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.

Letter from James Helmore, private secretary to the President of the Board of Trade, to [Violet Pearman] on the duty chargeable on asphalt and bitumen in India. Carbon copy at CHAR 2/194/58-59.

Carbon copy of CHAR 2/194/56-57.

Leaflet published by the National Workmen's Constitutional Council: "No surrender of India. Manifesto from workers to workers.".

Message from WSC to the electors of Ilford [Essex] denying David Lloyd George's claim that government spending has increased dramatically and defending the Government's record generally. Draft in the hand of Edward Marsh with annotations by WSC. Carbon typescript copy at CHAR 2/157/44-46.

Letter from Bernard Baruch (120 Broadway, New York, [United States]) analysing the result of the United States presidential election, attributing the defeat of Al Smith to religious intolerance and predicting that the rest of the world will follow the United States in enjoying an economic revival.

"The worries o' Winnie": poem in Scottish dialect by A R Anderson (18 Hill Street, Kilmarnock , [Scotland]). Criticises the objections of members of the brick-laying union to WSC's membership, considers the economic situation and advocates a union of all classes.

Letter from WSC to Arthur Samuel thanking him for his help in the carrying of the Currency Note Bill. Typescript copy.

Memorandum criticising the economic doctrines of John Maynard Keynes [later Lord Keynes].

Newspaper cutting: letter from Arthur Kitson, president of the Banking and Currency and Reform League, explaining why he may oppose WSC in the election in the Epping Division of Essex.

Memorandum by [Frederick Phillips] on the views on monetary policy of Arthur Kitson.

Letter from Robert Smith (10 Wards Road, Ilford, Essex) to WSC thanking him for deciding that no reduction shall be made in the war debt payments made by Germany, complaining about the rise in the price of bacon and wishing WSC success in the election.

Parliamentary question by William Thorne and answer by Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister [earlier Philip Lloyd-Greame, later Lord Swinton], the President of the Board of Trade, on the increase in the price of bacon. Sent with CHAR 2/167/65.

Parliamentary questions and answers, memorandum and extracts from the press on the rise in bacon prices, with covering letters from the Board of Trade. Sent with CHAR 2/167/65.

Letter from James Grigg to Rupert Howorth stating that if WSC is asked in his constituency about war debts and reparations he will reply that the Government is determined to claim from Europe whatever is required from it by the United States. Carbon typescript copy.