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.

Letter from [WSC] (Admiralty) to [6th Lord Londonderry] promising to ask the Ulster Liberal Association to move the meeting from the Ulster Hall, although he does not accept the justice of the Unionists' objections to its being held there. Draft in the hand of Edward Marsh with annotations by WSC. Other drafts at CHAR 2/59/17-19.

Letter from 6th Lord Londonderry (Mountstewart, Newtonards, County Down, [Ulster, Ireland] to WSC (Admiralty) noting with satisfaction that he has abandoned his plan to hold the meeting in the Ulster Hall and accusing him of deliberately provoking Unionist opinion by selecting that venue. Signed typescript.

Letter from WSC (Admiralty) to 6th Lord Londonderry denying that he selected the Ulster Hall for the Home Rule meeting as a challenge to the Unionists. Acknowledges that Londonderry was a friend of Lord Randolph Churchill but denies that the Unionist party as a whole was. Typescript copy signed and annotated by WSC. Other slightly differing copies, incorporating the annotations in this document, at CHAR 2/59/25-26, 34-40. Another draft at CHAR 2/59/11-13.

Letter from Augustine Birrell, Chief Secretary for Ireland (Dublin Castle), to WSC giving his views on how the Home Rule meeting in Belfast should be organised to avoid disturbances. Typescript and manuscript.

Cuttings from the Pall Mall Gazette: article by F E Smith [later 1st Lord Birkenhead] expressing the Unionists' determination to oppose the government and support those in Belfast and Ulster who reject Home Rule. Annotated with comments by Smith.

Letter from [Alexander Murray, the Master of Elibank, later Lord Murray of Elibank] to Augustine Birrell regretting the trouble caused to Birrell [as Chief Secretary for Ireland] by the Home Rule meeting to be addressed in Belfast [Ulster] by WSC, but insisting that the meeting will nevertheless be beneficial. Typescipt copy with minor annotations.

Letter from Augustine Birrell (Chief Secretary's Office, Dublin Castle, [Ireland]) to WSC on the more peaceful attitude being taken to the forthcoming Home Rule meeting in Belfast [Ulster] to be addressed by WSC, which should only require a small display of soldiers.

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].

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.

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].