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].

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

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.

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].

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.

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.

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].

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.

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

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.