations between the South African colonies.

Cutting from [The Friend] [Orange River Colony, later Orange Free State, South Africa]: criticism by General Christian de Wet of General Louis Botha's decision to attend the Colonial Conference.

Pages from the Transvaal Leader: proceedings of the annual Congress of the Association of Chambers of Commerce of South Africa in Pretoria, with marked passage on the detrimental effect of customs duties on white workers.

Letter from Abe Bailey (Rand Club, Johannesburg, [South Africa]) on: the desirability of the Colonial Office consulting on policy with local representative bodies in South Africa; the issues of Indian traders and Indian and Chinese labourers; the local debate on the respective merits of representative and responsible government.

Letter from Frank Lea (42 Whitworth Street, Manchester) to WSC on compensation claims in South Africa and the hatred of Alfred Milner felt by the Dutch there.

Letter from WSC (105 Mount Street) to [G I Holmes] giving his views on reduction of spending on the Army and Navy and on the importation of Chinese labour into South Africa. Copy in WSC's hand Other copies at CHAR 2/22/47 and CHAR 2/22/53.