Scope and Contents Letter from G Wallace Carter (National Free Trade Lectures, 8 Victoria Street, Westminster, [London]) to James Caird (Roseangle, Dundee, [Angus, Scotland]) promising reports on the progress of the lecture programme and stating that the cost of a Free Trade shop in either Bond Street or Fleet Street [London] would be prohibitive. Lists the existing shops or depots for the sale of literature. Describes the financial difficulties of the Free Trade Union and the high expenditure of the...

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Letter from James Caird (Roseangle, Dundee, [Angus, Scotland]) to WSC expressing satisfaction that WSC has enough funds for carrying on the work for Free Trade. Asks WSC to allow the licensing of a centre for cancer research which he intends to build in Dundee. Thinks "East Dorset has to thank Mrs Churchill". Annotated that WSC has asked the Department about licensing the research centre, 8 Jul [1910].

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Reports on the progress of the National Free Trade Lectures up to 2 July 1910, including arrangements for the forthcoming seaside campaign. Typescript. Sent with CHAR 2/44/134.

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Report for July 1910 on the National Free Trade Lectures, by W W Champness [assistant secretary]. Signed and annotated typescript. Sent with CHAR 2/44/147.

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Letter from James Caird (Roseangle, Dundee, [Angus, Scotland]) to WSC agreeing that the report for July 1910 on the National Free Trade Lectures is encouraging. Is glad WSC is enjoying his holiday and states his intention of pursuing his plan for a cancer research centre in Dundee.

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Letter from James Caird (Roseangle, Dundee, [Angus, Scotland]) to WSC referring to the licensing of Caird's proposed cancer research centre in Dundee and enclosing a further £1000 [not present] to help the cause of Free Trade.

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Letter from G Wallace Carter (Free Trade Union, 8 Victoria Street, Westminster, London) to WSC (Home Office) enclosing and commenting on a report on the standing of Free Trade in Lancashire [not present]. Signed typescript. Annotated by WSC stating that this letter should have been forwarded to James Caird and directing that this be done, 28 Sep [1910].

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Letter from G Wallace Carter (National Free Trade Lectures, 8 Victoria Street, Westminster, [London]) to WSC (Home Office) enclosing and commenting on the report for August on the lectures [not present] and asking for a further cheque to finance the autumn campaign. Signed typescript.

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Letter from James Caird (Dundee, [Angus, Scotland]) to WSC expressing the hope that under WSC's guidance the belief in Free Trade will make progress in Lancashire and the south of England. Invites him to dine in Dundee and encloses a view of the sanatorium for tuberculous children he has established there [not present].

Scope and Contents Letter from G Wallace Carter (National Free Trade Lectures, 8 Victoria Street, Westminster, [London]) to WSC (Home Office) returning a letter from James Caird [see CHAR 2/44/175] and asserting that the average Liberal speaker is no longer competent to deal with the question of Free Trade because it has become so specialised. Reports that statistics are being gathered about the development of industries in the last twenty years and does not think comparisons with conditions before 1842 would...

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Letter from James Caird (Roseangle, Dundee, [Angus, Scotland]) to WSC commenting on a report on the campaign for Free Trade [?in Lancashire] and making suggestions for the furthering of the cause, including a comparison with conditions in the early nineteenth century.

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Letter from James Caird (Roseangle, Dundee, [Angus, Scotland]) to WSC enclosing a further cheque for £1000 [not present] to help the cause of Free Trade. Asks whether more energy could not be put into the campaign against Protection and whether he should send money to the Scottish Home Rule Committee.

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Accounts of expenditure on the National Free Trade Lectures. Typescript.

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Cuttings on the Free Traders' replies to the case made by the Cotton Trade Tariff Reform Association. Sent with CHAR 2/44/180 2. Stuck together.

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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.

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Letter from Lord James of Hereford (Breamore, Salisbury, [Wiltshire]) to WSC saying he has answered Tom Garnett's letter and explained his position as a Unionist Free Trader. Reports that his local informants are not over-confident of the success of Free Trade Candidates in Manchester.

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Letter from J. Moore Bayley to WSC, on the free trade campaign.

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Letter from Sir Michael Hicks Beach [later Lord St Aldwyn] to WSC, on the inevitable split between the Unionist Free Traders and the remainder of the Party.

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Letter from 2nd Lord Tweedmouth to WSC, on the need for an alliance between Unionist and Liberal Free Traders.

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Notice of meeting at Memorial Hall, Manchester, to form non-party organisation to defend the existing system of free trade [printed].

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Letter from WSC to Frederic Horne, letter of support for the Ludlow By-Election [Shropshire], setting out his support for free trade Ms draft, signed by WSC, for carbon see CHAR 2/10/30-31.

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Letter from WSC to Frederic Horne, letter of support for the Ludlow By-Election [Shropshire], setting out his support for free trade [carbon, for draft see CHAR 2/10/25-26].

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Letter from A.E. Skeen to WSC, on WSC's Halifax speech, and the possibility of Unionist Free Traders joining the Liberal Party in spite of the Liberal Party's attitude towards Irish Home Rule.

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Letter from J.J. Bolton, Secretary, Manchester Free Trade League, to WSC, account of inaugural meeting.

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Letter from Arthur Hughes (son of Thomas Hughes, author of Tom Brown's Schooldays), to WSC, admiration of his fight for free trade.