Note by WSC on National expenditure, 1895-1902.

Letter from Arthur Balfour [later Lord Balfour] to WSC, on national expenditure, particularly the character, composition and terms of reference of Select Committee on the National Expenditure.

Letter from Postal Telegraph Clerks Association to WSC, asking if it would be possible for them to give evidence to Committee on National Expenditure [annotated by WSC].

Letter from Sir Austen Chamberlain, Treasury, to WSC, commenting on WSC's notes on the National expenditure [carbon].

Letter from Sir Austen Chamberlain, Postmaster-General to WSC, commenting on WSC's memorandum on the National Expenditure Committee.

Letter from Sir Thomas Elliott, Board of Agriculture, to WSC, on findings of Committee on National Expenditure, and WSC's memorandum, particularly on method of presentation of accounts, and on question of "grants in aid".

Letter from J. Moore Bailey to WSC, on national expenditure and army reform.

Letter from Charles Ritchie [later Lord Ritchie], Chancellor of the Exchequer, to WSC, on debate on the Finance Bill, and opposition to Chamberlain's scheme for Imperial preference.

Pamphlet The Budget of 1901 and British Trade, published by the United Empire Trade League.

Letter from WSC to George Renwick, agreeing to address meeting on Tyneside, provided he was given the freedom to deal with the Army question and the state of public expenditure [copy].

Letter from Sir George Murray (Treasury Chambers, Whitehall, [London]) to WSC on the disadvantages of a separate exchequer for Ireland.

Letter from A N Templeton (Apollo Chambers, Bombay, [India]) to WSC (105 Mount Street) on Indian currency policy.

Transcripts of interview between WSC and Edwin Hill for the Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] broadcast on the Hart Schaffner and Marx Trumpeters radio programme, 10 March, on subjects including WSC's road accident, superstition, the future chances of war, the world depression, the importance of co-operation between the English-speaking peoples and the strength of the monarchy; also includes list of preparatory questions.

Letter from Rene Leon (Hotel Mayflower, Washington) to WSC, on the economic situation in the United States and WSC's possible influence to improve it.

Letter from WSC to Rene Leon, thanking him for sending a pamphlet on the monetary question in Britain and the United States, which he has read with "great attention". [Carbon].

Remarks by William Blain [Assistant Secretary to the Treasury] on the depreciation of gold and the proposed suspension of the Sinking Fund, occasioned by a letter from Moreton Frewen to WSC [see CHAR 2/26/73] and sent by Sir Edward Hamilton [Joint Permanent Secretary to the Treasury] to Reginald McKenna [Financial Secretary to the Treasury]. Typescript copy on Treasury paper. Hamilton's introductory note initialed by him.

Letter from Moreton Frewen (37a Great Cumberland Place, [London]) to WSC discussing the depreciation of gold and advocating the suspension of the Sinking Fund. Signed carbon typescript.

Letter from Sir Felix Schuster (31 Collingham Road, South Kensington, [London]) to [Sir Francis] Hopwood [later, Lord Southborough] [Permanent Under-Secretary for Colonies] on the bad effects which would follow a reduction in the production of gold in South Africa. Congratulates Hopwood on his recent appointment.

Article on the comparison between the imports and exports of Britain, the United States, Germany and France in 1903 and 1910. Printed. Sent with CHAR 2/54/26.

Figures, with explanatory notes, on the relationship between national income and defence spending from 1812 to 1910, compiled for Reginald McKenna [First Lord of the Admiralty.] Annotated typescript.

Telegram from WSC to Prime Minister of Canada [Mackenzie King] marked "Top Secret and Personal" thanking him for his telegrams [on future trade policy]; explaining that these matters are being considered; and assuring him that the United Kingdom will give "the fullest weight to Canada's wishes and interests". Photocopy.

Copy of a letter from WSC (Dunrobin Castle, Sutherland [Scotland]) to [Alfred] Harmsworth [later Lord Northcliffe] marked private in which he predicts that the [Conservative] Government will be defeated by a landslide; discusses the treatment of the issue of taxation of manufactured goods [in the Daily Mail]; suggests that he should consider the Free Trade arguments and that a "great central Government neither Protectionist nor Pro-Boer" might be established.

Letter from Lord Randolph Churchill (2 Connaught Place [London]) to [Louis] Jennings in which he discusses measures likely to be implemented by the Chancellor of the Exchequer [George Goschen] including the taxation of foreign goods and expresses approval for an article by [4th Lord] Dunraven in the National Review.