Minute [from 1st Lord Cherwell, earlier F A Lindemann, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC on post-war trade arrangements with the United States. [annotated copy; given running number 419].

Letter from [Leonard Jerome] (Union Club, Fifth Avenue and 21st Street [New York, United States]) to Jennie [Lady Randolph Churchill] including: the magnificent success of [Lord] Randolph [Churchill]; hopes that Randolph may be able to speak on the issue of Protection; and financial affairs.

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.

Petition to the House of Commons from the merchants of the City of London against Protectionism. Typescript copy sent with CHAR 2/157/20.

Letter from WSC to Sir Henry Page Croft [later 1st Lord Croft] giving a detailed explanation of his position on the safeguarding of industries and expressing the wish that he had been invited to speak at the meeting held by Page Croft [and other supporters of Protection such as Patrick Hannon]. Annotated typescript draft. Carbon copy without annotations at CHAR 2/158/68-72.

Letter from Herbert Fisher (Thursley, Godalming, Surrey) to WSC congratulating him on his fight for Liberalism and Free Trade at Leicester, regretting that he (Fisher) did not help in the constituency and stressing the need for the Liberals to create an efficient national electoral machine because it is clear that most of the country supports Free Trade and is anti-Socialist.

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 George Terrell (1a Gloucester Gardens, Richmond, Surrey) to WSC conveying a resolution of the National Union of Manufacturers in favour of a tariff on manufactured goods, other than food, which are produced under conditions which make British competition impossible, and asking to speak to WSC on the subject.

Letter from T H Deakin, mining engineer (Parkend, Lydney, Gloucestershire) to WSC (Chartwell) enclosing CHAR 2/134/52 and wondering whether a system of Free Trade within the Empire could be suggested when the Dominion Prime Ministers visit.

Letter from T H Deakin (Parkend, [Lydney, Gloucestershire]) to Lord Hartington [later 10th Duke of Devonshire] suggesting a system of Free Trade within the Empire to be extended to other countries only if they reciprocate. Copy sent with CHAR 2/134/51.

Letter from [WSC] (Chartwell) to Rear-Admiral Arthur Smith-Dorrien asserting that he has always been in favour of Home Rule and Free Trade and opposed to Socialism and that the present Conservative programme differs from that adopted by Lord Balfour [earlier Arthur Balfour] in 1904 only in its exclusion of the question of Protection. Carbon copy.

Letter from Edith Dar??st-Smith (62 Rutland Gate, [London]) to WSC urging him to form a party consisting of Conservatives and moderate Liberals who differ from the former only on "the now unimportant issue of Protection", the existence of which would make James Ramsay Macdonald's position as Prime Minister untenable.

Letter from J A Beamont, (245 Battersea Park Road, [London]) to the editor of the "Daily Express" welcoming the Labour Party's adoption of Protection, which he sees as a vindication of his long campaign in Battersea, and arguing that Free Trade is unsuited to the new economic situation in which Britain is "no longer the workshop of the world" and her industries need to be safeguarded. Copy sent with CHAR 2/141/44.

Pamphlet on J A Beamont's campaigns in Battersea in favour of Tariff Reform between 1906 and 1914, including illustrations of flags and banners and reprints of press articles.