Letter from Charles Ritchie [later Lord Ritchie] to WSC, on preferential tariffs "a deplorable situation, which will shatter our party to pieces".

Letter from Hammond Hall, Editor, Daily Graphic, to WSC, on the paper's intention to discourage the policy of preferential tariffs "while not committing ourselves irrevocably to opposition".

Letter from Lord Rosebery to WSC on opposition to preferential tariffs.

Letter from Sir Michael Hicks Beach [later Lord St Aldwyn] to WSC, on the Speaker's ruling that here could be no debate on preferential tariffs during the Second Reading of the Finance Bill.

Letter from Lord Hugh Cecil [later Lord Quickswood] to WSC, on Conservative Opposition to preferential tariffs.

Letter from William Johnson Galloway to WSC, on the possibility of a public meeting in Manchester on tariff reform, commenting on the difficulty of attracting a large audience during the summer months.

Letter from William Peel [later Lord Peel] to WSC, suggesting delaying action against preferential tariffs until the Government had published their scheme [annotated by WSC, suggesting the need for vigorous and determined action "Many a good fight has been lost by prudence".

Letter from Lord Hugh Cecil [later Lord Quickswood to WSC, on preferential tariffs, advising against moving amendment to the Finance Bill "it is a Free Trade Bill, and we must support it to the uttermost".

Letter from Lord Hugh Cecil [later Lord Quickswood] to WSC, on the illness of his father, Lord Salisbury, asking him to keep the news private, withdrawing his insistence on consultation over tariff reform.

Letter from Lord Hugh Cecil [later Lord Quickswood] to WSC, on improvement in his father's health, also on tactics over preferential tariffs debate, enclosing letter from Ivor Guest [later Lord Ashby St Ledgers and Lord Wimborne (2nd baron and 1st Viscount)], 5 June 1903.

Letter from Lord Hugh Cecil [later Lord Quickswood] to WSC, enclosing letter from Henry Chaplin [later Lord Chaplin], dated 8 June, on preferential tariffs.

Letter from Lord Hugh Cecil [later Lord Quickswood] to WSC, advising him not to consult Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Leader of the Opposition over tariff reform, also on the need to build up a Free Trade Conservative Party.

Letter from Sir Edward Hamilton to WSC, congratulations on speech on protective tariffs.

Letter from J.R. McDougall to WSC, congratulations on stand against Chamberlain's scheme for protective tariffs.

Letter from WSC to the Postal Telegraph Clerks Association on the effect of adopting Chamberlain's scheme for protective tariffs [carbon].

Letter from WSC to J.H. Lawton, setting out his opposition to protective tariffs [carbon].

Letter from Colonel J. Mitford to WSC, on free trade, asking him for his alternative to Chamberlain's scheme for protective tariffs in favour of the colonies.

Letter from S.H. Pollen to WSC, on the position of Lord Curzon in the "coming war" in the Conservative Party, suggesting that he would make a good recruit for the free trade cause.

Letter from WSC to the 8th Duke of Devonshire, setting out case for debate on free trade [ms copy in WSC's hand] Part pub WSC II, p.67, CV II, Part 1, p.211.

Letter from Sir John Dickson-Poynder to WSC, congratulations on letter in The Times, on free trade.

Letter from G.S. Pawle to WSC on free trade.

Letter from Colonel J. Mitford to WSC, supporting Joseph Chamberlain's scheme for Imperial preferential tariffs.

Letter from WSC to Sir John Dickson-Poynder, offering sympathy on illness, advising him to take a complete rest, also on inauguration of the Unionist Free Food League, and electoral prospects, expressing his own preference for a "central" government under the 8th Duke of Devonshire [carbon].

Letter from WSC to Colonel J. Mitford on free trade, particularly the question of how to arrive at a system of free trade if foreign countries refused to accept it [carbon].

Letter from Lord Goschen to WSC on the formation of the Unionist Free Food League.