Letter from E.B. McCormick to WSC, admiration of his fight for free trade.

Letter from J. Tinserlt to WSC, admiration of his fight for free trade.

Letter from John Dickson-Poynder [later Lord Islington] to WSC, congratulations on speech in Halifax [Yorkshire] on free trade, and of the urgent need for the 8th Duke of Devonshre to become the head of a Free Trade League, on the lines of the Liberal Unionists League of 1886.

Letter from A.G. Hill to WSC, congratulations on letter of support for Frederic Horne, Liberal candidate in the Ludlow By-Election [Shropshire], and on the free trade campaign in Australia, particularly the success of free trade candidates in elections for the House of Representatives in New South Wales.

Letter from Cornelia, Lady Wimborne to WSC, on free trade.

Letter from C. Sheridan Jones, Secretary, People's League Against Protection, to WSC, statement of objectives, with specimens of literature.

Letter from James Mowatt to WSC on free trade.

Resolution of Co-operative Societies and Trade Unions in Lancashire, affirming belief in advantages of free trade and opposition to preferential tariffs [printed].

Letter from George Robinson to WSC, on free trade.

Letter from Lord Hugh Cecil [later Lord Quickswood] to WSC, on Unionist free food meeting at St James's Hall, also on the possibility of his father, Lord Salisbury joining the free food campaign, suggesting that the best approach would be by Sir Michael Hicks Beach [later Lord St Aldwyn], with no mention of Cecil.

Letter from Lord Hugh Cecil [later Lord Quickswood] to WSC, on the formation of a free trade league.

Letter from J. St Loe Strachey, Editor of The Spectator, to WSC, on his willingness to back "any Imperialist Free Trade League", even if this meant that the Spectator lost half of its readership.

Letter from Sir Michael Hicks Beach [later Lord St Aldwyn] to WSC, on preliminary meeting of the Free Trade League, suggesting speakers and guests.

Letter from WSC to Colonel J. Mitford, setting out his opposition to preferential tariffs [carbon].

Circular letter from F. Manners-Sutton, Secretary, Unionist Free Food League, on attendance at annual conference of National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations.

Letter from WSC to Thomas Cairns, letter of support for Anti-Food Tax League to be founded in Newcastle-upon-Tyne [carbon, with ms amendments].

Letter from Lord Hugh Cecil [later Lord Quickswood] to WSC, on meetings of the Free Food League, advising moderation, particularly in WSC's speech in Birmingham.

Letter from WSC to [8th Duke of Devonshire], on the Unionist Free Traders and their future ms draft, signed by WSC, annotated "Not sent".

Letter from WSC to the Oldham Standard on his opposition to protective tariffs [ms draft, signed by WSC].

Copy of a letter from WSC to Herbert Samuel [Postmaster General] concerning a minute by Austen Chamberlain concerning Free Trade in relation to Post Office policy on tenders for contracts from foreign manufacturers [see CHAR 12/2/24, and CHAR 12/2/25-26]. WSC says that he would need good strong reasons to place orders with foreign firms and that "little stupid attempts to save tuppence" discredit the concept of Free Trade with the working class electorate. Typescript initialled "WC".

Cutting from the Nottingham Guardian: article on: WSC's pre-war rejection of Imperial Preference and the present government's commitment to it; the opposition to the measure of the Asquithian Liberals; the large numbers of soldiers and others emigrating overseas and the benefits to be derived from economic measures to tie the Empire together more firmly.

Letter from [Edward Marsh] to the editor of the Nottingham Journal correcting the impression given in a recent article in that paper [see CHAR 2/105/48] that before the war WSC had declared against Imperial Preference rather than specifically against the Imperial taxation of food, which David Lloyd George and Andrew Bonar Law have excluded from their declaration of policy. Typescript copy.

Letter from [WSC] to General Sir Ian Hamilton returning letters from Colonel J B Maclean [of Canada] and adding that it is not likely that he [WSC] would "head a campaign to establish the Chamberlain food taxes." Carbon typescript copy.

Notes by civil servants on the claim against the Government of J A Whitehead arising from aircraft supplied by him during the war.