Letter from Sir Thomas Elliott, Board of Agriculture, to WSC, on findings of Committee on National Expenditure, and WSC's memorandum, particularly on method of presentation of accounts, and on question of "grants in aid".

Letter from J. Moore Bailey to WSC, on national expenditure and army reform.

Letter from Charles Ritchie [later Lord Ritchie], Chancellor of the Exchequer, to WSC, on debate on the Finance Bill, and opposition to Chamberlain's scheme for Imperial preference.

Letter from WSC to George Renwick, agreeing to address meeting on Tyneside, provided he was given the freedom to deal with the Army question and the state of public expenditure [copy].

Letter from Sir George Murray (Treasury Chambers, Whitehall, [London]) to WSC on the disadvantages of a separate exchequer for Ireland.

Letter from A N Templeton (Apollo Chambers, Bombay, [India]) to WSC (105 Mount Street) on Indian currency policy.

Letter from Sir Felix Schuster (31 Collingham Road, South Kensington, [London]) to [Sir Francis] Hopwood [later, Lord Southborough] [Permanent Under-Secretary for Colonies] on the bad effects which would follow a reduction in the production of gold in South Africa. Congratulates Hopwood on his recent appointment.

Remarks by William Blain [Assistant Secretary to the Treasury] on the depreciation of gold and the proposed suspension of the Sinking Fund, occasioned by a letter from Moreton Frewen to WSC [see CHAR 2/26/73] and sent by Sir Edward Hamilton [Joint Permanent Secretary to the Treasury] to Reginald McKenna [Financial Secretary to the Treasury]. Typescript copy on Treasury paper. Hamilton's introductory note initialed by him.

Letter from Moreton Frewen (37a Great Cumberland Place, [London]) to WSC discussing the depreciation of gold and advocating the suspension of the Sinking Fund. Signed carbon typescript.

Letter from Thomas Gibson Bowles (25 Lowndes Square, [London]) to WSC urging him to take the opportunity to get a commercial treaty with France.

Resolution adopted by the League of Nations International Labour Office that the Director and other representatives of the Office should put their services at the disposal of the Genoa Conference on economic reconstruction. Sent with CHAR 2/120/106.

Letter from J A Whitehead, aircraft manufacturer (The Rosary, Henley-on-Thames, [Berkshire]) to WSC asking to see him to explain a scheme which he claims will stabilise the exchanges, give work to the unemployed, reduce taxes and help Germany pay reparations without any national expenditure.

Letter from 17th Lord Derby (Derby House) to WSC congratulating him for his part in the Irish settlement, criticising Michael Collins and his supporters for permitting the election to be postponed and warning that if [David Lloyd George] shows any sign of recognising the Soviet government at the Genoa Conference he would seal the fate of his government.

Article by Samuel McKirahan, mining engineer and metallurgist (Rapid City, South Dakota, United States) on the adjustment of foreign debts and the restoration of exchange. Sent with CHAR 2/121/82.

Cutting from the Scotsman: lecture by Professor J Shield Nicholson of Edinburgh University on the economic situation. Sent with CHAR 2/121/87.

Cutting from the Times: statement by Otto Kahn, a banker, on the economic situation in Britain and the rest of Europe and the war debts owed by European countries to the United States.

Newspaper articles by Sir Charles Sykes on the disruption caused to international trade by the fiscal barriers erected by the new states created out of the Austro-Hungarian empire, and the remedies for economic stagnation in central Europe, entailing a revision of the Treaty of Versailles. Sent with CHAR 2/124A/48-49.

Extract from the New York Annalist [United States]: letter from William Bourke Cockran to Claude Kitchin arguing that the advances of money made by the United States to her allies should be treated as gifts, not loans. Typescript copy of the original sent with CHAR 2/124A/91.

Letter from [WSC] to David Lloyd George arguing that a system of embargo and licence should be applied if large amounts of cheap imports came from Germany into Britain because of the fall in the value of the Mark, which in any case he thinks is unlikely to happen for very long because it would not be in the exporter's interest. Carbon copy.

Cutting from the Scotsman: article by Professor J Sheild Nicholson on the depreciation of the German Mark. Sent with CHAR 2/123/170.

Page from the Investors' Guardian: marked article attacking the idea that Britain should pay all her debts incurred during the war whilst releasing those countries which are indebted to her. Sen with CHAR 2/123/177.

Letter from [WSC] to 1st Lord Birkenhead [earlier F E Smith] on the McKenna duties, the Ulster boundary situation and the Budget. Carbon copy.

Letter from Lord Weir [earlier Sir William Weir] (Holm Foundry, Cathcart, Glasgow, [Scotland]) to WSC (2 Sussex Square) enclosing and summarising CHAR 2/133/7 and urging him to emphasise the importance of attention being given to the conditions in the export industries.