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Note from Eric Seal [Principal Private Secretary to WSC] to WSC with attached Treasury calculations of WSC's salary for May. [Carbon, manuscript].

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Letter from Lumley & Lumley, Solicitors, to WSC, on repairs to Carnlough harbour wall.

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Letter from Lumley & Lumley to WSC, on offer from Mr A. McAuley of Glengarrif, of £80 for two small freehold cottages at Fallowvee.

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Letter from WSC to Lumley & Lumley, on his willingness to sell the two cottages at Fallowvee [carbon].

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Letter from Lumley & Lumley to WSC, on the sale of two cottages at Fallowvee, rents paid by the Carnlough Lime Co. and repairs to Carnlough harbour.

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Letter from Lumley & Lumley to WSC, sending cheque for £50, for Garron Towers rents.

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Letter from WSC to Lumley & Lumley, asking how much more rent money he could expect from the Garron Towers estate that year, and on repairs to Carnlough harbour wall [carbon].

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Statement from The Lecture Agency Ltd., detailed accounts for WSC's lecture tour, 6 March - 8 May 1901.

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Statement from The Lecture Agency Ltd,. accounts for WSC's lecture tour, Oct - Nov 1901.

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Letter from Charles, 9th Duke of Marlborough, Blenheim Palace, to WSC, on foxhunting and on WSC's finances.

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Letter from Lumley & Lumley, Solicitors, to WSC, on his income tax return.

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Letter from Lumley & Lumley, Solicitors, London to WSC on his accounts.

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Note on terms of WSC's contract with Louis Alber [President, Affiliated Lecture and Concert Association Incorporated] for his lecture tour of the United States.

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Draft contract between the Affiliated Lecture and Concert Association Incorporated and WSC, for 45 lectures in the United States between 15 October and 15 December 1931, at a fee of 50,000 dollars, signed by Louis Alber, President of the Association.

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Memorandum containing proposed amendments to WSC's contract with Louis Alber [President, Affiliated Lecture and Concert Association Incorporated] for his lecture tour of the United States.

Scope and Contents Letter from WSC to James Grigg [Chairman, Board of Inland Revenue], on the tax situation of lecturers, arguing that lecturing was an entirely different activity to writing, "the art of delivering a lecture is not literary but histrionic in its character. It is a physical and psychic exertion of which most literary men or journalists would be incapable", concluding that a hypothetical individual would be ill advised to undertake a lecture tour as the receipts would raise the rate of tax on...

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Note by WSC on the contract with Louis Alber [President, Affiliated Lecture and Concert Association Incorporated] for his lecture tour of the United States.

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Telegram from WSC to Louis Alber [President, Affiliated Lecture and Concert Association Incorporated], on the contract for his lecture tour of the United States, stating that he would not accept lower terms than those already offered, but agreeing that if after 45 lectures, Alber could prove a loss, he would give a further five lectures free of charge. [Copy].

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Telegram from Louis Alber [President, Affiliated Lecture and Concert Association Incorporated] to WSC, on the terms of the contract for WSC's lecture tour of the United States, stressing the depth of the financial depression in the United States, and asking if he would be prepared to accept a lower fee of 45,000 dollars for 45 lectures.

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Telegram from Louis Alber [President, Affiliated Lecture and Concert Association Incorporated] to WSC on the terms of the contract for WSC's lecture tour of the United States, suggesting limiting WSC's liability to 10,000 dollars if the contract was voided after 1 June.

Scope and Contents Telegram from WSC to Louis Alber [President, Affiliated Lecture and Concert Association Incorporated] on the terms of the contract for his lecture tour of the United States: stating that he had every intention of fulfilling the contract when signed, that he would know the political situation by June, and was willing to pay a substantial forfeit if forced to cancel, but asking for his liability to be limited in case of a sudden General Election, or being asked to undertake "exceptional...

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Letter from Louis Alber, President, Affiliated Lecture and Concert Association Incorporated, to WSC on the contract for WSC's lecture tour of the United States, stating that he was willing to pay 50,000 dollars for the two months, 15 Oct - 15 Dec 1931, and giving WSC the right to cancel up to 1 June, but that there should be no cancellation clause after this date.

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Telegram from WSC to Louis Alber [President, Affiliated Lecture and Concert Association Incorporated], stating that only a General Election, or appointment to ministerial office in October or November 1931 would cause him to cancel his lecture tour of the United States, but insisting on a figure limiting his liability if he was forced to cancel at short notice.

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Telegram from Louis Alber [President, Affiliated Lecture and Concert Association Incorporated] to WSC, on the contract for his lecture tour of the United States.

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Letter from R Halford Forster, (Times Building, New York) to WSC, on his contract with Louis Alber [President, Affiliated Lecture and Concert Association Incorporated] for a lecture tour of the United States.