Letter from [WSC] (Chartwell) to [Stanley Baldwin] arguing that the Government should proceed along the lines of Baldwin's letter [to Robert Eyres Monsell stating that there would be no general reintroduction of Protection] and that new talent should be introduced into the Government team. Reports that he has been building a cottage and dictating a book at Chartwell and that Sir Douglas Hogg [later 1st Lord Hailsham] is grateful [for his appointment as Lord Chancellor]. Typescript copy.

Memorandum by the agricultural committee of the Conservative Research Department on the use of a system of quotas to grant Imperial Preference to wheat without recourse to an import duty.

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 [105 Mount Street] to the Editor of the Times reasserting his view that C Arthur Pearson bought the Standard in order to change it into an anti-Free Trade paper. Typescript copy with annotations in the hand of Annette Anning.

Letter from WSC (Salisbury Hall, St Albans, [Hertfordshire]) to [F G Stokes] pointing out that Free Trade has not prevented the growth of the British Empire or made the people less war-like, although at home the contentment produced by cheap food has weakened the impulse towards social reform. Copy in the hand of WSC.

Typescript list of Unionist Free Food League MPs and the Liberal candidates standing in their constituencies, annotated to indicate the MPs' future voting behaviour.

Letter from Hartman Morgan (Holly Terrace House, Holly Hill, Hampstead, [London]) to WSC announcing his intention of writing temporarily for the Manchester Guardian and referring to WSC's possible consultation of him on certain aspects of the fiscal question.

Letter from Walter T Williams, secretary of the Cardiff and District Free Trade League (17 Working Street, Cardiff, [Wales]), to WSC (105 Mount Street) inviting him to address meetings at Cardiff and Merthyr [Glamorgan], where support for Tariff Reform is strong. Signed typescript. Annotated in shorthand.

Letter from Rev W C Trevelyan Parker, secretary of the Harwich Division Liberal Association (First Avenue, Dovercourt, Essex), to WSC inviting him to address a meeting in the Division to counter Joseph Chamberlain's forthcoming campaign. Annotated in shorthand.

Letter from Sir Alfred Goodson (Waddeton Court, Brixham, Devon) to WSC opposing the policy of Herbert Asquith [later 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith] and David Lloyd George of supporting the Labour party, arguing that the Liberals' success in the recent general election was due to their support for Free Trade and their opposition to Socialism, and assuring WSC of support if he takes a lead in this matter.

Letter from D C Robertson to [WSC] proposing that unemployment should be relieved by the provision of Government money to set up a school for the training of tradesmen and to facilitate emigration of "our surplus population" to the colonies. Refers to Japan's need to expand and expresses opposition to Protection. Copy sent with CHAR 2/132/32.

Letter from Beatrice Webb (later Lady Passfield), 41 Grosvenor Road, Westminster Embankment, London, to WSC, on working class feeling against taxes on food and its relation to the growth of socialism, recommending that he should consult Eduard Bernstein of Berlin.

Letter from Sidney Low, Durham Place, Chelsea, to WSC, on free trade.

Letter from Lord James of Hereford to WSC, congratulations on letter in The Times on free trade.

Letter from Lord Morley of Blackburn to WSC, congratulations on letter in The Times on free trade.

Letter from Cornelia, Lady Wimborne to WSC, advising him that "there is no future for Free Traders in the Conservative Party".

Letter from Lord Rosebery to WSC, congratulations on letter in The Times on free trade.

Letter from [?] S C Thomas (Cumberland Hotel, Marble Arch [London]) to WSC, regretting that they won't have time to meet, and describing his interview with the Secretary of State for the Colonies [Malcolm MacDonald] about the sugar industry in Barbados, and the plan to introduce worldwide sugar quotas.

Memoranda sent by [1st Lord Beaverbrook, earlier Sir Max Aitken] to WSC on: customs union with the crown colonies; colonial resources; India and Empire Free Trade policy. [Covering letter CHAR 2/236/42].

Empire Industries News Service no. 156: the cotton industry and safeguarding and imperial preference.

Empire Industries News Service no. 164: the lesson of the sugar duties; sugar and the future of preference.

Empire Industries News Service no. 166: progress of the safeguarded industries.

Empire Industries News Service no. 167: the policy of the Empire Industries Association.