Agriculture
Found in 298 Collections and/or Records:
(Untitled), 15 Oct 1919
Letter from Sir Ian Hamilton (1 Hyde Park Gardens, [London]) to WSC noting that the first of the articles on the Dardanelles by Lord Fisher [earlier Sir John Fisher] is not hostile to WSC, referring to the valuation of the stock on the farm [at Lullenden] and arguing that Sir George Arthur's portrayal of WSC as an overwhelmingly persuasive and powerful figure during the Dardanelles campaign will do WSC good rather than harm.
(Untitled), [1907]
Letter from [WSC] to the editor of the Times on Henry Rider Haggard's assertion that rural depopulaton and urban congestion can only be remedied by a multiplication of small holdings and a system of Protection. Draft in the hand of ?.
(Untitled), 20 Feb 1908
Letter from Ivor Guest [later Lord Ashby St Ledgers and Lord Wimborne (2nd baron, 1st viscount)] (Ashby St Ledgers, Rugby, [Warwickshire]) to WSC on: the commission on afforestation; the chance of WSC getting into the Cabinet as a result of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman's illness; the Licensing Bill; the Coal Mines (Eight Hours) Bill; land valuation; the need for parliamentary consideration of the Poor Law and for old age pensions to form part of a general scheme for dealing with poverty.
(Untitled), [Apr 1907]
Letter from Charles Masterman (National Liberal Club, Whitehall Place, [London]) to WSC on land reform and rural depopulation.
(Untitled), 06 May 1907
Cutting from the Times: criticism of WSC's assertion that methods of tillage in the United Kingdom are antiquated.
(Untitled), 09 May 1907
Letter from Sir Thomas Elliott (Board of Agriculture and Fisheries) to Edward Marsh on the misreporting by the Times of WSC's remarks on systems of cultivation.
(Untitled), 11 May 1907
Letter from Sir Thomas Elliott (Board of Agriculture and Fisheries) to Edward Marsh enclosing and commenting on minutes by Board officials on WSC's remarks on systems of cultivation [see CHAR 2/30/40-46].
(Untitled), 10 May 1907
Telegram from Alfred Jones (Liverpool) to WSC congratulating him on his recent remarks about monopolies and reporting that he (Jones) is about to go to Manchester to meet Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman and to discuss policy on the railways and cotton-growing.
(Untitled), 11 May 1907
Minute by "R H R" [a Board of Agriculture and Fisheries official] responding to WSC's reported remarks about Britain's obsolete system of agriculture with a comparison with practice in Denmark. Typescript. Sent with CHAR 2/30/37.
(Untitled), [May 1907]
Incomplete minute by [a Board of Agriculture and Fisheries official] on the respective merits of large and small-scale farming. Typescript. Sent with CHAR 2/30/37.
(Untitled), 29 May 1908
Letter from Henry Rider Haggard (Royal Commission on Coast Erosion, 35 Great George Street, Westminster, [London]) to WSC accompanying a copy of Rural England [not present] and advocating a scheme of national afforestation to encourage small-holders and thereby combat rural depopulation.
(Untitled), 17 Nov 1908
Letter from J Nash (10 Downing Street) to Edward Marsh on the nomination of chairmen of royal commissions and the refusal of Herbert Asquith [alter 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith] to see a deputation about Canadian cattle.
(Untitled), 26 Dec 1908
(Untitled), 29 Dec 1908
(Untitled), 14 Mar 1910
Letter from Edwin Montagu (House of Commons) to WSC endorsing WSC's attack on the inactivity of the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries and pointing out that in south- west Norfolk and West Cambridgeshire the Small Holdings Acts were successful and therefore nurtured Liberalism. Argues against the resignation of the Government. An annotated typescript copy of this letter is at CHAR 2/45/65.
(Untitled), 24 Jun 1910
Letter from Lucien Wolf (15 Brunswick Square, London) to WSC urging that the Board of Agriculture be revitalised and advocating a scheme of land reform and other measures as the most effective way of countering Tariff Reform. Signed typescript. Annotated that WSC protests against Wolf's attributing to him an idea for a system of bounties.
(Untitled), 23 Sep 1903
Letter from Goldwin Smith to WSC, on the failure of the Canadian harvest, and on opposition to protective tariffs in Canada.
(Untitled), 12 Nov 1903
Letter from John Biggs to WSC, on ficsal reform and the effect on British agriculture.
(Untitled), 14 Jan 1904
Letter from Sir Horace Plunkett to WSC, on WSC's forthcoming visit to Dublin, regretting that the Irish Department of Agriculture could not take sides over the fiscal question.
(Untitled), 18 Nov 1903
Letter from Charles Hill to WSC, on danger to British agriculture from protective tariffs for corn and agricultural produce from the Colonies.
(Untitled), 27 Jan 1904
Letter from A.J. Moore (a North-West Canadian Farmer) to WSC, setting out opposition to a preferential tariff on wheat, pointing out that this would be of little benefit to the Canadian farmer, or the English workman.
(Untitled), [1910]
Part of a speech to a committee of the House of Commons on unemployment insurance and government meausures to encourage agriculture. Typescript annotated by WSC.
(Untitled), 19 May 1936
Circular letter from W Hill Forster, Secretary, Central and Associated Chambers of Agriculture, inviting WSC to become a member, enclosing copy of "Journal".
(Untitled), 28 May 1936
Letter from W Hill Forster, Central and Associated Chambers of Agriculture, to WSC, asking him to speak at meeting on "Food Production in relation both to Defence and National Health".
(Untitled), 14 Oct 1936
Letter from Reginald Franklin, PS to Walter Elliot, Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries to Violet Pearman, PS to WSC, on the Pigs and Bacon Marketing schemes and their effect on the price of bacon, enclosing cutting from "The Times".