Letter from Nicholl, Manisty & Co. to WSC, on Lady Randolph Churchill's American Settlement.

Letter from Nicholl, Manisty & Co. to WSC, on assignment of royalties from The Life of Lord Randolph Churchill and The World Crisis, to his daughter, Mary Churchill [later Mary Soames].

Account from Lumley & Lumley for legal services, Apr-Dec 1924, showing balance in WSC's favour of £169 13s 7d.

Letter from Kenneth Brown, Baker, Baker, Solicitors, to WSC, on writ issued to Tillotsons Newspapers Ltd., proprietors of The Bolton Evening News, for alleged libel of WSC.

Letter from Kenneth Brown, Baker, Baker, Solicitors, to WSC, enclosing printed statement of his claim v. Tillotsons Newspapers, for comments in the Bolton Evening News, implying that he was a "cruel, exacting, selfish and intolerant person".

Letter from Kenneth Brown, Baker, Baker, Solicitors, to WSC, on settlement of his libel action v. The Bolton Evening News, sending cheque for £315 damages.

Letter from Tillotsons Newspapers Limited to WSC, apology for libellous remarks about WSC in The Bolton Evening News.

Letter from A C Fox-Davies, to WSC, apologies for his libellous article about WSC in The Bolton Evening News.

High Court Consent Order, showing the terms of the settlement between WSC and the "Bolton Evening News" over libel.

Transcript of the judgement reached in the High Court of Justice Chancery Division before Mr Justice Sargant between Lady Randolph Churchill, WSC and John S Churchill concerning the position of Lady Randolph Churchill under the terms of the will of Lord Randolph Churchill in the event of her remarrying. Typescript.

Letter from F E [Smith, later Lord Birkenhead](70 Eccleston Square [London]) to Mrs West [Lady Randolph Churchill] in which he says that her case [her divorce from George Cornwallis West] would not have attracted attention but for public interest in her personality and wishes her success with her play ["The Bill"].

Letter from Sir George Lewis (Lewis and Lewis, Ely Place, Holborn [London]) to Lady Randolph Churchill in which he says that he has had an interview with the solicitors acting for George Cornwallis-West over his bankruptcy and is going to discover whether the latter intends to cite Lady Randolph as a reason for his financial difficulties.

Public Record Office certified copy of the deed poll in which Lady Randolph Churchill renounced her claim to the surname Cornwallis West and reverted to using Lady Randolph Churchill.

Extract from the Registry of the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division of the High Court of Justice certifying the dissolution of the marriage between Lady Randolph Churchill and George Cornwallis West on grounds of adultery and desertion on the part of the latter.

Copy of a letter from [Lord] Northcliffe [formerly Alfred Harmsworth] (22 St James' Place [London]) to WSC [concerning WSC's libel action against the Manchester Guardian] in which he expresses surprise that WSC has taken his and J L Garvin's criticisms personally, assures him that he has not been annoyed by WSC's criticisms of himself in Parliament and invites him to take a walk with him to "thrash the matter out". Top copy at CHAR 1/72/74. See also CHAR 28/117/26.

Copy of a letter from WSC (Board of Trade) to [Lord] Northcliffe [formerly Alfred Harmsworth] marked private in which he assures him that he does not believe that Northcliffe was involved in libellous statements made by the Manchester Courier, discusses the libel cases and recommends that he should talk to F E Smith [later Lord Birkenhead]. See also CHAR 1/72/75-76.

Copy of a letter from [Lord] Northcliffe [formerly Alfred Harmsworth] to WSC in which he says that he does not intend to discuss [WSC's action against] the Manchester Courier further and that he would like to avoid talking to F E Smith [later Lord Birkenhead] as Smith is acting against him.

Copy of a letter from WSC (Board of Trade) to [Lord] Northcliffe [formerly Alfred Harmsworth] informing him that his libel action against the Manchester Courier has been settled.

Letter from [an official in the Public Prosecutions Department] to Edward Marsh enclosing "the notes from Bow Street [Police Court]" [see CHAR 12/9/63-79]. Typescript annotated by Sidney Harris "[Sir Charles] Mathews [Director of Public Prosecutions] says you can keep these but doesn't think you had rather send them to Bradford [Yorkshire]".

Copy notes of evidence given at Bow Street Police Court [London] at the hearing of Hugh Franklin, a supporter of women's suffrage, who was charged with unlawfully assaulting WSC on 26 November 1910. Includes transcriptions of evidence given by Joseph Sandercock, Edward Parker, WSC, Edward Marsh and Hugh Franklin. Manuscript. Covering letter at CHAR 12/9/60.

Letter from Sir Edward Troup [Permanent Under Secretary of State, Home Office] to Sir Charles Mathews [Director of Public Prosecutions] enclosing newspaper cuttings from the Times [see CHAR 12/9/92]. He reports that WSC would like to know whether Christabel Pankhurst or the Times could be prosecuted for criminal libel. Signed manuscript.

Letter from WSC to Nicholl, Manisty & Co., asking them to obtain Counsel's opinion on his liability to Income Tax on his American income [carbon].

Account from Lumley & Lumley, Solicitors, for work on the Garron Towers Estate, and on WSC's Will 1921, £169 14s 8d.