Notes on the inflationary policy of the Bank of England since the abandonment of the Gold Standard in Sep 1931 [hand-written, on Chartwell notepaper, initialled T.W.].

Letter from Sir Abe Bailey (Union Castle Line, RMS "Arundel Castle") to WSC congratulating him on his appointment as Chancellor of the Exchequer, asserting that to return to paper currency after having been at par would be harmful, and assuring that a warm welcome would await WSC in South Africa.

Cutting from "Le Matin": article in French by Jules Sauerwein praising WSC's role in the negotiations in Paris over inter-allied debts. Sent with CHAR 2/141/8.

Letter from [WSC] to Sir Robert Horne [later Lord Horne of Slamannan] on: Horne's statement of the Government's case on rubber; the River Nile, which Horne is about to visit; the unpopular provisions in the Economy Bill; WSC's invitation to stay with him, Walter Guinness and Sir Samuel Hoare [later Lord Templewood]. Typescript copy.

Letter from Harold Macmillan (Red House, Norton Green, Stockton-on-Tees, [County Durham]) to WSC thanking him for hosting Macmillan and others to dinner and for being so tolerant to "a group of young men whom, I have no doubt, the House and party will soon regard as more and more intolerable." Refers to his efforts in Stockton "to defend even the more indefensible of your government's actions" and to the relative forbearance of the workers there despite bad economic conditions.

Letter from Sir Alfred Mond [later Lord Melchett] (37 Lowndes Square, [London]) to WSC stating that though they have disagreed in the past on questions of financial policy they agree on the need for the anti-Socialist forces to unite. Congratulates him on the settlement of Italian war debts.

Letter from Lady Oxford and Asquith [earlier Margot Asquith] (44 Bedford Square, [London]) to WSC on: her approval of his policy on war debts to the United States; her request to him to write to [st Lord Oxford and Asquith, earlier Herbert Asquith] to cheer him up; the ignorance of the Liberal rank and file over party unity; David Lloyd George's leaning to the Labour Party and his betrayal of Lord Oxford and Asquith.

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.

List of members of the executive committee of the Silver Association. Sent with CHAR 2/186/94.

Edition of the "Congressional Record": remarks on silver prices by Andrew Somers of New York in the House of Representatives. Sent with CHAR 2/186/94.

Recommendations of the House of Representatives committee on coinage, weights and measures and a resolution calling on the President to call an international conference to consider means of raising commodity prices. Sent with CHAR 2/186/74. Another copy at CHAR 2/186/100.

Another copy of CHAR 2/186/99.

Pamphlet by Professor T E Gregory: "The silver situation. Problems and possibilities. Prepared at the request of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce." Sent with CHAR 2/186/94.

Letter from H E Moon [retired exchange banker] (Mayfair Court, Stratton Street, [London]) to the chairman of the Silver Association [Sir Robert Horne, later Lord Horne of Slamannan] arguing that reparations and war debts have led to the accumulation of excessive gold reserves by the United States and France and hence to the depression of commodity prices and that therefore silver should be reintroduced into the monetary system.

Pamphlet by H E Moon, retired exchange banker, recommending the re-introduction of silver into the monetary system.

"The destruction of the world's monetary system. An address by Professor Gustav Cassel (the Swedish economist), to the Conservative Party Finance Committee at the House of Commons on the 11th May, 1932.".

Letter from Sir Henry Strakosch (Princes House, 95 Gresham Street, London) to Violet Pearman (Chartwell) commenting on an article in the "Evening Citizen" on the effects of the accumulation of gold by the United States and France arising from the payment of war debts and reparations.

Letter from A S Darroch (97 Muswell Hill Road, [London]) to WSC outlining a scheme to reduce the burden of debt in the global economy. Typescript copy at CHAR 2/187/52-54.

Letter from A S Darroch (97 Muswell Hill Road, [London]) to WSC arguing for the revaluation of gold as the means of providing justice to individual risk-taking investors as against the bankers. Typescript copy at CHAR 2/187/55-58.

Letter from A S Darroch (97 Muswell Hill Road, [London]) to WSC pointing out the injustice of not adjusting the debts of countries like Australia when the prices of the commodities in which the debts are paid are much lower than when the debts were contracted and urging WSC to take the lead in explaining why a devaluation of gold is needed. Typescript copy at CHAR 2/187/59-65.

Letter from A S Darroch (97 Muswell Hill Road, [London]) to WSC arguing that the Government should provide credit facilities of internal reconstruction schemes and that "Fair Trade" and the free circulation of money is the key to economic recovery. Typescript copy at CHAR 2/187/66-70.

Letter from A S Darroch (97 Muswell Hill Road, [London]) to WSC arguing that free trade in money and in goods are no longer workable systems in the modern world and that the level of general morality determines what monetary system is used. Typescript copy at CHAR 2/187/71-76.