Letter from Sir Alfred Mond [later Lord Melchett] (Office of Works) to WSC criticising the schedule of key industries in the Imports and Exports Regulation Bill.

Letter from Sir Abe Bailey (38 Bryanston Square, [London]) to WSC urging him to comment on the proposal of 1st Lord Rothermere [earlier Sir Harold Harmsworth] that Jamaica or other colonies should be sold, and making suggestions for the paying off of the National Debt.

Letter from WSC to Edwin Montagu [Secretary of State for India] protesting about the ability of India to impose a protective tariff against British goods under the Government of India Bill. Typescript copy.

Notes on the profitability of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company and the vital importance of its output to the war effort. [Left with WSC by Sir Frederick Black].

Cutting from the Financial Times on the share issue of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company. [Left with WSC by Sir Frederick Black].

"Final report of the Committee on Currency and Foreign Exchanges after the War.".

"The need for saving in peace time" by Hartley Withers. Published by the National War Savings Committee.

Letter from John St Loe Strachey (Newlands Corner, Merrow Downs, Guildford, [Surrey]) to Edward Marsh (Colonial Office) rejecting the arguments of the Controller of the National Debt against Strachey's scheme for converting the Debt into ninety-nine year leases and asking Marsh to get WSC to look at the Controller's memorandum.

Pages from the Spectator including article by [Joseph St Loe Strachey] proposing the conversion of the National Debt into ninety-nine year leases. Annotated.

Letter from John St Loe Strachey (Newlands Corner, Merrow Downs, Guildford, [Surrey]) to WSC arguing that WSC is the one member of the present Government who could lead a new administration pledged to the reduction of taxation, which is vital in the country's current parlous financial position.

Letter from [WSC] (Colonial Office) to John St Loe Strachey outlining the objections to Strachey's idea of converting the National Debt into ninety-nine year leases, suggesting a forced loan at a low rate of interest, as has been introduced in New Zealand, and referring to Government efforts to reduce expenditure, including his own twenty million pounds worth of savings on Mesopotamia [Iraq, and parts of southeast Turkey, southwest Iran and Syria] and Palestine. Typescript copy.

Letter from John St Loe Strachey (Newlands Corner, Merrow Downs, Guildford, [Surrey]) to WSC discussing means of reducing the National Debt, rejecting WSC's idea of a forced loan, warning him "to prepare at once against a flood which may be upon us at any moment", asking him to read various newspaper articles and urging him to help stop the sale of Runnymede [Surrey].

Memorandum by Leopold Amery on the need for a clear and consistent monetary policy which takes account of the new situation after the war. Covers the debt owed to the United States, the internal debt, the avoidance of deflation except as a result of increased production, and stability in the international exchanges.

Letter from T B Johnston (The Bristol Pottery, Fishponds, Bristol) to WSC (Colonial Office) enclosing copies of letters he has written to [David Lloyd George] on unemployment and the collapsed exchanges [see CHAR 2/116/73-74 and CHAR 2/116/75-80].

Letter from T B Johnston (Bristol) to David Lloyd George (Gairloch, [Ross and Cromarty], Scotland) arguing for an international agreement to take the index number of the cost of living as a basis for fixing exchanges. Typescript copy sent with CHAR 2/116/72.

Letter from T B Johnston (Bristol) to David Lloyd George (Gairloch, [Ross and Cromarty], Scotland) arguing that unemployment has been caused by currency restrictions and that the problem can be addressed by a departure from the Gold Standard accompanied by a regulation of prices brought about by the organisation of industry into a number of industrial councils co-ordinated by a national council. Typescript copy sent with CHAR 2/116/72. Leaves filed in wrong order.

Pamphlet: "Industrial peace: capital, labour and consumer: a basis of co-operation. A paper delivered before the British Association . . . by T B Johnston." Advocates a system of industrial councils.

Precis of an article [by Philip Kerr] on "national prosperity and industrial peace" reprinted from the Round Table.

Letter from John Baugh (John Baugh & Co, importers and exporters, 52 Gracechurch Street, London) to WSC enclosing a copy of a letter from him to [David Lloyd George] on export credits [see CHAR 2/116/95a-112] and asking for support for his proposals.

Letter from John Baugh (John Baugh & Co, importers and exporters, 52 Gracechurch Street, London) to [David Lloyd George] proposing the establishment of a British Bank of Commerce with branches in trading countries to facilitate the obtaining of export credits by British firms. Typescript copy sent with CHAR 2/116/95.

"The Valve World", the staff magazine of Crane Co of Chicago [United States], containing an article on the cancellation of debts owed to the United States. Sent with CHAR 2/116/121 .

Letter from T B Johnston (Bristol Pottery, Fishponds, [Bristol]) to the editor of the Bristol Times and Mirror advocating the organising of industries into cartels co-ordinated in a central council and describing the successful establishment of such a system in Germany. Reprint sent with CHAR 2/116/143.

Note from [John Stephenson] to Edward Marsh stating that since the proposals [? in CHAR 2/116/147-156] are not confined to the Empire they are primarily a matter for the Board of Trade rather than the Colonial Office.

Letter from Sir John Pilter [honorary president of the British Chamber of Commerce, Paris] (48 Rue Michel-Ange, Paris, [France]) to WSC (House of Commons) enclosing a paper by him on British export trade [see CHAR 2/116/147-156].