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 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 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.

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 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.

Letter from [WSC] to the Maharaja of Alwar [India] on: the imminent acceptance by the people in Mesopotamia [later Iraq] of Emir Feisal; the efforts to secure a better recognition of the status of Indians in the British colonies and the particular difficulties this poses in South Africa; the defeat of the miners in the coal strike and the improving economic prospects for Britain; the good qualities of the Viceroy of India [Lord Reading, earlier Sir Rufus Isaacs]. Typescript copy.

Leaflet issued by the Scottish Brotherhood Union on the campaign to raise funds for meeting halls for the Bantus in South Africa. Sent with CHAR 2/122/127.

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 Charles Lane Sansom (Volunteer Headquarters, Johannesburg, [South Africa]) to Lady Katharine Lyttelton reporting his dismissal from the local civil service and expressing the wish to obtain an inspectorship under the Local Government Board or an inspectorship of reformatories. Describes how English civil servants in South Africa are being replaced by Boers and how Lord Selborne is unable to prevent this. Sent with CHAR 2/38/13.

Letter from Harry C Grimwade (14 Westhall Road, Bath, [Somerset]) to WSC enclosing a report of the speech of William Joynson-Hicks [later Lord Brentford] on Chinese labour in South Africa [see CHAR 2/38/37a] and offering to publish WSC's reply. Annotated by WSC, 20 Apr [1908: "Thanked - but hardly worth refutation"].

Cutting: part of a speech in Bath [Somerset] [by William Joynson-Hicks, later Lord Brentford] attacking Government policy on Chinese labour in South Africa. Sent with CHAR 2/38/37 2 papers.

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 Dr J Murray Clark (Clark, McPherson, Campbell and Jarvis, barristers and solicitors, The Kent Building, 156 Yonge Street, Toronto, Canada) to WSC enclosing CHAR 2/122/24 and calling for the co-ordination of information about the disbursement of foreign money to foment unrest in the United States, Canada and South Africa and elsewhere in the Empire.

Letter from James Phillpotts (The Ousels, Tunbridge Wells, [Kent]) to WSC approving the fact that Rhodesia [later Zambia and Zimbabwe] has not joined the South African Union because if it did it could be lost to the Empire and suggesting that money could be made available to support Rhodesia if Britain gave up support for aggressive Zionism in Palestine in favour of a more moderate policy.

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.