Letter from G S Pawle (Widford, Ware, Hertfordshire) to WSC criticising the absence of a time limit for compensation to brewers in the Licensing Bill. Annotated in shorthand.

Note from WSC (Home Office) to John Pedder enclosing a memorandum [not present] from the Socialist Lord Provost of Dundee [Scotland] on the reduction in crime following the imposition of a new whisky duty, 21 Sep 1910 Typescript annotated with Pedder's comments on the memorandum, 23 Sep [1910, and with note that it was sent to the Chancellor of the Exchequer [David Lloyd George], 28 Sep [1910]].

Letter from Sir Francis Hopwood [Additional Civil Lord, Admiralty, later 1st Lord Southborough] to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty], on the desirability of controlling alcohol sales in transport and munitions areas. [Initialled by WSC].

Minute from Sir Francis Hopwood [Additional Civil Lord, Admiralty, later 1st Lord Southborough] to WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty, on reports on the effect of excessive drinking.

Memorandum recommending the establishment of complete and rigid control over the sale of all alcoholic drinks in munitions and transport areas. [Carbon].

Suggested reply for Conservative candidates to a question on the local prohibition of the liquor traffic.

Newspaper cutting: article by Harold Cox on improvements in the quality of life and the unnecessary regulation of the sale of alcohol. Sent with CHAR 2/186/15-17.

Letter from William Buist (Richard Buist & Sons, cabinet makers, upholsterers and carpet warehousemen, 100-108 Commercial Street, Dundee, [Angus, Scotland]) to WSC (2 Sussex Square) regretting his defeat in Leicester, blaming the narrow defeat of the Liberal candidate in Dundee on members of the liquor trade and referring to the "magnificent" Liberal meeting on the eve of the poll.

Report entitled "Women and Children in Public Houses. Information obtained from certain police forces as to the frequenting of public houses by women and children".

Letter from Lord Loreburn [earlier Sir Robert Reid, Lord Chancellor] (Kingsdown, Deal [Kent]) to WSC on the subject of liquor reform which he describes as the "very root of all Social Reform", requesting information on the decline in arrests and convictions since the 1909-1910 Budget and increased duty on spirits. Signed manuscript.

Letter from Lord Islington [earlier Sir John Dickson Poynder] (8 Chesterfield Gardens, [London]) to WSC on his appointment as Governor of New Zealand and the Inebriate Reformatory Bill.

Letter from P W Wilson (The Red Gable, Meadway, Hendon, [London]) to WSC inviting him to become a patron of the People's Palaces Association, which aims to establish well-run refreshment houses for the sale of tea and coffee to workers, and enclosing a statement of the aims of the association [see CHAR 2/65/38]. Signed typescript. Annotated by WSC: "no".

Printed statement of the aims of the National People's Palaces Association Limited, established by temperance societies to provide refreshment houses for the sale of tea and coffee to workers. Sent with CHAR 2/65/36-38. A typescript copy at CHAR 2/65/40-42.

Letter from members of the advisory council of the People's Palaces Association (1 Albemarle Street, Piccadilly, London) to WSC asking for his patronage for the Association, which has been established by temperance societies to provide refreshment houses for the sale of tea and coffee to workers, particularly those engaged at armament works and dockyards. Signed typescript.

Statement of the aims of the People's Palaces Association Limited, which has been established by temperance societies to provide refreshment houses for the sale of tea and coffee to workers, particularly those engaged at armament works and dockyards. Typescript. Printed copy at CHAR 2/65/38.

Letter from James Kendall (Corn Exchange, Fennel Street, Manchester) to WSC reporting on the widespread support in the country for the prohibition of the sale of alcohol to help the war effort.

Letter from Ivor Guest [later Lord Ashby St Ledgers and Lord Wimborne (2nd baron, 1st viscount)] (Ashby St Ledgers, Rugby, [Warwickshire]) to WSC on: the commission on afforestation; the chance of WSC getting into the Cabinet as a result of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman's illness; the Licensing Bill; the Coal Mines (Eight Hours) Bill; land valuation; the need for parliamentary consideration of the Poor Law and for old age pensions to form part of a general scheme for dealing with poverty.

Resolutions on the Education Bill and the Licensing Bill passed by a conference of representatives of Congregational churches in North Glamorgan, [Wales].

Letter from Sir Francis Channing (40 Eaton Place, [London]) to WSC passing on an invitation to address a meeting from the branches of the Young Liberals League in East Northamptonshire and describing the branches' work in counteracting socialism and rallying opinion on the Licensing Bill. Comments on WSC's forthcoming by-election in North-West Manchester.

Letter from Arnold Lupton (13 Spring Road, Headingley, Leeds, [Yorkshire]) to WSC on Sir William Dupree's claim that the value of the Coach and Horses inn at Hilsea [Hampshire] was greatly reduced after he bought it because of the introduction of the Licensing Bill.

Cutting from the Methodist Recorder: marked article on Sir William Dupree's claim that the value of the Coach and Horses inn at Hilsea [Hampshire] was greatly reduced after he bought it because of the introduction of the Licensing Bill.

Cutting: letter from E P Stevenson to the editor of the Westminster Gazette asserting WSC's claims to the support of Free Trade Unionists in the North-West Manchester election and criticising his opponents' campaigning on the Licensing Bill and other issues; also includes covering note for letter [not present] from [?] Bertram Straus [MP for Mile End, London] offering to give up his seat to WSC.

Letter from J Wales Cameron (11 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, [Scotland]) to WSC enclosing cuttings about a dinner party attended by WSC in Edinburgh which contravened the local licensing laws [see CHAR 2/34/48a].

Cuttings from the [Edinburgh Evening Dispatch] about a dinner party attended by WSC in Edinburgh [Scotland] which contravened the local licensing laws. 2 papers. Sent with CHAR 2/34/48.