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Letter from James Caird (Dundee, [Angus, Scotland]) to WSC expressing the hope that under WSC's guidance the belief in Free Trade will make progress in Lancashire and the south of England. Invites him to dine in Dundee and encloses a view of the sanatorium for tuberculous children he has established there [not present].

Scope and Contents Letter from G Wallace Carter (National Free Trade Lectures, 8 Victoria Street, Westminster, [London]) to WSC (Home Office) returning a letter from James Caird [see CHAR 2/44/175] and asserting that the average Liberal speaker is no longer competent to deal with the question of Free Trade because it has become so specialised. Reports that statistics are being gathered about the development of industries in the last twenty years and does not think comparisons with conditions before 1842 would...

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Letter from James Caird (Roseangle, Dundee, [Angus, Scotland]) to WSC commenting on a report on the campaign for Free Trade [?in Lancashire] and making suggestions for the furthering of the cause, including a comparison with conditions in the early nineteenth century.

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Letter from James Caird (Roseangle, Dundee, [Angus, Scotland]) to WSC enclosing a further cheque for £1000 [not present] to help the cause of Free Trade. Asks whether more energy could not be put into the campaign against Protection and whether he should send money to the Scottish Home Rule Committee.

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Accounts of expenditure on the National Free Trade Lectures. Typescript.

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Cuttings on the Free Traders' replies to the case made by the Cotton Trade Tariff Reform Association. Sent with CHAR 2/44/180 2. Stuck together.

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Letter from James Caird (107 Jermyn Street, [London]) to WSC asking for acknowledgement of receipt of his cheque for £4000 and commenting on the scheme for Free Trade lectures in one hundred constituencies. Annotated that a receipt was telegraphed, 21 Nov [1910].

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Memorandum by the Free Trade Union pointing out that the price of flour controls the price of bread. Typescript. Sent with CHAR 2/44/200.

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Leaflet issued by the Free Trade Union claiming that a tax on flour is a tax on bread. Printed. Sent with CHAR 2/44/200.

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Leaflet issued by the Free Trade Union claiming that colonial preference requires taxes on a range of foodstuffs. Printed. Sent with CHAR 2/44/200.

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Letter from Sir John Gorst (84 Campden Hill Court, [London]) to WSC thanking him for his condolences on Gorst's defeat in the election for Preston [Lancashire] and congratulating WSC on his victory in Dundee [Angus, Scotland]. Analyses the reasons for his defeat in Preston and asserts that Tariff Reform has gained wider acceptance among the poorer classes than the Liberals supposed.

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Letter from Lord Morley [earlier John Morley] (Flowermead, Princes Road, Wimbledon Park, [London]) to WSC congratulating him on the "triumphant course" of his affairs, including his election victory in Dundee [Angus, Scotland] and suggesting that the Home Office would be available to him if he wanted it. Refers to the probable overall general election result and discusses a possible means of getting the Budget through parliament.

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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 from B Willats (476 & 478 Oxford Street, London) to WSC enclosing a booklet being circulated by tariff reformers in the district where he lives [not present] and asking for replies to the points made in it.

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Letter from WSC (Colonial Office) to B Willats recommending him, in connection with the refutation of tariff refomers' arguments, to read Adam Smith and Bastiat, and enclosing some of his own speeches on the subject [not present]. Copy in the hand of Annette Anning.

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Letter from T W Killick (Townfield House, Altrincham, [Cheshire]) to WSC informing him that the executive committee of the Free Trade League have resolved to keep working and asking whether he would consider addressing a meeting in the Free Trade Hall on colonial preference.

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Letter from WSC to T W Killick noting that the Tariff Reform League is more active than Free Trade organisations and agreeing with Killick's view that Protectionist candidates should always be opposed. Offers to address a meeting on behalf of the Free Trade League. Typescript copy.

Scope and Contents Letter from Walter Runciman [later Lord Runciman] (West Denton Hall, Scotswood-on-Tyne, [Northumberland]) to WSC on: disruption by suffragettes of speeches by cabinet ministers; the Tories' split over Tariff Reform; the industrious campaigning of Richard Haldane [later Lord Haldane]; reaction to Haldane's army estimates and 2nd Lord Tweedmouth's naval estimates; the introduction of old age pensions and Labour Party criticism of them; the prospect of the miners' group adhering to the Labour...

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Letter from [WSC] to the editor of the Times on Henry Rider Haggard's assertion that rural depopulaton and urban congestion can only be remedied by a multiplication of small holdings and a system of Protection. Draft in the hand of ?.

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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.