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.

Letter from Rosalind Carlisle (1 Palace Green, Kensington, [London]) praising his recent speech in Hyde Park [London] on the Licensing Bill and asking for a meeting.

Letter from Marie Corelli (Mason Croft, Stratford-on-Avon, [Warwickshire]) to WSC referring to his recent speech in Hyde Park [London] on the Licensing Bill and mentioning her new book on the drink problem, Holy Orders. States that she is not a suffragette.

Letter from C Healy (Stort Lodge, Bishop's Stortford, [Hertfordshire]) to WSC asking whether he supports the policy of the United Kingdom Alliance, whose chief object is "'the total suppression of the liquor traffic'".

Letter from Edward Tootal Broadhurst (The Manor House, North Rode, Congleton, [Cheshire]) to WSC stating that he will only support WSC in the North-West Manchester by- election if it is fought specifically on Free Trade, since he disagrees with other Government measures such as the Licensing Bill.

Page from the Gloucester Journal: speech by Herbert Asquith [later Lord Oxford and Asquith] at the National Liberal Club attacking the power of the House of Lords with special reference to the Education Bill and the Licensing Bill and the reply of Lord St Aldwyn [earlier Sir Michael Hicks Beach] at Gloucester.

Letter from Francis William Fox (Reform Club, [London]) to Aretas Akers-Douglas (the Home Secretary) detailing the objections of the Temperance movement, churches and others to the Licensing Bill and suggesting amendments to it. Printed Originally sent with CHAR 2/17/82.

Letter from Alfred Stansfield (52 Moorhouse Place, Gibraltar, Pudsey, [Yorkshire]) to WSC complaining about the provision for compensation to licence-holders in the Licensing Bill.

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.

Letter from John Kempster, director of the Hyde Park Demonstration against the Government Licensing Bill (Broad Sanctuary Chambers, 20 Tothill Street, Westminster, [London]) to WSC (105 Mount Street) inviting him to address the demonstration. Signed typescript. Annotated: "I have said no".

Letter from F A Parker, secretary of the Eccles Borough Band of Hope and Temperance Union (7 Poplar Road, Monton, [Lancashire]) to WSC asking him to present a petition against the Licensing Bill to the House of Commons.

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.

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]].

Pamphlet - No Compensation by Joseph Malins, published by the National Temperance Federation, advocating no compensation for the compulsory extinction of liquor licenses.

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 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 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.