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Cutting from the "Daily Telegraph" on the possible response of the Unionists to the forthcoming Home Rule meeting in Belfast [Ulster, Ireland] to be addressed by WSC and John Redmond, the campaign of the Irish Presbyterians against Home Rule, a meeting of the Ulster Women's Unionist Alliance.

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Cutting from the Westminster Gazette on the challenge of F E Smith [later 1st Lord Birkenhead] to WSC to define the difference between the positions of Lord Randolph Churchill and Sir Edward Carson, and to say whether he still believes that the motives of a Liberal government which is introducing a Home Rule bill because it is dependent on Irish Nationalists' support should be viewed with suspicion.

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Cutting from the "Liverpool Daily Post and Mercury" criticising the Ulster Unionists' prophecies of disorder when WSC and John Redmond address a Home Rule meeting in Belfast [Ulster, Ireland] and considering the possibility of Andrew Bonar Law addressing a meeting in Belfast.

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Cutting from the "Times" on a speech by F E Smith [later 1st Lord Birkenhead] criticising the Government's economic policy and remarking on the cost of Home Rule, the forthcoming Home Rule meeting in Belfast [Ulster, Ireland] to be addressed by WSC and the current position of the Unionist Party.

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Cutting from the "Pall Mall Gazette" on the division of opinion among the Irish Nationalists on financial policy.

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Cutting from the Times: speech by Sir Edward Carson [later Lord Carson] at the Manchester Constitutional Club rejecting WSC's arguments in favour of Home Rule.

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Cutting from the "Liverpool Daily Post and Mercury" on the forthcoming discussion at the conference of the Royal Economic Society on railway nationalisation and the financial relations of Great Britain and Ireland.

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Cutting from the "Daily Telegraph": speech by Sir Edward Carson [later Lord Carson] at the Manchester Constitutional Club rejecting WSC's arguments in favour of Home Rule.

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Cutting from the "Dundee Advertiser" criticising the Ulster Unionist Council's announced intention of preventing the holding of the forthcoming Home Rule meeting in Belfast [Ulster, Ireland] to be addressed by WSC.

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Cutting from the "Pall Mall Gazette" urging WSC not to inflame Unionist opinion by addressing a Home Rule meeting in Belfast [Ulster, Ireland].

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Cutting from the "Dundee Advertiser" criticising the Unionists' reaction to the forthcoming Home Rule meeting in Belfast [Ulster, Ireland] to be addressed by WSC.

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Cutting from the "Star": letter from W H Davey of the Ulster Liberal Association criticising the resolution of the Ulster Unionist Council to try to prevent the forthcoming Home Rule meeting in Belfast [Ulster, Ireland] to be addressed by WSC.

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Cutting from the "Morning Leader": article by James Douglas recalling the Home Rule crisis of 1886 and reflecting on the current entrenched opinions on the subject in Belfast [Ulster, Ireland] which make it advisable that WSC should abandon his plan to address a Home Rule meeting there.

Scope and Contents Cutting from the "Pall Mall Gazette": letter from Moreton Frewen suggesting John Redmond should be glad of the excuse to call off the Home Rule meeting in Belfast [Ulster, Ireland] because the Government's proposals on Home Rule could then still remain a "state secret". Refers to his adjournment of a political meeting in Killarney [County Kerry, Ireland] for fear of violence and asserts that Home Rule will never receive the consent of the people of Ulster; letter from Bernard Holland...

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Cutting from the "Bath Chronicle": letter from J W Tranter attacking the Ulster Unionists' announced intention of preventing the Home Rule meeting in Belfast [Ulster, Ireland] to be addressed by WSC and citing other examples of the Unionists' "tyranny".

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Cutting from the "Manchester Dispatch": article by "a Loyalist" suggesting that the Ulster Unionists may have made a tactical mistake in announcing their intention of preventing the Home Rule meeting in Belfast [Ulster, Ireland] to be addressed by WSC.

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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.

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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.

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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'".

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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.

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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 (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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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