Letter from Harry Beckenham to the editor of the Yorkshire Post correcting the misrepresentation in that paper of WSC's views on the relative importance of establishing law and the authority of the Irish government and the destruction of its archives. Carbon copy.

Memorandum from G Wallace Carter (21 Abingdon Street, Westminster, [London]) to WSC reporting on the formation, structure and proposed activities of the Home Rule Council, of which Wallace has been appointed the general secretary. Annotated typescript.

Letter from James Caird (Roseangle, Dundee, [Angus, Scotland]) to WSC agreeing that the National Free Trade Lectures should be continued for 1912 and asking if WSC would approve his giving £10000 to help the Liberal campaign for Irish Home Rule. Caird will also be glad to help on the issue of Home Rule for Scotland.

Letter from Lord Curzon (Hackwood, Basingstoke, [Hampshire]) pledging that he and his friends will not charge WSC with inconsistency or illogicality on women's suffrage but questioning his distinction between that measure and others such as Home Rule and pointing out the problems connected with a referendum. Signed typescript.

Telegram from Alexander Murray [the Master of Elibank, later Lord Murray of Elibank] (Cap Martin) to Edward Marsh (Admiralty) referring to [?the announced intention of 6th Lord Londonderry of preventing WSC's Home Rule meeting in Belfast and suggesting that WSC defer his decision on whether or not to go.] Typescript.

Letter from Sir George Kemp (Beechwood, Rochdale, [Lancashire]) to the Master of Elibank [Alexander Murray, later Lord Murray of Elibank] complaining that some Liberals in North-West Manchester are persistently urging him not to give up the seat despite his opposition to Home Rule. Typescript copy.

Letter from J L Garvin (Pall Mall Gazette, Newton Street, Holborn, [London]) to WSC suggesting WSC might be the man to lessen party antagonism and therefore expressing regret about certain passages in his speech [?at the Guildhall on naval defence in November 1911]. Thinks the Conservatives may legitimately attack WSC as a supporter of Home Rule but that they will be fair to him as First Lord of the Admiralty.

Letter from Sir Ernest Cassel (Hotel Adlon, Berlin, [Germany]) to WSC on the success of Lord Haldane's [earlier Richard Haldane] mission to Berlin and of WSC's trip to Belfast [Ulster, Ireland].

Letter from F E Smith [later 1st Lord Birkenhead] (45 Elm Court, Temple, [London]) to WSC reporting that he has seen Woburn and has made an arrangement. Encloses copies of an article and a speech of his on Home Rule [not present] and pointing out that they are not offensive to WSC.

Letter from Herbert Asquith [later 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith] (Ewelme Down, Wallingford, [Berkshire]) to WSC on their forthcoming discussion of war plans. Hopes WSC will speak on the second reading of the Home Rule Bill.

Letter from James Caird (Grand Hotel, Rudolf Lotz, Nuremberg, [Germany]) to WSC on the large and expensive educative task of the Home Rule Council.

Letter from Lord Hugh Cecil [later Lord Quickswood] (23 Bruton Street, [London]) to WSC thanking him for a pencil and praising the style but not the substance of WSC's speech [on the Government of Ireland Bill]. Cecil does not think the congestion of business in the House of Commons is as important as the dangers of Home Rule and is cheered by his belief that all the Government "look rather ill".

Cutting from the "Daily Chronicle" supporting WSC's defence of the Insurance Act but rejecting his proposal for regional parliaments in England as unhelpful with regard to the problem of Irish Home Rule.

Cutting from the Manchester Guardian: editorial criticising WSC's speech on "English Federalism" as it relates to Irish Home Rule but approving of it as it relates to English local government.

Cutting from the Liverpool Daily Courier: cartoon attacking WSC's proposal for separate parliaments for Ireland, Scotland, Wales and the English regions.

Cutting from the "Daily Star" (Toronto, Canada): editorial praising the conduct of Robert Borden, Prime Minister of Canada, in Britain and criticising British Unionist politicians who warn that Ulster will violently rebel against Home Rule for Ireland, contrasting this with more temperate reactions to similar problems in Canada. Annotated: "This is good stuff to pump into Bonar's [Andrew Bonar Law] face and the other Hell hounds. You are a brick Winston".

Shorthand letter referring to the forthcoming Home Rule meeting to be addressed by WSC in Belfast [Ulster, Ireland].

Letter from [WSC] (Admiralty) to [John Redmond] asserting that a meeting in Belfast [Ulster, Ireland] addressed by both of them would give the extremists in the Orange party a pretext "for creating a row". He therefore asks Redmond to write him a letter for publication withdrawing his promise to share the platform with WSC. Typescript copy with minor annotations. A manuscript copy at CHAR 2/59/6-7.

Letter from [WSC] (33 Eccleston Square) to 6th Lord Londonderry objecting to the resolution of the Ulster Unionist Council announcing their intention of preventing (implicitly by violence) the holding in Belfast [Ulster, Ireland] of a Home Rule meeting to be addressed by WSC. Copy in the hand of Edward Marsh. Another draft at CHAR 2/59/9. Another copy at CHAR 2/59/10.

Cuttings from the Liverpool Courier: speech by F E Smith [later 1st Lord Birkenhead] against Home Rule.