Cutting from the "Huddersfield Examine" [Yorkshire] attacking the Ulster Unionists' declared intention of preventing the Home Rule meeting in Belfast [Ulster, Ireland] and claiming that William Gladstone favoured a measure of Home Rule for all parts of the United Kingdom as early as 1866.

Cuttings from the "Daily News": speeches against Home Rule by Sir Edward Carson [later Lord Carson], F E Smith [later 1st Lord Birkenhead] and others; preparations by the Ulster Unionist Council and the Ulster Liberal Association for the Home Rule meeting to be addressed by WSC in Belfast; the malign example set by the "lawlessness" of the Unionists. 2 cuttings.

Letter from J L Garvin (Pall Mall Gazette, Newton Street, High Holborn, [London]) to WSC protesting about a pamphlet issued by the Home Rule Council misrepresenting his attitude to Home Rule and his role in the supposed "'Tory plot at the Veto Conference'".

Letter from J L Garvin (9 Greville Place, [London]) to WSC on: the need for Britain to maintain its naval strength; the support of most Unionists of Andrew Bonar Law's position on Home Rule for Ireland; the vital importance of recognising that Ulster can never be dealt with by force.

Letter from G Wallace Carter, general secretary of the Home Rule Council (Parliament Chambers, Great Smith Street, Westminster, [London]) to WSC (Admiralty) enclosing the first report and financial statement of the Home Rule Council [see CHAR 2/61/8-9] and stating that the Council will have to increase its efforts until the Home Rule Bill is law. Signed typescript.

Letter from [WSC] to [Sir George Ritchie] on the importance of setting up the Irish parliament in Dublin before the general election and on how the opposition of the Unionists can be dealt with. Typescript copy.

Letter from [WSC] to J Bait stating his belief that Protestants in Ulster will not be persecuted for their religion under a system of Home Rule but that extreme Protestants will mistreat Catholics as a result of the encouragement given to bigotry and lawlessness given by the leaders of the Conservative Party.

Letter from [WSC] to [?] expressing his wish that the question of provincial parliaments for England should be ventilated but that it should not get in the way of Home Rule for Ireland.

Letter from Augustine Birrell (Irish Office) to WSC on the need for the Home Rule Bill to be acceptable to Irishmen.

Letter from Julian Haslem (New Barracks, Fermoy, County Cork, [Ireland]) to WSC reporting that the officers of several infantry regiments intend to resign rather than fight in Ulster.

Letter from Herbert Asquith [later 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith] (Hopeman Lodge, Hopeman, Morayshire, [Scotland]) to WSC warning of the obsessive and volatile state of the King [George V] and reporting that he has sent the King a memorandum about the legislative role of a constitutional sovereign. Believes that "an ungovernable Ireland is much more serious than rioting in 4 counties" [Ulster] and approves the idea of round table talks, provided they proceed on some definite basis.

Letter from Herbert Asquith [later 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith] (Hopeman Lodge, Hopeman, Morayshire, [Scotland]) to WSC on: WSC's report of his conversation with Andrew Bonar Law about Home Rule; the probable need to make a bargain about Ulster as the price for Home Rule; the need for John Redmond and Sir Edward Carson [later Lord Carson] to be fully included in consultations; the crudity of Tory threats over the issue.

Letter from William Bourke Cockran (Ritz Hotel, Piccadilly, London) to WSC criticising the plan of the Ulster Unionists to establish a provisional government if the Home Rule Bill is passed and describing the economic and administrative dislocation which he believes would follow the establishment of such a government.

Cutting from the "Freeman's Journal" [Ireland]: speech in favour of Home Rule by Joseph Devlin at Dundalk [County Louth, Ireland]. Sent with CHAR 2/62/66-68.

Letter from Henry Massingham (The Nation, 10 Adelphi Terrace, London) to WSC praising his speeches on Irish Home Rule.

Letter from James Majendie (Hedingham Castle, Essex) to WSC recalling that he entered the House of Commons at the same time as WSC and praising his speech of the previous night on Irish Home Rule.

Letter from "Jack" [John Seely, later Lord Mottistone] to WSC praising his speech of the previous night on Irish Home Rule. Announces his imminent departure for India.

Letter from Sir Frederick Milner (11 Hereford Gardens, London) to WSC rejecting WSC's claim in a recent speech in Dundee that his opponents are trying to enlist the royal prerogative in their campaign against Home Rule. Asserts that the gravity of the situation in Ulster should not be underestimated.

Letter from Sir Frederick Milner (11 Hereford Gardens, London) to WSC expressing the hope that he will admit that he was wrong to bring the King [George V] into the controversy over Home Rule and that the Government will exclude Ulster from that measure.

Letter from Sir Frederick Milner (11 Hereford Gardens, [London]) to WSC asking whether he agrees to the publication of Milner's letter to him [denying WSC's claim that the opponents of Home Rule are seeking to enlist the royal prerogative to defeat it]. Annotated by WSC with the reply that for the purposes of publication it would be better to cast the arguments of the letter into a different form, 17 Oct.

Letter from T P O'Connor (5 Morpeth Mansions, Victoria Street, [London]) to WSC on the opposition to the proposal for the separation of Ulster from the rest of Ireland and the decline in the support in Ulster for Sir Edward Carson [later Lord Carson]. Signed typescript.

Letter from Sir Edward Grey [later Lord Grey of Fallodon] (Foreign Office) to WSC admitting that he summed up more decidedly than he had intended [in a speech in Berwick, Northumberland] against the exclusion of Ulster [from the Home Rule Bill].

Letter from J L Garvin (The Pall Mall Gazette, Editorial Offices, Newton Street, High Holborn, [London]) to WSC stating his position on Ireland and praising the latter part of WSC's recent speech in Dundee [Angus, Scotland]`.

Letter from R G Hickling (79 Surrey Street, Norwich, [Norfolk]) to WSC stating that astrological conditions are inauspicious for a settlement [in Ireland] but that they will improve.