Letter from WSC (Board of Trade) to Lord Crewe criticising Lord Selborne's plan for a commission to protect native interests in South Africa but asserting that Selborne is nevertheless the best man to negotiate on the issue with the South African leaders. Gives advice on how a settlement of the native question can be got through Parliament. Typescript copy.

Letter from Lord Crewe (Crewe Hall, [Cheshire]) to WSC on safeguards for the native protectorates under any act of South African confederation. Thinks that the matter should be discussed with Lord Selborne, whom he describes as "a dangerous plenipotentiary" and "obstinate", and the native deputations.

Letter from Sir Richard Solomon, Agent General for the Transvaal [South Africa] (72 Victoria Street, Westminster, [London]) to WSC regretting that he is to leave the Colonial Office but congratulating him on his entry into the Cabinet as President of the Board of Trade. Thinks WSC will be able to deal with any attacks from his opponent in North-West Manchester [William Joynson-Hicks] on Chinese labour in South Africa.

Letter from General Sir Ian Hamilton (San Antonio Palace, Malta) to [Erskine] Childers commenting on Childers' book on the training and arming of the Cavalry [War and the Arme Blanche] and justifying his opinions by descriptions of actions in Afghanistan, 1879, the Boer War, 1900, and the Russo-Japanese War in Manchuria [part of China]. Signed and annotated typescript.

Cutting from the "Globe" contrasting WSC's present advocacy of federalism with his adoption of the opposite principle when helping to frame the constitution of South Africa.

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 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 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.

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.