Letter from John Biggs to WSC, on ficsal reform and the effect on British agriculture.

Letter from Charles Hill to WSC, on danger to British agriculture from protective tariffs for corn and agricultural produce from the Colonies.

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.

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.

Minute from Leslie Rowan [Private Secretary to WSC] to WSC, on the ration of sugar for the bees at Chartwell [Kent].

Minute from Robert Hudson [Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries], and 1st Lord Woolton [Minister of Food, earlier Frederick Marquis] on the provision of a sugar ration for bees.

Minute from WSC to the Minister of Agriculture [Robert Hudson] and the Minister of Food [1st Lord Woolton, earlier Frederick Marquis] on the discontinuance of the sugar ration to domestic bee keepers, demanding to know the saving in "starving the bees of private owners". [Carbon].

Circular letter from Kent War Agricultural Executive Committee, asking landowners to complete a form on the 1943 Cropping Forecast. [Printed].

Letter from C R Bailey, District Technical Officer, Kent War Agricultural Executive Committee to WSC, with a report on Chartwell [Kent] that the ploughing of part of WSC's park for food production was not a success, recommending that the land should be cultivated in the spring, and then sown to permanent pasture, which could then be leased to a neighbouring farmer for grazing. [Copy].

Leaflet issued by the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries on Winter Feed. [Printed].

Circular letter from Kent War Agricultural Committee to every farmer in Kent, on conversion of grassland to arable for food production, enclosing Ministry of Agriculture leaflet "Making More of Less Grass Land". [Printed]. Annotated and initialled by WSC, asking CSC what could be done about the land at Chartwell.

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.

Letter from Charles Masterman (National Liberal Club, Whitehall Place, [London]) to WSC on land reform and rural depopulation.

Cutting from the Times: criticism of WSC's assertion that methods of tillage in the United Kingdom are antiquated.

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.

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].

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.

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.

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.

Minute [from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC on attending the Food Policy Committee and discussions on the cheese ration and live-stock policy. [Copy; given running number 256].

Minute [from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC on the import shortage, livestock reductions, the move towards the basal diet, non-food imports, and the value of animal proteins. [Copy; given running number 253a].

Minute [from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC attaching a draft minute to the Minister of Agriculture [Robert Hudson] on the possibility of a quantity of Northern Ireland potatoes being destroyed. [Copy; given running number 223(B)].

Minute [from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC referring to a memorandum by Minister of Agriculture [Robert Hudson] on destroying Northern Ireland potatoes because of the decline in the pig population. [Copy; given running number 221A].

Telegram from Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery [Commander 21st Army Group] to WSC marked "Top Secret" and "Personal" commenting on conditions in occupied Germany: the agricultural position, the general food situation, coal production, and discharging prisoners of war.

Letter from Professor Robert Wallace (the University, Edinburgh, [Scotland]) to WSC enclosing an article on the importation of Canadian cattle [see CHAR 2/118/24].