Letter from Herbert Gladstone [later Lord Gladstone] (Home Office) to WSC on the case of William Taylor, a prisoner serving a sentence for the attempted murder of Judge Parry. Signed typescript.

Letter from John Galsworthy (Wingstone, Manaton, Devon) to WSC asking him to read his open letter to the Home Secretary [?on prison reform] in the Nation and to advocate the plea therein if he agrees with it.

Letter from John Galsworthy (Wingstone, Manaton, Devon) to WSC thanking him for agreeing to write to the Home Secretary and for his appreciation of Galsworthy's play "Strife".

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]].

Copy of a letter from [Lord Northcliffe, formerly Alfred Harmsworth] to WSC in which he expresses concern at the inaccuracy in the press of discussions concerning the treatment of convicts and asks whether WSC would give permission for a writer, artist and photographer to visit prisons to research a series of articles for his London magazine.