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.

Letter from WSC (105 Mount Street) to G I Holmes (Tower Chambers, London Wall, [London]) giving his views on reduction of spending on the Army and Navy and on the importation of Chinese labour into South Africa. Typescript copy annotated by WSC and Annette Anning Other copies at CHAR 2/22/44 and CHAR 2/22/53.

Cuttings from South African newspapers: speeches by James Reid and leaders of "Het Volk" on the political situation.

Letter from Abe Bailey (Johannesburg, [South Africa]) to WSC on the political situation in South Africa.

Letter from WSC (105 Mount Street) to G I Holmes (Tower Chambers, London Wall, [London]) giving his views on reduction of spending on the Army and Navy and on the importation of Chinese Labour into South Africa. Typescript copy annotated by WSC and Annette Anning Other copies at CHAR 2/22/44 and CHAR 2/22/47.

Letter from Herbert Gladstone [later Lord Gladstone] (Whittingehame, Prestonkirk, [East Lothian, Scotland]) to WSC on: WSC's declining to address a meeting; the forthcoming publication of the life of Lord Randolph Churchill; the apparent chirpiness of cabinet ministers "at the prospects of near release"; the Chinese labour question.

Letter from Abe Bailey (Yewhurst, East Grinstead, Sussex) to WSC on Chinese labour in South Africa.

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 the 8th Duke of Marlborough, Colonial Office, to WSC, on postponement of Boer War compensation payments.

Letter from R. Malcolm, R. Sutherland, F.W. Cooper and J. Nelson to WSC, on complaining about the postponement of Boer War compensation payments to British subjects "our late enemy have been paid in full, so have the coolies and Kaffiers, why not us Britishers?".

Letter from G N Astle, a member of the North-West Manchester Liberal Federation (26 Carmon Street, Manchester) to WSC (House of Commons) asking for his views on Chinese labour in South Africa. Annotated in shorthand.

Letter from Lord Percy [later 8th Duke of Northumberland (Alnwick Castle, Northumberland) on a future meeting of the "Hooligans", the paucity of local salmon, bad treatment by the press of Sir Redvers Buller, and South African affairs in general.

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.