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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.

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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.

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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.

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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".

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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'".

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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.

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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.

Scope and Contents Letter from WSC (Board of Trade) to Henry Massingham asserting that there was much support in the country for the rejection by the House of Lords of the Licensing Bill and that an attack on the Lords on constitutional grounds will fail if not backed by a demand in the country for a specific measure which the Lords will not pass. Looks forward to the major measures being planned by the Government. Copy in the hand of Annette Anning signed by WSC. Annotated: "not sent." A typescript copy at...