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.

Correspondence between Basil Nicolls (BBC, Broadcasting House, London) John Colville [Private Secretary to WSC], and Francis Brown [Assistant Private Secretary to WSC] proposing a programme on the Battle of Blenheim [Germany], based on WSC's book ["Marlborough: His Life and Times"]; permission for broadcast granted; with copy of script by Cyril Roberts.

Letter from John Heaton (Schifferstrasse, 82/86, Frankfurt [Germany]) to [?Edward Marsh] concerning a speech by WSC on prisons and prisoners. He offers to use his influence to ensure the publication of the speech; asks [Edward Marsh] to secure WSC's consent; and says that his own name would not appear in connection with the publication. Signed manuscript, annotated by [? Edward Marsh] (30 July).

Letter from John Heaton (Schifferstrasse, 82/86, Frankfurt [Germany]) to WSC expressing pleasure that WSC has agreed to revise his speech on prisons and prisoners for publication. He explains that his objection to his name being associated with the publication is that he is not an authority on the issue. Signed manuscript, annotated by Sidney Harris that [WSC] is expecting a proof to correct (8 July).

Letter from Henry Massingham [editor of the Nation] (14 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, London) to WSC asking him to write an article on prison reform for the Nation. He suggests several possible subjects including young offenders and solitary confinment, and says that the fee would be 20 guineas. Signed manuscript annotated by WSC.

Letter from [WSC] to Lord Beaverbrook [earlier Sir Max Aitken] denying that he sought to convert Beaverbrook to the gold Standard before the Budget, referring to his intention of finishing the third volume [of "the World Crisis"] when he is out of office, asking Beaverbrook to let him check any words of his he may quote, and agreeing that the economic situation is improving. Carbon typescript copy.

Hand-written note by [William Deakin, Literary Assistant to WSC] on the concern shown by the Dominions in political arrangements in India, and on communication with Mackenzie King [Prime Minister of Canada]. [Probably used in "The Hinge of Fate", volume 4 of "The Second World War"].

Letter from Leo Amery to WSC with a transcript of his BBC broadcast to India on "Mr. Churchill as a writer"; with telegram from WSC to Leo Amery thanking him for his broadcast, annotated. [Carbon].

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.

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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Whitelaw Reid [United States Ambassador] (Dorchester House, Park Lane, [London]) to WSC on a copy of WSC's "My African journey" to be presented to the President [Theodore Roosevelt].

Letter from Admiral Sir Roger Keyes [later 1st Lord Keyes] (39 Lowndes Street, [London]) to WSC enclosing proof chapters [from his naval memoirs] and asking WSC to review them and referring to the publication of the first volume of WSC's life of the 1st Duke of Marlborough.

Letter from [WSC] to Lord Balfour [earlier Arthur Balfour] on: British naval policy with regard to that of the United States; the hard work involved in finishing the volume of "The World Crisis" on the peace conferences; Maurice Hankey's vindication of Balfour against the "calumnies" of Ray Stannard Baker; WSC's wish to print a passage from one of Balfour's Cabinet papers which states British policy towards Russia at the end of the war. Carbon typescript copy.