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Letter from WSC (105 Mount Street) to Timothy Miles denying that he had been paid an honorarium by "a certain nobleman" for opposing the Aliens Bill. Copy in the hand of Annette Anning.

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Letter from WSC (105 Mount Street) to Joseph Chamberlain on WSC's forthcoming motion in the House of Commons against imperial preference. Copy in the hand of Annette Anning. Wrongly dated.

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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 (47 Temple Row, Birmingham) approving the South African constitution and asserting that the stance of Arthur Balfour [later Lord Balfour] on the fiscal question has shaken the confidence of ordinary voters, and that Joseph Chamberlain's political career is over. Reports the poor state of the local Conservative party.

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Report by Richard Haldane [later Lord Haldane] to [King Edward VII] on his visit to Berlin [Germany] including accounts of conversations with the Kaiser and others on military and naval policy, Free Trade and relations between Britain, Germany and France. Typescript.

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Letter the editor of the The Observer (125 Strand, London) to WSC (105 Mount Street) enclosing a press report of a passage in his speech in Leeds [Yorkshire] on Free Trade within the Empire and asking for clarification. Carbon typescript with cutting affixed.

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Letter from WSC (Colonial Office) to the editor of The Observer expanding on his reported statement about Free Trade within the Empire. 2 copies, both in the hand of Annette Anning, one with minor amendments by WSC.

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Annotated newspaper cuttings: speeches by Arthur Balfour [later Lord Balfour] and WSC on colonial contributions to imperial defence costs; speech by Arthur Balfour in favour of tariff reform; speech on local legislative affairs by the premier of South Australia; Anglo-Australian trade figures; disruption of a meeting in Cambridge being addressed by James Kier Hardy. Originally sent with CHAR 2/29/43. 6 papers.

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Letter from Sir Francis Mowatt (41 Sloane Gardens, [London]) to WSC attacking the arguments in favour of colonial preference.

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Leaflets issued by the Liberal Publication Department, covering the budget of 1907, land reform and small holdings, registration of voters and Conservative proposals for Tariff Reform and the abolition of income tax. 6 items.

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Letter from Anne, Lady Dickson-Poynder [later Lady Islington] (Villa degli Angeli, Fiesole, Florence, [Italy]) to WSC on the recent victory for Tariff Reform [at the Mid Devon by election]; the death of Sir John Lawson Walker and the prospect of [? a government job for her husband Sir John Dickson-Poynder, later 1st Lord Islington]; her cold accommodation in Florence.

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Letter from Frederick Guest (1063 5th Avenue, New York, [USA]) to WSC noting that the Unionist Protectionists and the Free Traders have arrived at a modus vivendi and offering to help in WSC's forthcoming electoral battle.

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Letter from [WSC] (Colonial Office) to Thomas Garnett expressing the wish that he [WSC] could be on the platform when 1st Lord Cromer addresses a meeting in the Free Trade Hall [Manchester]. Notes the tariff reformers' criticism of Cromer since his declaration in favour of Free Trade and praises his work to improve the living conditions of the Egyptian peasantry. Draft in the hand of Annette Anning.

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Letter from William Parry, chemist (Port Victoria, South Australia) criticising James Kier Hardy and complaining of the Protectionist stance of newspapers in Australia. Urges WSC to continue his fight for Free Trade. Encloses newspaper cuttings [see CHAR 2/29/39].

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Letter from J Moore Bayley (47 Temple Row, Birmingham) to WSC congratulating him [on his appointment as a Privy Councillor] and praising his speech against imperial preference at the Colonial Conference.

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Letter from Theodore Taylor (Sunny Bank, Batley, Yorkshire) to WSC asking him to address a meeting at Farnworth [Lancashire] and describing Macclesfield [Cheshire] as "the hotbed of Protectionism.".

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Letter from William Finnemore, secretary of the Birmingham Liberal Association (Coleridge Chambers, Corporation Street, Birmingham) to WSC on arrangements for a meeting to be addressed by WSC in Birmingham and on the position of Free Trade in the district. Signed typescript.

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Issue of the "Free Trader".

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Cutting from the Westminster Gazette: policy on the Navy and Territorial Army and Tariff Reform.

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Letter from Joseph Chamberlain (40 Princes Gardens [London]) to WSC, thanking him for his letter and saying that he thought there was going to be a question in Parliament that day, on WSC's forthcoming motion [against Imperial Preference]. Chamberlain also refers to a request in WSC's letter [to use his influence to secure a decision by Parliament on Imperial Preference] explaining that he did not see any reason to interfere in the matter.

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Letter from Austin Taylor (House of Commons) to WSC suggesting a change to the wording of WSC's forthcoming motion in the House of Commons against imperial preference. Annotated in shorthand.

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Letter from Walter Runciman [later Lord Runciman] (House of Commons) to WSC congratulating him on his speech on his motion in the House of Commons against imperial preference.

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Letter from Cornelia, Lady Wimborne (Wimborne House, Arlington Street, [London]) to WSC congratulating him on his speech on his motion in the House of Commons against imperial preference.