Pamphlet: "Currency and credit on a metallic basis: their effect on trade and on the commodity price level of the world" by H E Moon.

Letter from Walter Elliot (Treasury Chambers) to WSC disagreeing with the analysis of housing rents in CHAR 2/188/2.

Letter from A S Darroch (97 Muswell Hill Road, [London]) to WSC arguing that the Conversion Scheme will lead to a fall in rents.

Cutting from the "Times": article on the need for limited reflation.

Address on the monetary problem given by Sir Henry Strakosch at a dinner given by 2nd Lord Leverhulme [earlier William Lever], Lord Queenborough [earlier Almeric Paget] and 2nd Lord Melchett [earlier Henry Mond].

Report on the work of the preparatory committee for the world economic conference. Sent with CHAR 2/188/26.

Letter from Sir Henry Strakosch (Princes House, 95 Gresham Street, London) to WSC enclosing and commenting on CHAR 2/188/31 and 33.

Graph showing the fluctuations of monetary gold reserves and wholesale prices. Sent with CHAR 2/188/28-30.

Graph showing the total defence expenditure of various countries expressed as a percentage of the expenditure in 1925/6.

Graph of the weekly index of exchange and prices bases on figures published by the "Financial Times". Sent with CHAR 2/188/28-30.

Letter from Sir Alfred Knox (13 South Street, [London]) to WSC congratulating him on his speech on the Budget of the previous day and discussing the reduction of Beer Excise and the need for protection of the Indian tea industry, which is mainly British and does not enjoy the sympathy of the Indian nationalists.

Letter from Sir Louis Stuart, joint secretary of the Indian Empire Society (28 Alfred Place, [London]) to WSC urging a strong governmental response to the threat posed to British and European business in Bombay [India] by the Hindu boycott.

Letter from Patrick Donner, MP for West Islington [London], to Sir Samuel Hoare [later Lord Templewood] arguing that Government policy on India could lead to the loss of the Indian market for British exports and thus worsen the economic distress in his constituency and elsewhere in Britain. Copy sent with CHAR 2/192/49.

Letter from [WSC] to Patrick Donner approving of his letter [see CHAR 2/192/50-51] in which he argued that the loss of India would lead to economic hardship in Britain. Carbon typescript copy.

Letter from Harold Robinson, honorary secretary of the Cotton Trade League (82 Princess Street, Manchester) to WSC reporting that the League has passed a resolution approving his attitude on India, which is an important cotton market.

Cutting from the Times: report of speech by William Ormsby-Gore [later 4th Lord Harlech] on: the economic position, Russia, Ormsby-Gore's opposition to WSC, David Lloyd George and Lord Beaverbrook [earlier Sir Max Aitken] and his support for the Government's Indian policy.

Letter from "Hopie" [2nd Lord Linlithgow] (29 Chesham Place, [London]) to WSC arguing that he has over-estimated the importance of the Indian issue to most voters and that the opposition to the lowering of British import duties which will follow the Government's conclusion of a series of trade agreements will arouse far more feeling and will be a much more important field in which WSC can take the lead.

Extract from the Times Trade and Engineering Supplement: report of a speech by Walchand Hirachand, president of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce, calling for commercial discrimination against non-Indians. Typescript copy sent with CHAR 2/193/100.

Letter from "Hopie" [2nd Lord Linlithgow] (29 Chesham Place, [London]) to WSC responding to WSC's arguments about India by arguing that progress is prevalent over reaction in the modern world and countering WSC's assertion that there will be an economic struggle for existence between nations by asserting that with falling birth-rates and enhanced production distribution will be the most important economic factor and this will depend on international goodwill rather than enmity.

Correspondence between Leslie Rowan [Private Secretary to WSC] and [? Mary Ann Stocks], Ministry of Labour and Norman Tucker, Treasury, on a suggestion by W T Towler [Director, Towler and Son Limited, Engineers] that an Industrial Cross or Distinguished Labour Order should be instituted in future honours and on taxation; also includes copy of letter by John Martin [Private Secretary to WSC] to Sir Robert Knox [Secretary, Political Honours Scrutiny Committee.

Note from "K W" [Sir Kingsley Wood, Chancellor of the Exchequer] (11 Downing Street) to WSC on changes in the constituent posts of the Cabinet, advises against both a Chancellor of the Exchequer and a Minister for Economics. Initialled manuscript.

Letter from Colonel Sir Henry Fairfax-Lucy (Maxton, St Boswells [Roxburghshire, Scotland]) to [John] Colville, Prime Minister's Private Secretary, (10 Downing Street) complaining at the adverse effect of government intervention on domestic trade, enclosing cuttings of letters to the Times from A Wigglesworth and Ernest Barker. Signed typescript with carbon of Colville's acknowledgement.

Letter from William Beveridge [Master, University College Oxford] to WSC offering to help in any way with economic planning or devising new Government machinery; has arranged meeting with Edward, Lord Halifax [earlier Edward Wood and Lord Irwin, Foreign Secretary] to discuss a proposed trip to America.

Letter from "A N R" [Arthur Rucker, Principal Private Secretary to Prime Minster Neville Chamberlain] to Sir Patrick Hastings on his suggestion of raising finance by compulsory subscriptions to a National Loan, stating that there was considerable objection to the scheme when raised in 1916 as "a fixed percentage of income with no abatements" would not be equitable. [carbon].