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Letter from Sir Bindon Blood (Dartmouth House, 2 Queen Anne's Gate, [London]) to WSC congratulating him on his successful speech in Belfast [Ulster] and enclosing a memorandum and correspondence on the Trans-Persia [Iran] railway scheme [not present].

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Letter from Herbert Samuel (Office of Postmaster General) to WSC enclosing enclosing an extract from an official minute on the reporting by telephone of WSC's speech in Belfast [Ulster] [see CHAR 2/59/42-44]. Signed typescript.

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Cutting from the Times on: the secession of some members of the Ulster Liberal Association over the Government's policy on Home Rule; the speech by the Unionist MP James Campbell [later Lord Glenavy] at Coleraine [County Londonderry, Ulster, Ireland].

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Cutting from the Manchester Evening Chronicle on the Ulster Unionists' itention to refuse to recognise the powers of an executive in Dublin.

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Cutting from Freeman's Journal on the forthcoming Home Rule meeting in Belfast [Ulster, Ireland] to be addressed by WSC, John Redmond and Joseph Devlin.

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Cutting from the Dundee Advertiser [Angus, Scotland] on the head-start in the political campaign achieved by the Unionists and the opportunity presented to WSC by the forthcoming Home Rule meeting in Belfast [Ulster, Ireland].

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Cutting from the Gloucester Citizen on the division of opinion on Home Rule within Ulster and Belfast and the danger of entrenched positions bringing disorder.

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Cutting from the Bradford Daily Telegraph [Yorkshire] on the unity of the Liberal party in support of Home Rule and the widening consensus in favour of the measure.

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Cutting from the Cork Free Press asserting that it will be far more useful if WSC makes his speech in favour of Home Rule at a meeting in England rather than in Belfast [Ulster, Ireland].

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Cuttings from the "Irish News" on: the interest aroused by the announcement of the Home Rule meeting to be addressed by WSC in Belfast [Ulster, Ireland]; the speech against Home Rule made at the same venue by Lord Randolph Churchill in 1886 and the movement of opinion in favour of the measure in the intervening period; the impracticality of dividing Ireland into two Catholic and Protestant parts.

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Cutting from the Pall Mall Gazette on the determination of the Ulster Unionists.

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Letter from WSC ("in the train") to "Alick" [Alexander Murray, the Master of Elibank, later Lord Murray of Elibank] stating that as a result of a conversation with Robert Harcourt he has decided not to address any meetings on Home Rule before Parliament meets again. Copy in the hand of Edward Marsh.

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Letter from G Wallace Carter, general secretary of the Home Rule Council (Parliament Chambers, Great Smith Street, Westminster, [London]) to WSC (Home Office) reporting that the Master of Elibank [Alexander Murray, later Lord Murray of Elibank] agrees with the Council's "secret plan of campaign". Signed typescript. Annotated by WSC: "I agree generally with the cogent reasons by wh. he supports his proposals.".

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Letter from Jeremiah MacVeagh (Bansha, 2 Upper Montague Street, Russell Square, London) to WSC reporting that the Daily Chronicle has asked for permission to republish "Home Rule in a nutshell" for distribution to every elector and asking to use WSC's comments as an introduction to subsequent editions.

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Letter from Alexander Murray [the Master of Elibank, later Lord Murray of Elibank] (12 Downing Street) to WSC on the use to be made of James Caird's donation towards the work of the Home Rule Council.

Scope and Contents Letter from "Alick" [Alexander Murray, the Master of Elibank, later Lord Murray of Elibank] (12 Downing Street) to WSC enclosing Canadian newspaper cuttings on WSC's speech on the resignation of three Sea Lords [see CHAR 2/53/71-75] and reporting that the speech has also been sent to other parts of the Empire. Offers to publicise WSC's forthcoming speech in Belfast [Ulster, Ireland] in the same manner and asks him to accept James Caird's offer [of a donation towards the work of the Home Rule...

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Letter from WSC (Admiralty) to "Alick" [Alexander Murray, the Master of Elibank, later Lord Murray of Elibank] warning that the Government (and with it the cause of Home Rule) will fall if it tries to push through women's suffrage and expressing incomprehension at David Lloyd George's opposition to a referendum on the issue. Copy in WSC's hand.

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Cutting from the Glasgow Herald on the continued strength of anti-Home Rule opinion, the readiness of some Liberals to engage the Unionists in argument and the ill effects of the Government's haste to push through its measures.

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Cutting from the East Anglian Daily Times on the announcement of the Home Rule meeting in Belfast [Ulster, Ireland] to be addressed by WSC and John Redmond.

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Cutting from the Globe on the determination of the Ulster Unionists to defend the Union.

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Cutting from the Irish Times on the Home Rule meeting in Belfast [Ulster, Ireland] to be addressed by WSC and John Redmond and the advocacy by Lord Randolph Churchill in 1889 of measures of local government and land purchase for Ireland.

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Cutting from the Cork Constitution on the declining support for Home Rule among Liberals in England and Wales due to the hypocrisy of the Nationalist leaders, the determination of the Ulster Unionists to defend the Union, and the danger of disorder at the Home Rule meeting to be addressed by WSC and John Redmond in Belfast [Ulster, Ireland].

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Cutting from the Bristol Times and Mirror on: the determination of the Ulster Unionists demonstrated by the speech of Sir Edward Carson at Omagh [County Tyrone, Ulster, Ireland]; the division among the Nationalists over fiscal policy; the control which the Roman Catholic Church would exercise over a Home Rule Parliament.

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Cutting from the Aberdeen Free Press on the Belfast meeting as the start of a campaign to promote a Home Rule bill; the advocacy by Lord Randolph Churchill in 1889 of local government and land purchase for Ireland; the decline in opposition to Home Rule within the Conservative party.

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Cutting from the Irish Times on WSC's account of Lord Randolph Churchill's anti-Home Rule speech in Belfast [Ulster, Ireland] in 1886.