Cuttings from North British Daily Mail, Daily News, and St James's Gazette, commenting on WSC's article "The British Officer", pub in the Pall Mall Magazine for Jan 1901.

Cutting from the Nottingham Daily Express commenting on WSC's article "The British Officer", pub in the Pall Mall Magazine for Jan 1901.

Letter from 5th Lord Rosebery (38 Berkeley Square, [London]) referring to proofs of WSC's life of Lord Randolph Churchill and good reports of a recent speech by WSC.

Letter from Lord George Hamilton (Fenton, Wooler, Northumberland) to WSC on research for the biography of Lord Randolph Churchill and the break-up of the Unionist party, which he blames on Arthur Balfour [later Lord Balfour] even more than Joseph Chamberlain.

Letter from J S Mann (Hazeldene, South Hill, Bromley, Kent) to WSC congratulating him on his appointment as Under- Secretary of State for the Colonies and asking to be remembered to H Bartram Cox, a former private pupil of Mann's and Alfred Lyttelton's private secretary. Refers to his (Mann's) role in the preparation of WSC's life of Lord Randolph Churchill.

Letter from Gregory Tom (Broad Street, Padstow, Cornwall) to WSC congratulating him on his appointment as Under- Secretary of State for the Colonies but expressing the view that he should have got a Cabinet post. Tom had written to Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman urging him to include WSC in the ministry. Expresses the hope that a cheap edition of WSC's life of Lord Randolph Churchill will be available. Annotated by WSC that the book will eventually be published in a cheap edition.

Letter from Sir Hugh Glizean-Reid (Dollis Hill House, London [Middlesex]) to WSC on the forthcoming Liberal meeting in Harrow and WSC's life of Lord Randolph Churhill.

Letter from Sir Arthur Godley (the Big House, Manfield, Darlington, [County Durham]), to WSC on proofs of WSC's life of Lord Randolph Churchill and the need for only one war minister in the Viceroy's Council in India.

Letter from Herbert Gladstone [later Lord Gladstone] (Whittingehame, Prestonkirk, [East Lothian, Scotland]) to WSC on: WSC's declining to address a meeting; the forthcoming publication of the life of Lord Randolph Churchill; the apparent chirpiness of cabinet ministers "at the prospects of near release"; the Chinese labour question.

Letter from Lord James of Hereford (Breamore, Salisbury, [Wiltshire]) to WSC stressing the cross-party membership of the Free Trade League and expressing the view that the forthcoming Lancashire county meeting in the Manchester Free Trade Hall should not be seen as promoting WSC's candidature. Mentions his (Hereford's) contribution to WSC's life of Lord Randolph Churchill.

Letter from W McGowan (2 Elizabeth Street, Langholm, [Dumfriesshire, Scotland]) to WSC inviting him to address a meeting in Langholm under the auspices of the Young Scots Society or the Dumfriesshire Liberal Association. Praises WSC's "The Crossing" ["The Crossing" was a novel written by an American author by the name of Winston Churchill (1871-1947). It was not written by WSC]. Annotated in shorthand.

Letter from Stuart Reid (Bessborough, Pilltown, [County Kilkenny], Ireland) to WSC praising his life of Lord Randolph Churchill and reporting that Sir Richard Tangye is terminally ill. Sends WSC a copy of his (Reid's) life of the 1st Lord Durham [not present] and asks him to mention it in a speech.

Letter from Herbert Vivian (Hotel de Luxembourg, Promenade des Anglais, Nice, [France]) to WSC on: "The Curiosity of Literature", "The River War", and the best way of engaging in published controversy with Colonel [?Ivor] Maxse; Vivian's review of WSC's last book; the activities of "those Labour devils". Suggests WSC meet Horatio Bottomley with a view to getting "our own paper to draw blood properly.".

Letter from 5th Lord Rosebery (Villa Rosebery, Posilipo, Naples, [Italy]) to WSC professing ignorance about WSC's and ?'s progress and congratulating WSC on the sales of his life of Lord Randolph Churchill.

Manuscript of book on Churchill as a winner of the Nobel prize for Literature, (Edito-Service, Geneva, 1970).