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.

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.

Speech by Kevin O'Higgins at the Irish debating society in Oxford on the recent history of Ireland and the current political and economic situation there. Sent with CHAR 2/136/30-34.

Letter from Leopold Amery (112 Eaton Square, [London]) to WSC asserting that WSC has "a wonderful opportunity for creative finance" as Chancellor of the Exchequer, asking to talk with him about the Wembley Exhibition and other issues and arguing that the Government ought to make immediate announcements about Singapore, the Economic Conference Resolutions and the Geneva Protocol.

Letter from 1st Lord Rothermere [earlier Sir Harold Harmsworth] (Claridge's Hotel, Avenue des Champs-Elysees, Paris, [France]) to WSC stating that he will tell his newspapers to support WSC when he begins negotiations for the repayment of the debts owed to Britain by France and Italy and that he has instructed them "to go slow on the food question". Asks WSC to advise his son, Esmond Harmsworth [later 2nd Lord Rothermere], to go travelling.

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 [WSC] to Lord Beaverbrook [earlier Sir Max Aitken] denying that he sought to convert Beaverbrook to the gold Standard before the Budget, referring to his intention of finishing the third volume [of "the World Crisis"] when he is out of office, asking Beaverbrook to let him check any words of his he may quote, and agreeing that the economic situation is improving. Carbon 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 in French from Joseph Caillaux (Mamers, Sarthe, [France]) thanking him for his letter, considering the difficulties of the work of a minister of finance, thanking WSC for his courtesy when he (Caillaux) visited London and reciprocating his invitation to visit. Translation at CHAR 2/142/97-98.

Letter from Lord Beaverbrook [earlier Sir Max Aitken] (23 St Bride Street, London) to WSC stating that he has no personal ill-feeling towards Stanley Baldwin, insisting that his opposition to WSC was on the issue of the return to the Gold Standard and was not a personal matter, and declaring that although he wishes to support a Conservative government he will not conform blindly to anything it chooses to do.

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.