The Financial Reformer (organ of the Financial Reform Association) Sent with CHAR 2/38/15-17 [2, 177-192, [2]p].

Letter from Moreton Frewen to the Chancellor of the Exchequer [David Lloyd George] on his meeting with William Grey Ellison-Macartney about Crown Notes secured by silver. Signed typescript copy. Sent with CHAR 2/39/15.

Letter from Lord Crewe (Colonial Office) to WSC announcing that he has appointed Colonel Sir Percy Girouard [as Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the East Africa Protectorate] to tackle the poor economic situation there.

Letter from WSC (Board of Trade) to Lord Morley [earlier John Morley denying that the Budget has adversely affected security prices but suggesting that the House of Lords' rejection of it will probably have a bad economic effect. Justifies the Budget by contrasting the substantial growth over the last ten years in national wealth as indicated by the income tax and estate duty figures and the slow rise in wages over the same period. Signed and annotated typescript.

Memorandum by Sir George Murray [Permanent Secretary to the Treasury] on the devotion of funds from the Fixed Debt Charge to the reduction of the National Debt. Typescript.

Memorandum by Sir George Murray [Permanent Secretary to the Treasury] on the National Debt and the Sinking Fund. Annotated typescript.

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.

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.

Extract from John Stuart Mill's "Principles of Political Economy" on the ability of economies to recover from the damage inflicted by war and other disasters. Typescript.

Cutting from the Times reporting German statements about the German war economy, the dismissal of Sir John French [later Lord French and Lord Ypres], British naval construction, negotiations on the economic relations between Germany and Austria-Hungary, and German casualty figures.

Return to a House of Commons order for revised estimates of revenue and expenditure for the year 1915-16.

Notes [by Charles Watney] countering the claim by the Independent Labour Party that Russia and tropical Africa offer the best potential for the expansion of British trade. Sent with CHAR 2/141/35.

Letter from J A Beamont, (245 Battersea Park Road, [London]) to the editor of the "Daily Express" welcoming the Labour Party's adoption of Protection, which he sees as a vindication of his long campaign in Battersea, and arguing that Free Trade is unsuited to the new economic situation in which Britain is "no longer the workshop of the world" and her industries need to be safeguarded. Copy sent with CHAR 2/141/44.

Letter from J A Beamont, hatter and hosier (245 Battersea Park Road, [London]) to WSC adopting Rudyard Kipling's metaphor of Britain as a ship threatened by a minority of wreckers and calling for the "Protection of the labour of nations".

Letter from William Pollard Digby, consulting engineer (Premier House, 150 Southampton Row, [London]) to WSC enclosing a copy of the "Outlook" [not present] with an article showing that there is a danger of a decline in the standard of living in Europe as a result of growing dependence on imported foodstuffs.

Letter from 1st Lord Rothermere [earlier Sir Harold Harmsworth] (Savoy Hotel, [London]) to WSC urging him not to work so hard and enjoy the fine summer weather, stressing the need for economy in national and local finance, restating his belief that the Government will fall in 1927, and criticising the placing of further burdens on industry to finance the provision for industrial widows and their children when there is scope for large economies in government.

Letter from Sir Harry Goschen (Durrington House, Harlow, Essex) to WSC on: the displeasure over the coal settlement [the granting of a subsidy to the industry and the setting up of a Royal Commission], which will probably die down; the speeches by Stanley Baldwin and WSC on the matter; WSC's speech in defence of the Gold Standard.

Letter from W Stimpson, president of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce, to WSC expressing the approval of himself and his colleagues for the Budget, particularly the determination to maintain the Sinking Fund and not to raise taxation.